The left loves nothing more than to throw the word "equity" around, especially when addressing the ever-growing list of alleged inequalities in our society.

But where does the word equity actually come from?

American author James Lindsay — who Dave Rubin calls one of the best explainers of “the connection between [woke ideology] and Marxism” — told the European Parliament about the history of the word.

“So, here’s the definition of equity, and see if it sounds like a definition of anything else you’ve ever heard of,” Lindsay began. “The definition of equity comes from the Public Administration Literature. It was written by a man named George Frederickson, and the definition is: an administered political economy in which shares are adjusted so that citizens are made equal.”

“Does that sound like anything you’ve heard of before?” he asked.

“Like socialism?”

“The only difference between equity and socialism is the type of property that they redistribute [and] the type of shares,” he continued. “They're going to redistribute social and cultural capital in addition to economic and material capital.”

“And so this is my thesis when we say, ‘What is woke?’: Woke is Maoism with American characteristics.”

“Ok, so the idea is that Marxism was really an economic way of redistributing everything,” so that “everyone would be equal,” says Dave. But “everyone’s not equal. There’s always the layer that has all of the stuff, and everyone else gets sort of nothing, and that creates ‘equity’ amongst the people.”

“[Democrats] want to redistribute money” — the idea “we’ll take from [one party] and give to [another],” Dave explains, adding that “they want redistribution when it comes to virtually every part of your life,” including health care and education, among other things.

For all of this equity to become possible, however, “You're going to have to kill a lot of people,” he says.

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