The riots burning America's cities are not spontaneous madness but the acting out of a philosophy. Revolutions are made, not born; they begin in universities and salons, where intellectuals form students who then take to the streets. Antifa and Black Lives Matter are the fruit of nearly two centuries of Marxist and progressive thought, reaching back to the Communist Manifesto of 1848. Their immediate source is Critical Theory, developed by the Frankfurt School, a group of atheistic Marxist intellectuals who relocated to American universities and think tanks. They taught that every principle of Western civilization, Christianity included, must be questioned and deconstructed, and their protégés filled education, media, politics, and government. Critical Race Theory applies this method to race, treating America as rotten with white supremacy. Race is the latest lever, after feminism and homosexuality, to destabilize the constitutional republic and prepare the ground for a revolution against capitalism. Between May 26 and September 5, there were 12,045 incidents of unrest in 47 states. About one in ten turned violent, and roughly 84 percent of those involved Black Lives Matter or Antifa. The damage likely exceeds that of the Rodney King riots, and at least 47 people have died. Communist revolutions have a far bloodier record than the American one. At the root is hatred of God, matching Paul's end-time description in II Timothy 3 and the unrepentant blasphemy of Revelation 9 and 16. This is about power, not race, and, like the handwriting on the wall in Daniel 5, it is a sign of the times that God's people must discern, because Christ's return is nearer.