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What is Cultural Marxism?
What is Cultural Marxism?
By Southern Adolf
7 Nov 2023 2:24 pm in No Holds Barred Political Forum
7 Nov 2023 2:24 pm
Cultural Marxism is the Marxist dialectic fused with Freudian theory and applied to identity and culture. Dialectic is the art of investigating or discussing the truth of opinions. Like all forms of Marxism, it is based upon categorizing people into abstract groups and then creating a narrative of historical oppression between them. The strategy of Marxists is always to cultivate a victimized group and then convince its members that solidarity is required against the oppressors. This creates resentment and hatred and is how Marxist ideologies fulfill their revolutionary objectives.
The cultural Marxism that our societies are infected with is a particularly Western phenomenon. After the Russian Revolution of 1917, Marxists in Europe believed that the dictatorship of the proletariat was at hand. They were wrong. The revolution failed to spread. In despair, and in one of Mussolini’s prisons, a young Italian socialist Antonio Gramsci was one of the most influential sources of Marxist theory and goals. Gramsci wrote that the problem was the Christian bedrock of Western European cultures. He encouraged Marxists to develop fifth columns inside these countries to destroy the foundations of Western cultures. Only then would international socialism be achievable.
This call to subversion was picked up by Marxist scholars based around the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt, Germany. In the tumultuous milieu of Weimar Germany, theorists such as Max Horkheimer, Herbert Marcuse, Erich Fromm, Theodor Adorno and Georg Lukacs integrated the theories of Sigmund Freud with classical Marxism to develop the foundations of critical theory, deconstructionism, post-structuralism and postmodernism. Known as the Frankfurt School, many of these intellectuals fled Hitler’s Germany for the United States where they were welcomed by Progressives and socialist intellectuals. The theories of the Frankfurt School unified the vanguard of the 60’s countercultural movement and have since spread to every discipline in our universities, colleges and schools. These theories, which obsess about colonization, subjugation and oppression, have indeed colonized higher education in the West.
Marxism is always cloaked in high-sounding utopian rhetoric. This is a ruse. What cultural Marxists seek has nothing to do with true diversity, social harmony or universal tolerance. They don’t want the races getting along. They seek power. The solution for the perceived injustices that Cultural Marxists have manufactured is radical social engineering. The power to carry out this social engineering must be given, of course, to a politically-correct elite determined to remake society along ideological lines.
This is why cultural Marxists always seek to enter government, academe or influential positions in the media. In the process of remaking society, unsurprisingly, these Cultural Marxists gain enormous wealth, status and power. This is how careers and fortunes are made in the industry of grievance. It is also why Marxism is so appealing to the ambitious and unscrupulous.
Thus it is no surprise that the groups which cultural Marxists have labelled victims are themselves now worse off than ever. The solution loudly demanded by cultural-Marxist opportunists is always more of the same, thus accelerating the decline of those they style as victims.
Marxism proved over the twentieth century that it is the deadliest and most destructive belief system on the planet. It has a body count beyond measure and has left a trail of brokenness, suffering and desolation wherever it has taken hold. It is in the West that it has lived on in hybrid form, gnawing away at the fabric of our societies. That fabric will not hold forever. Every knee taken, every glass bottle thrown and every incitement to victimhood is another crack in the unity of the nation; and without unity there can be no United States.
The cultural Marxism that our societies are infected with is a particularly Western phenomenon. After the Russian Revolution of 1917, Marxists in Europe believed that the dictatorship of the proletariat was at hand. They were wrong. The revolution failed to spread. In despair, and in one of Mussolini’s prisons, a young Italian socialist Antonio Gramsci was one of the most influential sources of Marxist theory and goals. Gramsci wrote that the problem was the Christian bedrock of Western European cultures. He encouraged Marxists to develop fifth columns inside these countries to destroy the foundations of Western cultures. Only then would international socialism be achievable.
This call to subversion was picked up by Marxist scholars based around the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt, Germany. In the tumultuous milieu of Weimar Germany, theorists such as Max Horkheimer, Herbert Marcuse, Erich Fromm, Theodor Adorno and Georg Lukacs integrated the theories of Sigmund Freud with classical Marxism to develop the foundations of critical theory, deconstructionism, post-structuralism and postmodernism. Known as the Frankfurt School, many of these intellectuals fled Hitler’s Germany for the United States where they were welcomed by Progressives and socialist intellectuals. The theories of the Frankfurt School unified the vanguard of the 60’s countercultural movement and have since spread to every discipline in our universities, colleges and schools. These theories, which obsess about colonization, subjugation and oppression, have indeed colonized higher education in the West.
Marxism is always cloaked in high-sounding utopian rhetoric. This is a ruse. What cultural Marxists seek has nothing to do with true diversity, social harmony or universal tolerance. They don’t want the races getting along. They seek power. The solution for the perceived injustices that Cultural Marxists have manufactured is radical social engineering. The power to carry out this social engineering must be given, of course, to a politically-correct elite determined to remake society along ideological lines.
This is why cultural Marxists always seek to enter government, academe or influential positions in the media. In the process of remaking society, unsurprisingly, these Cultural Marxists gain enormous wealth, status and power. This is how careers and fortunes are made in the industry of grievance. It is also why Marxism is so appealing to the ambitious and unscrupulous.
Thus it is no surprise that the groups which cultural Marxists have labelled victims are themselves now worse off than ever. The solution loudly demanded by cultural-Marxist opportunists is always more of the same, thus accelerating the decline of those they style as victims.
Marxism proved over the twentieth century that it is the deadliest and most destructive belief system on the planet. It has a body count beyond measure and has left a trail of brokenness, suffering and desolation wherever it has taken hold. It is in the West that it has lived on in hybrid form, gnawing away at the fabric of our societies. That fabric will not hold forever. Every knee taken, every glass bottle thrown and every incitement to victimhood is another crack in the unity of the nation; and without unity there can be no United States.
7 Nov 2023 2:25 pm
TLDR
In other words, communism failed because people like stuff. No one wanted to stand in line all day for a potato.
Gramsci knew that economic Marxism was doomed to fail. That is why he suggested Marxism be back-doored into society. You start by infiltrating institutions, such as education, media, sports, and business.
This is what is happening in the U.S. today. Witness sexual freaks in schools, tv, sports, and beer commercials. Witness the destruction of statues and other erasures of history. Witness persecution of churches during Corona—the same churches that were at the fore of society in such chaotic times.
In other words, communism failed because people like stuff. No one wanted to stand in line all day for a potato.
Gramsci knew that economic Marxism was doomed to fail. That is why he suggested Marxism be back-doored into society. You start by infiltrating institutions, such as education, media, sports, and business.
This is what is happening in the U.S. today. Witness sexual freaks in schools, tv, sports, and beer commercials. Witness the destruction of statues and other erasures of history. Witness persecution of churches during Corona—the same churches that were at the fore of society in such chaotic times.
7 Nov 2023 2:26 pm
7 Nov 2023 2:28 pm
How's it going Nebraska.SouthernAdolf » 07 Nov 2023, 3:26 pm » wrote: ↑ Read some Gramsci text. He explicitly encouraged the destruction of western society.
You digging out the old names now or what?
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7 Nov 2023 2:31 pm
Never heard of Gramsci, I take it?RedheadedStranger » 07 Nov 2023, 3:28 pm » wrote: ↑ How's it going Nebraska.
You digging out the old names now or what?
7 Nov 2023 2:36 pm
What Gramsci noticed is as true today as it was in his time, even if the actual circumstances have changed—namely, that modern civilization is very fragile and so are the forms of freedom that come with it. In Gramsci’s time, the impoverishment of civil society prepared the ground for fascism. In our time, civil society in the developed countries appears to be relatively safe, and it would be demagogic (and ahistorical) to suggest that fascism of the same kind that flourished in the 1930s might return.
7 Nov 2023 2:43 pm
Quite the following you have there Lincoln...
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7 Nov 2023 2:45 pm
You have the same ones and many more.
7 Nov 2023 2:49 pm
Yep... that was your M.O. over at the .org site too!
You're so easy to spot it's ridiculous.
You just gave admin and the mods here an easy list of accounts to **** can. All they have to do is look at my followers, and start deleting!
Good job moron!
@Deezer Shoove
@Cannonpointer
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7 Nov 2023 2:54 pm
RedheadedStranger » 07 Nov 2023, 3:49 pm » wrote: ↑ Yep... that was your M.O. over at the .org site too!
You're so easy to spot it's ridiculous.
You just gave admin and the mods here an easy list of accounts to **** can. All they have to do is look at my followers, and start deleting!
Good job moron!
@Deezer Shoove
@Cannonpointer
Well looky looky. This must be the forum genius.
7 Nov 2023 2:54 pm
.SouthernAdolf » 07 Nov 2023, 3:24 pm » wrote: ↑ Cultural Marxism is the Marxist dialectic fused with Freudian theory and applied to identity and culture. Dialectic is the art of investigating or discussing the truth of opinions. Like all forms of Marxism, it is based upon categorizing people into abstract groups and then creating a narrative of historical oppression between them. The strategy of Marxists is always to cultivate a victimized group and then convince its members that solidarity is required against the oppressors. This creates resentment and hatred and is how Marxist ideologies fulfill their revolutionary objectives.
Can you give me the reader digest version...I didn't get pass the first paragraph.
ultraliberals are not happy unless they are obsessing about something.
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7 Nov 2023 2:56 pm
Post 2!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!MackTheFinger » 07 Nov 2023, 3:54 pm » wrote: ↑ Can you give me the reader digest version...I didn't get pass the first paragraph.
7 Nov 2023 3:06 pm
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I'll take that as a no !
ultraliberals are not happy unless they are obsessing about something.
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7 Nov 2023 3:22 pm
I bet just about anything that if I go look at @Jantje_Smit and @sooted up Cyndi's "followers" their lists will be nearly identical to my list too huh?
You're such an idiot!
Too ****' funny!
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people
7 Nov 2023 3:32 pm
yep_ for him. lol.. i see nothing.RedheadedStranger » 07 Nov 2023, 4:22 pm » wrote: ↑ I bet just about anything that if I go look at @Jantje_Smit and @sooted up Cyndi's "followers" their lists will be nearly identical to my list too huh?
You're such an idiot!
Too ****' funny!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRMf3wKBCPo
7 Nov 2023 9:00 pm
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When you complain, ur friends roll their eyes and ur enemies rejoice
"Because I SAY I am" is a todler's tantrum, not "science"
You cannot betray me - only yourself, to me.
Who cuts off your dick is not a friend
An opinion you won't defend is not your own
Humanity's Law of the Jungle: Survival NOT of the fittest, but of the tribe
When peeing in the pool, stand on the edge
If gender is not sex, why should a gender claim change what sex you shower with?
"Because I SAY I am" is a todler's tantrum, not "science"
You cannot betray me - only yourself, to me.
Who cuts off your dick is not a friend
An opinion you won't defend is not your own
Humanity's Law of the Jungle: Survival NOT of the fittest, but of the tribe
When peeing in the pool, stand on the edge
If gender is not sex, why should a gender claim change what sex you shower with?
8 Nov 2023 8:10 am
8 Nov 2023 8:38 am
Karl Marx was born 60 years after Ben Franklin coined the slogan "Time is money". Did Karl Marx ever study Ben Franklin's writings?Southern Adolf » 07 Nov 2023, 3:24 pm » wrote: ↑ Cultural Marxism is the Marxist dialectic fused with Freudian theory and applied to identity and culture. Dialectic is the art of investigating or discussing the truth of opinions. Like all forms of Marxism, it is based upon categorizing people into abstract groups and then creating a narrative of historical oppression between them. The strategy of Marxists is always to cultivate a victimized group and then convince its members that solidarity is required against the oppressors. This creates resentment and hatred and is how Marxist ideologies fulfill their revolutionary objectives.
The cultural Marxism that our societies are infected with is a particularly Western phenomenon. After the Russian Revolution of 1917, Marxists in Europe believed that the dictatorship of the proletariat was at hand. They were wrong. The revolution failed to spread. In despair, and in one of Mussolini’s prisons, a young Italian socialist Antonio Gramsci was one of the most influential sources of Marxist theory and goals. Gramsci wrote that the problem was the Christian bedrock of Western European cultures. He encouraged Marxists to develop fifth columns inside these countries to destroy the foundations of Western cultures. Only then would international socialism be achievable.
This call to subversion was picked up by Marxist scholars based around the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt, Germany. In the tumultuous milieu of Weimar Germany, theorists such as Max Horkheimer, Herbert Marcuse, Erich Fromm, Theodor Adorno and Georg Lukacs integrated the theories of Sigmund Freud with classical Marxism to develop the foundations of critical theory, deconstructionism, post-structuralism and postmodernism. Known as the Frankfurt School, many of these intellectuals fled Hitler’s Germany for the United States where they were welcomed by Progressives and socialist intellectuals. The theories of the Frankfurt School unified the vanguard of the 60’s countercultural movement and have since spread to every discipline in our universities, colleges and schools. These theories, which obsess about colonization, subjugation and oppression, have indeed colonized higher education in the West.
didn't Franklin also write "Watch your pennies and dollars take care of themselves.".
"Well done is better than well said.".
8 Nov 2023 8:43 am
8 Nov 2023 8:45 am
It is a means to an end, not meaning of the topical distraction keeping a brain too busy defending reality to navigate space only occupying time now.GHETTO BLASTER » 08 Nov 2023, 9:43 am » wrote: ↑ I don't see any comments about what "Cultural Marxism" means to the responders here.
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