Posted on 12/17/2020 10:57:52 PM PST by ammodotcom
You may have heard the terms “Cultural Marxism,” “Critical Theory” or “Frankfurt School” bandied about. And while you might have an intuitive approximation of what these terms mean for America in the 21st century, there’s a good chance that you don’t know much about the deep theory, where the ideology comes from, and what it has planned for America – and the world.
The underlying theory here is a variant of Marxism, pioneered by early-20th-century Italian Marxist politician and linguist Antonio Gramsci. Gramscian Marxism is a radical departure from Classical Marxism. One does not need to endorse the Classical Marxism of Marx, Engels and others to appreciate the significant differences between the two. He is easily the most influential thinker that you have never heard of.
Marx's original idea was that Communism was a historical inevitability, an evolutionary transition that would lead to a bottom-up eruption of revolutionary violence sparked by the Proletariat’s frustration and fury over having been used and abused by the Bourgeoisie for long enough that “the revolutionary subject” (Marx’s term for the broad working class) would overthrow capitalism and usher in socialism.
Gramsci, on the other hand, held that such a revolution was unlikely – particularly in the West, where general prosperity and the lassitude of relative contentment would tend to dull the working class’ passion for a bloody, bothersome overthrow. In successful Western nations, a Marxist state was far more likely to develop through a slow, patient process of incrementalist takeover of the cultural institutions – the arts, entertainment, and news media, and most especially the schools and universities.
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pioneered by early-20th-century Italian Marxist politician and linguist Antonio Gramsci.
Pete Butt edge-edge’s Dad’s favorite Commie.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Buttigieg
The disciples of a reclusive Polish Plumber beg to dissagree.
Excellent article. The info below about Gramsci was interesting,
“Without engaging in too much psychoanalyzing, it is probably not a coincidence that the son of a low-ranking civil servant was able to see the power that low-ranking bureaucrats would have if all of them were guided by the proper ideology.”
Cultural Marxism has had its success in the US through the deep state, which is really the bureaucracy, no matter whether it’s those at the top of the food chain or those who zealously carry out their policies.
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This is a good article about Gramsci. It looks a lot like and earlier (possibly 1983) article by Robert Chandler in Accuracy in Media Bulletin.
Due to an unexplained elbow injury I sustained Wed or Thurs. morning, I cannot lift most of my binders to find key articles but I will eventually find the Chandler article on Gramsci and give you AIM’s address if they are still in their old office.
One good AIM Report, August - B 1994,XXIII-16, was devoted to “I.F. Stone Outed” about how AIM got his FBI files declassified. They showed that he was once an “active member of the Communist Party USA at one stage in his career” and possible ties to the KGB (Romerstein/Reindel and others have more on Stone in their books).
This issue of the AIM Report also has a small but important section on composer Leonard Bernstein and some of his documented CPUSA fronts/causes activities.
This is a good article about Gramsci. It looks a lot like and earlier (possibly 1983) article by Robert Chandler in Accuracy in Media Bulletin.
Due to an unexplained elbow injury I sustained Wed or Thurs. morning, I cannot lift most of my binders to find key articles but I will eventually find the Chandler article on Gramsci and give you AIM’s address if they are still in their old office.
One good AIM Report, August - B 1994,XXIII-16, was devoted to “I.F. Stone Outed” about how AIM got his FBI files declassified. They showed that he was once an “active member of the Communist Party USA at one stage in his career” and possible ties to the KGB (Romerstein/Reindel and others have more on Stone in their books).
This issue of the AIM Report also has a small but important section on composer Leonard Bernstein and some of his documented CPUSA fronts/causes activities.
“composer Leonard Bernstein” ?
His ‘compositions’ are crap.
He was a facile conductor whose interpretations were shallow,
He had to leave his conductorship at the New York Philharmonic when his homosexual advances toward orchestra members caused the board of directors to tell him to either leave or they would be unable to cover for him any more.
Similar to football player Jim Brown’s surprise retirement while still in his prime—after the Cleaveland Browns’ management told him they could no longer cover up his mistreating of women—beating them up, putting out cigarettes on their backs, etc.
Bernstein had a thing for promoting gangs He held a luncheon for the cop-killing Black Panthers. His musical West Side Story promotes gangs as sympathetic.
Bkmrk
Neither Mayor Pete nor his 3rd rate Academic father have the slightest understanding or appreciation of the realities of the historical moment that brought about Antonio Gramsci-—who was yet another example of a thoroughly misused, misinterpreted thinker our fashionable academic dipshits try to appropriate and make their own. Just like a great genius of the early 20th Century Walter Benjamin. Gramsci , a hunchback, dared to go up against the outright fascism of Mussolini, and was imprisoned for his troubles for such a long time and under such studiedly brutal “care” his teeth were lost. Gramsci’s concept of “egemonia” is one of the most brilliant things I’ve ever read, still brilliant even after 100 years of paradigm shifts and social upheaval and change. It goes way beyond the English word “hegemony” and its potted-plant definition. No, Gramsci would have disowned all these people who invoke his name or use it to give “cache” to their movement, which is about nothing but an authoritarian/totalitarian power grab to get all they can , as the “local heroes” of the Global Reset. I daresay both he and Marx were smart enough to see how they were being misused. The thugs that helped put us in our current condition are bought and paid for anarchist/terrorists who are the equivalent of the brownshirts, or Mao’s Red Guard, and , yes, it’s George Soros and our own corporations that are funding that destruction, astonishingly. They are about to be granted ACTUAL “legitimized” power as of Jan. 20th, if all goes well for them. So they will no longer be operating as a mysterious “grassroots” collective of roving destroyers outraged over “the murder of George Floyd”. Yes, this is scary. But don’t “believe the hype” that Pete Buttigieg or anyone else continues a long line of Communist philosophers started by the likes of Marx,Engels or Antonio Gramsci. All of them , especially Gramsci, would have recognized the character of what our fatuously called “Left” really is, and that’s FASCISTIC, overlaid and undergirded with a LOT more complications that the 19th or 20th Century could even dream of. It’s a whole new world, and the analytical tools of Gramsci could be easily applied to this current Democratic Party. I mean, could Marx’s “Workers of the World, Unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains!!!” actually be applied with a straight face to this amorphous ragtag amalgamation of non-working but well-funded losers who constitute “Democratic” voters???
Of course, having said all I just did say, I didn’t actually read the Ammo.com dissertation on Gramsci, or your link. Maybe one or both of them echoes some of what I wrote.I was just triggered by the word “Buttigieg” and the laughable pretensions these academic types have and the lengths they’ll go to to give themselves some unearned historical “status”. Oddly, it’s yet another form, as they see it and feel it, of virtue-signalling, and yes, even a favorite bugaboo of theirs, “cultural appropriation”. It’s going to be a rocky four years with Biden in the WH, having to deal with manifestations of this stuff probably on a daily basis. NOT going to go over well with 75 million and growing “enemies of the state” bracing to see how they’re going to get victimized next.
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Important read. Sums up today’s social upheaval in a nutshell.
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Without question. Cultural Marxism also owes its proliferation to its ability to propogate outside of spheres of government influence. If you can’t graduate college without having first taken the knee to Marxism, then one can only imagine how many middling bureaucrats had been flipped before cashing their first government paycheck.
“a Marxist state was far more likely to develop through a slow, patient process of incrementalist takeover of the cultural institutions – the arts, entertainment, and news media, and most especially the schools and universities.”
Began in 1932 in the U.S.
Thanks... there was a pretty detailed article on Gramsci on FR a few years ago.
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