Posted on 10/24/2005 7:59:14 PM PDT by smoothsailing
Thanks dung,or may I call you Moose?
(sorry, I couldn't help it) ;)
btt
Sounds like a good read. I might try to look that one up.
By the way, if you want to see someone trying really hard to sound like an intellectual and not pulling it off very well, check out the last reader review at the Amazon link.
The trouble is "Cultural Marxism" is a stupid name, reflecting an intellectual tone-deafness to the actual content of the 21st century left, a lack of perceptiveness, which makes fighting them harder.
The left is no longer Marxist, but Nietzschean.
"Multiculturalism" and feminist separatism represent Nietzschean transvaluations of values: they embrace the stereotypes old Marxist anti-racism (which bizarrely had more in common with American conservatism than this new movement does) fought against, but with the value assigned to them turned upside down. Blacks do have rhythm, but that makes them superior to whites; women are less rational, more driven by emotion, but that makes them better suited to formulating 'humane' social and foreign policies; etc.
The Nietzschean left also embraces Nietzsche's romanticization of nature--radical environmentalism--and the savage as opposed to the civilized--hence their affinity for the Jihadis. The Marxist 'religion is the opiate of the masses,' which would alienate them from the Muslims as much as from Christians, is replaced with Nietzsche's special antipathy for Christianity (they seem to ignore the fact he hated Buddhism at least a much. . .perhaps because there aren't many genuine classical Buddhists in America. . . or perhaps, since their Nietzscheanism is derivative, via Heidegger and Sartre, they don't care to follow him on this--after all 'Buddhist' meditation techniques are a nice way to relax.)
Continuing to fight 'Marxists' is a mistake: fighting the last war always is.
I learned then and there that ONE Conservative professor in each and every college campus in the country can change the downward slide into the proverbial toilet. Thank you, Mr. Lind!
That certainly explains why the high priests of academe treat conservative professors as if they were lepers.
Ping for later reference.
Who is Antonio Gramsci? You Better Learn!!!
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3a4c610569be.htm
The other similarity is that all theories accept that the social structure and institutions perpetuates the oppression activities.
Where the current ideology of post-modern differ from old one is the notion of 'experience': unless you are female, you cannot comprehend what female feels. This, of course, is different from old Marxism. As a poster pointed out already, old Marxism would put Islamo-facists in the same box as Christians. Meanwhile, the post-mo crowd will defend that Muslims' experience under centuries of 'Christian colonialism' should count for something.
BTTT
"The left is no longer Marxist, but Nietzschean. "
Yes, but "Nietzschean" is hard to pronounce.
Muticulturalism = cultural pollution.
In addition to Marcuse, the author neglected to mention a few names and explain who these people in the Frankfurt School were. Allow me to add a couple: Eric Fromm (Critical Theory and feminism), Abraham Maslow (using the power of medical licensing to supplant religious values with psychiatry, and the developer of "sensitivity training").
This may be the most important thread of history in the 20th Century, perhaps more significant than the World Wars. Needless to say, children aren't told a word in public schools.
Here are a few good papers on the topic;
Erich Fromm, Feminism, and the Frankfurt School
What is the Frankfurt School?
Who Placed American Men in a Psychic 'Iron Cage?' Part I
Who Placed American Men in a Psychic 'Iron Cage?' Part II
You know if Rose had written this she'd have pounded it into our heads that she wrote it, and it'd be posted on their web site under "Written by Rose"
as you said some years ago, and as I have listed among my Quotes: "American blacks are in what I call the Marxist Laboratory"
as are we all
for developing "sensitivity training" (ie: mini-gulags) Abraham Maslow should burn in Hell.
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