Posted on 12/29/2001 12:11:38 PM PST by Enough is ENOUGH
Exerpt: "The connection between the Frankfurt School and the student rebellion of the 1960s was made primarily by a key Frankfurt School member, Herbert Marcuse -- the man who in the '60s coined the phrase, "Make love, not war." Marcuse's books, "Eros" and "Civilization," argued that the tools with which to destroy Western culture were, in effect, sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll. He popularized the Frankfurt School's ideas in ways the '60s radicals could understand and absorb, and we now know his work as political correctness."
"In order for political correctness to succeed, the people who will never give up their freedom must be undermined. Give credibility to those who support you and take it away from those who don’t. For this reason, political correctness favors words and phrases that carry a certain bias. Homophobia, for example, is a misleading term. Homophobic people are not afraid of homosexuals as the suffix phobic implies. These people are not ridden with some disease. Homophobic is a term given to people who disapprove of homosexuality. Here, political correctness subtly slanders the belief that homosexuality is deviant behavior. At the same time, it defends homosexuality, a lifestyle formerly shunned by our culture."
"Political correctness forces people to focus conversation on attitude and not logic. Political correctness encourages mindless appreciation of equality at the expensive of honest thought and logic... Political correctness also supplies an abundance of words that are less accurate than the words they aim to replace."
Here is a link to an interesting article by Ace, the author who also wrote the article, Original Sin.
For those who don't know, Gramsci basically was a proponent of "Cultural Marxism" or "Marxism by other Means".
Gramsci, and the Frankfurt school knew that undisguised Marxism would never make it in Western civilization, so they came up with a camouflaged version.
The Democrat party is basically a cultural Marxist party today, and the GOP is well on the way to becoming one.
The people on this website who are always pushing the "abuse" button to stifle views that transgress political correctness are basically Gramscian Marxists.
They may call themselves "conservatives" or "Republicans", but their tactics and end-goal is the same.
For those who don't know, Gramsci basically was a proponent of "Cultural Marxism" or "Marxism by other Means".
Gramsci, and the Frankfurt school knew that undisguised Marxism would never make it in Western civilization, so they came up with a camouflaged version.
The Democrat party is basically a cultural Marxist party today, and the GOP is well on the way to becoming one.
The people on this website who are always pushing the "abuse" button to stifle views that transgress political correctness are basically Gramscian Marxists.
They may call themselves "conservatives" or "Republicans", but their tactics and end-goal is the same.
All of the European names from above: Adorno, Marcuse, Fromm, Lukacs, etc. were part of my curriculum. And "deconstruction" was the name of the game. And to be honest with you, I think I was saved because I plum didn't understand it -- at all.
By the end of my Junior year, I was confused and just wanted to graduate. At a friends graduation from Stanford, his religious studies department graduation was held with the 'American Studies' Dept. I half jokingly asked one of the Am studies grads: "So what exactly is 'American Studies'?"
His response was just as confusing as my own interpretation of what it was.
In retrospect it was clearly subversive anti-Americanism built up with a name that was probably meant to draw in young, impressionable dupes like me.
Part of me is angry at myself that I was not up for the challenge to take on the drivel at the time, bt I was not as armed as I am today. And part of me wants to give back the degree which cost my parents a pretty penny.
But my resolution is keeping up with a true education on what it is to be truly American. And to study America is not to add up slavery with the Japanese internment and multiply it by Jim Crow.
I do think my obligation is to tell people, anyone who will listen, that getting back the universities is as important as getting back the media. I think that David Horowitz is clearly the most knowledgable leader on this front, but there needs to be a Bernard Goldberg and a Tammy Bruce from within the Ivy Walls with a liberal pedigree who helps to break down the dam.
And tying the academia to the media as the main culprits in the degradation of American values and standards could be legitimate goals in the Culture War in the coming years.
The current period in which we live (heightened patriotism) has put THEM on the defensive. We have control and should not shrink from the responsibility. It is time to go on the offensive and the publishing this piece in a college publication is a nice start.
I had a similar experience in the Ph.D. Program at American University. The Chair of the Department, Dr. Laura Langbein, made no bones about being a Marxist. And the theoretician she most promoted was a women named Theda (Something) on the faculty of Harvard, also a Marxist.
It is difficult, but not impossible, when the authority figures around you, and most importantly the professors who are grading your papers, are arrogant believers in a false philosophy. But nobody ever said that life was fair.
Congratulations on your intellectual journey. In the immortal words of Stephen Decatur (as I recall), "Damn the torpedos. Full speed ahead."
Congressman Billybob
The city still hasn't recovered from the social and economic effects of a completely socialist city government. The only thing that did stop them were the natural laws of economics and the city council was begining to face serious constitutional barriers to their "Proclamations for the peoples good".
You are right about 9/11 at this time, however they are willing to take a set back and smile because they believe in the mantra "Three steps foward and two back". It took them all of the 60s to get organized and educated and then they started to take over at the Universities and then high schools and then elementary schools. I believe their biggest setback was the McCarthy Hearings and they were able to turn that around and brand it a witch hunt so well that no one will ever question them again in such a fashion.
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