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Cultural Marxism Is the Main Source of Modern Confusion—and It's Spreading
https://fee.org/ ^ | October 18, 2018 | ANTONY MUELLER

Posted on 10/20/2018 11:18:42 AM PDT by Para-Ord.45

Another name for the neo-Marxism of increasing popularity in the United States is "cultural Marxism.” This theory says the driving force behind the socialist revolution is not the proletariat—but the intellectuals. While Marxism has largely disappeared from the workers' movement, Marxist theory flourishes today in cultural institutions, in the academic world, and in the mass media.

This “cultural Marxism” goes back to Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937) and the Frankfurt School. The theorists of Marxism recognized that the proletariat would not play the expected historical role as a “revolutionary subject.” Therefore, for the revolution to happen, the movement had to depend on the cultural leaders to destroy the existing, mainly Christian, culture and morality and then drive the disoriented masses to Communism as their new creed. The goal of this movement is to establish a world government in which the Marxist intellectuals have the final say. In this sense, the cultural Marxists are the continuation of what started with the Russian revolution.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: columbiauniversity; culturalmarxism; education; frankfurtschool; marxism; socialism
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1 posted on 10/20/2018 11:18:42 AM PDT by Para-Ord.45
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To: Para-Ord.45
In 1954 Congress passed and President Eisenhower signed the Communist Control Act (68 Stat. 775, 50 U.S.C. 841-844), which outlaws the Communist Party of the United States.

It's now apparent that the law needs to be updated to included the Communist-infiltrated, murder-by-abortion-promoting, traitorous Demonicrat Party.

2 posted on 10/20/2018 11:22:26 AM PDT by Carl Vehse
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To: Para-Ord.45
"cultural Marxism.” another way to say "political correction" is fanned by paid protesters, MSM and SOROS paying everyone who will work for him.....we need to remember who the mobs represent....Progressive Democrat Socialist.


3 posted on 10/20/2018 11:41:22 AM PDT by yoe (A vote for the Left is a vote against YOUR Constitution, open borders, higher taxes, more government)
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To: Para-Ord.45

This is very true.


4 posted on 10/20/2018 11:43:28 AM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: Para-Ord.45

Cultural Marxism has teamed up with the Post-Modernist, Humanist and Neo-Darwinist.

Truth is relative.

Morality is relative.

Science is subjective.

When they don’t like the facts they attack the messenger for being part of the patriarchy.

The left lives in a world where their feelings define some “greater truth”.

Truth, to the left, is the way things “Should be”.

They consider themselves more intelligent, more refined and compassionate than conservatives.

On the Left, they truly believe they are the righteous ones.


5 posted on 10/20/2018 11:45:34 AM PDT by Zeneta
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To: Para-Ord.45

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6 posted on 10/20/2018 11:50:47 AM PDT by GOP Poet
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To: Zeneta

Communism was always driven by the self-described “intellectuals”, and the common people have always been considered cannon fodder for these fanatics.


7 posted on 10/20/2018 11:51:34 AM PDT by littleharbour ("You take on the intel community they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you" C. Schumer)
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To: Para-Ord.45
The picture of the reason America is in chaos....community is synonymous with being Communist..it is a form of communism. Prove BHO is not Communist.


8 posted on 10/20/2018 12:04:34 PM PDT by yoe (A vote for the Left is a vote against YOUR Constitution, open borders, higher taxes, more government)
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To: Para-Ord.45

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9 posted on 10/20/2018 12:05:37 PM PDT by gattaca ("Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives." Ronald Reagan)
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To: yoe

“community organizer” is communism


10 posted on 10/20/2018 12:05:40 PM PDT by yoe (A vote for the Left is a vote against YOUR Constitution, open borders, higher taxes, more government)
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To: skip2myloo

FYI


11 posted on 10/20/2018 12:10:51 PM PDT by laplata (The Left/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: Para-Ord.45
No actual quotes from any "cultural Marxists."

And this guy is German, so it wouldn't have been hard to find them in the original and translate them.

What goes on in the world now is too complicated to fit under one simple label.

12 posted on 10/20/2018 12:10:52 PM PDT by x
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To: littleharbour

Communism was always driven by the self-described “intellectuals”, and the common people have always been considered cannon fodder for these fanatics.


The “Common People” just acquiesce all THOUGHT and SELF to the intellectuals, the government and its leaders.

Back in the early to mid 1990’s I would interview college grads for stockbroker jobs. Well over 90% would ask about “Training”, “Do you have a Training program?”. And I’m like WTF?, Training? What’s wrong with you? Nobody is going to hold your hand and walk you step by step here. It’s trial by fire, and you either figure this out or you will quit.


13 posted on 10/20/2018 12:11:02 PM PDT by Zeneta
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To: yoe

Obama is one of the most Evil and putrid bastards ever to walk the face of the earth.


14 posted on 10/20/2018 12:12:46 PM PDT by laplata (The Left/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: Zeneta

Every word you say is true.

And Dennis Prager always says that the more higher education you have (outside of some tech fields), the more gullible you are to these ideas.

Maybe it is because you’ve spent 24 or so years of your life kissing educator butt. You’re good at it or you would have left earlier. You can take in Professor opinions as your own; after all, he shamed you all with his mocking, in those lecture halls of 150 kids. He made you all feel stupid or wrong if you didn’t parrot his stuff back to him on exams.

I was a good student in college, didn’t think about politics, just believed what they wanted me to. I guess eventually real life woke me.

And still to this day, new parents are cradling their infant and imagining her going to college. Universities should be seen as risky training places, to be used as needed, and feared for their inherent subversion.


15 posted on 10/20/2018 12:15:40 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: yoe
Community organizer? More like rabble rouser:

/ˈrabəl ˌrouzər/

noun a person who speaks with the intention of inflaming the emotions of a crowd of people, typically for political reasons.

synonyms: agitator, troublemaker, instigator, firebrand, revolutionary, insurgent, demagogue

16 posted on 10/20/2018 12:18:50 PM PDT by JohnnyP (Thinking is hard work (I stole that from Rush).)
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To: Zeneta

Communism = Elites
It is a control power thing.


17 posted on 10/20/2018 12:29:30 PM PDT by nothingnew
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To: Para-Ord.45

A few related videos:

https://youtu.be/ARhlltHSF60

https://youtu.be/8jw0AgokHXw

https://youtu.be/1SRhr2STdeM


18 posted on 10/20/2018 12:46:02 PM PDT by polymuser (Its terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged today. - Chesterton)
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To: x

It fits under one label just fine—cultural marxism. Otherwise known as political correctness or soviet subversion.

The idiot baby boomers drank the soviet subversion koolaid by the gallon and here we are. America on the brink. On her death bed.


19 posted on 10/20/2018 12:48:07 PM PDT by Electric Graffiti (Jeff Sessions IS the insurance policy)
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To: Yaelle

I was lucky to some extent.

My daughter went to one of the most “progressive” universities in America. She had her fill of insane leftists professors and somehow maintained her objectivity.

She was known by everyone as being a conservative Republican.

One of her “Self proclaimed Communist” Professors asked her to edit his new book. A book he needed to publish in order to maintain his position. It was a joke. The guy couldn’t even write a proper coherent sentence, never mind an entire book. She took on the challenge and insisted that her name, NOT be listed in any credits.

These commies are idiots living in a fantasy world surrounded by like minded fools that happen to think their prestige grants them authority.


20 posted on 10/20/2018 12:54:56 PM PDT by Zeneta
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