Cultural Marxism
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About
Cultural Marxism is a conceptual term used to describe the idea that culture is a main driving force for inequality in the Western world. Since its coinage by American sociology professor Trent Schroyer in 1973, the term has grown into a popular conspiracy theory among far right wing political conservatives who assert that the normalization of political correctness in modern-day society is a Marxist plot collectively undertaken by influential liberals in academic, artistic and cultural spheres to undermine Western traditions and Christianity. Online the term is frequently used on political image and message boards such as 4chan's /pol/ board.
Origin
The term "cultural Marxism" is believed to have been coined by American sociology professor Trent Schroyer in his 1973 The Critique of Domination: The Origins and Development of Critical Theory, in which the author identifies the Frankfurt School's critical theory, a school of thought focusing on reflective assessment and cultural critique through application of social sciences, as the origin of a "culture industry" that imposes "socially unnecessary constraints of human freedom" and ultimately, the social domination of the individual.
“As advanced industrial societies developed, the individual was more integrated into and dependent upon the collectivity and less able to utilize society for active self-expression.”
In the following decades, Schroyer's critique of the Frankfurt School as the origin of postwar liberal agendas and destruction of individualism was further expounded upon by other mainstream academics, most notably Richard Weiner's Cultural Marxism and Political Sociology (1981) and Michael Minnicino's New Dark Age: Frankfurt School and 'Political Correctness' (1992).
Spread
However, during the late 1990s, the meaning behind "cultural Marxism" became increasingly diluted and detached from its original context as many right-wing and neoconservative commentators, such as William S. Lind and Pat Buchanan, began using the term as a catch-all for left-wing cultural criticism in their commentaries. During the first half of the 2000s, this trend continued to gradually spread across other conservative think tanks, most notably the Schiller Institute.[9] On YouTube the most viewed video about cultural Marxism has nearly 253,000 views as of August 2015 (shown below).
Tea Party Movement
By the late 2000s, the popularity of the concept among American conservatives had reached a new height with the emergence of the Tea Party Movement, prompting a resurgence of op-ed columns and essays explaining "cultural Marxism" from right-leaning news media outlets, including Free Republic[11], Free Congress Foundation, American Thinker[12], World Net Daily[13], America Free Press[22] and Fox News[23], which in turn led to a series of online discussions over the validity of the concept in the opposite camp, such as Southern Poverty Law Center, Democratic Underground and The Guardian.
Conspiracy Theories
As the debates dragged on, what originally began as a critique of the critical theory's influence on modern society spun off into a convoluted conspiracy theory asserting that the Frankfurt School, along with its legacies of the critical theory, was a Marxist plot to destroy the capitalist West from within by indoctrinating students to despise individualism and personal liberties in favor of political correctness and multiculturalism. The theory also attributes the critical theory as the culprit behind a wide range of progressivist milestone that were undertaken during the latter half of the 20th century, including the '60s counterculture, civil rights movement, anti-war movement and gender equality movement, among others. On the web, the theory continued to evolve through active discussions on politically conservative communities like Conservapedia and Metapedia, as well as right-wing extremist and political-satirical forums like Stormfront, Something Awful and 4chan's /pol/ board.
A Flowchart History of "Cultural Marxism" According to 4chan's /pol/
2083: A European Declaration of Independence
In July 2011, "cultural Marxism" saw another surge in online interest in the wake of deadly terrorist attacks in Norway single-handedly carried out by far-right radicalist Anders Behring Breivik, who declared Islam and multiculturalism as the enemy of the Western civilization in his manifesto 2083: A European Declaration of Independence that was electronically distributed to various news outlets shortly before the attacks.
"I have now sent an application for a Ruger Mini 14 semi-automatic rifle (5.56)… On the application form I stated: 'hunting deer'. It would have been tempting to just write the truth; 'executing category A and B cultural Marxists/multiculturalist traitors' just to see their reaction :P."
2014 Debate on Wikipedia
In 2014, a controversy erupted on Wikipedia after an entry on Cultural Marxism was deemed invalid and removed by the site's moderators, while the article's content was merged into the entry on the Frankfurt School in a subsection labeled "conspiracy theory."[8]
Search Interest
External References
[1] Marxist Internet Resource – Frankfurt school
[2] IEP – Frankfurt School
[3] Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy – Critical Theory
[4] Wikipedia – Frankfurt School
[5] The British Library – Manifesto of Communism
[6] Rational Wiki – Cultural Marxism
[7] Metapedia – Cultural Marxism
[8] William S. Lind – What is Cultural Marxism?
[9] Schiller Institute – The Frankfurt School and 'Political Correctness'
[10] Google Books – Culural Marxism and Political Sociology
[11] Free Republic – The Origins of Political Correctness
[12] American Thinker – Cultural Marxism
[13] WND Commentary – Who Stole Our Culture?
[14] Southern Poverty Law Center ‘Cultural Marxism’ Catching On
[15] Southern Poverty Law Center – Reframing the Enemy: 'Cultural Marxism', a Conspiracy Theory with an Anti-Semitic Twist, Is Being Pushed by Much of the American Right
[16] Critical Sociology – Collectivists, Communists, Labor Bosses, and Treason: The Tea Parties as Right-Wing Populist Counter-Subversion Panic
[17] Stormfront – What is Cultural Marxism?
[18] The Guardian – The BBC's cultural Marxism will trigger an American-style backlash
[19] View From the Right – CULTURAL MARXISM--OR LIBERALISM?
[20] Democratic Underground – 'Cultural Marxism,' a conspiracy theory being pushed by the right
[21] Fox News – Who Is Winning the Culture War?
[22] America Free Press – Cultural Communism: The Vivisection of America
[23] Cultural Marxism – The Decline of the Western Civilization
[24] CulturalMarxism.com – Main Page
[25] Facebook – Smash Cultural Marxism
[26] VK – Smash Cultural Marxism
[27] Archive.Is – Wikipedia on Cultural Marxism
[28] Reddit – /r/CulturalMarxism
[29] Reddit – Cultural Marxism According to Marxists
[30] Reddit – Wikipedia's Cultural Marxism article now redirects to an article called 'Frankfurt School conspiracy theory'
[31] Reddit – Does anyone have any of the Archived "Cultural Marxism" or "Frankfurt School" wiki's archived or links to good sources. All i'm seeing is SJW nonsense on wiki
[32] Reddit – Search Results for 'Cultural Marxism'
[33] The Guardian – Cultural Marxism': a uniting theory for rightwingers who love to play the victim
[34] Something Awful – So what's the deal with cultural marxism?
[35] The Conversation – Cultural Marxism and our current culture wars: Part 1
[36] The Conversation – Cultural Marxism and our current culture wars: Part 2
[37] Conservapedia – Cultural Marxism
![The image of the United States as melting pot was popularized by the 1908 play The Melting Pot, by Isreal Zangwill. VAL THE MELTING POT THE 21 GREAT AMERICAN DRAMA ay 191 11 ISRAEL ZANGWILL 121401 in 2379.8 26- Ach Promoting Racial Tension In the book A Racial Program for the Twentieth Century, published in 1913 by Israel Cohen of the Fabian Society (a follow-up to Zangwill's play The Melting Pot), he wrote: "We must realize that our Party's most powerful weapon is racial tension. By propounding into the consciousness of the dark races, that for centuries have been oppressed by the whites, we can mold them to the program of the Communist Party... In America, we will aim for subtle victory. While enflaming the N---- minority against the Whites, we will instill in the Whites a guilt complex for the exploitation of the Negroes. We will aid the Negroes to rise to prominence in every walk of life, in the professions, and in the world of sports and entertainment. With this prestige, the Negroes will be able to intermarry with the Whites, and begin a process which will deliver America to our cause." White, heterosexual men are successful. Wait for Masses to revolt Try intellectual vanguard INDUSTRIAL VERSION (Lenin) Technology is bad; humans are destroying earth; Al Gore's recent crusade Change ETHICAL standard Israel Zangwill was born in London on January 21, 1864 in a family of Jewish immigrants from Czarist Russia, to Moses Zangwill from what is now Latvia and Ellen Hannah Marks Zangwill from what is now Poland. He was a dedicated advocate for Zionism and Territorialism, which was a Jewish political movement calling for creation of a sufficiently large and compact Jewish territory (or territories), not necessarily in the Land of Israel and not necessarily fully autonomous. THIS ISN'T FAIR All people are completely equal in all ways and any statistical variation between populations is due to external factors. From "wealth is good" To "wealth is bad" Left Environmentalism THE EVOLUTION OF SOCIALIST STRATEGIES TO RESCUE SOCIALISM FROM FAILURE "The truth is that while conservatives won the Cold War with political and economic Communism, we've lost the cultural war with cultural Marxism, which I think has prevailed pretty much in the United States. It is now the dominant culture. Whereas those of us who are traditionalists, we are, if you will, the counterculture." -Pat Buchanan CLASSICAL MARXIST SOCIALISM FAILURE http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_marxism http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COFxTE031Y8 FAILURE The Bolshevik Revolution and some of its aftermath represented, from one perspective, Jewish revenge. During the heyday of the Cold War, American Jewish publicists spent a lot of time denying that-as 1930s anti-Semites claimed-Jews played a disproportionately important role in Soviet and world Communism. The truth is until the early 1950s Jews did play such a role, and there is nothing to be ashamed of. In time Jews will learn to take pride in the record of the Jewish Communists in the Soviet Union and elsewhere. It was a species of striking back. -Norman Cantor, & The Jewish Experience, 1996. [3] "The blood-maddened Jewish terrorists had murdered sixty-six million victims in Russia from 1918 to 1957!" -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Western culture is evil. Wait for Capitalism to economically collapse All cultures deserve equal respect, except Westen culture which is uniquely bad Try intellectual vanguard AGRARIAN VERSION (Mao) Change EPISTEMOLOGY White, heterosexual men are the architects of Western culture. Multiculturalism Politically "Correct" Thought & Rhetoric From equality of opportunity Postmodernism to equality of outcome (anti-Reality; anti- Reason) egalitarianism. Academic attacks on words & language Terrorism http://www.academia.org/the-origins-of-political-correctness/Communist Party members were told to join the NAACP in order to infiltrate them. The Communist Party platform stated: "The N---- race must understand that capitalism means racial oppression, and communism means social and racial equality." Manning Johnson, who held the highest position a black could have in the Communist Party, said in his 1958 book Color, Communism and Common Sense that he quit because he felt Russia was attempting to involve them in a bloody revolution where as many as five million blacks would die. Another N---- Communist, Leonard Patterson, testified on November 18, 1950: Direct Physical attacks Joel Spingam, Chairman We need to blame society because blaming the individual would disrupt our meticulously-crafted concepts of THE JEWS BEHIND THE NAACP Julius Rosenwald, Co-founder The Statue of Liberty was unveiled in 1886. The poem written by Lazarus was not affixed until 1912. W.E.B. Du Bois, Director of Publicity Jacob Schift. Board Member White, heterosexual men are at fault for society's ills. Ulian Wald, Co-founder Florence Kelley, Co-founder (Jewish spouse-Lazare Wischnewetzky) Florence Kelley, Co-founder Jacob Billikopl, Board Member Emil J. Hirsch Co-Founder COMMUNISTS BEHIND THE NAACP William English Walling (Jewish spouse - Anna Strunsky) William English Wolling Disagree? This proves you have privilege! Stephen Wise, Board Member Henry Moskowitz, Co-Founder The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Jacob Schiff, the Rothschild's man in America, decided that the best way to create racial tension was to establish leadership among the blacks. In 1909, he laid out plans for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). It was the merging of the communist-controlled Niagara Movement, a group of blacks led by W.E.B. duBois, and a group of white social activists. In the beginning, the top leaders of the NAACP were a group of Jews appointed by Schiff. Their goal was to fight segregation and discrimination. They are now the largest black organization in the country, with well over 1500 chapters, and about a half-million members. "I left the Communist Party because I became convinced... that the Communist Party was only interested in promoting among the N---- people a national liberational movement that would aid the Communist Party in its efforts to create a proletarian revolution in the United States that would overthrow the government by force and violence through bloody full-time revolution, and substitute it with a Soviet form of government with a dictatorship of the proletariat." Jacob Blikopt Board Member We need to implicate them using an idea that is unfalsifiable so that we can never be proven wrong. Disagree? You're racist/homophobic/ sexist/transphobic/ bigoted/classist. "PRIVILEGE" White, male, straight, cis. More variants sure to come! Emma Lazarus was the fourth of seven children of Moshe Lazarus and Esther Nathan, Portuguese Sephardic Jews whose families had been settled in New York since the colonial period. She is known as an important forerunner of the Zionist movement. She argued for the creation of a Jewish homeland thirteen years before Theodor Herzl began to use the term Zionism. Disagree? That's hate speech, you Nazi! Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred. (Jacques Barzun) Who is responsible for the downfall of all Western nations? They developed the idea of "Cultural Marxism", which included ideas like: Newsweek IS YOUR BABY RACIST? WHITE GUILT PROPAGANDA H--- RIGHTS Theodor W. Adorno aka And they heavily influenced the members of the '68 generation with these sick and perverted ideas. Theodor Ludwig Wiesengrund THE FRANKFURT SCHOOL! Who were the members of the Frankfurt School? Well, let's take a look: Herbert Marcuse Erich Fromm "Gender Mainstreaming" Max Horkheimer AND YOU SILENCE THE OPPOSITION WHICH ENDS THE ARGUMENT ALLOWING YOU TO CLAIM VICTORY RACIST GLOBALIST MONEY ELITES Leo Löwenthal Franz Neumann A PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT FROM AMERICA'S PROGRESSIVES. MOORE FREELY ATTACKING OUR RACE IN THE MEDIA STURE MEN "Diversity" "Multiculturalism" ARE YOU LOSING THE DEBATE? Communist Jews coin the word "racism" The term "racists" was first coined in print by Leon Trotsky, a communist Jew and mass murderer, in a 1930 piece called the History of the Russian Revolution (translated into English in 1932). [2] He coined the term in a paragraph where he is mocking what he called "Slavophilism", which Trotsky claims is the "messianism of backwardness". [1] In the same breath, the paragraph on the so- called racists also speaks of "Teutonic jackasses",[1] thus from the very beginning the term came from the mouth of a communist Jew in a thoroughly Europhobic context. He continues on in a 1933 piece about German socialism, speaking "racism". [3] he -ism itself was popularised largely due to Magnus Hirschfeld, a co-racialist of Trotsky and Sexual Bolshevist agitator in Berlin who promoted miscegenation in the 1934 work Racism. [4] OPENLY PROMOTING US TO BREED AWAY SHIPPING JOBS OVERSEAS That's why Cultural Marxism is an amalgam of Marxism and Freudian psychoanalysis (both Jews)! A THIRD WORLD IMMIGRATION Felix Weil MAR Otto Kirchheimer Friedrich P------ Carl Grünberg Walter Benjamin BEN GARRISON JEWS c.) LIBERALS](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/list/002/658/235/fb6.jpg "It's another map of Cultural Marxism from 4chan!")
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