Why do we have a feeling that something just isn’t quite right, but we’re unable to put our finger on it?
Why doesn’t it matter who you vote for, nothing seems to change?
Why did the old slogans of ‘Power to the People’ and ‘Workers of the World Unite’ disappear?
Those looking for communists revolutionaries with red flags standing on the barricades will remain disappointed. The communists became progressives, minority interests replaced those of the workers and equality, diversity and multiculturalism is the new, ‘Quiet cultural revolution.’ (Horkheimer).
Cultural Marxism: Old new ideas
A repudiation of Marxist economic based philosophy (political) that argues if culture is a social construction, then it can also be deconstructed (cultural). Following the failure of the Bolshevik revolution across Europe the Institute for Social Research was set up in Germany (1923), by Jewish Marxist theorists and sociologists, commonly known as the Frankfurt school. If the workers wouldn’t rise up and destroy the existing order, then they must be dumbed down and the order which they favoured destroyed to enable that uprising. Gramsci termed this, ‘The long march through the institutions’- traditional cultural destruction through change, not a short sharp violent revolution. This was proposed by deconstructing western societies, using critical theory.
Some of the main proposals:
1) The creation of racism offences.
2) Continual change to create confusion.
3) The teaching of sex and homosexuality to children.
4) The undermining of schools' and teachers' authority.
5) Huge immigration to destroy identity.
6) The promotion of excessive drinking.
7) Emptying of churches.
8) An unreliable legal system with bias against victims of crime.
9) Dependency on the state or state benefits.
10) Control and dumbing down of media.
11) Encouraging the breakdown of the family.
Gay rights and sexual promiscuity, using Freud’s theory of pansexualism to create a type of unisex society.
The family, as objects and products of the State (government dependency)
Education, Common Core. ‘When the technique has been perfected, every government that has been in charge of education for a generation will be able to control its subjects securely without the need of armies or policemen.’ Russell, B, ‘The Impact of Science on Society’, 1951
State dependency: "Economists agree that unemployment benefits remain one of the best ways to grow the economy in a very immediate way . . . For every dollar spent on unemployment benefits, the economy grows by, according to one estimate, $1.52; by others, $2 . . .’ Nancy Pelosi.
Critical theory: The subjectivity of morality and beliefs
Critical theory doesn’t provide a replacement; rather it destroys what is and leaves it with whatever comes out of it. The reason a basic grasp of critical theory is so important is that it leads us into the present era of subjective morality in which there is no right or wrong.
Simplified, critical theory proposes that what we see and perceive isn’t fact, but a distortion based on moral relativism and social norms. In other words, when we see a cup, it’s only a cup because we’ve been told it is and to someone else it might be a flowerpot. This reverses objectivity and the need for science and reduces perception to that of each individual’s subjectivity. Each person’s opinion then replaces the consensus of what is, becoming what each thinks it is, or should be.
Political correctness: Changing thought to reflect a political ideology
Contrary to popular opinion, political correctness (PC) doesn’t just restrict free speech, it redefines speech, which in turn produces a consensus view in which both thought and speech reflect a universal belief, using legislation, peer pressure and the labelling theory to force consent. If critical theory were an ideology, subjective morality would be its manifesto and PC its voting system.
We live in an age of regression to the pre-enlighten period, in which opinions replace facts and become facts themselves if ‘verified’ by another’s opinion. PC is the modern day equivalent of witch trials and the inquisition. It is no coincidence that communists have self-criticism ‘struggle sessions’ and purges of those who deviate from prescribed thought.
From radical feminism, sexual rights, minority rights, victimology . . . Women’s studies, African studies, gay studies . . . all these are part of critical theory, minority cultural groupings.
A simplified practical explanation of cultural Marxism.
[video=youtube;hnugQQ1ya8Y]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnugQQ1ya8Y [/video] (15.39 minutes)
‘A Primer to Cultural Marxism.’
* The video places too much emphasis on Christianity alone in cultural change.
**Not mentioned; Engels (attributed to Marx) in ‘Anti-Dühring’, believed that the State would eventually wither away of its own accord and come to resemble Proudhon’s proposal of anarchism.
http://www.schillerinstitute.org/fid_91-96/921_frankfurt.html
http://www.academia.org/the-origins-of-political-correctness/
Why doesn’t it matter who you vote for, nothing seems to change?
Why did the old slogans of ‘Power to the People’ and ‘Workers of the World Unite’ disappear?
Those looking for communists revolutionaries with red flags standing on the barricades will remain disappointed. The communists became progressives, minority interests replaced those of the workers and equality, diversity and multiculturalism is the new, ‘Quiet cultural revolution.’ (Horkheimer).
Cultural Marxism: Old new ideas
A repudiation of Marxist economic based philosophy (political) that argues if culture is a social construction, then it can also be deconstructed (cultural). Following the failure of the Bolshevik revolution across Europe the Institute for Social Research was set up in Germany (1923), by Jewish Marxist theorists and sociologists, commonly known as the Frankfurt school. If the workers wouldn’t rise up and destroy the existing order, then they must be dumbed down and the order which they favoured destroyed to enable that uprising. Gramsci termed this, ‘The long march through the institutions’- traditional cultural destruction through change, not a short sharp violent revolution. This was proposed by deconstructing western societies, using critical theory.
Some of the main proposals:
1) The creation of racism offences.
2) Continual change to create confusion.
3) The teaching of sex and homosexuality to children.
4) The undermining of schools' and teachers' authority.
5) Huge immigration to destroy identity.
6) The promotion of excessive drinking.
7) Emptying of churches.
8) An unreliable legal system with bias against victims of crime.
9) Dependency on the state or state benefits.
10) Control and dumbing down of media.
11) Encouraging the breakdown of the family.
Gay rights and sexual promiscuity, using Freud’s theory of pansexualism to create a type of unisex society.
The family, as objects and products of the State (government dependency)
Education, Common Core. ‘When the technique has been perfected, every government that has been in charge of education for a generation will be able to control its subjects securely without the need of armies or policemen.’ Russell, B, ‘The Impact of Science on Society’, 1951
State dependency: "Economists agree that unemployment benefits remain one of the best ways to grow the economy in a very immediate way . . . For every dollar spent on unemployment benefits, the economy grows by, according to one estimate, $1.52; by others, $2 . . .’ Nancy Pelosi.
Critical theory: The subjectivity of morality and beliefs
Critical theory doesn’t provide a replacement; rather it destroys what is and leaves it with whatever comes out of it. The reason a basic grasp of critical theory is so important is that it leads us into the present era of subjective morality in which there is no right or wrong.
Simplified, critical theory proposes that what we see and perceive isn’t fact, but a distortion based on moral relativism and social norms. In other words, when we see a cup, it’s only a cup because we’ve been told it is and to someone else it might be a flowerpot. This reverses objectivity and the need for science and reduces perception to that of each individual’s subjectivity. Each person’s opinion then replaces the consensus of what is, becoming what each thinks it is, or should be.
Political correctness: Changing thought to reflect a political ideology
Contrary to popular opinion, political correctness (PC) doesn’t just restrict free speech, it redefines speech, which in turn produces a consensus view in which both thought and speech reflect a universal belief, using legislation, peer pressure and the labelling theory to force consent. If critical theory were an ideology, subjective morality would be its manifesto and PC its voting system.
We live in an age of regression to the pre-enlighten period, in which opinions replace facts and become facts themselves if ‘verified’ by another’s opinion. PC is the modern day equivalent of witch trials and the inquisition. It is no coincidence that communists have self-criticism ‘struggle sessions’ and purges of those who deviate from prescribed thought.
From radical feminism, sexual rights, minority rights, victimology . . . Women’s studies, African studies, gay studies . . . all these are part of critical theory, minority cultural groupings.
A simplified practical explanation of cultural Marxism.
[video=youtube;hnugQQ1ya8Y]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnugQQ1ya8Y [/video] (15.39 minutes)
‘A Primer to Cultural Marxism.’
* The video places too much emphasis on Christianity alone in cultural change.
**Not mentioned; Engels (attributed to Marx) in ‘Anti-Dühring’, believed that the State would eventually wither away of its own accord and come to resemble Proudhon’s proposal of anarchism.
http://www.schillerinstitute.org/fid_91-96/921_frankfurt.html
http://www.academia.org/the-origins-of-political-correctness/