Jordan Peterson shows how deadly cultural Marxism is in a few minutes. Yet the western world has let it succeed. As he points out, it is nearly always a small fanatical group that oppresses the majority in the name of equity. How could the man-hating, extreme wokist TEAL party of feminists enter the Australian parliament so easily? Because they and their emasculated male leader conned women and delusional men into voting for them.
Tag Archives: Cultural Marxism
Wars and woke culture
Few commentators speak with such precision and clarity on the way cultural Marxism has infected and poisoned the institutions of Western Civilization.
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Victor Davis Hanson on Wars, Woke Culture, and the Fall of America’s Institutions
Victor Davis Hanson is an American classicist, military historian, political commentator, and farmer. He says cultural Marxism inside our major institutions and American weakness abroad have led to chaos around the world. Victor joins PragerU CEO Marissa Streit to provide clarity about the wars in Ukraine and Israel and give insight into the collapse of America’s borders and universities.
Cultural vandalism by a culturally hollow elite – we must resist
Once again, I have to ask, ‘How do they get away with it? Why doesn’t somebody do something about these saboteurs and traitors?‘
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The short story is, they are coming for the classics
Frank Furedi, The Australian, 17 October 2021
Why am I not surprised to read the Welsh National Opera will run a series of lectures on Madame Butterfly to highlight issues of “imperialism and colonialism”?
Because in recent years it has become increasingly fashionable to frame Western art and culture in a negative light. All its great inspiring figures, from Chaucer to Shakespeare through to Jane Austen face the charge of being “too Western”, “too white” or “too racist”. Classical music, ballet and opera are also dismissed in a similar vein. Western classical culture has always been the target of dogmatic radical commissars on the grounds it is elitist, out of date, irrelevant and far too exclusive. Now these philistine arguments have fused with those promoted by advocates of identity politics.
Hostility towards Western classical culture is frequently justified on the ground that it is too old, too white, too male and far too homophobic. This point was emphasised recently by a participant in the Gender Equity and Diversity in Opera Summit organised by the Australian Music Centre. Sonya Holowell took great objection to the traditional meritocratic emphasis on quality in the opera world. She dismissed the idea that “quality comes first” on the grounds that it “ignores the inherent privileges that many” are afforded
Her solution is to “decolonise the high arts”. In praise of this form of artistic vandalism she asks, the “pertinent question to me is what do we want to leave intact?” Judging by recent unrestrained attacks on classical culture, the answer must be “not very much”.
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‘Cultural Marxism in the University is Destroying American Education’
Professor Garrett Ward Sheldon on the Problem of Cultural Marxism in the University
When I taught the Classics of Political Theory, I used to introduce Karl Marx as “the least funny of the Marx Brothers”. But as I mentioned in an earlier piece in this site, “What Made American Academia Great and How It Was Destroyed”, this failed comedian’s ideas have infiltrated American Universities to the detriment of true learning.
The core of Marxist ideology is economic class conflict (owners vs. workers; slaves vs. masters; capitalists vs. proletarians). Because of the social mobility in the American economy, this core Marxism never really took hold in our country. It was a joke in the 1930’s, at the height of American Communism, that more dues were paid to The Party by FBI informants than actual members!
But CULTURAL Marxism succeeded in the American Left by casting everything in forms of “group conflict” (race, gender, religion, ethnic, etc.). In Chapter 13 of the textbook, THE HISTORY OF POLITICAL THEORY: Ancient Greece to Modern America, this “dialectic” of opposing but connected opposites leads to economic and political revolution, as in Russia, China, Cuba, etc.
In its cultural form, it leads to revolutions in all aspects of society: family, community, education, personal relations and everything else. This invaded the University in transforming the Humanities (History, English), Social Sciences (Government, Psychology, Sociology), and even Natural Sciences (Meteorology, Medicine. . .) from studying all perspectives and teaching the “best” to presenting the “conflict” between traditional subjects and radical perspectives.
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Other essays by Professor Sheldon:
How to Avoid the Life Cycle and Death Spiral of a Republic
Fattening the Marxist maggot
It might seem strange for a conservative website to advertise a series of lectures marking the centenary of The Russian Revolution. The reason is simple. Marxism and Marxists never went away. They just changed their tactics and their target. Many of them have never made an effort to hide their Marxist philosophy or their intentions to destroy bourgeois society. The internet is bulging with thoughts of Marxists of all colours. You don’t have to exert yourself too much to find a Marxist group that suits your particular nightmares. So people should be aware of their presence.
A second reason is that I want to encourage conservatives to make an effort to understand what Marxism is as a political philosophy. You have to know your enemy. Too many conservative have not a clue what Marxism is about. They are not even aware of the crucial base/superstructure dogma that is at the heart of Marxism.
The series of lectures can be seen on the World Socialist Web Site.
A Millenial discusses the origins and effects of Cultural Marxism
The Millenials were born in the 1980s and early 1990s. Their press is often not great – at least for conservatives – because they are (allegedly) responsible for a resurgence of Political Correctness. Most Mellinial support in the 2016 US presidential election went to Bernie Sanders. One Mellinial vlogger Blonde in the Belly of the Beast appears to be going against the trend. Here she is offering a clear short account of the origins and effects of Cultural Marxism. Don’t be distracted by her appearance.