Cultural Marxism is a philosophy of ignorance and authoritarianism
It's not about oppressors vs. oppressed. It's about centralizers versus free people
There is a particular type of fear mongering coming out of the establishment press right now around what it likes to call the “far-right”.
What constitutes the “far-right” seems to have expanded of late. Whereas once “far-right” consisted of Neo-Nazis (also known as National Socialists) and other folks based in the panhandle of Idaho, now the likes of Nigel Farage and Vivek Ramaswamy are often thrown into the “far-right” camp. Which is absurd. Heck I’ve heard Joe Rogan, who is about as middle of the road, even handed, and common sense as one can get called “far right”.
Of course part of this is because what is being defined as “far-right” has in recent years been defined by the radical far-left. People forget that in this country “socialists” and “Nazis” were considered in similar regard by typical Americans. Socialists liked Stalin. Nazis liked Hitler. Both guys sucked and America was supposed to go its own way.
But over time the people who remembered the disease that is real socialism, hardcore socialism, the economic dysfunction, the inevitable totalitarianism (and this was true to a degree even in places like Britain and Scandinavia), who remembered the Cold War and why it was fought, gave way to people who hadn’t seen what socialism is and was. This new generation was easy pickings, particularly in a time when many people were looking to fill the post-modern spiritual hole within themselves.
Why were things bad? Racism, sexism, homophobia, whatever. Cultural Marxism gave reason to perceived suffering, and more importantly a means by which to address this suffering. It wasn’t that life was hard. It was that others were making it hard. It was someone else’s fault.
These neo-Marxist acolytes were sold the same nonsense that students in the thirties were sold. The difference between the kids in the thirties and now is that the kids in the thirties didn’t know better. (For the most part.) The Soviet experiment had just been launched. No one knew of the gulags yet and reporters at the New York Times sang the praises of the new worker utopia. Socialism was something new, a dream for a better world, so even though some could see that socialism was an economic death cult (like Ludwig Von Mises) many others just could not see what was to come. In our book a small degree of understanding can be extended to the 1930s pinkos.
But the antifa crowd, the SJWs, they know better. They can look at history. Yet they still embrace the Marxist religion. (And Marxism absolutely is a religion with saints, and rituals the whole bit.)
There is another key difference between the Marxists of the past and the Marxists of today. Whereas economics (deeply flawed economics) underlay classical Marxism, today’s Marxism is cultural.
It’s not the proletariat against the bourgeoisie. Now it’s the “oppressed” versus the “oppressors”.
This framework is probably even more flawed than classical Marxism, and that is a remarkable thing to say.
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