How Cultural Marxism Threatens Us
How Cultural Marxism Threatens Us
After the Cold War, many thought communism had been defeated--wrong.
Karl Marx (1818-1883), author of the Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital, he’s back.
Updated 12/12/2022
We like to update our stories. Mike Gonzalez has been doing some really interesting research and thought the insights below are worth sharing.
Have been doing a deep dive into the annual meetings of Left Forum, the premier forum of the global Marxist left (where they get together in New York for days and strategize) to see in which ones Venezuelan officials coincided with the founders of Black Lives Matter, or the Marxists who indoctrinated them. Found plenty of evidence of Venezuela, but what I was surprised to find was how serious the PRC took these meetings. Beijing sent entire delegations every year, sometimes government ministers. In other words, a political upheaval forged for years by the CCP and revolutionary Venezuela is now completely upending our society under the guise of a “racial reckoning.”
Look at 2011 alone (two years before BLM was even founded). The title is the panel:
Case Studies of Successful Multiracial Campaigns Rooted in the Working Class:
Ai-jen Poo, National Domestic Workers Alliance; Domestic Workers United—ally of both Cullors and Garza
Biju Mathew, New York Taxi Workers Association; Campaign to Stop Funding Hate; South Asia Solidarity Initiative
Eric Mann, Labor Community Strategy Center—the former Weatherman who trained Cullors for a full decade.
Patrisse Cullors, Labor Community Strategy Center—Cullors herself, BLM Founder
Priscilla Gonzalez, Domestic Workers United
Transformative Organizing: The Ultimate Solidarity:
Ai-jen Poo, National Domestic Workers Alliance; Domestic Workers United
Cindy Wiesner, Grassroots Global Justice Alliance
Eric Mann, Labor/Community Strategy Center
Patrisse Cullors, Labor Community Strategy Center
Venezuela and the Chavez Government: Advances and Shortcomings:
Sponsored by: Venezuelanalysis
Dario Azzellini, Johannes Kepler Universität, Austria
Isabel Delgado, Ministry of Basic Industries and Mines, Venezuela—Venezuelan minister, faithful Chavista.
Mark Weisbrot, Center for Economic and Policy Research
Steve Ellner, Universidad del Oriente
T.M. Scruggs, University of Iowa / Independent Scholar
Excluded Workers: Building a Labor Movement for the Twenty-First Century:
Erica Smiley, Jobs with Justice
Frances Fox Piven, CUNY Graduate Center
Harmony Goldberg, CUNY Graduate Center—trained Garza on Gramscism, Marxim-Leninism
Linda Abad, Damayan Migrant Workers Association
Premilla Nadasen, Queens College
Saket Soni, New Orleans Workers Center for Racial Justice
China and Marxism: Theory and Practice in Transition:
Gaofeng Meng, University of Beijing
George Comninel, York University, Toronto, Canada
Norman Levine, Institute of International Policy, Phoenix - USA
Xiaoping Wei, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
Xingfu Wang, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
Xiuqin Zhang, China University of Political Science and Law, Beijing
Gender Relations in China:
Clara To, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Helen Wu, University of Toronto
Li Qin, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
Shen Tingting, Dongjen Center for Human Rights Education and Action
Vincent Ho, History Department, University of Macau
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Voices across the American left, masking their goals under the pretense of social justice, our out to dismantle the foundations of the American republic; rewriting history; reintroducing racism; creating privileged classes; and lording over public discourse, the military, and houses of worship. Unless Marxist thought is defeated again, today’s cultural Marxists will achieve what the Soviet Union never could: the subjugation of the United States to a totalitarian, soul-destroying ideology.
The danger of these bad old ideas becoming new again impact both our domestic tranquility and our foreign policy.
Scholars Mike Gonzalez and Katharine Gorka have a new research paper out taking a deep dive on this controversial topic. They also participated in a public forum on the issues that you can watch here.
We asked them for the bottom line here—and here is what we got.
How is the strategy of the contemporary radical left different from traditional Marxism? The strategy to achieve the new cultural Marxism was also no longer predicated on Marx’s original prescription, the violent overthrow of the system by the working class, or in Marx and Engel’s own words, “formation of the proletariat into a class, overthrow of the bourgeois supremacy, [and] conquest of political power by the proletariat.” Rather, the strategy now draws on [Antonio] Gramsci’s concept: Ideologues must infiltrate institutions and all of society and “raise the consciousness of” the “oppressed” with a new cultural worldview, or narrative
Italian Marxist philosopher, Antonio Francesco Gramsci (1`891-1937)
Why is Cultural Marxism making inroads in the United States? For starters, look to its impact on the education system. Many of America’s youth have already been raised on a diet of ideas that directly undermine the American Founding. They are not taught that all people are created equal; they are taught that some people are racially privileged due to structural racism. They are not taught individual rights so much as group rights. They are not taught that the United States, with its free markets and property rights, has brought more prosperity to more people than any other nation on earth. They are not taught that generation after generation has worked to achieve the Founders’ ideal that all men are created equal. They are taught that America is systemically racist, that its very laws were designed to uphold something called white supremacy—which refers not to the vile notion that the white race is supreme, but to all Western traditions, codes, societal arrangements, laws, and norms.
Many Americans are today experiencing firsthand the effect of the poison that is being fed to their children in schools. The majority of Americans pays thousands of dollars in taxes to have their children indoctrinated in public schools and universities.
Why is this such a threat to free society? Because of Communism’s ideological absolutism, cultural Marxism cannot tolerate or co-exist with other worldviews. It demands censorship, which began as “political correctness” but has since veered into the far more insidious censorship, which leads inevitably to tyranny (as Marxism always has everywhere it has been tried). It punishes alternative views by attempting to drive those who express them from public life, a phenomenon dubbed “cancel culture.” As Klingenstein said in his September 2022 speech, “if the Woke Comms want to overthrow our system, we have to overthrow theirs.” The new Marxists play for keeps, just as the old ones did. Marx’s favorite phrase came from Goethe’s Mephisto (the devil): “Everything that exists deserves to perish.”
This is why Cultural Marxists took over the universities and transformed the class struggle into one over race, sex, and other immutable traits, and used these positions of power to reinterpret not just history but reality itself. Cultural Marxists also abandoned violent struggle in favor of indoctrination. Socialism evolved from preaching government ownership of the means of production to putting socialists in charge of “the means of meaning production.”
What is the right response to all of this? A growing number of Americans are aware of the depth of the infiltration of their culture by insidious ideas, but do enough understand the long-term ramifications? Americans’ first task therefore in reversing the tide of cultural Marxism is to ensure that more of the public understands both the roots and the consequences of these ideas. Then we need to a common fight to recapture civil institutions and the public space. We have a number of suggestions in our paper.
Unless Marxist ideas are defeated, their proponents will push the United States to follow a totalitarian ideology that obliterates freedom and opportunity.
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They are dangerous for our society because they slowly introduce censorship, which is tyranny. We have to fight this.