[savagesusie]

Capitalism is the only Free system-—Free Market Capitalism.

But NOTHING is “Good” and ‘works”, even Capitalism, if the “civil” society is NOT Virtuous.

That is the key-—”Without Virtue, you can not have a Free Republic”. (Socrates)

The only purpose of education is to promote Virtue (Socrates).

Cultural Marxists in the 30’s (Gramsci/Adorno/Lukacs, etc) stated that the way to collapse Western Civilization is to destroy Virtue. How do you do that? You corrupt the children (get ahold of ‘education”) and you destroy Virtue in children. (Sex Ed is the easiest way to remove Virtue from children. Lukacs used Sex Ed to collapse Hungary in one generation).

The Cultural Marxists knew the way to destroy Viture: destroy the Natural Family and Christianity-—the two pillars essential for Western Civilization by corrupting Art. Toxic Art destroys morality in children who are vulnerable to ideas/group think.

All the Founders knew that we needed a “religious” people to make the Republic work. Montesquieu stated that Republics always need to promote Virtue. (Justice is the Queen of Virtues-—and our children are taught to take “Pride” in Vice now-—even in Kindergarten. Our Justice System promotes Vice/sodomy now.

Even Machiavelli stated that it was essential to promote Virtue in militaries especially and now Vice is promoted and Christianity is being eliminated.

Christianity is the antithesis of Marxism/Communism because it is about Individual Rights-—never collective “Rights”. Marxists have to destroy that concept in children-—condition them into “group thinkers”/dependent thinkers who accept anything they are told—which our Prussian style schools condition them into. Children today “feel” things are evil/good-—they are ignorant about philosophy/theology/history. Emotions are the Marxist tool—they eliminate Reason and Logic/Responsibility in children-—keep them infantilized/slaves.

[nathanbedford]

I congratulate you on the insight contained in your reply and on the breadth of your knowledge of the Frankfurt School.

For example, your observation that "Christianity is the antithesis of Marxism/Communism because it is about Individual Rights-—never collective “Rights”" is worth an entire thread itself.

I ask you to apply your analytical mind to the following: when we see the breakdown of culture, let us say the breakdown of marriage, the towering bastardy rates, the consequent ignorance and lack of education, the inevitable brutality and rising crime rates, we naturally react and want to do something about it. The reflexive reaction is to say, if homosexual marriage is breaking down marriage in general, let us pass a law prohibiting homosexual marriage, or prohibiting no-fault divorce etc.

In other words, the reflexive reaction is to enact a statute to control the cultural disintegration. When we do that leftists, who have themselves been thoroughly indoctrinated by the cultural undermining of the Frankfurt school, say we're intruding into their bedroom etc. We come off as Nazis and they come off as enlightened defenders of the individual. They have effectively turned the tables on Christian conservatives.

You have had the great insight to understand that the authors of this disintegration, Gramsci/Adorno/Lukacs, understood that the way to change the way society governs itself is to change the culture and let the laws adapt to the culture. We conservatives are trying to do it the other way round.

We will never win the war until we win the culture.

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