Jesus, Mary and Joseph, pray for us.
Posted on 09/23/2014 8:06:03 AM PDT by wagglebee
Editor’s Note: The following address by German author and social commentator Gabriele Kuby was delivered earlier this month in Moscow at the International Forum on Large Families and the Future of Humanity.
We are witnessing an astonishing historical shift.
More than a hundred years ago, Marxism declared the relationship of man and woman in monogamous marriage as “the first class antagonism” in history. This “class-conflict” had to be overcome by destroying marriage and the family. So in 1917, Alexandra Kollontai, the first woman commissar of the Bolshevik Central Committee, set out to put this into practise through the exercise of revolutionary power:
But even Lenin soon realized that this was creating social chaos. And he repealed some of these revolutionary measures.
Yet the same agenda eventually migrated to the West. It had its breakthrough with the student rebellion of the 1960s, which swept through European countries with slogans like these:
Battle the bourgeois nuclear family!
If you sleep with the same one twice, you’re a slave of bourgeois vice!
Make love not war!
This movement was fueled by Marxist philosophers, particularly of the Frankfurt School in Germany. In their view, sexuality was to be liberated from restrictive morality – even from the taboo of incest. Sex between children, as well as sex with children, was to be allowed in order to create a “society without oppression”.
During the 1970s, marriage laws and sexual criminal laws were revised in Western countries. Pornography, abortion, and homosexuality – in this sequence – were legalized, and obligatory sexual education was introduced in schools. And during the last decade, the collectivization of bringing up small children – formerly seen as a communist aberration – has been imposed on families by EU measures. This destroys the very source of human love, which is the relationship between mother and child.
Ironically, the Soviet Union and Eastern European countries were, so to speak, “protected” by communist dictatorship from the implementation of these ideas, which had originated in Marxist ideology.
Today things have shifted even further: The radical feminist movement and the homosexual movement merged and gave birth to the gender ideology. One of its trailblazers is the philosopher Judith Butler, a fellow of the Rockefeller Foundation and a proclaimed lesbian, who in 1990 published the book, Gender Trouble – Feminism and the Subversion of Identity.
Gender theory proclaims that our “social gender” is independent of our biological sex, so that we can “choose” whether we want to be a man or a woman.
At the policy level, this ideology becomes “Gender Mainstreaming,” which promotes:
It has taken only 20 years for gender theory to become the ruling ideology of the West. At most universities, the new field of “gender studies” has been firmly established. In my native Germany, we have almost 200 women professors in that new field of so-called “science” – which really is nothing more than the ideological agenda of radical feminism and the homosexual movement combined. And students now must adhere to this ideology – just as their predecessors had to adhere to Marxist ideology under communism.
What Alexandra Kollontai could not achieve under a communist dictatorship has now become the global policy of the United Nations and the European Union. But the underlying agenda is disguised with words that abuse the great values of Christian culture: freedom, justice, tolerance, and human rights.
Central and Eastern European nations have now begun to realize that membership in the European Union has its costs. It not only brings them new economic possibilities but also the enforced destruction of their own value system – which, for many centuries, has served as the foundation of marriage and family.
In pursuit of their agenda, the UN and the EU work with an international network of political stakeholders, billionaire foundations, the mainstream media, and global NGOs like the International Planned Parenthood Federation and ILGA, the homosexual umbrella organization. They seek to impose the feminist and homosexual agenda on every nation around the world through the policy of gender mainstreaming and LGBT-rights.
Dear friends, we are indeed facing a global ‘anthropological revolution’, as Pope Benedict XVI termed it – one which attacks the very roots of human existence. This revolution has five political cornerstones:
All this requires a response. In fact, faced with the demographic crisis in the West, and the moral and social breakdown of the family, we need a global movement that creates conditions under which the deepest longings of the human heart can be fulfilled. Such a movement should include:
As far as I can see, Russia is today the only country where there may be the possibility for church and state to rebuild the foundations of the family.
This International Forum could have a significant role in the global battle for a culture of life and the defence of marriage and family. May our political leaders be guided by wisdom and a commitment to the common good of humanity in the present political situation.
The left is truly bent on destroying civilization.
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They couldn't succeed if there wasn't an overwhelming consensus that, "I should have what I want when I want it."
Socialists want children to learn reliance on the government at an early age so they will willingly spend their lives on the government plantation.
Strong families get in the way of that goal.
“You can’t kill the beast while sucking at its teat”
— Claire Wolfe
Nice post... thanks.
How can these commies claim that the “Traditional Family” is an invention when most societies all over the world have always had a somewhat simular family structure . If they belive in evolution so much wouldn’t the conclusion be that the family structure was evolved over time...
It is almost as if Marxists beleived that the family structure came from Aliens who landed and forced people to live in Family units..... If that was the case then they may have a point, but it is not.
So the same people who supposedly belive in evolution, countermand it by claiming the traditional family structure is in some way “artificial”.
Consistency and Marxism are enemies of each other...
If you showed the majority of Americans a biscuit and then showed them a recipe for a biscuit, they still couldn’t comprehend how the biscuit came to be.
Even politicians, admittedly not the most intelligent segment of society, fall prey to the propaganda. “I don’t want to stand in the way of love” etc.
Jesus, Mary and Joseph, pray for us.
Thank you for the post.
My marriage has been having some troubles lately, and our pastor recommended that we ask St. Joseph to intercede for us. I believe he is the perfect patron to lead us against this movement, which so obviously comes from Satan himself!
(The marriage is immensely better now, btw! ;))
Notice they are only bent on destroying WESTERN (ie, Christian) Civilization.
Anything else, they excuse or promote.
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Genderism is being promoted by the neuterization bigade of gays, feminists, and female career worshipers. Their media message is that our choice is between: (1) neutered people; or (2)extremist portrayals of men as muscular bruits and childless super women who can karate-kick their way out of danger with little help from men.
The irony is that it is now Russia that is holding the line against this crap.
I know as a conservative, I’m supposed to
strike a confident posture toward
these issues, but these movements
scare the h*11 out of me. They’ve
been very successful here in the
US, and I have a four-year-old
son.
We have a population acting like a mindless herd of cattle rather than human beings.
This kind of silly, obviously unrealistic ideology is a result of something much more basic and with much more appeal to the majority. The majority don’t want their personal choices subjected to the analysis of moral absolutes, or even of common sense. This leaves them vulnerable to all sorts of nonsense.
I’m not upset or frightened by it, because I believe reality wins in the end. The Gods of the Copybook Headings say, “The wages of sin is death.”
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