Posted on 06/20/2020 7:36:04 AM PDT by CheshireTheCat
When I recently asked Mike Gonzalez in an interview what new constituency leftist supporters of identity politics would start pandering to next, he pressed me “not to let the imagination run wild, lest we give them ideas.”
His quip spoke to that movement’s drive to socially engineer a fractured map of ever-smaller subnational communities, but one could have mistaken Gonzalez’s humorous cynicism for genuine prudence. His plea “not to let the imagination run wild,” if heeded by the movement’s Marxist forebears, would have meant a world of difference to today’s America. For if one thing has fueled identity politics, it is a wild imagination. Gonzalez’s The Plot to Change America: How Identity Politics Is Dividing the Land of the Free is the best account yet of the deep ideological wells from which identity politics springs. The story begins in 1928, when Mussolini’s regime sentenced a young Antonio Gramsci, then the leader of the Communist Party in Italy, to 20 years in prison, hoping to “stop his mind from ever working again,” in the prosecutor’s own words. Imprisonment instead afforded him a quiet retreat to refashion Marxism for the future, birthing a brand of it that endures at the core of American society to this day in the form of identity politics.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
Frankfurt School?
Yes, but the book may be a good primer on it and more accessible than other books.
Reprocessing the raw matter of his cultural Marxism to fit American society was the work of the so-called Frankfurt School, whose leading thinkers spent considerable time in New York as refugees from a Nazified Europe in the 1930s, with Max Horkheimer moving the School’s Institute for Social Research from Frankfurt to New York in 1935.Out of humanitarian goals, we let refugees from Nazism into the United States in the 1930s. Look what it got us.
There are no intellectual roots, merely idealogical roots.
It took about a 100 years but America has been socially re-engineered. Conservatism can’t do this because it believes in free thought,personal responsibility and belief in god.
We used to have a litmus test for refugees. No communists or socialist agitators allowed. Somehow this was relaxed for Frankfurt School losers
Jordan Peterson rips apart identity politics, and especially “white privilege” in a number of his lectures.
If anyone here’s not familiar with his levtures, get ye to YouTube forthwith!
Mark
Thanks for posting this, CTC. The review is excellent and provides a very high-level analysis of what happened to us. The prospects are very alarming. We are fighting against two, maybe three, generations of useful idiots educated in the American public school system. We now have adults who buy into identify politics who are happy that THEIR kids are learning it.
The review author Jorge Gonzalez-Gallarza Hernandez wrote “If there ever was a sign that Rutsche’s “long march through the institutions” has successfully swept academia and journalism, the 1619 Project is it, and the threat this transformation poses to American constitutional principles is the core warning in Gonzalez’s book.”
My sister is a math teacher in Baltimore. She told me a couple days ago that 4,500 schools have adopted the “1619 Project” as their history / social studies curriculum.
Identity politics is the natural order of things, not some conspiracy.
We all identify with many different groups - be it our family, ethnic group, race, religion, world view... and it is in our interest to promote and protect the interests of the groups we identify with.
The only group that one is forbidden to identify with and defend is the white race... And we are paying the price for that today.
We as whites have to join the identity politics game not leave it to the other groups. Until we start doing that in a conscious and united way we’ll remain the lepers we’ve become.
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