No, the Revolution Isn’t Over

The Upheaval ^ | Jan 18, 2022 | N.S. Lyons

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One would think that by now all these anti-woke conservatives and moderate liberals would have learned at least some of the bitter lessons from the last decade about how political power and cultural change actually work, but I guess not. They could have taken note of all the fundamental factors driving this ideological belief system, all of which had to be painstakingly uncovered, layer by layer, even as it swept through every institution. But they have not. (Like, do they even read the pages and pages of erudite Substack anthropology on the topic? No?) They could have recognized by now that this is not a simple political issue with a political solution, but they have not.
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Long marches are long. When Herbert Marcuse and the rest of the Neo-Marxists and critical theorists of the Frankfurt School finally took to heart Antonio Gramsci’s directive to seize “cultural hegemony” and first conceived of launching Rudi Dutschke’s “long march through the institutions,” it was only the start of the 1970s. It was not until almost fifty years later that their dream was realized. However much the last several years may have seemed like an avalanche of shockingly rapid ideological coup d'états to those who saw power abruptly change hands in their institutions, one after another, this suddenness was an illusion. Coups only succeed if the backers necessary to support them are already in place. And it took literally a generation of young intellectuals and activists simultaneously inspired and disillusioned by the left-radicalism of the 60s entering into and seeding the institutions, rising into positions of power, and cultivating another generation of trained foot soldiers for their influence to fully flower.

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This is a great article, that give tremendous insight into what is going on. Someone posted the American Thinker article that referenced it, but this is the real deal. Everyone concerned about the current situation in the US should read the entire article. It is long, it makes sophisticated arguments, it has a wide array of cultural references, but you need to plow through it.

[230FMJ]

BFL

[Lurker]

For later.

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[mountainlion]

China has not diminished the attack against US. The deep state has not given up.

[frog in a pot]

Thank you, looks interesting for a later read.

[sourcery]

I strongly second your comment.

READ THIS, folks.

[marktwain]

It is an article of dispair, but I am not sure it is of fact.

It is hard to believe there are many of these "anti-racist" in serious power... but many seem intent on caving to them.

[proxy_user]

I would say that of the millions of people who are in on this, not all of them are committed. The leading theorists and promoters are committed, of course, but they have many followers who are just along for the ride. If the zeitgeist changed, then the followers would go along.