Next Conservatism: What is Cultural Marxism

GOP USA ^ | 10-25-05 | William S. Lind - Commentary

[beaver fever]

Marcuse was the idol of the French New Left in the early sixties. By the eighties he was no long influential in North America.

From my own experience I came to the FS quite late in the mid eighties when the Lacan and Beaudrillard were the latest fashion.

I found French writing of the period to be completely hostile to rational thought and in fact nihilistic.

Not to mention both Lacan and Beadrillard were gay and Lacan died of aids. The notion that all narratives have equal value is equivalent to 'all behavior has equal value'. In the context of AIDS this is not just false but lethal.

As far as the FS is concerned I think Marxism entered its theological faze in the early fifties.

In short Marx's incorporation of Hegelian Dialectic into the notion of dialetcical materialism put an end to Marx as a serious historian and philosopher.

[neverdem]

BFL

[Americanwolf]

ping for an intresting read!

KP thanks for the ping...

[Alamo-Girl]

No problemo. Thanks for the ping!

[King Prout]

you are assuredly welcome.
I find your musings often too deep for rapid assimilation, but well worth the effort.

[smoothsailing]

Thank You for the links! I've saved them for later reading.

[King Prout]

Good memory.

profile page Quote List = spare brains ;)

I'll elaborate with you in private about that.

*this is the eager tapping of KP's foot...*

[TASMANIANRED]

btt

[Alamo-Girl]

Thank you for the encouragement! But it appears I must do better at making my points because most Freepers don't seem to have the luxury of time to unravel words.

[King Prout]

some post water.
some post poison.
some post beer.
some post bile.

some very few post rich and subtle wine.
do as you do: sipping and savoring wine has its valid place.

[Alamo-Girl]

Oh, thank you so much for the kind and beautiful words!

[Blind Eye Jones]

Both the left and the right have claimed Nietzsche but he was never a party animal... (well, ok... maybe once at Wagner's place)

[King Prout]

I was raised to acknowledge superior quality, so I shall pass on your thanks to my parents :)

[Alamo-Girl]

Be sure to tell them for me: "thank you for your son!"

[King Prout]

Doc is on here sometimes - tell her yourself :)

I'd be embarrassed to tell her that myself.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thank you for your son! He is an inspiration and encouragement to me and I'm very sure to many others here as well.

[Grampa Dave]

It is late at night, and I'm pinging myself to read this important thread tomorrow after a night's sleep.

Thanks for posting this.

[The_Reader_David]

Actually, I don't know anyone on the right who claims Nietzsche, unless you're willing to accept the left's definition of right as anyone who opposed international socialism and consider the socialist Nazis as right, which, frankly I'm not: socialists are left, period.

[GOPJ]

There, it shifted its focus from destroying traditional Western culture in Germany to destroying it in the United States. To do so, it invented "Critical Theory." What is the theory? To criticize every traditional institution, starting with the family, brutally and unremittingly, in order to bring them down. It wrote a series of "studies in prejudice," which said that anyone who believes in traditional Western culture is prejudiced, a "racist" or "sexist" of "fascist" - - and is also mentally ill.

What does this have a ring of familiarity?

[MileHi]

Excellent history thread.