Posted on 02/11/2023 7:47:49 AM PST by bitt
If you can’t believe in something beyond this life, you’ll struggle to make sense of things here and now.
In his 11th thesis in his famous “Theses on Feuerbach” (1888), Karl Marx famously said, “The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.” This phrase has been interpreted in several ways by both Marx’s critics and his fans, but one salient reading is that Marx saw philosophy leading fundamentally toward revolutionary change.
For earlier Marxists, the goal was principally economic (although the early seeds of the sexual and cultural revolution were sown by Marx and his followers). However, in the post-Trump era, the focus of many on the left has been a cultural revolution that would leave (the wealthiest “progressive”) capitalists in charge of the economic system while allegedly creating a more “inclusive and tolerant” form of capitalism.
One of the key elements of this “cultural Marxism” is the eradication or at least modification of the foundation of Western thought, including and especially the classical traditions of Greece and Rome. Since Western civilization is fundamentally sexist and racist, this thinking argues, so also rotten are its intellectual foundations in the thought of the ancient Mediterranean.
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Cultural Marxism comes from the Frankfurt School and its founders: Max Horkheimer, T.W. Adorno, Erich Fromm, Herbert Marcuse, and Walter Benjamin.
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Frankfurt-School
North Korea defector compares woke US ideology, education to regime tactics
https://nypost.com/2023/02/11/north-korea-defector-yeonmi-park-slams-woke-us-ideology/
Burn down the universities, dismiss the staff.
Stoicism and Christianity have some commonalities.
The Marxists lost the Cold War in terms of territory, but they have won the war of ideas. Every nation now accepts:
* Massive government omnipresent in our lives
* Morality unrooted from religious teachings
Change requires to turn a free rat a lab rat before turning into whatever super rat you have in mind.
Of course Marx only wanted to eat the rats that his wife had to feed to his children since he was a deadbeat.
Folks, the only cure is tough times. That leaves a vacuum and what we fill that vacuum with is important.
The best plan now may to prepare for the rebuild.
That does not mean we give up. They win when we give up.
If you were in Germany in the late 30’s what were your options?
1) Stand up for what is right and get shot
2) Go underground and your family and friends are shot.
3) survive for the rebuild.
Let me remind you, ALL were important in the fight.
You don’t have to become a practicing Christian overnight. But you can’t preserve the ideals of the West without some belief in their logical premise, which is the existence of a Creator God.
Libertarians are powerless before the bolshevik tide. “Freedom” is meaningless if it includes freedom for bolshevik revolution.
They will be stopped by force or they won’t be stopped at all.
But the great Christian insight is that the world is not ideal; it is horribly broken, and there are injustices within it that only some future state or infinite bliss can answer for. If you can’t believe in that future state, in something beyond this life, you’ll struggle to make sense of things.
Ironically it was Communist China that figured out the “cure” for leftist intellectuals.
Remove them from the universities and “think tanks” and make them do hard agricultural labor for a few years.
It is the only known cure for elitist arrogance.
https://kirkcenter.org/conservatism/ten-conservative-principles/
And this is time for a reminder that conservatism is more a philosophy than a prescription.
Conservatism requires reading, thinking skills, and an understanding of history.
Conservatism is NOT drive by posting on a website.
Remove them from the universities and “think tanks” and make them do hard agricultural labor for a few years.
It is the only known cure for elitist arrogance.
and the italian guy
antonio gramsci
This started with Charles Lyells stated agenda.
There are only two ways out.
Looking for a political King to save you, is a foolish vanity.
This is going to happen. Pedophelia and even worse is coming.
We are inches from the bottom of the slope lope.
85% of Americans obeyed without question and took the vax. That is holocaust level obedience.
America is dead. Mail in ballots, operywarp sped, travel restrictions, unless you’re an unvetted Syrian, no freedom to assemble, unless you’re burning Igor’s, a bumpstock ban..
every freedom under the bill of rights was surreptitiously Fauci by Donald trump.
Healthcare, defense and other vital institutions have been stripped of rational thinkers and reasonable people.
Unfortunately, this is the warm up act
I’m surprised to see there’s no “e” in “Klavan.”
The Bolshevik Revolution in Russia 1917 was a Communist Atheist Feminist Homosexual movement. It destroyed Russia within 4 years resulting in the country having to be saved by Herbert Hoover. After this collapse, Stalin and the Russian Leadership outlawed homosexuality as an existential threat to Russia and the Soviet Union.
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