Happy Holidaays Ping !!- A Christmas Gift from Bill Lind
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Yes, an excellent analysis. I lived through a good bit of the process, especially Marcuse.
Cultural Marxism is a culture of suspicion and resentment, which goes far to explain why these folks are angry all the time. Suspicion, resentment, and devotion to destruction are not good for your mental health.
From the Counterculture this came back into the universities and took them over, then from the universities into politics, where almost the entire Democrat party was taken over. Even the cultural establishment has now signed on, so if you visited a yacht club or a country club in the rich coastal states last fall you would have seen nothing but Kerry/Edwards bumper stickers.
That's because cultural marxism not only criticizes power, it seizes power, and these cultural elites all know which side their bread is buttered on. They are almost a an American Nomenklatura.
Barbra Streisand's last hit song was several decades ago, but her name is still fresh in young, and old Americans, not because she is famous, or her hit songs are any better than say "CASEY AND THE SUN SHINE BAND" just to name one, It is the constant liberal media mentioning her name, that keeps her current. To the extent that her appearance in the new movie, the "Meet the Folkers" was built as a big deal despite of the fact that it is a lousy movie, and will fail in the box office, just mark my words.
The way I see it, they have got the microphone, and they will reach more people then a lonely voice like yours or mine. Merry Christmas
Why is it that to Marxists everything is a social construct except the central Marxist thesis that "oppression" and "exploitation" are wrong?
In conclusion, America today is in the throws of the greatest and direst transformation in its history. We are becoming an ideological state, a country with an official state ideology enforced by the power of the state. In "hate crimes" we now have people serving jail sentences for political thoughts. And the Congress is now moving to expand that category ever further. Affirmative action is part of it. The terror against anyone who dissents from Political Correctness on campus is part of it. Its exactly what we have seen happen in Russia, in Germany, in Italy, in China, and now its coming here. And we dont recognize it because we call it Political Correctness and laugh it off. My message today is that its not funny, its here, its growing and it will eventually destroy, as it seeks to destroy, everything that we have ever defined as our freedom and our culture.
An important point, however, is that American politcally correct totalitarianism includes a necessity for guilt and self-hatred. This is something that the totalitarianism of Third World countries do not know (instead, they espouse a form of totalitarianism patriotism and national pride).
Here's who's teaching it and where:
http://www.nd.edu/~remarx/Marxism2000/schedule.html
PCD is the supression of other ideas without the use of logic. It's intellect-via-emotion.
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The average person doesn't know what Marxism is. We need to reduce it to a sentence or two, without making it seem innocuous.
you don't have to be scholar to know thought control when it's enforced upon you.
Good post, thanks.
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Fascinating.
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No surpise here, WW I was orchestrated by the turds of Europe!
I had the good fortune to spend Christmas Day with a friend who grew up in the Czech Republic when it was under the domination of the Communists -- indeed, she spent time in jail in college.
We were discussing all the hulla-ballo over Christmas customes this year, and shw told us that that is how it started in Czechoslovakia. First they changed Christmas trees to Winter trees and then, one by one, eliminated all Czech customs that had anything to do with religion.
We must recognized that the Judeo-Christian ethic of our founding Fathers is under seige and we must fight back, lest we become another Godless nation doomed to fail.
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So are they in possession of some kind of "gnosis" that their "definition" of the alternative is not possible for normal people to understand, or imagine? Are they simply arguing for a society divorced from repressions? If thats the case, its a sick hypocrisy if the point was to jettison completely repressive institutions with a repressive usage of institutionalized PC.