“Mutliculturalism is an attempt by the elites to destroy the unity and cohesiveness of advanced white western societies so that they could better reduce them to serfdom”
Antonio Gramsci, a famous communist strategist (an Italian rep to the Communist International) recommended a long struggle to degrade the culture, to invite chaos - “until the people cry out for a strongman to protect them”.
What we might call the culture war, he discussed as “cultural hegemony”. He proposed that the communist revolutionary ‘war of attack’ could only succeed with a prior ‘war of position’ in the form of struggle over ideas and beliefs, to create a new hegemony. This idea of a ‘counter-hegemonic’ struggle is a program advancing alternatives to dominant ideas of what is normal and legitimate.
He proposed that it would take a “decades-long march through the institutions” to gain control of the popular culture, and change people’s thinking on basic values, or what is accepted common sense.
When leftists get their college educations, they are trained in this kind of cynical subversion to this day.
The objective of the whole program is simply to take power for its own sake - it is not based in any fixed morality. Any “narrative” that is effective in advancing their power is acceptable - just means to their end.
Thanks for the Gramsci post.
All FReepers should know his name. To understand his proposition then is to understand our enemy today.
Gramsci bump.
My Daughter took a graduate class last semester at American University. A required class that attempted to deal with “Western” concepts of morality and the “Cultures” of the rest of the world.
Pure insanity.
Her Professor and classmates were horrified when she brought up forced abortions in China, never mind the Arab world’s abuses. Her classmates rejected her assertions regarding basic human rights in favor of the “rights” of the culture.
In the end, the entire exercise was to condition the students to reject moral absolutism.