Together, she says, these are ‘cultural Marxism’, although she must know that this is an antisemitic trope because that has been pointed out to her many times.
Cultural Marxism is an antisemtic trope? Really? When did this happen? Why? How?
Together, she says, these are ‘cultural Marxism’, although she must know that this is an antisemitic trope because that has been pointed out to her many times.
Cultural Marxism is an antisemtic trope? Really? When did this happen? Why? How?
Cultural Marxism is an antisemtic trope? Really? When did this happen? Why? How?
When somebody won an argument with Enver Solomon?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Marxism_conspiracy_theory
“The term “Cultural Marxism” refers to a far-right antisemitic conspiracy theory which misrepresents the Frankfurt School as being responsible for modern progressive movements, identity politics, and political correctness. The conspiracy theory posits that there is an ongoing and intentional academic and intellectual effort to subvert Western society via a planned culture war that undermines the Christian values of traditionalist conservatism and seeks to replace them with culturally liberal values.”
“The civilised world has been thoroughly saturated with Christianity for 2,000 years. Any country grounded in Judeo-Christian values cannot be overthrown until those roots are cut. But to cut the roots – to change culture – a long march through the institutions is necessary. Only then will power fall into our laps like a ripened fruit.”
Antonio Gramsci, 1891-1937. According also to Wikipedia, “Gramsci was one of the most influential Marxist thinkers of the 20th century, and a particularly key thinker in the development of Western Marxism,” and ”[H]e has also become an important figure in current academic discussions within cultural studies and critical theory.”
The conspiracy theory posits that there is an ongoing and intentional academic and intellectual effort to subvert Western society via a planned culture war that undermines the Christian values of traditionalist conservatism and seeks to replace them with culturally liberal values
Me, my transgendered pansexual 7 year old, and 10 million immigrants agree that this conspiracy theory is crazy. #BLM #LoveWins #JustStopOil
‘Cultural Marxism is a real thing, there are discussions about it by Wikipedia editors:
The importance attached in Western Marxism to issues of culture and ideology is of course by no means just a matter of theory. What Trent Shroyer (1973) called ‘cultural Marxism’ was an important element, though more in Europe than in North America, in the ‘counter-culture’ of the 1960s (Roszak, 1970).
It has also been commonly used as a conversational shorthand for decades and, in all likelihood, even before the term initially appeared in print in 1973 in Trent Schroyer’s The Critique of Domination: The Origins and Development of Critical Theory. That a collection of interviews on North America’s leading Marxist literary theorist, Frederic Jameson, edited by Ian Buchanan in 2007, could appear under the name Jameson on Jameson: Conversations on Cultural Marxism, should confirm what anyone who has watched its evolution knows: that the term was not originally a perjorative term, it was purely descriptive, and was used rather loosely to refer to cover a common approach to literary and cultural studies of the sort pioneered in Critical Theory by the Frankfurt School, but also in British Marxist literary studies as found in Raymond Williams and his students.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Cultural_Marxism_conspiracy_theory
Marx was a jew whose writings were virulently anti-semitic. Hence the confusion I guess.
Philip – tbf to Karl Marx, he was also amusingly racist.
Unfortunately there’s a fair amount of crossover between anti-Marxism and anti-Semitism; there are commenters here who regularly propound a link between leftism and Jews (somehow sidestepping the significant crossover of free market capitalism and Jews). Any link is most likely coincidental but those propounding it do give the leftists the opportunity to accuse all their critics of being racist (itself a cultural-Marxist strategy).
It’s noteworthy that the Wikipedia leftists say it’s an anti-Semitic theory but make no mention of anti-Semitism in their summary of it.
PJF – Progressives are the REAL racists
“philip
Marx was a jew whose writings were virulently anti-semitic.”
As Marx wrote….
“Let us not look for the secret of the Jew in his religion, but let us look for the secret of his religion in the real Jew.
What is the secular basis of Judaism? Practical need, self-interest. What is the worldly religion of the Jew? Huckstering. What is his worldly God? Money.
Very well then! Emancipation from huckstering and money, consequently from practical, real Judaism, would be the self-emancipation of our time.”
But no! This wasn’t antisemetic at all, as various MArx apologists have written
“David McLellan argued that “On the Jewish Question” must be understood in terms of Marx’s debates with Bruno Bauer over the nature of political emancipation in Germany. According to McLellan, Marx used the word “Judentum” in its colloquial sense of “commerce” to argue that Germans suffer, and must be emancipated from, capitalism. The second half of Marx’s essay, McLellan concludes, should be read as “an extended pun at Bauer’s expense””
It was just a pun, you numpties.
“Feminist Wendy Brown argues that “On the Jewish Question” is primarily a critique of liberal rights, rather than a criticism of Judaism, and that apparently antisemitic passages such as “Money is the jealous god of Israel, in face of which no other god may exist” should be read in that context.”
Read it in context, you fools.
“Francis Wheen says: “Those critics, who see this as a foretaste of ‘Mein Kampf’, overlook one, essential point: in spite of the clumsy phraseology and crude stereotyping, the essay was actually written as a defence of the Jews.”
With defenders like Marx, who needs enemies?
Gramsci was one of the most influential Marxist thinkers of the 20th century
Isn’t “Marxist” and “thinker” an oxymoron?
Which front-bench party is the one drowning in court cases of antisemitism, and which front-bench party is the one with loads and loads of high profile Jews in top jobs? Do these people never look out of the window?
It’s an example of attacking the person and not the argument.
Right wingers identify a cultural phenomenon (Cultural Marxism). Left wingers rather than point out where the theory is wrong just call the right winger racist and a conspiracy theorist.
Gramsci was much in vogue when I was a student in the1980s. The old hardline Stalinist Marxists were being replaced by the new wave of younger professors who even ( shudder ) thought that Lenin was wrong and wanted to get away from the crude economic determinism of pure Marxism. The end of the Cold War and Kinnock’s purges of Militant caused a huge crisis of confidence amongst the hardliners and it allowed the Gramscists to seize Labour in the 90s, although the Stalinists made a game effort to seize back control under Corbyn.
Even ol’ Toni is old hat these days, the academic mind is polluted by Foucault and other degenerates these days.
Isn’t “Marxist” and “thinker” an oxymoron?
It didn’t used to be, but “cultural Marxism” would probably have offended and disgusted Marx.
“Let us not look for the secret of the Jew in his religion, but let us look for the secret of his religion in the real Jew.
What is the secular basis of Judaism? Practical need, self-interest. What is the worldly religion of the Jew? Huckstering. What is his worldly God? Money.
So some apologists assert that Marx used Jews as a metaphor. Hmm, looks pretty literal to me.
There’s an argument to be made that antisemitism grew because of its own foolishness. In many parts of Europe Jews were not allowed to own land. Forced off the land they became itinerant pedlars (sometimes internationally) and were urbanised more rapidly than the majority population. When the Industrial Revolution started and the land interest went into relative decline, they had a head start. Discrimination against jews backfired, in effect.