Wednesday, October 17, 2018

Afraid of discussing Cultural Marxism

Libertarian Brian Doherty writes:
Don't Blame Karl Marx for 'Cultural Marxism' ...

The story goes that these eggheads saw that Marx's predictions about the contradictions in capitalism producing a proletarian revolt were failing to come true. They decided that traditional Western culture was keeping the masses from their revolutionary mission and needed to be annihilated. Religion, the family, traditional sexual mores, belief in objective truth — all had to be overturned. So they launched "critical theory" to demolish the sacred principles that made Western civilization great and pave the way for communist tyranny and an eventual stateless utopia. ...

Andrew Breitbart, who ran articles on his Big Hollywood site in 2009 headlined "Political Correctness is Cultural Marxism" and who appeared that year on Sean Hannity's Fox News show to declare that "cultural Marxism is political correctness, it's multiculturalism, and it's a war on Judeo-Christianity," was one of the major modern vectors of belief in the conspiracy. ...

The cultural Marxism conspiracy cultist who made the most hideous public impact was Anders Breivik, who murdered 77 people in Norway in 2011. Breivik wrote in his 1,500-page manifesto that "you cannot defeat Islamization or halt/reverse the Islamic colonization of Western Europe without first removing the political doctrines manifested through multiculturalism/cultural Marxism." ...

It's true that campus leftists have shifted some of their attention from specifically economic concerns to ones based in cultural identity.
He doesn't like the term "cultural Marxism", but no one blames Marx for it. Maybe some blame XX century Jews, but not Marx.

Libertarians have a huge blind spot on this subject. They refuse to recognize the dangers of giving liberties to your enemies.

Netflix has a new movie on Breivik, 22 July. It is very boring, and does not really explain what he explained in his manifesto. The movie spends a lot of time dwelling on someone who struggles to recover from his injuries, but of course that is trivial compared to whether cultural Marxism is good or bad for Norway. Apparently the movie makers were afraid to explain Breivik's philosophy, for fear that a lot of viewers would agree with it.

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