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Cultural Marxism: Unmasking Political Correctness

William S. Lind is Director for the Center for Cultural Conservatism of 
the Free Congress Foundation and their resident historian.

The following is a short excerpt. I encourage you to read the entire 
article.

>From the American Conservative Union Foundation:

In this edition, Paul Weyrich refers to "cultural Marxism." He asked 
me, as Free Congress Foundation's resident historian, to write this 
column explaining what cultural Marxism is and where it came from. In 
order to understand what something is and what to do about it, you have 
to know its history.

Cultural Marxism is a branch of western Marxism, different from the 
Marxism-Leninism of the old Soviet Union. It is commonly known as 
"multiculturalism" or, less formally, Political Correctness. From its 
beginning, the promoters of cultural Marxism have known they could be 
more effective if they concealed the Marxist nature of their work, 
hence the use of terms such as "multiculturalism."
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Fatefully for America, when Hitler came to power in Germany in 1933, 
the Frankfurt School fled - - and reestablished itself in New York 
City. There, it shifted its focus from destroying traditional Western 
culture in Germany to destroying it in the United States. To do so, it 
invented "Critical Theory." What is the theory? To criticize every 
traditional institution, starting with the family, brutally and 
unremittingly, in order to bring them down. It wrote a series of 
"studies in prejudice," which said that anyone who believes in 
traditional Western culture is prejudiced, a "racist" or "sexist" of 
"fascist" - - and is also mentally ill.

Most importantly, the Frankfurt School crossed Marx with Freud, taking 
 from psychology the technique of psychological conditioning. Today, 
when the cultural Marxists want to do something like "normalize" 
homosexuality, they do not argue the point philosophically. They just 
beam television show after television show into every American home 
where the only normal-seeming white male is a homosexual (the Frankfurt 
School's key people spent the war years in Hollywood).

After World War II ended, most members of the Frankfurt School went 
back to Germany. But Herbert Marcuse stayed in America. He took the 
highly abstract works of other Frankfurt School members and repackaged 
them in ways college students could read and understand. In his book 
"Eros and Civilization," he argued that by freeing sex from any 
restraints, we could elevate the pleasure principle over the reality 
principle and create a society with no work, only play (Marcuse coined 
the phrase, "Make love, not war"). Marcuse also argued for what he 
called "liberating tolerance," which he defined as tolerance for all 
ideas coming from the Left and intolerance for any ideas coming from 
the Right. In the 1960s, Marcuse became the chief "guru" of the New 
Left, and he injected the cultural Marxism of the Frankfurt School into 
the baby boom generation, to the point where it is now America's state 
ideology.

The future goal of conservatism must include unmasking multiculturalism 
and political correctness and tell the American people what they really 
are: cultural Marxism. Its goal remains what Lukacs and Gramsci set in 
1919: destroying Western culture and the Christian religion. It has 
already made vast strides toward that goal. But if the average American 
found out that political correctness is a form of Marxism, different 
 from the Marxism of the Soviet Union but Marxism nonetheless, it would 
be in trouble. The next conservatism needs to reveal the man behind the 
curtain - - old Karl Marx himself.

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