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Big Al
March 7, 2018

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Cultural Marxism – RationalWiki

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Feb 11, 2018 – Or: “cultural Marxist” was originally an insult made by commies against commies who weren’t commie enough. This is simply not the same as the definition used by modern conservative fearmongers. Marx himself never wrote at any length about culture (what he deemed “the superstructure “), and many …

Urban Dictionary: cultural marxism

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cultural marxism: “everything is relative man”…. “there is no truth”…. “reality is what we make of it”…. smoke dope and drop out dude!!! …. we don’t need money... cops are violent pigs (especially the white ones). Women are smarter and betteer than men, all men are rapists. “get in touch with your feelings”…. “if it feels good …

What is cultural Marxism? – Got Questions?

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Answer: Cultural Marxism can be a controversial term—some assert there’s no such thing, and others use the term as a catch-all for anything they see as undermining society. In short, cultural Marxism is a revolutionary leftist idea that traditional culture is the source of oppression in the modern world. Cultural Marxism is …

Frankfurt School – Wikipedia

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The Frankfurt School (German: Frankfurter Schule) is a school of social theory and philosophy associated in part with the Institute for Social Research at the Goethe University Frankfurt. Founded during the interwar period, the School consisted of neo-Marxist dissidents uncomfortable with existing capitalist, fascist, …

Cultural Marxism | Know Your Meme

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Cultural Marxism is a conceptual term used to describe the idea that culture is a main driving force for inequality in the Western world. … However, during the late 1990s, the meaning behind “cultural Marxism” became increasingly diluted and detached from its original context as many right-wing and neoconservative …

What is Cultural Marxism? – Quora

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Rule one about cultural Marxism: there is no cultural Marxism. Sure, cultural Marxism is not any organized attempt to introduce Marx in a society. However, just as Marx wanted to abolish classes and create a … This definition comes from a rightwing rant site: “Cultural Marxism is a branch of western Marxism, different from …

‘Cultural Marxism’: a uniting theory for rightwingers who love to play …

https://www.theguardian.com/…/cultural-marxism-a-uniting-theory-for-rightwingers-…

Jan 19, 2015 – The culture war that so defines current debates between the left and right sides of politics has its history in the barmy theory of ‘cultural Marxism

Unwrapping the ‘Cultural Marxism’ Nonsense the Alt-Right Loves – VICE

https://www.vice.com/en…/unwrapping-the-conspiracy-theory-that-drives-the-alt-right

Feb 23, 2017 – (Top photo: People protesting health care reform in the US hold a photo of Andrew Breitbart, who had a few things to say about cultural Marxism. Photo: Charles Dharapak AP/Press Association Images). On July 22, 2011, in downtown Oslo, the right-wing extremist Anders Behring Breivik—who once gifted …

Cultural Marxism – Metapedia

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Feb 25, 2018 – Cultural Marxism is an ideology which emphasizes culture as a main cause of inequalities. Critics have seen Cultural Marxism and its influence as an important cause of political correctness and as an important cause of a perceived decline of humanities, social sciences, culture, and civilization in the …

Cultural Marxism – Conservapedia

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Jan 15, 2018 – Cultural Marxism is a branch of Marxist ideology formulated by the Frankfurt School, which had its origins the early part of the twentieth century. Cultural Marxism comprises much of the foundation of political correctness. It emerged as a response of European Marxist intellectuals disillusioned by the early …

Discussion
39 Comments
    CFS
    Mar 07, 2018 07:32 PM

    Stefan Molyneux:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIAvljZnZhs

    One explanation!

    CFS
    Mar 07, 2018 07:37 PM

    Political correctness is political way of “winning” an argument, not on the merits or logic or facts, but by forceful scorning and criticism.

      Mar 07, 2018 07:52 PM

      Of ourse it is CFS.

      GH wanted to know where I stood on this issue.

    CFS
    Mar 07, 2018 07:31 PM

    Molyneux ‘s

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIAvljZnZhs

    covers the why for some political correctness.

    Mar 07, 2018 07:26 PM

    The biggest problem with our society is self-interest. The public is easy to influence because they become excited about one thing at a time. The media has taught the public to listen to them. If you have a disaster or a trial all you must do to is put your best reporters, give them front and center coverage,the bulk of the reporting space, and public opinion will be on your side. Unfortunately despots like Joseph Goebbels who was the propaganda minister for Adolf Hitler, dragged humanity into World War 11 because they understood this. DT

      Mar 07, 2018 07:00 PM

      Isn’t life interesting, Dick?

      Mar 07, 2018 07:41 PM

      I did read the review and find it to be a bit disturbing because of the slant away from the actual book.

    CFS
    Mar 07, 2018 07:12 PM

    The mayor of Oakland needs to be charged criminally, in federal court……for aiding and abetting criminals.

    That would bankrupt her and send a message to Californian swamp critters.

    Mueller did it to Flynn…..fair’s fair on a turnaround.

      Mar 07, 2018 07:44 PM

      I am speechless, Professor. And, that is a pretty big deal for me to admit.

    GH
    Mar 08, 2018 08:44 AM

    Good morning Al, I appreciate your response.

    So these links leave one wondering, is Cultural Marxism anything more than ‘fake news’ from the fevered imagination of the ‘alt-Right’?

    Fair enough. I was left puzzling over it When I came across the term. The best exploration of the topic I have read is the link I have posted several times of William Lind’s ‘Who Stole our Culture?’
    http://www.wnd.com/2007/05/41737/

    So what are we to make of the culture wars the US has been going through for the past 50 years (surely these, at least, are not a figment of my imagination)? Are they some sort of organic evolution in our society, coming from the broader culture? Or are they a top-down phenomenon for the purpose of social engineering that promotes the interest of a select few at the expense of the many?

    Did the decision in my small town in the American West to start teaching kindergartners that homosexuality is a normal, healthy option reflect the values and desires of the people in the town in general, or was it sneakily imposed on them?

    Did ‘racist’ white America get bored with itself in the sixties and decide that the immigration quotas needed to be dramatically shifted in order to create a multi-cultural society? Or was this underhandedly imposed on them? Look into the identity of the politicians that sponsored this reform.

    Is feminism a broad movement of women that promotes female interests? And if so, is it achieving its goal? If so, why are 25% of US women aged 40-60 on anti-depressants? Or is feminism an attack on feminine?

    Who ever anticipated that feminism and ‘gay pride’ would evolve into the deconstruction of the very concept of gender? How is it that a very small deviant ‘gender dissident’ minority gets such a megaphone from the mass media?

    Did we men come up with the terms ‘male privelege’ and ‘toxic masculinity’? If not, and we are so powerful and domineering, why do we permit those we ‘consider our inferiors’ to challenge us?

    Circling back to ‘family values’, why are 2/3 of marriages ended by women? Is it toxic masculinity? Or is that women have been given the advantage in the courts so that if they don’t get their way, they have the option of leaving with the kids and collecting a check from the dismissed, indenture father? So has the institution of marriage just fallen into disrepair? Or has it been attacked?

    How do these developments relate to the demographic issues in the Western world that have become so extreme that, for instance, if present trends continue Italians will be a minority in Italy by 2080?

    Or, to sum it up, has the US just ‘gone insane’ or has it been ‘driven insane’? Both hypotheses ought to be entertained and put to the test, but obviously I have already concluded the latter.

    My sense is the resistance to the latter hypothesis is that it leads to conclusions that we have been heavily conditioned to consider unacceptable. Because if there is a deliberate attack on traditional, white American culture, there is ABSOLUTELY NO WAY that the Jewish-controlled mass media is not heavily involved in it, at the very least as accomplices. If you can conceive of any other possibility, please let me know.

    Consider your own reaction to our discussion the other day Al, in which you misunderstood and misconstrued what we said to be Anti-jewish, and concluded by exhorting us to be more open-minded! No offense, but you need to take your own advice. I was the same. The first time someone in real life expressed similar ideas to me, I laughed at him. I hadn’t done any independent inquiry, but was sure that what I had been taught was right, and he was crazy. That was me being the opposite of open-minded.

    In fact, the very point of the conversation was to clarify that while there is a very problematic gang of people who identify as ‘Jews’ running many key institutions and sectors of society for their own selfish advantage, they are not representative of all Jewry. Nor are they even Jewish in the sense we conceive of it, with roots in Israel, but rather are of central Asian extraction and converted to Judaism about 1200 years ago.

    Why is it so hard to put this info on the table, explore it, and try to separate facts from disinformation? Why does it automatically provoke accusations of racism?

    I’ve gone on more than long enough, but I’ll end by coming at it from a different angle.

    If you learned that our mass media and financial system were controlled by people from a group who constitute only 2% of population–ethnic Russians, let’s say. Would it concern you at all? What if they controlled 4/9 of the Supreme court as well? What if they owned Youtube and started shutting down alternative information sources, some of which you had found to be very valuable? What if ethnic Russians were funding many hundreds of different think tanks and NGOs all with the purpose of influencing American political policies and culture? What if all American presidential candidates went to ‘ARPAC–the American Russian Political Action Committee’ to pay their respects, and Putin came to address the US congress and they gave him dozens of standing ovations? What if ethnic Russian Americans were 8x as likely to be admitted to the Ivy League as white or asian american applicants with the same qualifications? What if all the wars we had fought for the past 30 years had Russian instigators and redounded to the benefit of Russia more than the US itself? What if the Russian owned mass media made all these abuses possible through distorted coverage of them?

    Would you be okay with that? Would it be off-limits to refer to the fact that they are Russian? Would pointing out that maybe half of the ‘criminals in suits’ were of this Russian mob be construed as anti-Russianism? Russophobia?

    Bottom line, there are heinous abuses and crimes being committed by Jews, but people fear to state the truth because they will be viciously attacked with accusations of anti-semitism and racism. It’s time to stop giving these criminals that free pass.

      CFS
      Mar 08, 2018 08:12 AM

      And the Nazis believed the propaganda of Goebbels also.

        GH
        Mar 08, 2018 08:29 AM

        I’m unclear on what you mean to say with that statement, CFS.

        If you have an argument to make, I’m sure you know how to do it properly.

          GH
          Mar 08, 2018 08:37 AM

          Thus, I conclude that if you fail to do so it is because your only refuge is sophistry.

        CFS
        Mar 08, 2018 08:39 AM

        Gh, you seem to think Israel is in control of the US, so perhaps you can explain the following data for 2016 (latest fully available re. foreign aid)
        Foreign Aid to anti-Israel countries:
        Egypt. $1,239 million
        Iraq. $5,280 mil
        Jordan. $1,214 mil
        Lebanon. $416 mil
        Syria $916 mil

        compared with countries, who seem to really need aid:
        Haiti. $377 mil.
        Venezuela. $9.2 mil.

        Seems to contra-indicate Israeli/Jewish control to me.

          GH
          Mar 08, 2018 08:52 AM

          Your comment really doesn’t at all address the subject matter of my post, but a couple of points:

          1. To speak of control in black and white terms is simplistic. But hugely disproportionate power? How could anyone deny it?

          2. Foreign ‘Aid’ can be used for many things. Do you think that the US sends money to all the countries that it does out of altruism? Should we conclude that the $916 million to Syria means the US is an Assad fan? So your foreign aid point holds no water.

            CFS
            Mar 08, 2018 08:06 AM

            It is very hard to black and white quantify proof that opposes your statements, GH.

            Clearly, it would take numbers not opinions to get you to recognize anything that opposes your opinion.
            I am not Jewish or Christian, but I think you are incorrect in your views.
            Let me add, I don’t like to appear to support Israel, but I don’t like to see what I perceive as unwarranted bias.

            GH
            Mar 08, 2018 08:08 AM

            Yes, I do like facts/evidence and logic-based arguments built on them.

            GH
            Mar 08, 2018 08:17 AM

            In making my argument I presented many things as concrete facts, with which I imagine you disagree. With your intelligence and limitless energy for research, I am certain that you make a solid case about any errors I have made in this regard.

            That would be great, to me. We’re all fallible when it comes to trying to understand what is really going on in the big picture, and I’m sure I make errors. I only ask that you make proper arguments rather than using slippery rhetoric.

            GH
            Mar 08, 2018 08:17 AM

            oops: I am certain that you *could* make

            CFS
            Mar 08, 2018 08:47 AM

            GH:
            So what are we to make of the culture wars the US has been going through for the past 50 years (surely these, at least, are not a figment of my imagination)? Are they some sort of organic evolution in our society, coming from the broader culture? Or are they a top-down phenomenon for the purpose of social engineering that promotes the interest of a select few at the expense of the many?
            CFS:

            i believe this change is a semi-coordinated attack on society by liberal/Marxist-believing people. (possibly funded initially by Bolshevists/or later Soviet individuals, certainly much later yet by Soros and associates.

            GH:
            Did the decision in my small town in the American West to start teaching kindergartners that homosexuality is a normal, healthy option reflect the values and desires of the people in the town in general, or was it sneakily imposed on them?

            DCFS:
            It was imposed on them, by liberals.
            Why?
            In order to gain power.
            Explain…
            The Liberal Democratic party is a collection of minorities. Only by grouping and standing together can they acquire power. One such minority is the Gay, Homosexual, different lifestyle group.

            GH
            Mar 08, 2018 08:31 AM

            Well, we’re not on completely different planets, then, even if we’re not quite in the same ballpark. I just happen to think the roots go a lot deeper than you do.

            By the way, in case I didn’t make it clear enough above, the object of my post is not ‘Jews’, nor is it ‘Israel’. It is the criminal globalist oligarchy, and the heavily disproportionate number of them that hide behind the identity of the Jewish people.

            In the end it doesn’t matter all that they’re Jews, or Masons, Episcopalians or what have you. What matters is identifying the culprits behind all the negative trends we are suffering. The ‘Jewish’ is only important, 1) insofar it helps in rooting out the bad actors and understanding the tangled web that has been woven; and 2) insofar as bad actors can successfully use the ‘antisemite’ slur to deflect legitimate criticism.

            CFS
            Mar 08, 2018 08:35 AM

            GH:
            Did ‘racist’ white America get bored with itself in the sixties and decide that the immigration quotas needed to be dramatically shifted in order to create a multi-cultural society? Or was this underhandedly imposed on them? Look into the identity of the politicians that sponsored this reform.
            CFS:
            It was imposed on them by politicians and liberals.
            Why?
            Power seeking again. Importing immigrants with degrees and specialty work, tend more to vote republican.Opening up immigration to more poor swings towards support for liberal democrat-voting persons.
            Republications did not object, because that provided cheaper labor.

            GH
            Is feminism a broad movement of women that promotes female interests? And if so, is it achieving its goal? If so, why are 25% of US women aged 40-60 on anti-depressants? Or is feminism an attack on feminine?
            CFS: Feminism evolved out of earlier equality concepts and also abortion illegality.
            Many women felt they had a right to decide what was best for their body and to abort a fetus. (I am not making a statement as to whether it should be right or wrong, legal or illegal.)

            GH:
            Who ever anticipated that feminism and ‘gay pride’ would evolve into the deconstruction of the very concept of gender? How is it that a very small deviant ‘gender dissident’ minority gets such a megaphone from the mass media?
            CFS:
            I have no answer, other than that opposers to the above, became attacked as intolerant, and became silent, possibly because they believed in tolerance.

            GH:
            Did we men come up with the terms ‘male privelege’ and ‘toxic masculinity’? If not, and we are so powerful and domineering, why do we permit those we ‘consider our inferiors’ to challenge us?
            CFS:
            Men did not come up with those terms.
            The male and female minds tend to differ. I refer to Stefan Molyneux, who has many hours of philosophy on youtube, on the subject.
            (I, as a male, do not consider females inferior. Just different.)
            (I consider the majority of people I meet inferior to myself intellectually, regardless of sex. Not bragging, but trying to be truthful in divulging my beliefs.)

            GH:
            Circling back to ‘family values’, why are 2/3 of marriages ended by women?
            CFS: Just a fact. (It has increased of time, as “rewards for women” for divorce have increased.
            GH:
            Is it toxic masculinity?
            CFS: No, I believe it is a prejudice of older male judges.
            Who believe women are more nurturing, (As do I, on average)

            GH: Or is that women have been given the advantage in the courts so that if they don’t get their way, they have the option of leaving with the kids and collecting a check from the dismissed, indenture father?
            CFS: I believe this a major contributing factor to increasing divorce rates.

            GH: So has the institution of marriage just fallen into disrepair? Or has it been attacked?
            CFS: Yes to both.

            Mar 08, 2018 08:06 AM

            Aaron Russo told it like it is: Feminism Was Created To Destabilize Society, Tax Women and set up the NWO
            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCpjmvaIgNA

            CFS, you’ve got blinders on.

            GH
            Mar 08, 2018 08:46 PM

            Thanks for your replies, CFS.

            Kinda funny. You ascribe the blame to ‘liberals’. Meanwhile, if I pose the questions to a stalwart ‘liberal’ friend, he ascribes the blame to ‘the rich’. No one has any problem weighing the guilt of white males for historic wrongs, but the gorilla in the room today must not be mentioned, or even thought.

            There is a history to ‘liberalism’, so we can delve into concrete historical fact. It appears to me that among the key roots of the new ‘liberalism’ is the Frankfurt School. John Taylor Gatto also does a great job of delving into those roots, going back a century and more. There are lots of other interesting sources from the turn of the 19th/20th century era, when freedom of thought and speech was still much more intact.

            BTW, in response to your comment on Bolshevism, it is said that Bolshevism was financially sponsored by Zionist Jacob Schiff. So if the coordinated attack originated with Bolshevism, that doesn’t really affect my argument.

            I’m not sure who you identify as leading liberals in this direction, but if it’s the DNC and Clinton/Obama clique, do you think they are behind the kind of sinister, culture-warping entertainment described in this video? Who owns Hollywood and the music industry?

            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9yZIDbWIyc

      Mar 08, 2018 08:15 PM

      GH great comments, questions, and insights raised as per usual. I particularly liked the points raised about increasing immigration diversity, the role of modern feminism movements which actually does more to hurt or belittle the feminine, and the Russian nonsense circulating around the current media echo-chamber.

      Thanks

    GH
    Mar 08, 2018 08:54 AM

    Hmm..I didn’t wrap that up too well. Again:

    …anti-Russianism? Russophobia?

    What if you learned that there were a powerful, century-plus-year-old academic movement, spearheaded by ethnic Russian Americans, that had devoloped so many of the concepts that have roiled American society since WW2? Might you conclude that they were fomenting chaos in order to be able to continue their criminal rackets, and expand them?

    Bottom line, there are heinous abuses and crimes being committed by Jews, but people fear to state the truth because they will be viciously attacked with accusations of anti-semitism and racism. It’s time to stop giving these criminals that free pass.

    GH
    Mar 08, 2018 08:26 AM

    A couple more, more radical, but factual as far as I know.

    What if the same small cultural group that was hugely disproportionately represented in the Bolshevik regime that slaughtered many millions of white Russian Christians, also holds hugely disproportionate power in the US, and is in the forefront of advocating gun control?

    What if the Jewish media controls the national dialogue on race and uses their position to smear whites with collective guilt for slavery. but one looks into the history of the slave trade and finds that, as in most areas of commerce, Jews were dominant? What if they were responsible for a holocaust against Africans, but are covering up their responsibility and pawning it off on us? Can we talk about that, at least enough to figure out the truth of the matter? Or is that beyond the pale, and white Americans should forever submit when the race card is played?

      CFS
      Mar 08, 2018 08:53 AM

      What if the same small cultural group that was hugely disproportionately represented in the Bolshevik regime that slaughtered many millions of white Russian Christians, also holds hugely disproportionate power in the US, and is in the forefront of advocating gun control?
      CFS: I believe the Liberals are in majority control of a lot of MSM.
      I believe this should be opposed and explained by logical argument.

      What if the Jewish media controls the national dialogue on race and uses their position to smear whites with collective guilt for slavery. but one looks into the history of the slave trade and finds that, as in most areas of commerce, Jews were dominant? What if they were responsible for a holocaust against Africans, but are covering up their responsibility and pawning it off on us? Can we talk about that, at least enough to figure out the truth of the matter? Or is that beyond the pale, and white Americans should forever submit when the race card is played?

      CFS: Fact: The majority of slave trade has always been and still is Islam dominated.

      Yes, there was a Black African slave trade to the colonies by Europeans for financial gain.
      English slavers to the US.
      French slavers to the Caribbean.
      Portuguese slavers to Brazil. Etc.

      This was not particularly racist, in my opinion. (Merely Financial-motivation.)

      For instance, there was indentured servitude going on in England at the same time….clearly no racial dependence there.

      CFS: Independent statement, not to do with slavery.
      I have found that there is a money motivation among Jews, and I believe that is part of their upbringing. I believe this is invariant with nationality. i.e. American Jews, British Jews, Israeli Jews all show similar traits.

        GH
        Mar 08, 2018 08:17 PM

        Thanks again for your replies, CFS.

        To be clear, some of my questions above are not just leading questions, but sincere questions, i.e. I’m still trying to figure out if it’s the case or not. We all have to stray outside our areas of competence in contemplating the big picture…I try to make my case without exaggerating my certainty or overstating what I know. I’m not for judgement of any group or for collective guilt (…except I suppose, voluntary associations with criminal pursuits). But that takes some serious wordsmithing, so I apologize if I ever fall short on that score.

    GH
    Mar 08, 2018 08:13 PM

    Final thought.

    What if I’m right? The mind balks at the implications of what I say. But I do the best to follow where evidence leads me. I try to identify genuine puzzle pieces, lay them out on the table, and figure out what is the picture coming into view.

    There is the term ‘red-pill rage’ for when the blinders come off. Many people would be in a lynching mood if they understood how heinous are the crimes of the so-called ‘elite’. So I understand the hesitance of many to touch this theme with a ten-foot pole.

    Personally, I agree with Robert Steele’s view that the path ahead is something like a truth and reconciliation process. Because if I’m right, theses folks have caused World Wars in the past and would more than likely cause another if figuratively (or not-so) cornered by a lynch mob. It can certainly be argued that they are already waging a ‘next-gen WW3’. By ‘they’ I mean the whole corrupt lot of ‘elites’ playing masters of the universe, not just the subset of that crowd that you are reluctant to believe plays key roles.

    Sorry if I hurt anyone’s sensibilities. What’s the alternative? Silently sinking into a homogenized, genderless multi-cultural-yet-mono-mass-media-cultural gumbo in a global melting pot? Trans-humanism next on the menu, perhaps via Elon Musk’s project to build a brain-chip interface? And, of course, RFIDs, to track us and carry our bitmoney?

    It’s a Brave New 1984 World.

      GH
      Mar 08, 2018 08:12 PM

      Somebody stop me, I can’t stop myself!

      There is so much more I could add to that hyphenated word:

      -Dumbed down,
      –both chemically (aspartame and msg; fluoride?; aluminum, mercury, etc in a grossly excessive dosing schedule)
      –and through propaganda. Most Americans’ formative years are spent in the clutches of the central government, when they are not feeding on the entertainment industry’s dubious fare.

      -Debt serfs

      -Malnourished

      -Low-grade-poisoned by GMO with its glyphosate (which additionally is a chelator that binds to certain minerals, thus exacerbating malnourishment (search: zach bush, glyphosate)

      -Riddled with chronic degenerative illness, lifetime consumers of multiple pharmaceuticals

      -Militarized police, veering increasingly into overt police state

      -Chem-trailed

      -Mind-controlled via 5g networks and brainwave entrainment, to render people even more passive and susceptible to suggestion than they already are?

      Etc. etc., who knows?

      Sorry to be such a downer. But it’s a Brave New World because it isn’t a pretty future. It would be nice if someone did something about that.

      Okay. Off to dinner, and then I’m going to write a science fiction novel.

        GH
        Mar 08, 2018 08:16 PM

        grossly excessive *vaccine* dosing schedule

          CFS
          Mar 08, 2018 08:14 PM

          And the solution is always passive resistance.

          It is what you don’t knowyou don’t know that will get you in the end.
          Listen to everything, but treat all information with a skeptic ear and eye.
          Keep learning.
          Not all new things are bad.
          e.g. it is not true that all genetic modifications are bad.
          Farmers and animal breeders have been doing genetic modification for years.
          Yes, worry about genetic modifications, but learn and understand what is good, what is neutral and what is bad, (and especially what is dangerous.
          If you see a wrong-doing, be vocal about it.
          If you see what you perceive as a lie, point out why and what is the truth.

          The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.

          Albert Einstein (1879 – 1955) Physicist & Nobel Laureate

    CFS
    Mar 08, 2018 08:19 PM

    Einstein also said:
    ” Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

    The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.”

    Mar 12, 2018 12:20 PM

    2 0 There is no one kind of science. Different scientific paradigms exist and their validity is contextual. Marxism is open to interpretation and change in constructive ways, and so is all science. But the question is not whether Marxism is a science. Rather than look at Marxism as a science” as we commonly know, it will make sense to see it as a scientific way of looking at humanity. That is why Marxists talk of scientific socialism” as opposed to utopian socialism”. * Social context changes constantly and it is scientific to update one”s understanding, develop theory to match reality and adopt practice accordingly not quite the way the LSSP adapted itself to rising narrow nationalism in 1963. * Prof. AKD is not bringing much credit to Marxism by reference to Carlo F”s definition. AKD may have forgotten the time, not very long ago, when Carlo F expressed rather irrational belief in rebirth etc.

    GH
    Mar 14, 2018 14:05 AM

    Al, I must admit that I am confused by your conclusions about Cultural Marxism (CM). If I understand you correctly, what I am calling CM, you think is just the opportunism of capitalism?

    Where does the factual history of the Frankfurt School fit in? It does exist, and it deals with pushing multiculturalism, radical feminism, transgenderism, gay marriage and adoption, hate speech legislation, etc. What on Earth do these things have to do with capitalism???

    The label ‘Marxism’ is because, as economic Marxism seeks to impose economic equality on everyone, CM seeks to impose ‘equality’ by identifying ‘disadvantaged’ ‘victim groups’ and then agitating politically and culturally to erase (or reverse) the offending inequality. Such high-mindedness! Or is it a vicious, backhanded attack by an ambitious minority group on the existing power structure, which they wish to co-opt and dominate?