For 75 Years Cultural Marxism Worked to Destroy American Patriotism

Finally, a complete breakdown of what's (obviously) been happening in the US. The focus on DEI, CRT, normalizing homosexuality (LGBTQ) etc
, all signs of a slow Marxist( self-serving a**holes) take over.

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Sometime during the last half-century, someone stole our culture. Just 50 years ago, in the 1950s, America was a great place. It was safe. It was decent. Children got good educations in the public schools. Even blue-collar fathers brought home middle-class incomes, so moms could stay home with the kids. Television shows reflected sound, traditional values.



Where did it all go? How did that America become the sleazy, decadent place we live in today – so different that those who grew up prior to the ’60s feel like it’s a foreign country? Did it just “happen”?



It didn’t just “happen.” In fact, a deliberate agenda was followed to steal our culture and leave a new and very different one in its place. The story of how and why is one of the most important parts of our nation’s history – and it is a story almost no one knows. The people behind it wanted it that way.



What happened, in short, is that America’s traditional culture, which had grown up over generations from our Western, Judeo-Christian roots, was swept aside by an ideology. We know that ideology best as “political correctness” or “multi-culturalism.” It really is cultural Marxism, Marxism translated from economic into cultural terms in an effort that goes back not to the 1960s, but to World War I.



The end goal of Marxism is destruction.



Incredible as it may seem, just as the old economic Marxism of the Soviet Union has faded away, a new cultural Marxism has become the ruling ideology of America’s elites. The No. 1 goal of that cultural Marxism, since its creation, has been the destruction of Western culture and the Christian religion.



To understand anything, we have to know its history. To understand who stole our culture, we need to take a look at the history of “political correctness.”



Early Marxist Theory:



Before World War I, Marxist theory said that if Europe ever erupted in war, the working classes in every European country would rise in revolt, overthrow their governments and create a new Communist Europe. But when war broke out in the summer of 1914, that didn’t happen.

Instead, the workers in every European country lined up by the millions to fight their country’s enemies. Finally, in 1917, a Communist revolution did occur, in Russia. But attempts to spread that revolution to other countries failed because the workers did not support it.



After World War I ended in 1918, Marxist theorists had to ask themselves the question: What went wrong?

As good Marxists, they could not admit Marxist theory had been incorrect. Instead, two leading Marxist intellectuals, Antonio Gramsci in Italy and Georg Lukacs in Hungary (Lukacs was considered the most brilliant Marxist thinker since Marx himself) independently came up with the same answer.



They said that Western culture and the Christian religion had so blinded the working class to its true, Marxist class interests, that a Communist revolution was impossible in the West, until both could be destroyed. That objective, established as cultural Marxism’s goal right at the beginning, has never changed.



A New Strategy:



Gramsci famously laid out a strategy for destroying Christianity and Western culture, one that has proven all too successful. Instead of calling for a Communist revolution up front, as in Russia, he said Marxists in the West should take political power last, after a “long march through the institutions” – the schools, the media, even the churches, every institution that could influence the culture.



That “long march through the institutions” is what America has experienced, especially since the 1960s. Fortunately, Mussolini recognized the danger Gramsci posed and jailed him. His influence remained small until the 1960s, when his works, especially the “Prison Notebooks,” were rediscovered.



Georg Lukacs proved more influential. In 1918, he became deputy commissar for culture in the short-lived Bela Kun Bolshevik regime in Hungary. There, asking, “Who will save us from Western civilization?” he instituted what he called “cultural terrorism.” One of its main components was introducing sex education into Hungarian schools. Lukacs realized that if he could destroy the country’s traditional sexual morals, he would have taken a giant step toward destroying its traditional culture and Christian faith.



Far from rallying to Lukacs’ “cultural terrorism,” the Hungarian working class was so outraged by it that when Romania invaded Hungary, the workers would not fight for the Bela Kun government, and it fell. Lukacs disappeared, but not for long. In 1923, he turned up at a “Marxist Study Week” in Germany, a program sponsored by a young Marxist named Felix Weil who had inherited millions. Weil and the others who attended that study week were fascinated by Lukacs’ cultural perspective on Marxism.



The Frankfurt School:



Weil responded by using some of his money to set up a new think tank at Frankfurt University in Frankfurt, Germany. Originally it was to be called the “Institute for Marxism.” But the cultural Marxists realized they could be far more effective if they concealed their real nature and objectives. They convinced Weil to give the new institute a neutral-sounding name, the “Institute for Social Research.”



Soon known simply as the “Frankfurt School,” the Institute for Social Research would become the place where political correctness, as we now know it, was developed. The basic answer to the question “Who stole our culture?” is the cultural Marxists of the Frankfurt School.

At first, the Institute worked mainly on conventional Marxist issues such as the labor movement. But in 1930, that changed dramatically. That year, the Institute was taken over by a new director, a brilliant young Marxist intellectual named Max Horkheimer. Horkheimer had been strongly influenced by Georg Lukacs. He immediately set to work to turn the Frankfurt School into the place where Lukacs’ pioneering work on cultural Marxism could be developed further into a full-blown ideology.



To that end, he brought some new members into the Frankfurt School. Perhaps the most important was Theodor Adorno, who would become Horkheimer’s most creative collaborator. Other new members included two psychologists, Eric Fromm and Wilhelm Reich, who were noted promoters of feminism and matriarchy, and a young graduate student named Herbert Marcuse.



Advances in Cultural Marxism:



With the help of this new blood, Horkheimer made three major advances in the development of cultural Marxism. First, he broke with Marx’s view that culture was merely part of society’s “superstructure,” which was determined by economic factors. He said that on the contrary, culture was an independent and very important factor in shaping a society.



Second, again contrary to Marx, he announced that in the future, the working class would not be the agent of revolution. He left open the question of who would play that role – a question Marcuse answered in the 1950s.



Third, Horkheimer and the other Frankfurt School members decided that the key to destroying Western culture was to cross Marx with Freud. They argued that just as workers were oppressed under capitalism, so under Western culture, everyone lived in a constant state of psychological repression. “Liberating” everyone from that repression became one of cultural Marxism’s main goals. Even more important, they realized that psychology offered them a far more powerful tool than philosophy for destroying Western culture: psychological conditioning.



Today, when Hollywood’s cultural Marxists want to “normalize” something like homosexuality (thus “liberating” us from “repression”), they put on television show after television show where the only normal-seeming white male is a homosexual.

That is how psychological conditioning works; people absorb the lessons the cultural Marxists want them to learn without even knowing they are being taught.



The Frankfurt School was well on the way to creating political correctness. Then suddenly, fate intervened. In 1933, Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party came to power in Germany, where the Frankfurt School was located. Since the Frankfurt School was Marxist, and the Nazis hated Marxism, and since almost all its members were Jewish, it decided to leave Germany.



In 1934, the Frankfurt School, including its leading members from Germany, was re-established in New York City with help from Columbia University. Soon, its focus shifted from destroying traditional Western culture in Germany to doing so in the United States. It would prove all too successful.



New Developments:



Taking advantage of American hospitality, the Frankfurt School soon resumed its intellectual work to create cultural Marxism. To its earlier achievements in Germany, it added these new developments.



Critical Theory:



To serve its purpose of “negating” Western culture, the Frankfurt School developed a powerful tool it called “Critical Theory.”

What was the theory? The theory was to criticize. By subjecting every traditional institution, starting with family, to endless, unremitting criticism (the Frankfurt School was careful never to define what it was for, only what it was against), it hoped to bring them down.

Critical Theory is the basis for the “studies” departments that now inhabit American colleges and universities. Not surprisingly, those departments are the home turf of academic political correctness.



Studies in Prejudice:



The Frankfurt School sought to define traditional attitudes on every issue as “prejudice” in a series of academic studies that culminated in Adorno’s immensely influential book, “The Authoritarian Personality,” published in 1950. They invented a bogus “F-scale” that purported to tie traditional beliefs on sexual morals, relations between men and women and questions touching on the family to support for fascism. Today, the favorite term the politically correct use for anyone who disagrees with them is “fascist.”



Domination:



The Frankfurt School again departed from orthodox Marxism, which argued that all of history was determined by who owned the means of production. Instead, they said history was determined by which groups, defined as men, women, races, religions, etc., had power or “dominance” over other groups.



Certain groups, especially white males, were labeled “oppressors,” while other groups were defined as “victims.” Victims were automatically good, oppressors bad, just by what group they came from, regardless of individual behavior.



Though Marxists, the members of the Frankfurt School also drew from Nietzsche (someone else they admired for his defiance of traditional morals was the Marquis de Sade). They incorporated into their cultural Marxism what Nietzsche called the “transvaluation of all values.”

What that means, in plain English, is that all the old sins become virtues, and all the old virtues become sins. Homosexuality is a fine and good thing, but anyone who thinks men and women should have different social roles is an evil “fascist.”



That is what political correctness now teaches children in public schools all across America. The Frankfurt School wrote about American public education. It said it did not matter if school children learned any skills or any facts. All that mattered was that they graduate from the schools with the right “attitudes” on certain questions.



Media and Entertainment:



Led by Adorno, the Frankfurt School initially opposed the culture industry, which they thought “commodified” culture. Then, they started to listen to Walter Benjamin, a close friend of Horkheimer and Adorno, who argued that cultural Marxism could make powerful use of tools like radio, film and later television to psychologically condition the public.



Benjamin’s view prevailed, and Horkheimer and Adorno spent the World War II years in Hollywood. It is no accident that the entertainment industry is now cultural Marxism’s most powerful weapon.



The Growth of Marxism in the United States:



After World War II and the defeat of the Nazis, Horkheimer, Adorno and most of the other members of the Frankfurt School returned to Germany, where the Institute re-established itself in Frankfurt with the help of the American occupation authorities. Cultural Marxism in time became the unofficial but all-pervasive ideology of the Federal Republic of Germany.



But hell had not forgotten the United States. Herbert Marcuse remained here, and he set about translating the very difficult academic writings of other members of the Frankfurt School into simpler terms Americans could easily grasp. His book “Eros and Civilization” used the Frankfurt School’s crossing of Marx with Freud to argue that if we would only “liberate non-procreative eros” through “polymorphous perversity,” we could create a new paradise where there would be only play and no work. “Eros and Civilization” became one of the main texts of the New Left in the 1960s.



Marcuse also widened the Frankfurt School’s intellectual work. In the early 1930s, Horkheimer had left open the question of who would replace the working class as the agent of Marxist revolution. In the 1950s, Marcuse answered the question, saying it would be a coalition of students, blacks, feminist women and homosexuals – the core of the student rebellion of the 1960s, and the sacred “victims groups” of political correctness today.



Marcuse further took one of political correctness’s favorite words, “tolerance,” and gave it a new meaning. He defined “liberating tolerance” as tolerance for all ideas and movements coming from the left, and intolerance for all ideas and movements coming from the right.

When you hear the cultural Marxists today call for “tolerance,” they mean Marcuse’s “liberating tolerance” (just as when they call for “diversity,” they mean uniformity of belief in their ideology).



The student rebellion of the 1960s, driven largely by opposition to the draft for the Vietnam War, gave Marcuse a historic opportunity. As perhaps its most famous “guru,” he injected the Frankfurt School’s cultural Marxism into the baby boom generation.

Of course, they did not understand what it really was. As was true from the Institute’s beginning, Marcuse and the few other people “in the know”did not advertise that political correctness and multi-culturalism were a form of Marxism.



But the effect was devastating: a whole generation of Americans, especially the university-educated elite, absorbed cultural Marxism as their own, accepting a poisonous ideology that sought to destroy America’s traditional culture and Christian faith.

That generation, which runs every elite institution in America, now wages a ceaseless war on all traditional beliefs and institutions. They have largely won that war. Most of America’s traditional culture lies in ruins.

This also explains the goverment overreach involvement/attack on organic farms, and against Christians, IMO.

Look at that.

The Marxists did a better job at propagandizing the kids than the capitalists did.

It really just comes down to poor parenting.

Parents would rather have TV and schools raise their kids for them.

There are a couple of key paragraphs here...

The Frankfurt School was well on the way to creating political correctness. Then suddenly, fate intervened. In 1933, Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party came to power in Germany, where the Frankfurt School was located. Since the Frankfurt School was Marxist, and the Nazis hated Marxism, and since almost all its members were Jewish, it decided to leave Germany.

In 1934, the Frankfurt School, including its leading members from Germany, was re-established in New York City with help from Columbia University. Soon, its focus shifted from destroying traditional Western culture in Germany to doing so in the United States. It would prove all too successful.

Once again, more examples of the Jewish community using propaganda to shape public opinion. I keep saying this, but people just don't seem to be listening.

And how do the do this? ...

Today, when Hollywood’s cultural Marxists want to “normalize” something like homosexuality (thus “liberating” us from “repression”), they put on television show after television show where the only normal-seeming white male is a homosexual.

That is how psychological conditioning works; people absorb the lessons the cultural Marxists want them to learn without even knowing they are being taught.

People really underestimate the amount of "psychological conditioning" they are being exposed to by the entertainment and mainstream media. And the Jewish community is largely in control of both the entertainment and mainstream media.

Things are not what they seem, folks. They really aren't.

a reply to: ScarletDarkness

Can I offer you a suggestion?

I suggest editing your OP to eliminate some of the spaces out of the quoted article; the double and triple spacing makes it difficult to read. I realize you just C&P'd the article, but it came over with a bunch of unnecessary spaces.

Great article by the way. Excellent actually! Really says a lot.

a reply to: ScarletDarkness

Sent you a PM. Good thread!

Marxism may have encouraged Rock & Roll and the Sexual Revolution. The point was ostensibly to make the lower classes upwardly mobile by letting them get to know and share with smart people in sinful rapport so they could cheat on exams and job tasks. People grew addicted to the freedom and the promise of mobility.

Rock & Roll and the Sexual Revolution had another effect though: It increased the number of kids being born to poor parents who didn't plan to have a child and who didn't pick a spouse whom they shared values with in order to raise the child right. The parents (or baby mama and sperm donor) were only focused on gratifying wants, not having a family.

It may have led to increasing neurodivergence, 87 different genders, and a generation that is all about greed for equity with no respect to what they can do or how they fit in to society. In other words, ideal Communist revolutionaries.

a reply to: Solvedit

Marxism may have encouraged Rock & Roll and the Sexual Revolution. The point was ostensibly to make the lower classes upwardly mobile by letting them get to know and share with smart people in sinful rapport so they could cheat on exams and job tasks. ...

Wow! Lots of questions on your statement.

1. Can you explain how Rock & Roll allowed upward mobility?

2. How did this upward mobility allow them to 'get to know and share' with smart people?

3. What is 'sinful rapport'? I don't understand how this relates to Rock & Roll.

4. And what does any of that have to do with 'cheating on exams and job tasks'?

Maybe it's just me, but it's been quite a long while since I've seen two sentences prompt so many questions. LOL!

originally posted by: Flyingclaydisk
a reply to: Solvedit

Marxism may have encouraged Rock & Roll and the Sexual Revolution. The point was ostensibly to make the lower classes upwardly mobile by letting them get to know and share with smart people in sinful rapport so they could cheat on exams and job tasks. ...

Wow! Lots of questions on your statement.

1. Can you explain how Rock & Roll allowed upward mobility?

2. How did this upward mobility allow them to 'get to know and share' with smart people?

3. What is 'sinful rapport'? I don't understand how this relates to Rock & Roll.

4. And what does any of that have to do with 'cheating on exams and job tasks'?

Maybe it's just me, but it's been quite a long while since I've seen two sentences prompt so many questions. LOL!

What does being in rapport have to do with cheating on exams? Hmm... maybe my point wasn't as clear as I thought. I had a little too much coffee and jumped the gun. I also had the vague notion we were discussing it. Could be my imagination.

a reply to: ScarletDarkness

Excellent post!
Soros, a known Marxist, has visited FJB's white house around 2 dozen times since joe took office. And there have been many more visits from other members of Soros' group the Open Society Foundations.

originally posted by: Flyingclaydisk
a reply to: ScarletDarkness

Can I offer you a suggestion?

I suggest editing your OP to eliminate some of the spaces out of the quoted article; the double and triple spacing makes it difficult to read. I realize you just C&P'd the article, but it came over with a bunch of unnecessary spaces.

Great article by the way. Excellent actually! Really says a lot.

Sorry too late, past the edit window , can't do it anymore

originally posted by: Hakaiju
a reply to: ScarletDarkness

Excellent post!
Soros, a known Marxist, has visited FJB's white house around 2 dozen times since joe took office. And there have been many more visits from other members of Soros' group the Open Society Foundations.

I know right? Not at all suspicious

originally posted by: Flyingclaydisk
There are a couple of key paragraphs here...

The Frankfurt School was well on the way to creating political correctness. Then suddenly, fate intervened. In 1933, Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party came to power in Germany, where the Frankfurt School was located. Since the Frankfurt School was Marxist, and the Nazis hated Marxism, and since almost all its members were Jewish, it decided to leave Germany.

In 1934, the Frankfurt School, including its leading members from Germany, was re-established in New York City with help from Columbia University. Soon, its focus shifted from destroying traditional Western culture in Germany to doing so in the United States. It would prove all too successful.

Once again, more examples of the Jewish community using propaganda to shape public opinion. I keep saying this, but people just don't seem to be listening.

And how do the do this? ...

Today, when Hollywood’s cultural Marxists want to “normalize” something like homosexuality (thus “liberating” us from “repression”), they put on television show after television show where the only normal-seeming white male is a homosexual.

That is how psychological conditioning works; people absorb the lessons the cultural Marxists want them to learn without even knowing they are being taught.

People really underestimate the amount of "psychological conditioning" they are being exposed to by the entertainment and mainstream media. And the Jewish community is largely in control of both the entertainment and mainstream media.

Things are not what they seem, folks. They really aren't.

ah, its the jews!

a reply to: malte86

Except it is….they capitalize on degeneracy ala Jeffrey Epstein Harvey Weinstein.
Whenever you research the worst people, 3 out of 5 times they are Jewish.
Don’t care if you don’t like it, I don’t like degenerates.

a reply to: Myhandle

Germany ruined themselves because they clung onto a mercantile society and fell into absolute ruin.
And then they went into the biggest cope of all time, blame the jews. Classic. Didn't see that coming.

originally posted by: TinfoilTophat
Look at that.

The Marxists did a better job at propagandizing the kids than the capitalists did.

It really just comes down to poor parenting.

Parents would rather have TV and schools raise their kids for them.

our traditional US culture included respect for authority. Teachers were to be respected and listened to etc.
a lot of parents had no idea that Miss Jones @ 12th Street Middle School was preaching propaganda.

to this day leftists are outraged when parents get involved in what's being taught at their kids schools.

a reply to: Myhandle

Oh. Subhuman are they?

Where have we heard that before, I wonder?

a reply to: strongfp

And now America is coping with 6% of the population committing 50% of violent crime and blaming the black population.
Sorry, I don’t know any other group with child sex islands or trafficking tunnels under their synagogues.
Funny how that story just went away.
Cope. It’s a powerful thing.

You heard what you needed to hear.

a reply to: Myhandle

Actually, I could have done without hearing it at all?