M.D. Rawlings
Classical Liberal
The left doesn't understand Capitalism and Free Markets...and consistently attributes the failures of their own statist policies to Capitalism.
Precisely! And the underlying essence of what we're talking about here cannot be reiterated too often. As I've written elsewhere:
What is the Marxist to do when in fact the working class is a culturally heterogeneous component of production whose standard of living has dramatically improved under capitalism?
Well, its constituents must be programmed from early childhood to disregard the discriminations of common logic and eschew the conventions of common morality. But not only that, they must be protected from the economic depredations of false consciousness. Hence, they must be made to think of themselves as the victims of those who own the means of production and all that surplus value.
Toss that fishing pole in the lake and hand 'em a pitchfork.
In other words, make 'em dumb as dirt. Manageable drones. Turn 'em into sexual degenerates bereft of familial affections/allegiances: the Marcusean polymorphous perversity of the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory. Hence, the intellectual and moral mediocrity and uniformity of relativism with a chip on its shoulder. This is cultural Marxism in a nutshell, more commonly known today as political correctness or multiculturalism. As economic Marxism is the deconstruction of the actualities of the factors of production and the expropriation of the means of production, cultural Marxism is the deconstruction of Western culture, of the influences of Christianity especially, and the expropriation of ideas and expression.
. . . Since the theory of Marxism is necessarily true by definition, i.e., that all of history is a struggle between the powerful and the oppressed progressively moving toward that overwhelming conclusion of a stateless Utopia, the uncooperative regressions of history must be due to the false signals or the misdirection of human culture obscuring the proletariat's view of its true interests. Marx was aware of the extant cultural hindrances, of course, but it was a group of German communists who in the 1920's established a think tank and, initially, based on the definitive observations of Marxist theorists Gyorgy Lukacs of Hungary ("Who will save us from Western civilization?") and Antonio Gramsci of Italy, contrived a systematic methodology for expropriating culture. Marcuse joined the group in 1932 with his Neo-Freudian theory of sexual liberation as a component of the proletariat's cultural revolution against the benighted tribal tradition of the biological family.
. . . Comprehensively, this was revolution by another means, the subversion of thought and morality, and the suppression of opposing views. The enlightened would artificially expedite the actualization of the object of the historical dialectic. Oh, the irony! In the 1930's, the members of the Frankfort School of Critical Theory fled Nazi Germany for America and set up shop at Columbia University.
The origination and the history of cultural Marxism is well-documented. —M. D. Rawlings
Your simplistic binary thinking would be more entertaining if you could keep it brief.
Oh, I'm sorry, too much information all at one time for your pea-sized brain? What was that, a fairly complex matter summarized in roughly five paragraphs?
So, tell us, Einstein, how exactly are the historical facts regarding Lefty's divide-and-destroy balkanization strategy the stuff of "simplistic binary thinking"? Oh wait! My post is about the "simplistic binary thinking" of depraved statist ideologues.
Right you are! Carry on. . . .
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You see, folks, this is just the kind of thing lefty does. He very seldom actually addresses the arguments, does he? Personal attacks. Naming calling. Anything but the truth or real discussion. Critical Theory tactics 101.
Lefty is depraved.
You think that anyone who doesn't buy into free market unregulated or minimally regulated capitalism is a Marxist of some sort.
That's binary, and idiocy.
My post goes to boedicca's observation and to the central theme of PC's OP regarding the balkanization of collectivistic multiculturalism, i.e., institutionalized relativism. Its essence is this: "As economic Marxism is the deconstruction of the actualities of the factors of production and the expropriation of the means of production, cultural Marxism is the deconstruction of Western culture, of the influences of Christianity especially, and the expropriation of ideas and expression."
Obviously, it's your non-sequitur, i.e., your knee-jerk, reactionary drivel that is the "simplistic binary thinking".
Sorry. You lose again.