Political Correctness Is Cultural Marxism

[Bigun]

July 6, 2013

Political Correctness Is Cultural Marxism

By W.A. Beatty

The excellent AT article "Conservatives Pushing Back" by Bruce Walker explored what we conservative thinkers (We are, after all,
American Thinkers) have known for quite some time: political correctness (PC) is to culture what Marxism is to economics. To
recognize that fact arms us with what we need in order to push back. As Walker says (emphasis added), "[t]hese marketplace
ballots are the key not only to the survival of a non­totalitarian America, but also to the final defeat of those whose minds and wills
are chained with hard, cold manacles of leftism."

Walker's article is (pardon the pun) right on the money. So, in an effort to further understand PC, exploration of its similarities to Marxism is in order.
Karl Heinrich Marx (1818­1883) was a German socialist. Marx's social, economic, and political theories proclaimed that societies
progress through class struggle. His focus was upon economics, so Marx concentrated on the conflict between an ownership class
that controlled production and a proletariat that provided the labor for production. He referred to capitalism as the "dictatorship of
the bourgeoisie." The proletariat, the oppressed workers, were supposed to be the beneficiaries of a social revolution that would
place them on top of the power structure.

Marx's key concept was "class struggle." That's where PC comes in. PC seeks to impose a uniformity of thought and behavior, just
like Marxism, on all Americans and is, therefore, quite totalitarian in nature. PC is, in concept, similar to Marxism, but its focus is
upon culture, rather than economics, as the class struggle environment.

PC, just like Marxism, forces people to live a lie by denying reality. PC takes a political philosophy and says that on the basis of
the chosen philosophy, certain things must be true, and reality that contradicts its "truth" must be forbidden ­­ eradicated since it
disputes PC, exposes as untrue what PC says is true. People are reluctant to live a lie, so they use their eyes and ears to see reality
to say, "Wait a minute. This isn't true. I can see it isn't true; the power of the state [PC] must be put behind the demand to live a
lie." Marxism, by denying economic reality, did exactly the same thing.

PC, just like Marxism, has a method of analysis that always provides the answer it wants. For PC, the "answer" is found through
deconstruction, which takes any situation, removes all meaning from it, and replaces it with PC's desired meaning. Walker
references this point when he says, "[T]hat her [Paula Deen's] devout Christian faith is more the real target than past use of an
unhappy word which did not keep Robert Byrd from remaining, by election of his fellow Senate Democrats, the most powerful
Democrat politician in America."

PC, just like Marxism, depends upon defining what it considers good and bad groups. It defines good groups as "victims" of bad
groups. The victims can never be anything but good, regardless of what their actions may be. Witness what the Black Panthers
in Philadelphia, PA in 2008 and 2012. Any group identified as good by PC (homosexuals, blacks, Hispanics, illegal immigrants,
feminist women, mentally and/or physically challenged people, the poor, environmentalists, the list goes on and on) must be shown
deference, both physically and linguistically. They must not be offended, must not be insulted.

Any group identified as bad by PC, such as white males or any Christian group, can be offended. This offense, PC practitioners
say, "makes up" for past offenses certain to have been committed in the past by bad groups. And what's worse is that the PC
practitioners get to define the offenses committed by the bad groups. This situation, by definition, is a "self­fulfilling prophesy."
Rush Limbaugh, in 2010, said, "Our politically correct society is acting like some giant insult has taken place by calling a bunch of
people who are retards, retards." The PC crowd labeled Limbaugh's statement offensive and insulting. Imagine that. Limbaugh
was just "calling a spade a spade." Like it or not, PC cannot prevent mental retardation, cannot alter reality. But that doesn't stop
them from trying.

PC, just like Marxism, depends upon expropriation. PC is literally taking over our language, and woe be unto him/her that dares
speak the truth. When Marxists took over Russia, they expropriated the bourgeoisie by confiscating their property. Similarly,
when PC takes over our culture, quotas are set. The so­called bourgeoisie are told whom they can and can't hire, and in what
quantities they can hire. As an example, see what the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is currently up to
And let's not forget affirmative action, a system of expropriation if there ever was one, another PC favorite. When a black or
Hispanic student (or some other "victim"), who isn't as well­ qualified as a white student, gains university admittance through
affirmative action, the white student's admittance is expropriated

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2013/07/political_correctness_is_cultural_marxism.html

[Lando Lincoln]

Thank you for posting!  I'd love to slide a link to The Repository. Later, when I can.

[katzenjammer]

I have always found this little article to be a good primer as well.  Excerpt:

What is Cultural Marxism?

William S. Lind

In his columns on the next conservatism, Paul Weyrich has several times referred 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, 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.”

Cultural Marxism began not in the 1960s but in 1919, immediately after World War I. Marxist theory had predicted that in the event of a big European war, the working class all over Europe would rise up to overthrow capitalism and create communism. But when war came in 1914, that did not happen. When it finally did happen in Russia in 1917, workers in other European countries did not support it. What had gone wrong?

Independently, two Marxist theorists, Antonio Gramsci in Italy and Georg Lukacs in Hungary, came to the same answer: Western culture and the Christian religion had so blinded the working class to its true, Marxist class interest that Communism was impossible in the West until both could be destroyed. In 1919, Lukacs asked, “Who will save us from Western civilization?” That same year, when he became Deputy Commissar for Culture in the short-lived Bolshevik Bela Kun government in Hungary, one of Lukacs’s first acts was to introduce sex education into Hungary’s public schools. He knew that if he could destroy the West’s traditional sexual morals, he would have taken a giant step toward destroying Western culture itself.

In 1923, inspired in part by Lukacs, a group of German Marxists established a think tank at Frankfurt University in Germany called the Institute for Social Research. This institute, soon known simply as the Frankfurt School, would become the creator of cultural Marxism.

To translate Marxism from economic into cultural terms, the members of the Frankfurt School - - Max Horkheimer, Theodor Adorno, Wilhelm Reich, Eric Fromm and Herbert Marcuse, to name the most important - - had to contradict Marx on several points. They argued that culture was not just part of what Marx had called society’s “superstructure,” but an independent and very important variable. They also said that the working class would not lead a Marxist revolution, because it was becoming part of the middle class, the hated bourgeoisie.

Who would? In the 1950s, Marcuse answered the question: a coalition of blacks, students, feminist women and homosexuals.

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.

More at: http://www.marylandthursdaymeeting.com/Archives/SpecialWebDocuments/Cultural.Marxism.htm


I am glad that you posted this thread, Bigun; it is important for all of us to understand what we have been, and are, up against.  I often cringe a bit when I see others speak about Political Correctness (PC) as some sort of benignly intended mechanism to force people to be "nice" to each other, with some awful unintended consequences.  It is nothing of the sort, nothing to do with being "nice" and intended to destroy Western Civilization from its onset.  Know it, call it out for what it is, always!!   

[Bigun]

I have always found this little article to be a good primer as well.  Excerpt:

More at: http://www.marylandthursdaymeeting.com/Archives/SpecialWebDocuments/Cultural.Marxism.htm


I am glad that you posted this thread, Bigun; it is important for all of us to understand what we have been, and are, up against.  I often cringe a bit when I see others speak about Political Correctness (PC) as some sort of benignly intended mechanism to force people to be "nice" to each other, with some awful unintended consequences.  It is nothing of the sort, nothing to do with being "nice" and intended to destroy Western Civilization from its onset.  Know it, call it out for what it is, always!!   

An excellent primer indeed!

Thanks for digging it up and posting it here Katz!

There is no such thing as to much TRUTH!

  

[Bigun]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1W-BXNlwc-k

[katzenjammer]

Perfect!  Great find!!