Mods, I'm posting this here because I'm not certain where it belongs...but due to recent events, it most certainly belongs.
How Marxist ideologues took over our culture.
Increasingly, calls for wealth and power redistribution are dressed as compensatory justice for members of different identity groups. We see this playing out on our campuses, in our corporations, and, recently, in our streets. But when did the world shift away from a Marxism based on economic classes (the worker v. the bourgeois) into one based on immutable characteristics such as race, ethnicity, sex, sexual orientation, and even disability status?
A story has to start somewhere, and I suggest the best place for this one is a fascist prison in Italy in the late 1920s and 1930s. There languished the Italian ComÂmunist leader Antonio Gramsci. Now he had the time to write down thoughts he’d been entertaining for over a decade.
It had long since dawned on Gramsci that, though Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels had promised almost a century earlier that the working class would rise up, overthrow the capitalÂists, and establish the dictatorship of the proletariat, until that time revolutions had been few.
In Europe, the revolutions of 1848 had failed. The Bolsheviks had succeeded in Russia in 1917, but the rest of Europe was run by capitalists. America was even more hopeÂless. There, as Engels had written in 1892, “society at the very beginning started from a bourgeois basis†(though he added, wrongly as it turned out, that things were about to turn).
The cure, Gramsci thought, was to carry out a “conÂsciousness raising†indoctrination campaign that would convince the average proletarian he had been duped by tradition, religion, the family, the educational system, and all the cultural trappings of society. Consciousness raising would let the worker understand his true interest and induce him to renounce any idea of succeeding individually; he would thus join with those in his class in a collecÂtive effort to transform the system.
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https://americanmind.org/features/the-racial-marxism-of-blm/the-plot-to-change-america/
