We often ask ‘How did America get in the condition it is in so quickly?’ In this article you will find that there have long been ‘termites’ in the ‘foundation’ eating away at our legal, educational, marital, spiritual, political and cultural institutions. The ‘termites’ are antiChrist in nature and their goal is the destruction of Christianity and America. We’ve come to know this condition as Political Correctness or more accurately as Cultural Marxism.
The 1950’s were a simple, romantic, and golden time in America.
California beaches, suburbia, and style. Atlas Shrugged was published, NASA was formed, and Elvis rocked the nation. Every year from 1950–1959 saw over 4 million babies born. The nation stood atop the world in every field.
Americans were once known to be the best in everything. They had confidence and were not afraid of anything. America was the envy of the world, including the Communist and Bolshevik world who hated all that Americans stood for: truth, justice and Christianity. Communism stood for none of those traits and in fact devised strategies to destroy them. The Frankfurt School of Critical Theory was the antiChristian weapon that would be brought into America specifically to undermine and destroy American institutions, Liberty and Christianity.
It was an era of great economic prosperity in The Land of the Free.
So, what happened to the American traits of confidence, pride, and accountability?
The roots of Western cultural decay are very deep, having first sprouted a century ago. It began with a loose clan of ideologues inside Europe’s communist movement. Today, it is known as the Frankfurt School, and its ideals have perverted American society.
When Outcomes Fail, Just Change the Theory
Before WWI, Marxist theory held that if war broke out in Europe, the working classes would rise up against the bourgeoisie and create a communist revolution.
Well, as is the case with much of Marxist theory, things didn’t go too well. When war broke out in 1914, instead of starting a revolution, the proletariat put on their uniforms and went off to war.
After the war ended, Marxist theorists were left to ask, “What went wrong?”
Marxist Antonio Gramsci. Gramsci is best known for his theory of cultural hegemony, which describes how the state and ruling capitalist class – the bourgeoisie – use cultural institutions to maintain power in capitalist societies. This is commonly called Critical Theory today.
Two very prominent Marxists thinkers of the day were Antonio Gramsci and Georg Lukács. Each man, on his own, concluded that the working class of Europe had been blinded by the success of Western democracy and capitalism. They reasoned that until both had been destroyed, a communist revolution was not possible.
Gramsci and Lukács were both active in the Communist party, but their lives took very different paths.
Gramsci was jailed by Mussolini in Italy where he died in 1937 due to poor health.
In 1918, Lukács became minister of culture in Bolshevik Hungary. During this time, Lukács realized that if the family unit and sexual morals were eroded, society could be broken down.
Lukács implemented a policy he titled “cultural terrorism,” which focused on these two objectives. A major part of the policy was to target children’s minds through lectures that encouraged them to deride and reject Christian ethics.
In these lectures, graphic sexual matter was presented to children, and they were taught about loose sexual conduct.
Here again, a Marxist theory had failed to take hold in the real world. The people were outraged at Lukács’ program, and he fled Hungary when Romania invaded in 1919.
The Birth of Cultural Marxism
Georg Lukács was a Hungarian Marxist philosopher, aesthetician, literary historian, and critic. He was one of the founders of Western Marxism through the Frankfurt School. In Hungary Lukács was made People’s Commissar for Education and Culture. As a Marxist theoretician, he developed the idea of “Revolution and Eros” — sexual instinct used as an instrument of destruction.
All was quiet on the Marxist front until 1923 when the cultural terrorist turned up for a “Marxist study week” in Frankfurt, Germany. There, Lukács met a young, wealthy Marxist named Felix Weil.
Until Lukács showed up, classical Marxist theory was based solely on the economic changes needed to overthrow class conflict. Weil was enthused by Lukács’ cultural angle on Marxism.
Weil’s interest led him to fund a new Marxist think tank—the Institute for Social Research. It would later come to be known as simply The Frankfurt School.
In 1930, the school changed course under new director Max Horkheimer. The team began mixing the ideas of Sigmund Freud with those of Marx, and cultural Marxism was born.
In classical Marxism, the workers of the world were oppressed by the ruling classes. The new theory was that everyone in society was psychologically oppressed by the institutions of Western culture. The school concluded that this new focus would need new vanguards to spur the change. The workers were not able to rise up on their own.
As fate would have it, the National Socialists came to power in Germany in 1933. It was a bad time and place to be a Jewish Marxist, as most of the school’s faculty was. So, the school moved to New York City, the bastion of Western culture at the time.
Coming to America
Max Horkheimer was a dedicated Marxist who helped to create what is known as Critical Theory through radical Marxism. In 1930 he joined with a Marxist study group, started by Felix Weil, which evolved into the Institute for Social Research and is now known as the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory. Critical Theory maintains that ideology (Christianity) is the principal “obstacle” to human liberation. Horkheimer defined Critical theory in a 1937 essay “Traditional and Critical Theory” as “a social theory oriented toward critiquing and changing society as a whole…” This is the “fundamental change” promoted by Barack Hussein Obama in 2008 and 2012, whereby radical and fundamental Talmudic Marxism was thrust into the foundation of America. This is a radical contrast to traditional America which is based and founded upon Christianity, in all our founding documents and laws.
In 1934, the Frankfurt School was reborn at Columbia University. Its members began to exert their ideas on American culture. It was at Columbia University that the school honed the tool it would use to destroy Western culture: the printed word.
The school published a lot of popular material. The first of these was Critical Theory.
Critical Theory is a play on semantics. The theory was simple: criticize every pillar of Western culture—family, democracy, common law, freedom of speech, and others. The hope was that these pillars would crumble under the pressure.
Next, was a book Theodor Adorno co-authored, The Authoritarian Personality. It redefined traditional American views on gender roles and sexual mores as “prejudice.” Adorno compared them to the traditions that led to the rise of fascism in Europe.
Is it just a coincidence that the go-to slur for the politically correct today is “fascist”?
Herbert Marcuse was a Marxist at Columbia University at the Institute for Social Research (aka Frankfurt School). Marcuse promoted the “free love” movement in the 1960’s to break down Christian morality to open avenues for Marxist thought. Marcuse and the Frankfurt School professors worked to promote a state of hopelessness and alienation that they considered necessary to provoke a socialist revolution. His “liberating tolerance” ideas are the basis for today’s “social justice warriors.”
The school pushed its shift away from economics and toward Freud by publishing works on psychological repression.
Their works split society into two main groups: the oppressors and the victims. They argued that history and reality were shaped by those groups who controlled traditional institutions. At the time, that was code for males of European descent.
From there, they argued that the social roles of men and women were due to gender differences defined by the “oppressors.” In other words, gender did not exist in reality but was merely a “social construct.”
A Coalition of Victims
Adorno and Horkheimer returned to Germany when WWII ended. Herbert Marcuse, another member of the school, stayed in America. In 1955, he published Eros and Civilization.
In the book, Marcuse argued that Western culture was inherently repressive because it gave up happiness for social progress.
The book called for “polymorphous perversity,” a concept crafted by Freud. It posed the idea of sexual pleasure outside the traditional norms. Eros and Civilization would become very influential in shaping the sexual revolution of the 1960s.
Theodor W. Adorno was a Marxist and leading member of the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory insisting that the works of Freud, Marx, and Hegel were essential to a critique of modern society. He was drummed out of Germany as a communist. Author Dinesh D’Souza has revealed how Adorno redefined Fasicsm as a “far right” phenomenon instead of a “leftist” political ideology. Adorno propagated the sleight of hand agenda as a strategy to destroy the west.
Marcuse would be the one to answer Horkheimer’s question from the 1930s: Who would replace the working class as the new vanguards of the Marxist revolution?
Marcuse believed that it would be a victim coalition of minorities—blacks, women, and homosexuals.
The social movements of the 1960s—black power, feminism, gay rights, sexual liberation—gave Marcuse a unique vehicle to release cultural Marxist ideas into the mainstream. Railing against all things “establishment,” The Frankfurt School’s ideals caught on like wildfire across American universities.
Marcuse then published Repressive Tolerance in 1965 as the various social movements in America were in full swing. In it, he argued that tolerance of all values and ideas meant the repression of “correct” ideas.
It was here that Marcuse coined the term “liberating tolerance.” It called for tolerance of any ideas coming from the left but intolerance of those from the right. One of the overarching themes of the Frankfurt School was total intolerance for any viewpoint but its own. That is also a basic trait of today’s political-correctness believers.
To quote Max Horkheimer, “Logic is not independent of content.”
“We will make the West so corrupt that it stinks.” Willi Münzenberg
(Münzenberg was a Communist international media propagandist based in Weimar Berlin and later in Paris)
Recalling the Words of Winston (Not That One)
The Frankfurt School’s work has had a deep impact on American culture. It has recast the homogenous America of the 1950’s into today’s divided, animosity-filled nation. In turn, this has contributed to the undeniable breakdown of the family unit, as well as identity politics, radical feminism, and racial polarization in America. It’s hard to decide if today’s culture is more like Orwell’s 1984 or Huxley’s Brave New World.
Never one to buck a populist trend, the political establishment in America has fully embraced the ideas of the Frankfurt School and has pushed them on American society through public mis-education. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, the beacons of progressivism, are both disciples of Saul Alinsky, a devoted cultural Marxist.
And so we now live in a hyper-sensitive society in which social memes and feelings have overtaken biological and objective reality as the main determinants of right and wrong. Political correctness is a war on logic and reason.
To quote Winston, the protagonist in Orwell’s dystopia, “Freedom is the freedom to say that 2+2=4.”
Today, America is not free.
This article by David Galland originally appeared in ZeroHedge.
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This is an important part of American history that has never been taught in schools or documented through the media. Thanks
that’s because our govt controlled K-20 schools and the media are now active departments of the Frankfurt School indoctrinating and dumbing down the American population….why would they want to blow their cover by publicizing the history of the Frankfurt School and the agenda of cultural Marxism via Critical Theory?
Just goes to show how our educational system from kindergarten to PhD has failed US!
Why are the Jew so evil?
Everyone mentioned in this story were Jews, with the possible exception of Gramsci (Albanian/Italian).
Funny, how a spade is never called a spade.
You will never destroy Christianity. Men like me will defend it at all costs.
“Lukács implemented a policy he titled “cultural terrorism,” aka “Critical Race Theory” which focused on these two objectives. A major part of the policy was to target children’s minds through lectures that encouraged them to deride and reject Christian ethics.
In these lectures, graphic sexual matter was presented to children, and they were taught about loose sexual conduct.”
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This is what is being Taught in our Schools Now, Karl Marx spoke of Destroying a Country without firing a shot, by Demoralizing it from Within.
That’s What Marxist’s Are Doing To America NOW, And We MUST STOP THEM…
I’m trying to find a pattern. (wink)