http://https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8pPbrbJJQs&bpctr=1521571983
“Happiness without power, wages without work, a home without frontiers, religion without myth. These characteristics are hated by the rulers because the ruled secretly long to possess them. The rulers are only safe as long as the people they rule turn their longed-for goals into hated forms of evil.”
Theodor W. Adorno
What I would like to know is- what antidote is available to us?
Bad Luck?
Yes, and western societies are riddled with it. Look at what’s happening in Europe , UK and USA – to a lesser extent, the southern most fringes in the South Pacific, but we are rapidly catching up – Canada’s already gone.
And sadly, so is the Church. “Don’t use the words ‘ mortal sin” in homilies”; Don’t use the term,’homosexuality is intrinsically disordered’ in any context.
Crap – I have used both those terms in one or two homilies – received many frowns, but many congrats as well.
Ignore PC language – that’s a start.
“What I would like to know is- what antidote is available to us?”
Reading the linked book is a start:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00PSSEIXE/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?ie=UTF8&btkr=1
Learning this ought to be a requirement for any voter. Bearing with the academia-speak is worth the trouble. I’m in my ninth decade of life now, and I’ve watched this evil come to fruition like a deadly disease–one little symptom at a time.
As can be seen below anyone who believes in Cultural Marxism in sort of nuts per Wikipedia article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt_School#Cultural_Marxism_conspiracy_theory
“Cultural Marxism conspiracy theory
A 20th-century conspiracy theory regards the Frankfurt School as the origin of a contemporary movement in the political left to destroy western culture, referred to as “Cultural Marxism” by theory proponents.[50][51] It advocates the idea that multiculturalism and political correctness are products of critical theory, which originated with the Frankfurt School. The theory is associated with American religious paleoconservatives such as William Lind, Pat Buchanan and Paul Weyrich, and has received support from the Free Congress Foundation.[52][53][54][55]”
An example of the reason why Wikipedia always has to be treated with care:
https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/2occ7m/wikipedias_cultural_marxism_article_now_redirects/
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/misadventuring-on-wikipedia/
Yes I have been reading more about it. Knowledge really is the front line foundation of our defense. The coercive power of social psych – often , like the wind, unseen except for its effects.
Resistance on the spot, up close and personal. That is one of the suggested antidotes that I read. Speaking up in response to cultural Marxism, political correctness Whether in small group, with family, or published somewhere. Resistance us the antidote
The march of cultural Marxism throughout Western civilization will force the Maccabean solution upon us whether we like it or not; otherwise we go extinct. This phenomenon of cultural change, while masquerading itself as defense of the oppressed, is towards the Church no different than the cultural change which the Seleucid overlords tried to force on the Jewish people in accepting the “enlightened” pagan Greek culture and foreswearing their Jewish heritage.
I’m surprised Art hasn’t already reminded us that cultural marxism has nothing to do with Marx.
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He noted drolly
The best summary of “Cultural Marxism” is Andy Blunden’s comment on the “Frankfurt School”, or Institute for Social Research, which “marked the beginning of a current of “Marxism” divorced from the organised working class and Communist Parties, which over the decades merged with bourgeois ideology in academia.”
Orthodox Marxists often accused its members of Idealism and Jürgen Habermas argued that a striking resemblance exists between certain strains in the Jewish cultural tradition (and most members of the Frankfurt School were Jewish) and in that of German Idealism, whose roots have often been seen in Protestant Pietism. One important similarity, which is especially crucial for an understanding of Critical Theory, is the old cabalistic idea that speech rather than pictures was the only way to approach God. The distance between Hebrew, the sacred language, and the profane speech of the Diaspora made its impact on Jews who were distrustful of the current universe of discourse. This, so Habermas has argued, parallels the idealist critique of empirical reality, which reached its height in Hegelian dialectics.
This Idealism is hard to reconcile with Marx’s insistence that “In the social production of their existence, men inevitably enter into definite relations, which are independent of their will, namely relations of production appropriate to a given stage in the development of their material forces of production. The totality of these relations of production constitutes the economic structure of society, the real foundation, on which arises a legal and political superstructure and to which correspond definite forms of social consciousness. The mode of production of material life conditions the general process of social, political and intellectual life. It is not the consciousness of men that determines their existence, but their social existence that determines their consciousness.” (A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy)
how about this – we confound the left thinkers by calling their diabolic effort not cultural marxism, but cultural imperialism. That accusation would be sure to sting
What is cultural Marxism? Easy answer: one hundred percent bullshit. Don’t allow anybody to tell you otherwise.
Thank you Donald, for the link to Mr. Walsh’s “The Devil’s Pleasure Palace”. Coming of age during the Cold War, even while Stalin still survived, ingrained a habit of looking at Marxism as a failed economic heresy, while later wondering with puzzlement at more recent manifestations of left-wing preoccupation. Perhaps better understanding why I fear Hillary more than I do Sanders. She seems a Cultural Marxist, while Sanders is more an Economic Marxist. The latter is obviously discredited by history, while the Cultural Marxists will not be fully discredited until the Final Judgment.
Very interesting! Now I have a name for this trend: cultural marxism. It seems to me that Western civilization has been entirely denigrated both here and in Europe. I don’t think cultural marxism has much more to do.
The warning that Russia would spread her errors throughout the world was given at Fatima. Thanks for this video that shows how the propagation of the Marxist theory has fulfilled Fatima’s prophesy.
Cultural Marxism is manifested in modern politics by Bernie Sanders who promotes all the above and is accompanied by his crowd of “useful idiots”. It began with the gutting of traditional values in our schools, the better to inculcate the young into the materialistic dialectic. To try to separate his economics from moral positions is folly as Marxism is imposed only with compulsion and force after being inserted by lies and disguise into the body politic. Unless the country awakens from its stupor, this will not end well.
What part of “Thou shalt not steal” don’t they get?
Thanks Donald for clearing us up on the obviously slanted Wikipedia article on Cultural Marxism. We are surrounded by it and governed by it. Obama is a good case in point. And I think our dear Pontiff would be celebrated by them.
Donald Link wrote, “To try to separate his economics from moral positions is folly…”
Of course it is.
Marx wrote that “the economic structure of society forms the real basis on which rises the legal and political superstructure.” In other words the things that are often seen as making up society—religion, politics, culture, and the institutions that reproduce them—are impossible to understand without first looking at the foundation they are built upon. That foundation is the material economy of work and production.
Engels explains that “the simple fact, hitherto concealed by an overgrowth of ideology, that mankind must first of all eat, drink, have shelter and clothing, before it can pursue politics, science, art, religion.”