Well ND thanks for the condescending, superior, smarmy, fake history lesson. Sad that you really seem to have bought into this conspiracy theory. Let's just take a few minutes to rip apart what you've said:
"Yeah it’s not really something identifiable. No one goes around and says it. Cultural Marxism is a unique political ideology formed by the Frankfurt School."
If it's not identifiable, then how are you able to identify it? Don't you think it's odd that there's apparently this political ideology which has many millions of adherents (based on your statements, all socialists, and most supporters of the Democratic Party in the USA, are alleged to be cultural Marxists), yet none of them publicly subscribe to it, and none of them ever use the term except when debunking an alt-right nutjob like you?
Can you name any other mass political movements where the followers of the movement never call it by name? Is "cultural Marxism" unique in that regard?
"I know that the left believes in revisionist history and wants to rewrite history, but until people like me are completely gone there will always be people who collect primary sources and documentation from the period. You can’t eliminate true history Jamie, well not yet anyway."
Hopefully people like you will be completely gone as soon as possible. That wasn't a threat, by the way. I am not threatening to make you gone. In any case, it is absurd that you make a statement like this when you also support a political movement which does not care for facts, and whose figurehead (the Trump) regularly tells lies and shares discredited fake news - like he did in the past week when he helped to promote white nationalists Britain First by retweeting their fake news videos. In any case, keep reading, and I'll take my turn to give you a history lesson.
"Maybe when your precious government starts burning hard copies and consolidates everything online you can purge true historical records..."
Which government are you referring to? I find this part of your diatribe confusing.
"The Frankfurt School specifically studied cultural institutions associated with Western Capitalism. They looked at Art, Jazz, Film, Poetry, etc. They interjected praxis and critical theory into all of these cultural institutions associated with Western Capitalism to critique and ultimately change it to fit Marxist models. Gender Studies, Social Justice, Studies into Sexuality, etc all formed from this in the 1970s after their body of work was translated from German into English. It's absolute historical fact that this occurred."
Ahem. "Cultural Marxism" if it was used by socialists or academics in reference to the Frankfurt School, was criticism of the *lack* of revolutionary Marxism at the Frankfurt School by more orthodox Marxists.
The term "cultural Marxism" in this context was first sighted around 1973, used by Trent Schroyer, who coined the term as an accusation that some theorists were failed Marxists: not true Marxists, but merely "cultural Marxists" who had been subsumed by middle class capitalism. In this context it's basically an insult made by commies against commies who weren't commie enough. This is simply not the same as the definition used by modern conservative fearmongers like yourself.
Marx himself never wrote at any length about culture and many Marxists argue against cultural studies - as orthodox Marxists often assert that the only "real" societal division is the one of class.
The fact that modern cultural theorists use multiple lenses of class, race, gender, and sexuality to analyze culture suggests that their methods probably don't come from Marxist classifications. Instead, these lenses are more likely to have come from the 1920s-30s Chicago School of Sociology's focus on human behavior as shaped by social structures and physical environmental factors, rather than genetic and personal characteristics.
So, where does the more recent use of "cultural Marxism" as a snarl word, used to paint any progressive person as a secret communist, arise from? The answer is quite sinister. It's Nazi propaganda updated for the modern era.
You like history, so let's have a history lesson. In Germany during the Weimar republic there had been an opening up of cultural and social expression, and all that jazz. The Nazis viewed this as decadent and immoral. They invented the phrase "cultural Bolshevism" and "Jewish Bolshevism". They argued that Marxism was a Jewish conspiracy, and that powerful Jews had orchestrated the Russian revolution and were pulling the strings of the USSR. Hitler denounced any art, music, or social science thought that the Nazis disagreed with as "cultural Bolshevism". There's a whole chapter in Mein Kampf devoted to the idea that modernist art and culture was part of a Bolshevik-Jewish plot to undermine the morals of the Nordic races. This is the wellspring from which the Frog-and-Swastika movement now draws.
The modern origin of the phrase "cultural Marxism" in alt-right wingnut usage was by William Lind in 1998, part of the right-wing "Accuracy in Academia" movement. Lind argued that modern "political correctness" was in fact "cultural Marxism" designed to undermine good old American values. Here's a quote from a speech he gave in 2000:
"Political Correctness is cultural Marxism. It is Marxism translated from economic into cultural terms. It is an effort that goes back not to the 1960s and the hippies and the peace movement, but back to World War I. If we compare the basic tenets of Political Correctness with classical Marxism the parallels are very obvious... How does all of this stuff flood in here? How does it flood into our universities, and indeed into our lives today? The members of the Frankfurt School are Marxist, they are also, to a man, Jewish."
Note again the worrying undercurrent of anti-semitism that runs through all of this.
Pat Buchanan, an unhinged racist who I assume is one of your heroes, starting spouting the phrase "cultural Marxism" in about 2000.
Gradually during the 2000's, the alt-right and neo-Nazi groups increasingly started using "cultural Marxism" as a label for anything they didn't like - in the way that you have been doing. Neo-Nazi mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik used the phrase in a lot of his ramblings. Like him, a lot of the alt-Right actually appear to have convinced themselves that cultural Marxism is real, is done by Jews, and is a serious threat to their pure white ethnostate dreams.
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