9. By 1999, “Cultural Marxism” seemed to be catching on. A conservative woman called in to berate Columbia history professor Manning Marable about how people who think racial inequality is not natural are trying to impose a “Culturally Marxist idea.”
8. In the 1999 TV program Lind hosted based on this talk, he interviewed Laszlo Pasztor, a convicted Nazi collaborator from Hungary, to talk about Lukacs. (This screenshot from a 1988 NYT article, “Will Bush Purge Nazi Collaborators in the G.O.P.?”)
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The video quickly introduces tenets of antisemitic conspiracy theories about "Cultural Marxism." The "radical sex education" they attribute to Lukacs was basic reproductive anatomy--but sure, let's call it "cultural terrorism" when we teach science instead of religious dogma.
6. And who are these Frankfurt School philosophers? As Lind reminds us: they are, “to a man, Jewish.”
These Jewish intellectuals were kicked out of Nazi Germany for their “destructive criticism of every aspect of society,” so they brought their critical theory to NYC & Hollywood
5. Who is behind “Cultural Marxism”? Lind blames the Frankfurt School philosophers who developed Critical Theory, which he sees as responsible for the existence of “Women’s Studies, Gay Studies, and Black Studies” departments in colleges and universities.
4. Lind argues that "Cultural Marxism" divides the world into oppressor & oppressed groups based on race, sex, etc.; sees straight white men as inherently evil; and its main tool to attack socially privileged groups (i.e. white males) is "expropriation."
3. Lind argues that "conservatism is not an ideology," and that "all ideologies are totalitarian." He identifies what he sees as the "totalitarian" parallels between Communist dictatorships and PC on college campuses, which he calls "small, ivy-covered North Koreas."
2. Lind says political correctness is seen as something to laugh at, but in fact "it's deadly serious. It is the great disease of our century, the disease that has left tens of millions of people dead... the disease of ideology."
"Political Correctness is Cultural Marxism."
1. We begin with the arch-conservative activist and TV host, Bill Lind.
He began his 1998 talk "The Origins of Political Correctness" by saying college campuses have become so authoritarian that he'd be put "literally on trial" for joking about women and shopping carts
"Cultural Marxism" has entered mainstream political discourse, appearing in recent speeches by DeSantis and Hawley, Fox News broadcasts, and right-wing media from Breitbart to Ben Shapiro.
This is a thread, with clips, on the 25-year history of "Cultural Marxism" on the Right
What a coincidence that a rehashed Nazi conspiracy has become mainstream Republican discourse at the same time that Texas Republicans refuse to condemn a mass shooter's neo-Nazi beliefs without equivocation
Ron DeSantis and Fox News are rehashing a Nazi conspiracy theory
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"Cultural Marxism" has entered mainstream political discourse, appearing in recent speeches by DeSantis and Hawley, Fox News broadcasts, and right-wing media from Breitbart to Ben Shapiro.
This is a thread, with clips, on the 25-year history of "Cultural Marxism" on the Right