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Frankfurt School: In our time

Unintentionally hilarious account of Frankfurt School and Cultural Marxism (sound familiar?) from You Tube:
 
Jon Bowden. (not the head in the fridge bloke). Left a long time ago. Never meant anything beyond showing these tropes are widespread.
 
yep that's the one - it's interesting the extent to which ultra-individualist US neoliberal extremists contribute material that's seized on by ultra-nationalist European far righters. I guess Marxism is their common enemy - and for that reason share quite a number of assumptions with the reactionary islamists they claim to despise.
 
Ooo, ta. Should be interesting, will watch when i have access to a computer with speakers etc, on crap hostel ones atm...
 
James Delingpole steers manfully towards the "cultural marxist'' rocks in The Sunday Telegraph, now coward he.

No, it's an act of cultural suicide. Most of us may not realise this but the ideological Left certainly does, for it has long been part of its grand plan to destroy Western civilisation from within. The plan's prime instigator was the influential German Marxist thinker ('the father of the New Left') Herbert Marcuse. A Jewish academic who fled Germany for the US in the Thirties, he became the darling of the Sixties and Seventies 'radical chic' set.

He deliberately set out to dismantle every last pillar of society – tradition, hierarchy, order – and key to victory, he argued, would be a Leftist takeover of the language, including 'the withdrawal of toleration of speech and assembly from groups and movements which promote aggressive policies, armament, chauvinism, discrimination on the grounds of race and religion, or which oppose the extension of public services, social security, medical care etc'.

In other words, those of us who believe in smaller government or other 'Right-wing' heresies should be for ever silenced.

Marcuse's teachings were de rigueur among student radicals on the campuses of the Sixties; his teachings formed the intellectual bedrock for every revolutionary group from the Black Panthers to the Baader-Meinhof gang. And also for that generation of long-haired students who now occupy senior positions in universities, in the judiciary, in government, in the civil service and, of course, at the BBC.

They may no longer define themselves as Marxists but they have absorbed the lessons of Marcuse unquestioningly.
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i once read a comment that the david letterman show was evidence of cultural marxism.
srsly.
 
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Explain this in detail now or be banned from this site forever. Everyone is fucked off with your piss weak trolling, thread derails, attention seeking and right wing rantings.
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The right say that the Frankfurt School replace classical Marxism's focus on the economy with a concentration on culture. They say that the F-School seek to bring about a revolution by systematically undermining hegemonic culture. They say that, in pursuit of revolution, the F-School espouses the cause of marginalized groups such as racial and sexual minorities, and that it appeals to the intellectual bourgeoisie rather than the proletariat.

All of this is perfectly true, and no-one who knows anything about the F-School would deny any part of it.

You're welcome.
 
phildwyer said:
The right say that the Frankfurt School replace classical Marxism's focus on the economy with a concentration on culture. They say that the F-School seek to bring about a revolution by systematically undermining hegemonic culture. They say that, in pursuit of revolution, the F-School espouses the cause of marginalized groups such as racial and sexual minorities, and that it appeals to the intellectual bourgeoisie rather than the proletariat.

All of this is perfectly true, and no-one who knows anything about the F-School would deny any part of it.

You're welcome.
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You read a lot of right wing sites and believe everything they say, yes?
 
There's much to criticise with the Frankfurt School and some of Dwyer's points may seem fair enough. But I doubt any of that was the essence of his earlier comment. The most commonly known right wing criticism revolves around the anti-semitic "cultural Marxism" slur. Dwyer knows this and it's likely to be just more snide trolling on his part.
 
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