Friday, August 20, 2010
Georg Lukács
Lukács argued that the pillars of western society blinded the populous to their true innate Marxist interests. before a Marxist revolution could take place, western culture had to be destroyed. In Hungary 1919 as Deputy Commissar of Culture,launched a program of cultural terrorism. He launched a program of radical sex education into the Hungarian schools. The intent was to undermine the unity of the family. Hungarian children were instructed in free love, sexual intercourse, the archaic nature of middle-class family codes, the out-datedness of monogamy, and the irrelevance of religion, which deprives man of all pleasures. Women, too, were called to rebel against the sexual mores of the time. Lukacs’s campaign of “Cultural Terrorism” was a precursor to what Political Correctness would later bring to American schools.
Thursday, August 19, 2010
The Long Walk Through the Institutions
Gramski understood the importance of destroying the pillars of western society. This was done by turning our institutions into their antithesis. Patriotism must be replaced with cynicism. The family should no longer produce children or cogs for the capitalist engine. Christianity, needed to be viewed as a hideous institution who's only purpose was to fill the money coffers of the Vatican and the head offices of other renowned religions. Sacrifice and doing what's good for your country, needed to be converted into doing what's good for me, and to hell with what's good for my war mongering nation. Schools had to be "dumbed down" in order to create a level paying field where excellence is replaced by breathing bodies attending a mediocre lackluster learning environment. And marriage, that wretched institution, needed to be replaced by more imaginative social experiences. Accountability needed to be transformed into an environmental argument to justify incompetence, sloth, criminality, and mental illness. Black was turned into white and visa versa. R.D Laing described schizophrenia as a rational reaction to an insane world. Eric Fromm argued that our cities, built by humans since the days of Rome and before, were really not human at all but dehumanizing institutions. Fromm was a member of the Frankfurt school.
Make Love Not War
This statement is one that all of us have heard. It was the verbal equivalent of flashing a peace sign at someone. And on the surface, who could disagree with it? But the statement is far from simple and far from innocent in it's intent.
The phrase was coined by Herbert Marcuse, a main stagiest for the Marxian movement. It was quickly embraced by American pop culture who were developing serious questions about their nations involvement in Vietnam. Protests began to form and the protests took the form of participating in radical social experiments, protesting drug laws by smoking banana peels in bags, love ins, wearing an identifying uniform such as bell bottom pants and tie-dyed t-shirts and open rebellion with parents. Blind conformity was out and in many cases any kind of conformity was suspect. The youth of the day, were fed a constant diet about the evils of government, the intentional starting of wars in order to finance the Industrial Military Complex, and the dehumanization from being a cog in a much greater machine. It seemed that everything was wrong and much needed to change. The revolution was in full swing. But as people were rebelling against something, they weren't exactly sure where they wanted to go, other than to have more freedom, less accountability, and to position themselves in the center of the universe.
Marcuse argued in his book, Eros and Civilization, that sex should be free from all restraints and by so doing we would elevate the pleasure principle over the reality principle. Sexual expression began to shift from procreational reasons to recreational reasons, and governments in all western societies ushered in legislation which made abortion legal. If one would ask about the production of children, one would likely be told that there are "different strokes for different folks, and that things would be just fine. But are they?
In Ontario, young talented energetic teachers straight out of teacher's college are being told by some boards that there aren't any jobs for them. Why? Since 2002, Ontario has lost over 100 000 school children-no kids, no jobs.
Demographers tell us that Ontario secular females are lucky to average 1.4 children during their entire reproductive life. They also tell us that once a societies rate of reproduction drops to below 1.3, the society can never recover. And at 1.0 the population is cut in half every generation. it seems that the marcusian sexual revolution has done what he wanted it it to do-ready the society for chaos and disorder.
The phrase was coined by Herbert Marcuse, a main stagiest for the Marxian movement. It was quickly embraced by American pop culture who were developing serious questions about their nations involvement in Vietnam. Protests began to form and the protests took the form of participating in radical social experiments, protesting drug laws by smoking banana peels in bags, love ins, wearing an identifying uniform such as bell bottom pants and tie-dyed t-shirts and open rebellion with parents. Blind conformity was out and in many cases any kind of conformity was suspect. The youth of the day, were fed a constant diet about the evils of government, the intentional starting of wars in order to finance the Industrial Military Complex, and the dehumanization from being a cog in a much greater machine. It seemed that everything was wrong and much needed to change. The revolution was in full swing. But as people were rebelling against something, they weren't exactly sure where they wanted to go, other than to have more freedom, less accountability, and to position themselves in the center of the universe.
Marcuse argued in his book, Eros and Civilization, that sex should be free from all restraints and by so doing we would elevate the pleasure principle over the reality principle. Sexual expression began to shift from procreational reasons to recreational reasons, and governments in all western societies ushered in legislation which made abortion legal. If one would ask about the production of children, one would likely be told that there are "different strokes for different folks, and that things would be just fine. But are they?
In Ontario, young talented energetic teachers straight out of teacher's college are being told by some boards that there aren't any jobs for them. Why? Since 2002, Ontario has lost over 100 000 school children-no kids, no jobs.
Demographers tell us that Ontario secular females are lucky to average 1.4 children during their entire reproductive life. They also tell us that once a societies rate of reproduction drops to below 1.3, the society can never recover. And at 1.0 the population is cut in half every generation. it seems that the marcusian sexual revolution has done what he wanted it it to do-ready the society for chaos and disorder.
What is Cultural Marxism?
Who doesn't remember the hippies, Woodstock, University of Toronto's Rochdale College, the Harrid Experiment, Abby Hoffman, Linda McQuaig, the Yippie Movement ? Given a simple gloss over, it seems that these intellectuals were merely trying to better society, by expanding the boundaries and making society far more inclusive. Such goals are indeed honorable. But closer examination indicates that the leaders of this 60's revolution were inspired by personalities and agenda's that many of them never understood or were even cognitive of. Those who ignited a huge revolutionary blaze, with a few intellectual thoughts, were the cultural Marxists.
The supporters of Marxism had a problem. They believed that the west would embrace comm unison if a huge war occurred causing mayhem, violence death and more. But after WWI it didn't happen.
Marxist theorists Antonio Gramsci in Italy and Georg Lukacs in Hungary independent of one another, came to the same conclusion. Western capitalist culture combined with Christianity had so blinded the worker that there simply wasn't any appeal for Marxism. This had to change, but how?
In 1923 a group of German Marxists established a think tank at Frankfurt University in Germany. The think tank took the nonthreatening name of the Institute for Social Research. The institute known as the Franfurt school created the ideology of cultural Marxism.
Unlike revolutionaries who used violence to overthrow a political system, they designed another method-by turning a societies institutions into their antithesis, society would crumble, disorder would take place and the populace would beg for some form of totalitarian authority to instill order.
The fathers of this movement knew that they alone could not bring about the change that they desired. So they formed an alliance with those members of society who were disenfranchised-blacks, feminists, university students, professors, and homosexuals.
The movement had begun but had to be shutdown when Hitler unleased his militia against germany's communists. But this wasn't the end but merely an opportunity to find a much better breeding ground-New York.
The supporters of Marxism had a problem. They believed that the west would embrace comm unison if a huge war occurred causing mayhem, violence death and more. But after WWI it didn't happen.
Marxist theorists Antonio Gramsci in Italy and Georg Lukacs in Hungary independent of one another, came to the same conclusion. Western capitalist culture combined with Christianity had so blinded the worker that there simply wasn't any appeal for Marxism. This had to change, but how?
In 1923 a group of German Marxists established a think tank at Frankfurt University in Germany. The think tank took the nonthreatening name of the Institute for Social Research. The institute known as the Franfurt school created the ideology of cultural Marxism.
Unlike revolutionaries who used violence to overthrow a political system, they designed another method-by turning a societies institutions into their antithesis, society would crumble, disorder would take place and the populace would beg for some form of totalitarian authority to instill order.
The fathers of this movement knew that they alone could not bring about the change that they desired. So they formed an alliance with those members of society who were disenfranchised-blacks, feminists, university students, professors, and homosexuals.
The movement had begun but had to be shutdown when Hitler unleased his militia against germany's communists. But this wasn't the end but merely an opportunity to find a much better breeding ground-New York.
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