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.