Exploring (mostly Cultural) Marxism in today's Left

I watched the video. The arguments it made were mostly about how the MSM portrays things.

I see both sides of the MSM as corporate propaganda. They mislead the public by omission reagarding the financial system every day.

That is why I'm saying that your paranoia of the 'left' is based on the fact that you've been reeled in by the 'right'.

They're both still pushing the infinite growth model in spite of the fact that it isn't conducive to the long term survival of our species. It is destroying and polluting our planet. It will end in catastrophe.

I care about the world my son will inherit more so than the amount of money. I care about the world his children and their children will inherit.

We need a democratic revolution and it needs to be at least somewhat socialist to be able to address sustainability as a priority.

That is a fact any reasonable person ought to be able to deduce after some thought and an honest look at the situation.

To be fair, you're not really presenting anything but Christian persecution complex and paranoia. I'm trying to talk some sense into you.

Faith writes: Two points:
1) You are comparing small mostly homogeneous cultures with a big nation of many different parts. They never had the problems we have.

Faith writes:2) This thread is not about economic policies, it's about cultural influences. In fact I think I'm going to change the title to make that clear.

DO NOT TELL ME HOW I CAME TO MY OPINIONS

Those on the other hand who are convinced of the rightness of Cultural Marxism got it at university where professors made the case for it day after day until they ended up brainwashed.

If we compare the basic tenets of Political Correctness with classical Marxism the parallels are very obvious.First of all, both are totalitarian ideologies. The totalitarian nature of Political Correctness is revealed nowhere more clearly than on college campuses, many of which at this point are small ivy covered North Koreas, where the student or faculty member who dares to cross any of the lines set up by the gender feminist or the homosexual-rights activists, or the local black or Hispanic group, or any of the other sainted victims groups that PC revolves around, quickly find themselves in judicial trouble. Within the small legal system of the college, they face formal charges — some star-chamber proceeding — and punishment. That is a little look into the future that Political Correctness intends for the nation as a whole.Indeed, all ideologies are totalitarian because the essence of an ideology (I would note that conservatism correctly understood is not an ideology) is to take some philosophy and say on the basis of this philosophy certain things must be true — such as the whole of the history of our culture is the history of the oppression of women.Since reality contradicts that, reality must be forbidden. It must become forbidden to acknowledge the reality of our history. People must be forced to live a lie, and since people are naturally reluctant to live a lie, they naturally use their ears and eyes to look out and say, Wait a minute. This isn’t true. I can see it isn’t true, the power of the state must be put behind the demand to live a lie. That is why ideology invariably creates a totalitarian state.Second, the cultural Marxism of Political Correctness, like economic Marxism, has a single factor explanation of history. Economic Marxism says that all of history is determined by ownership of means of production. Cultural Marxism, or Political Correctness, says that all history is determined by power, by which groups defined in terms of race, sex, etc., have power over which other groups. Nothing else matters. All literature, indeed, is about that. Everything in the past is about that one thing.Third, just as in classical economic Marxism certain groups, i.e. workers and peasants, are a priori good, and other groups, i.e., the bourgeoisie and capital owners, are evil. In the cultural Marxism of Political Correctness certain groups are good — feminist women, (only feminist women, non-feminist women are deemed not to exist) blacks, Hispanics, homosexuals. These groups are determined to be victims, and therefore automatically good regardless of what any of them do. Similarly, white males are determined automatically to be evil, thereby becoming the equivalent of the bourgeoisie in economic Marxism.Fourth, both economic and cultural Marxism rely on expropriation. When the classical Marxists, the communists, took over a country like Russia, they expropriated the bourgeoisie, they took away their property. Similarly, when the cultural Marxists take over a university campus, they expropriate through things like quotas for admissions. When a white student with superior qualifications is denied admittance to a college in favor of a black or Hispanic who isn’t as well qualified, the white student is expropriated. And indeed, affirmative action, in our whole society today, is a system of expropriation. White owned companies don’t get a contract because the contract is reserved for a company owned by, say, Hispanics or women. So expropriation is a principle tool for both forms of Marxism.And finally, both have a method of analysis that automatically gives the answers they want. For the classical Marxist, it’s Marxist economics. For the cultural Marxist, it’s deconstruction.Deconstruction essentially takes any text, removes all meaning from it and re-inserts any meaning desired. So we find, for example, that all of Shakespeare is about the suppression of women, or the Bible is really about race and gender. All of these texts simply become grist for the mill, which proves that all history is about which groups have power over which other groups. So the parallels are very evident between the classical Marxism that we’re familiar with in the old Soviet Union and the cultural Marxism that we see today as Political Correctness.

You don't know me and you don't know what has influenced me so please keep your theories about what motivates me to yourself. (...) DO NOT TELL ME HOW I CAME TO MY OPINIONS. (...)I have an independent mind, I did not need the "right" or anyone to tell me what to think. I decide whether what someone else says is right or not, I decide it, they don't. (...)Those on the other hand who are convinced of the rightness of Cultural Marxism got it at university where professors made the case for it day after day until they ended up brainwashed.

caffeine writes:Was that an intentional joke?

Not a joke, just didn't get it said as well as I should have. I certainly don't think they make a legitimate case which is what would make it a joke, they just teach it and preach it to their captive audience until it's accepted as truth