[Update 11-11-14: The illustration that heads this blog is horrid racist propaganda, which I do not endorse. I posted it because it embodies the fear of miscegenation that dominates all ideologies that fear racial mixing.]
This is only a partial index on the subject that has dominated this website. I have been disturbed by those Facebook postings that blame a group of refugee [assimilated, “Marxist-Freudian”] Jews fleeing Nazism in the 1930s and 1940s (sometimes known as the critical theorists) for what is perceived as “identity politics” (“multiculturalism”) and/or “political correctness”. These men (plus Hannah Arendt) include T. W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Erich Fromm, Herbert Marcuse, Wilhelm Reich, and Leo Lowenthal: each of these prolific social critics found sponsorship in already existing social psychology and cultural anthropology as emboldened by FDR’s New Deal.
By focusing on these “critical theorists,” the older revolutions in the West, that of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation, have been conveniently ignored by conservatives and liberal Republicans alike, yet the fights between and within Protestantism and Catholicism are among the most portentous events in world history, encompassing a policy that remains current and hotly contested: immigration reform that would presumably increase the number of Catholics likely to support the Democratic Party. [E.g, the nasty aspects of capitalism and “Social Darwinism” are generally attributed to [Hebraic, puritanical] Protestantism, while social democracy, “compassionate conservatism,” and even some aspects of communist ideology echo much of Leo XIII’s encyclical Rerum Novarum (1891). This is not to ignore the liberal Protestants and secularists who supported the Social Gospel, and now the Democratic Party.]
Journalism, so-called “progressivism,” and even the writing of history could be drastically modified were Barack Obama’s plans to massively increase the Catholic population adopted.
Here is my index that 1. Highlights the stakes for writing about social movements and “change” in ignoring the Reformation; and 2. Clears up the misidentification of the Frankfurters as the initiators of PC, identity politics, and the culture wars. The Frankfurt School focus was restricted to “fascism” and Nazism, which they generally blamed on mass media and demagogue-loving popular culture (with its elevation of “social imperialism,” consumerism, bad taste, the Leader principle and celebrities in general). I.e., the supposedly revolutionary working class had been bought off with vanities and luxuries of every type. Such as Erich Fromm located the source of Hitler’s appeal, not in the racial state and the elimination of ‘Jewish domination,’ but in “working class authoritarianism.”
In other words, the critical theorists were bohemian philosphers and, upon closer examination, organic conservatives beholden to German Idealism who disliked the impetus that the Enlightenment brought to the self-confidence of ordinary “puritanical” naifs who pretended to understand “things as they are.” With such a stance, the refugees from Hitler’s Germany were welcomed and promoted by the liberal “progressive” establishment in the most prestigious American schools.
https://clarespark.com/2009/07/04/unfinished-revolutions-and-contested-notions-of-identity/
https://clarespark.com/2009/08/25/t-w-adorno-and-his-funny-idea-of-genuine-liberalism/
https://clarespark.com/2010/01/02/jottings-on-the-culture-wars-both-sides-are-wrong/
https://clarespark.com/2011/10/21/did-frankfurters-kill-the-white-christian-west/
https://clarespark.com/2013/05/30/nostalgia-for-the-middle-ages/
https://clarespark.com/2013/06/23/the-origins-of-political-correctness/
https://clarespark.com/2013/06/30/the-origins-of-political-correctness-2/
https://clarespark.com/2013/07/31/the-nefarious-cultural-marxists/
https://clarespark.com/2014/06/04/did-bureaucratic-rationality-cause-the-holocaust/
https://clarespark.com/2014/09/20/taking-responsibility-for-ourselves-and-society/
“Cultural Marxism produces matriarchy”
The Clare Spark Blog 
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But it was Jews responsible…….
Mike Sledge covers the history of this Communist concept [www.nationalprotectionism.com]
Comment by Cj aka Elderofzyklons Blog — November 7, 2014 @ 9:40 pm |
Two bloggers have “reblogged” my Cultural Marxism index. I fear that both of them have misconstrued my message. 1. The pictures were repulsive to me, and not meant to ratify the fears of matriarchy or miscegenation. 2. Communists did not originate PC. Progressives did, and before that German Idealists (a.k.a. German Romantics in the eighteenth century with their notion of “rooted cosmopolitans.” The Freudian Marxists of the Frankfurt School have been blamed for social strife because THEY WERE JEWS (though no one would deny that they were assimilated to progressivism, which was always anti-materialist and counter-Enlightenment as the Frankfurt School was).
Comment by clarelspark — November 7, 2014 @ 10:16 pm |
I Didn’t misunderstand…..
Comment by Cj aka Elderofzyklons Blog — November 7, 2014 @ 10:36 pm
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‘ #Cultural #Marxism ’ blog index
Comment by genomega1 — November 7, 2014 @ 9:33 pm |