Cultural Marxism Explained In 7 Minutes

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Submitted by Joseph Salerno via The Mises Institute,

This is an excellent short video explaining the source and nature of Cultural Marxist movements like political correctness, modern feminism, pansexualism, multiculturalism, "whiteness studies," etc. 

 

For an in-depth critique of the thinkers whose writings shaped Cultural Marxism, see Fools, Frauds and Firebrands:  Thinkers of the New Left by the eminent British philosopher Roger Scruton.  Scruton brilliantly exposes the pretensions, obscurities, and inanities of Sartre, Foucault, Galbraith, Marcuse, Lukacs, Habermas, Adorno, Rawls, Dworkin and others of their ilk.

The book is not just a philosophical tract but a work in critical political economy and contains one of the most penetrating discussions of the Marxist labor theory of value that I have ever read.

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Fri, 01/08/2016 - 20:23 | 7019855 noless
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How do you plan to fight the hegemony?

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 21:58 | 7020201 general ambivalent
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First, by ensuring I understand what the real hegemony is while not feeding back into it or a new one. Second, by existing on a small scale while not progressing the collectivism inherent in isolationism. Third, by working towards a system sure of purpose and meaning while preventing the abstraction of such a system into a homogenous state.

I know that is vague but it is too open-ended a question to really answer within a medium of short answers

Sun, 01/10/2016 - 06:06 | 7024627 Farqued Up
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Substitute Egalitarian for Homogenous and I think it sums you up.

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 20:34 | 7019891 Misean
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Hmmm...the only people I ever see type G-d instead of God are Jews...

Anywho, moron, capitalism is the absense of every straw man you attempt to bludgeon in your mindless little screed. Go back to the drawing board, imbecile.

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 21:45 | 7020167 general ambivalent
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You resort to namecalling while missing a clear ironic point, and offering nothing yourself. Time to go back to the fundamentals (you missed out on children's books, I take it).

Sun, 01/10/2016 - 06:12 | 7024634 Farqued Up
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I will bet money that you draw a paycheck extracted or subsidized by taxpayers.

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 21:03 | 7020015 nmewn
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How can I put this in even blunter terms than I already have? Lets see, the company I work at needs my expertise, they offer to pay and give (albeit lessening) benefits me for it, I accept the proposition.

It's voluntary.

I have the opportunity (I shit you not) to leave them Monday morning and double my pay BECAUSE my expertise is in demand.

I CHOOSE to stay for a myriad of reasons, two of which is my current lifestyle and family, completely OUTSIDE OF the interest of money.

And this...makes me "a slave"?

You're completely fucked up morally.

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 21:50 | 7020178 general ambivalent
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You are born into a world using Jewcoins which require you to work 40-80 hours a week and trade them back for your survival (after thousands of years of government intervention in the markets which led to this 'voluntarism bubble), and you call this voluntary...

You make it clear that anarcho-capitalists are digital Marxists within a lagged-out iPhone update.

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 22:38 | 7020333 nmewn
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I have created & owned businesses that employ other people.

I work for myself and only myself and everyone who ever worked in one of my businesses knew that concept as well, they worked for themselves and their interests too.

You make it clear that you can't separate the self-interest of ALL from Greek & Roman coins, apparently.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 08:33 | 7021157 kingvaclav
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A Primer on Battling the Plague of Cultural Marxism:

http://winteractionables.com/?p=29444

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 21:09 | 7020042 crossroaddemon
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This. thank you. I am an anarchist, and I believe anarcho-capitalism is an oxymoron. Large concentrations of wealth are even more dangerous than government.

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 21:46 | 7020168 FinMin
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No, I'm not saying that. What I am saying is that the profit motive prioritizes the acquisition of capital to the exclusion of everything else institutionally and where it exercises influence over our society it changes it to further only capitalization of resources, human and otherwise, over any other system of values.

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 18:57 | 7019484 w0wy0
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how do you figure

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 19:01 | 7019491 Yen Cross
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baited breath.... Nice work nmewn ;-)

  I forgot to mention market breadth?

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 19:02 | 7019492 Nero_Hedge
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Their heads are as deeply buried in the sand as their counterparts' on the left are. They would rather just forget about the original genocide on this continent, and pick back up with history/economics sometime after then, but before Carter. Ya know, back in the good ole days when America was "great" and everything was hunky-dory

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 19:04 | 7019498 w0wy0
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Not all favor historicism to explain economic phenomena

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 19:15 | 7019544 Nero_Hedge
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Yea I know...I hear enough of that shit from family though so I snapped back...broad bushes never help us create a clearer picture

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 19:26 | 7019577 nmewn
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So when its RED on RED genocide, we don't discuss it. When it BLACK on BLACK we don't discuss it. YELLOW on YELLOW, perish the thought!

Ok, got it now, cultural marxism.

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 19:28 | 7019596 GhostOfDiogenes
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Thats rayciss

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 19:31 | 7019606 nmewn
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Evidently these days...lol...and spoken absolutely unapologetically ;-)

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 20:39 | 7019908 runswithscissors
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FUCK DIVERSITY!

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 19:30 | 7019600 Nero_Hedge
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Absolutely discuss it, when it's relevant. I have no problem discussing atrocities committed by other people, but our conversation was specifically centered around capitalism and its relation to the founding of THIS country.

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 19:35 | 7019625 nmewn
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Relevant? You're the one who brought it up!...lol.

With words something like "the original genocide on this continent" or something or other.

You runnin down the Iroquois or sumpin? I'm gonna report you to the Thought Police ;-)

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 19:56 | 7019731 Nero_Hedge
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Typing on a phone here, so a little imprecise...perhaps "original" was inaccurate, as surely natives were wiping each other out before Europeans arrived. I was referring more specifically to the genocide on which this nation is founded. And no, I don't think it's today's white peoples fault (I am white), nor do I feel any personal guilt. I was merely pointing out that, like many dangerous ideologues on the left, some on the right seem to have an amazing ability to ignore or downplay the negative consequences of their pet philosophy in their haste to tear down the other side.

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 20:08 | 7019796 nmewn
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Yeah, I know how typing on a phone can be...but (lol)...many on the left are stunned to find that the Arab's raided the EAST AFRICAN coast for slaves or if they know are being disingenuous.

So, original genocide, like what...us killing the British & Loyalists wherever we found them?

Thats war.

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 20:25 | 7019863 Nero_Hedge
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Absolutely many liberals are ignorant of lots of history that doesn't fit their narrative- it took me forever to convince my brother in law the other day that Arab and Brazilian enslavement of Africans began sooner, lasted longer, and was way more brutal than what N America practiced. We have common ground here, I feel it. I'll try to clarify if I was unclear- I don't at all think we should dig back into history to try and bring justice to crimes committed by all of humanity and before anyone alive today was born. My only reason for bringing up the native Americans was to caution that simply choosing "capitalism" over "socialism" (whatever those terms mean nowadays) is leaving a lot of important questions for the future both unasked and unanswered.

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 20:43 | 7019924 nmewn
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Ah, ok...late, also carrying on a conversation with Mrs.N.

Well let me offer what I think "capitalism" is...at least to me.

Capitalism is more individualistic, that is to say, a capitalist (a true capitalist, not some variation of a crony-statist-socialist "capitalist") takes his own risks, with his own saved labor in the form of money or time or whatever he values.

When he "wins" it is a personal win, not something shared. When he "loses" its his loss as well, not shared.

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 20:44 | 7019925 Misean
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Erm...hmmmm...some white settlers killed injuns. Some intermarried with them. Twixt and between both sides loved and engaged in skuldugery. What's your fucking point?!?

The only injun mass slaughters that I am aware of didn't occur because of capitalism, but were carried out by fucking government. You know, the trail of tears, all those "brave" yankee soldiers heading west after pillaging the south, Spanish and Portuguese soldiers (Conqustadors), British military, French military....though I gotta say the French did tend to live and let live as far as injuns were concerned.

At least without government, differing peoples tend to figure out how to get along rather than kill each other. It's simply more cost effective. Not always, but they do tend to.

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 21:12 | 7020051 crossroaddemon
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Bachelor's degree in anthrolpology talking here. Government was just the tool. big business was puching like mad for the extermination of the remaining natives following the civil war.

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 21:20 | 7020073 Misean
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Erm...if the politicians didn't have the power to sell...it could not have been purchased. Then said "Big Buiz" (AKA Lincoln's rail road buddies...) would have had to pay for the soldiers out of their own pocket, which of course they did a bit with the Pickertons...but even that was somewhat subsidized as Unky Sugar made lots of legal exemptions for them Pinkerton Boys.

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 20:28 | 7019870 noless
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I think he means the Vikings intentionally bringing Ebola to new found land  in the seventh century or whatever. Not sure though, dates may vary.

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 19:49 | 7019686 runningman18
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So we should be punished for the crimes of people who existed centuries ago?  Will brown and yellow people be punished for the crimes of past generations as well?

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 19:57 | 7019741 Nero_Hedge
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No, I never meant, said or implied this. You pulled that strawman out of your own paranoid brain

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 20:47 | 7019938 Misean
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Hmmm... you doth protest too much.

 

"Their heads are as deeply buried in the sand as their counterparts' on the left are. They would rather just forget about the original genocide on this continent, and pick back up with history/economics sometime after then, but before Carter. Ya know, back in the good ole days when America was "great" and everything was hunky-dory"

Seems like a very valid interpretation of what you wrote, doofus.

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 20:57 | 7019984 Nero_Hedge
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Nowhere in that statement do I call for anyone to be punished. I think it's totally possible to acknowledge a historical event and learn from it without handing down judgements and sentences to people alive today. I also think you should be able to examine these same events without feeling any personal responsibility or guilt

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 19:10 | 7019521 TeamDepends
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You mean when the Apache were warring with the Sioux? Or the Vikings before that? Or the Giants before that? History is rough. This world was rarely, if ever, "hunky-dory".

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 19:20 | 7019560 Nero_Hedge
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Agreed, my anger isn't directed at people who died hundreds of years ago, but rather those today who falsely represent that era as some sort of lost paradise we should be trying to revive. Humans are insecure, paranoid and brutish, and we act even worse in numbers- this has always been the case. I don't think we'll ever escape that curse if those on the left and right don't acknowledge the atrocities caused by their respective -isms.

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 19:51 | 7019703 runningman18
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No one here made any such representation.  You are swatting at farts in a wind tunnel.   

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 20:04 | 7019773 Nero_Hedge
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Fair enough

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 19:24 | 7019573 GhostOfDiogenes
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Funny ain't it?

They dug up the giants here locally buried underneath the indian mounds.

Wherever they came from, they didn't look like nice beings.

Then destroyed the evidence.

What would make the masons dig up giant bones and destroy them?

Because it doesn't go along with the native america holohax false narative?

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 19:37 | 7019637 TeamDepends
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Man, have you seen the pictures from the museum, think it's in Scandinavia, of the 5' tall battle-axes! Will try to find a link.

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 19:44 | 7019665 GhostOfDiogenes
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My theory is the reptiles put them here to kill off the large predators that were eating the human slaves that were mining for them.

I have heard of some that had double sets of teeth and their skulls look to me to be like neathenderals so they were not bright.

But humans could not bring down a t rex, or a saber tooth tiger.

South Africa has hundreds of stacked stone monuments or living quarters.

Our history has been hidden from us and bullshit has replaced it.

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 19:47 | 7019680 GhostOfDiogenes
Fri, 01/08/2016 - 21:15 | 7020060 crossroaddemon
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Do you actually believe that bullshit about giants? Christ, and i ALREADY thought you were nuts.

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 21:41 | 7020155 Seek_Truth
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You are very close mnded.

Ghost of Diogenes has been wrong about everything except this.

It is time for you to open your mind and do some research.

Giants are an absolute fact that has been meticulosly covered up.

Why?

Cui bono?

http://biblehub.com/genesis/6-4.htm

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 21:30 | 7020121 reinhardt
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no fr-ckin sh-t

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Fri, 01/08/2016 - 19:18 | 7019553 crossroaddemon
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It's funny: socialism and capitalism have exactly the same problem. They're both outgrowths of industrialism, and you can't have industrialism without gross inequality. A very few have to own the means of production, and the rest have to be a little bit dispossesed. Why? Because industrialism is dependant on millions of jobs that nobody wold do if they had a choice.

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 19:26 | 7019578 Nero_Hedge
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VERY interesting....it also seems silly to create systems dependent on infinite growth, that are contained within a finite environment. Unless someone invents warp drive and we can mine the stars as easily as we drill for offshore oil deposits, then I think we should be focusing on trying not to shit where we sleep

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 19:42 | 7019659 Chuck Walla
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It's good to see true leftists who have no idea of history. The Noble Redman crushed by racist Whitey.

Or, a stone age people met with pressure to modernize or expire. I guess the USA is/was the first time an obsolete culture was replaced by a more modern one, unlike Islam that replaced cultures with a total system stuck in the 9th century.  So, how come I don't ever see these same people decrying what happened to the Celts, Tuscans, Magyars, et al?  Its always America as if the phenomena of modernization of culture is new. fuck off and learn something.

FORWARD SOVIET!

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 19:27 | 7019588 tmosley
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Native cultures eradicated themselves by attacking better armed and morally superior cultures just like they did each other, and then complained when they got curbstomped by a modern industrial society.  Some tribes didn't act like bloody savages and integrated. Those that kept to themselves did fine (Pueblo). Those that attacked settlers, kidnapped, raped, brutally tortured and murdered their women and children got what they deserved, just like the bloodthirsty Aztecs.

Of note: I am part Indian. But maybe das stil raycis since I'm mostly white and was raised like a white person.

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