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 - 20:01 | 7019762 ExploitedCitizen
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I think we are all for equal rights under the law.  But feminism today isn't the feminism of the early 1900's.

Today it has been hijacked and transformed into marxist feminism to help depopulate the planet.

Feminism of the early 1900s was mostly Christian women, who were against alcohol, drugs, promiscuity, abuse, discrimination, and they were very pro-family and pro-children.

Feminism today is the exact opposite, they promote promiscuity, discrimination, drugs, homosexuality, anti-family, they are pro-drug/alcohol, and they are anti-children because they promote abortion as being awesome.

This ain't your grannies feminism.

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 19:53 | 7019713 Dr. Bonzo
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Good shit. Thx ZH!

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 19:55 | 7019726 ExploitedCitizen
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Go to a local university and speak to some of the young women, you'll find out most are 100% marxist feminists.  Good luck turning that train wreck into a wife.

Let's face it, marxism is the ultimate depopulation tool.

It turns society on it's head, and makes everyone fight with each other.  Divorce rate is sky high, birthrate in the toilet, single moms everywhere, society is in steep decline because we abandoned the moral compass that made our nations great.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 01:04 | 7020693 ZIRPY
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Works until the money runs out and the Welfare checks and other social programs go unfunded. Then the Marxists starve to death.

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 19:59 | 7019755 numapepi
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It is amazing that Zerohedge posted this today. On Wednesday I wrote a blog about progressivism's Frankfurt school basis. I went more into the why, instead of the how, as opposed to this video's how.

It can be read here... http://incapp.org/blog/?p=2744

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 20:11 | 7019805 El_Puerco
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We just wetness a video, who was entitled WITH A wrong name. " we ARE LIVING IN A psychopath SYSTEM." How Psychopaths operate and how to deal with them: As humans, we need to confront this threat and DEAL with it.

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 20:11 | 7019807 I AM SULLY
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Moral courage and sound reasoning are rare these days ...

Moral courage especially.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6e2mcgZ3tA0

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 21:22 | 7020086 Haydukez
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The resentiment of the de classe: too kool for skool.

Anyway "cultural" Marxism isn't an oxymoron when classical Marxism is so clear about identifying material causation of ideological effects? 

It's also worth mentioning Marxism got most of its cultural cachet from anti-authoritarianism in the face of American efforts at managing decolonization in an effort to maintain access to markets and resources. 

Maybe I was indoctrinated when told in World History 101 that the big themes in the 20th century were decolonization and the social positions of women.  One is always fighting the last war so spinning ones wheels like lost Luddites relieves the horror of facing the 21st century's evolution of warfare and the necessary embrace of the Anthropocene.

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 21:46 | 7020161 Cabreado
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Ignore the Narcissist, the purveyors of and apologists for Control,
they will hang on well past the due date...

and instead use your limited energy to protect the Principles.

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 22:03 | 7020222 FinMin
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Yeah, things promotional of globalism which see original traditions, cultures and people as archaic or constraining their desires for hedonistic abandonment of social or personal responsibility to family, tribe, and nation. Capitalism destroyed all of those things in favor of re-making man's world into a unipolar existence; around which markets rotate and voraciousness is the only quality anyone prizes.

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 22:18 | 7020265 Cabreado
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"Capitalism destroyed all of those things"

Corruption destroyed those things.

You get to work and concoct a "system" that is impervious to corruption,

and report back.

Or by the time you get there,

will corruption have squelched your voice altogether,

and we'll never hear from you?

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 23:03 | 7020398 dogbreath
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TYLER,

 

Whats with the interupting ads.

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 23:04 | 7020402 atomicwasted
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"Cultural Marxism" is a meaningless nonce phrase invented by right wing populist cry bullies to cover a bunch of stuff they don't like. The Mises Institute used to be good. Now it's jumped the shark. That's sad but that's life.

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 23:10 | 7020422 Oh regional Indian
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It's the juice, I tell ya, it's the JUICE! ;-)

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 23:17 | 7020441 Radical Marijuana
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Since there is nothing but the dynamic equilibria between different systems of organized lies operating robberies, I AGREE with the basic thrust of critical theory. However, I find it all too typical that almost all of those who have promoted particular versions of critical theory tend to NOT apply it to themselves, and thus, are merely yet another version of immaculate hypocrisy. HENCE, THE DEVELOPMENT OF "TOLERANCE" AS A ONE WAY STREET.

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 23:32 | 7020483 lakecity55
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Hmmm, to destroy European/Christian society....who would want to do that?

Maybe .......Khazars?

 

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 23:40 | 7020497 SweetDoug
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Stangely, synchronistically, enough, I just happened upon this doc a couple of weeks ago and watched it over Kissmyass:

CULTURAL MARXISM: The Corruption of America
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIdBuK7_g3M

Cultural marxism explained in depth in 1h38m.

Great doc to find out why we’re in such dire straights and how, in my opinion, we toast… We’ve lost the cultural war.

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Sat, 01/09/2016 - 01:00 | 7020686 ZIRPY
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Good video BUt he's wrong at the end when he says Cultural Marxism only offers endless conflict between groups. This would be 100% true if not for the presence of Islam. Islam will not be at endless war with Femisists and gays and transgenders and Christians. Islam will seek to convert the Christians, subjugate the women (feminists included), and kill the gays and transgendered and anyone Christians or Fems who don;t submit and convert.

The real irony is that those who fight back will be those who are armed and motivated, and they will be pretty much Christian. The Fems will submit after the first round of mass rapings and public beatings by their new husbands and the gays and trans. will flee to where the evil, white armed Christians are in charge.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 01:55 | 7020763 PoasterToaster
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A slur that has recently reared its ugly head again is "nationalist".  The international commietard community has decided it's safe to trot this one out because the masses are so ignorant they won't catch on.

But if you aren't a nationalist, what are you?  A traitor, yes?

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 05:15 | 7020932 Praeda2
Sat, 01/09/2016 - 05:32 | 7020939 beaglebog
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Interesting video ... but, you don't need to burden yourself with all that bollox.

 

Everyone ... every single person ... that you meet today, will fall into one of two categories.

He will be either, "a man who wishes to impose his will upon you". Or not.

 

If he's the former, he is your enemy. Don't matter whether he's white, Christian, Muslim, gay, black, or whatever.

He's either willing to use violence against you, so as to impose his own preferences ... or, he isn't.

 

 

 

(Oh, and if he is a voter, then he falls into the first camp; the violent camp. You may still have to associate with him, but you should not lose sight of his core principles.)

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 05:51 | 7020959 luckylongshot
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 The arguments made in this video are not only irrelevant but actually contribute to the problems we are facing. This is because the core of the problem we are facing is centralisation and subsequent abuse of power. One of the tactics the elite employ to hide their power is divide and conquer and the isms are all good examples of how they do this- this is why this video actually helps the elite hide their power. How about some stories that focus on how power should be applied?

 

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 09:25 | 7021001 falak pema
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Von Mises at it again...the madhouse of regressional thinking at its best!

Blame it all on Voltaire, Hegel, Marx, Keynes, FDR and all that has followed.

Critical thinking contrary to financial UBERISM disguised as "Irrepressible John Galtian Love of Free MArkets"  is the devil's disciple type thinking.

And raise to the sky : the Tellers (the man who invented the US H bomb and was a diehard anti-commie cold warrior like the Dulles', and the CIA paranoia club), the Ayn Rands (another escapee of Soviet paranoia), the nut cases of the Chicago school : with the Midas touch or the monetary "our money your problem" version; that created the greatest debt super cycle based on the Greenback's faustian alliance with Saud and forced eviction of Mossadegh --and the concomitant MIC superpower setup in the US as warned by Ike.

When a nation obliterates those who believe in democracy all over the world, even if they promote social constraints, and encourages obscurantist autocracy in its place to promote its own hegemonial agenda, it kills its own soul.

Thats where we are in Pax Americana.

All leading to the current NWO which proclaimed the Reaganomics mantra loud and clear, steroid boosted on Asset pumping via debt :  "the only reason for a corporate to exist is to maximise shareholder value".

It spawned, in the resulting post Berlin wall collapse, the unfettered NWO hubris of  "our nation towers like a colossus", and gave to the US UBerclass the mission to build the  CHinese OUTSOURCED slave labour arbitrage modelled dystopian social construct, that could be moved all over the Global empire !

Hey Von Mises, how is your US middle class's "road to serfdom" -- having burned the social compact via CHina factory-- now looking like?

As a result of those who practiced WHAT YOU  HAVE PREACHED IN THE PAST (Alan Greenspan & BW revoke of all regulatory controls in Banksta world ----Its the Economy stupid--- !!!) ?

The same mantra that  Hayek said had to be paved with "cybernetic front running" of the Market mechanism to make it moar perfect ! -- The BBC file of the 60s amply proves that when Hayek was at the LSE.

It found its reality in WS and HFT banksta scamming; which is the irony of ZH's own false double take.

ZH made its fame on saying : HFT is/was a scam BUT ZH continues to kneel in front of the Von Mises BS camp.

Some fight club paranoid mantra ZH now projects on the world. "We believe in free markets...the type that have NEVER existed."

And its the fault of the BRAIN wiring of the Commie Marxists (broad brush version) who ALL need to be LOBOTOMISED...!

Hahaha! As if the hardwired neo-cons and military cum Greenback supremacists are ALL MARXISTS !

GWB and Consorts (RUmsfeld, Cheney, Wolfo); all commies!

NOW DAT IS POT calling Kettle black !

Back to Auschwitz and "Arbeit Macht Frei" for the badly hard wired ?

Some huge program there !

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 13:30 | 7022294 trader1
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falak, if ZH betrays von Mises and Libertarian group think, this would not be the blog that it is !

thankfully, ZH has attracted people like you, from which many can still learn.

 

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 08:12 | 7021130 smacker
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The British philosopher Roger Scruton in the Forward to his book mentioned in this article appears to be claiming that "libertarianism" is a feature of the political Left, as opposed to a more structured society advocated by the Right.

I would not share that view. What he misses (at least in his Forward) is that whatever the Left may claim, it always ends up becoming what it spends its life trying to destroy: authoritarian, oppressive, prescriptive and PC, always determined to eradicate from society everything it dislikes (the social engineering syndrome). And the end always justifies the means, just like every despot of the 20th century.

And when that fails to bring the people on side, it puts on jackboots to impose its wishes. That is what we saw in Britain under Blair and see in the US under GW Bush and now Obola. And its getting worse. A proper label for this new politics is "corporate fascism", long beloved by the authoritarian nanny state Left.

True libertarianism belongs to the Right of the political spectrum and used to be known as "Classic Liberalism" (which happens to be exactly where I fit and I believe many ZH-ers).

The new US presidential candidate Gary Johnson explained it perfectly in an interview with RT.com yesterday:

""I am a classical liberal, which is being fiscally conservative and socially liberal,” he told RT. “The notion of, in this case, government spending, the government is too big, let’s get it under control, let’s balance the federal budget or there will be horrible consequences. And then personal liberty and freedom and the responsibility that goes along with that. So absolutely staunch supporters of civil liberties.”"

I don't know much about Gary but his comments fire me up that there may be hope to arrest the current madness.

 

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 11:52 | 7021853 sam site
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These academics are shills for the Globalist Agenda attempting to balkanize, control and dominate the world.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 12:27 | 7022025 KingTut
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AWESOME video!  It was clearly critical of "critical theory", but hey they started it.  However, it has brought out some distinctly non-zeroish commentary.

One of the great problems with all this stuff are the labels.  All labels are nonsense.  Right wing Left wing is no different than the 49er's vs the Raiders; its not real, it's entertainment.  As human beings  we need to feel like we understand how the our society works.  But it is a complex system, and beyond our complete understanding.  So we make up all these 'systems' of thought that may have a modicum of truth, but fail to capture the whole.  This toy thinking makes us feel better until we actually try enact it and enforce it.  This requires  total repression and leads to an inevitable chaos.

Capitalism is not a true 'ism'.  It begins with Smiths' invisible hand, which is the same thing that guides evolution.  No one controls it.  It is a process of creation and destruction that, paradoxically, leads to progress.  The essence of capitalism is that it gets rid of its failures.  All other systems are based on human control of society, and failures are not tolerated, they are  relabled and allowed to continue.  This cannot work, no system of thought can distinguish between success and failure, only actual success and failure matters.  If the invisible hand is good enough for mother nature, it's good enough for me.

Of course, in our modern world Capitalism has been corrupted in countless ways, then vilified for the failures caused by that corruption.  This Marxist in the sense that Marx spent all his time criticizing Capitalism for the class structure it supposedly creates.  He only postulated a utopian vision of Socialism, followed by an even more utopian Communism.  Like cultural Marxists, his system of thought was mostly critical of a world he couldn't control; he added virtually no substance.  Communism, has been tried, but in the presence of men seeking power, it only lasts about 15 minutes, before it becomes totalitarianism, the ultimate 'ism'.

My favorite Lenin quote is about Communism: "it is bourgeoise coffee house infantilism".  Lenin was an unappologetic Totalitarian, which led straight to Stalin.  Cool.

 

 

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 19:05 | 7023453 Reaper
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Cultural Marxism is pathological mental illness.

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