Cultural Marxism: The Greatest Political Strategy in History

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THREAD: The Evolution of Communism

Communism 2.5: Social Communism | James Lindsay
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZY5tX7-Jaw
{New Discourses | 18 November 2024}

The EVILution of Communism Workshop, Session 3

In this third lecture in the series, Lindsay continues discussing the development of twentieth-century Communism along its second track: Western Marxism. The Western Marxist tradition contains many threads, virtually all of which start with either the Fabian Socialist Society in the UK or, more infamously, with Cultural Marxism elsewhere throughout the Western world. Cultural Marxism itself gives way to Critical Marxism (that is, Critical Theory) through the middle of the twentieth century, particularly in America, and informs other movements such as feminism, radical racial movements, critical education theories, and eventually the development of an intersectional “Woke” Marxism we’re dealing with today. Understanding this requires understanding the influences of many Marxist thinkers including Mao Zedong, whose most culturally destructive ideas were imported by the Critical Marxists and Critical Pedagogues. This in-depth lecture describes the development of a whole new “Social” Communism that sought to find ways to penetrate Western Civilization to make it soft to socialism and Communism.

Notes (PDF)

The other three lectures in this series can be found here:

Lecture 1: Communism 1.0: Theoretical Communism [see this post - OB]
Lecture 2: Communism 2.0: Industrial Communism [see this post - OB]
Lecture 4. Communism 3.0: Corporate Communism: (Coming Soon!)
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American schools by and large stopped teaching about the evils of communism by the 1990s. The general left-public thinks communism is just something that people hate without knowing why. They are of course wrong.

Further, exposure to "Western Marxism" (aka ‘Cultural Marxism’ (term wrongfully derogated)) started in the 1950's Ivy League, 1960's and 1970's all of higher education, 1980's and 1990's...

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The Greatest Political Strategist in History

The Greatest Political Strategist in History

What I've read about Gramsci sickened me. He has to be one of the most wholly disgusting perverts ever to foul the surface of the earth. Sadly, the fact that if hell exists, he is there roasting for an eternity with every beat of a human heart, makes no difference in our world.

That said, the reason his strategy has been so effective is not due to any great genius, save the single likelihood that he was sufficiently self-aware such that he was able to identify enough of his own vile qualities and recognize them in the mean man. Having done so, the formulation of a strategy for leading humanity down the garden path would have had to have been a task most trivial.

The bible outlines the seven deadly sins, but those are really not quite right, as they are derivatives of what I would term the Four Corruptions: Fear, Avarice, Ignorance, and Lassitude, or FAIL for short. So far as I can see, every human frailty is founded in one or more of these distortions of what I would call ideal human nature. Gramsci clearly saw this and contrived his venomous ideas to take best advantage of these aspects of our humanity that lead almost universally to very undesirable outcomes.

Consider the covid circus. Fear was peddled in so successful a manner and degree as to make thinking me lose all hope for the human race.

Ignorance has been peddled to such an extent that huge sections of the global human population now worship it as some grand virtue, and in many cases very explicitly so.

Avarice underpins most instances of the others because we are ever so corruptible. Consider the appeal that "free shit" holds for the filthy masses of dung humanity. And it is precisely this that has driven the success of the most failed political philosophy in all human history.

And let us not forget lassitude. The average man is a filthy beast who, being lazy to a grand fault, wants the world to serve him without any requirement of recompense for the favors given.

The philosophies of the likes of such scum as Gramsci are built upon this knowledge of the ready corruptibility of the average human being. And we can readily observe how in the absence of overbearing cultural resistance to such influences, those who peddle these brands of filth find in their targets a ready and willing clientele. There is really little genius to be found in all of this. What we do find is an attitude of utter determination to see that the ideas bear fruit.

Free stuff is better than having to work and pay. Easy is better than difficult. Slovenly is easier than orderly.

Humans trend heavily to entropy, most especially and eagerly in the absence of strongly contrary incentives.

In the end, the scum will prevail and freedom will be extinguished because the mean man reveres the slavery he has so eagerly embraced as freedom.

In the immortal words of the wicked witch of the west, "what a world, what a world".

 

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THREAD: The Evolution of Communism

Interesting first few minutes. This so-called "evilution" is the result of the repeated failures of the communists to pull off the change. They have had to chip away at what has existed in the west with their miners who have engaged in the progressive sapping of the foundations of western culture, all of which founds in Christian assumptions about what it means to live properly as a free human being in the company of one's fellows.

China was indeed a feudal shit hole where any pretense of such ideals never existed in the first place. But in the west things were different, especially after the Renaissance and even more so with the so-called "enlightenment" where the shadows of the corrupted and devolved "church" were being piecemeal removed.

It took longer, but those vermin peddlers of communism now appear to have finally brought the west to the nexus. However, the Trump phenomenon also appears to have tossed a wrench in the works, which is why the left now lives in a state of wailing, raging, and the gnashing of their teeth. I suppose that could all be theater, but I find it unlikely.

But to all appearances the threat to the left seems to be such that they are now pulling out all the stops in what further appears to be a desperate play to staunch this potential undoing of what I feel is at least 250 years worth of work. if appearances are to be believed, and I question this, then the left perhaps sees themselves as having nothing to lose at this point due to the threat of such undoing. Hence, wokeness, trannies in the streets raging, the enticing of small children into douobting their "gender identity", and so on down what has become a nauseating list of psywar elements waged.

And now the left appears to be making a very serious push for civil war in America. They show less than zero interest in even the most basic sensibility as they push what the majority clearly rejects, with the more we turn away, the harder they attempt to apply force. This clearly cannot go on. Either we cave, in which case Theye win, or we enter into kinetics, in which case I beleive Theye see themselves as also winning.

We have allowed ourselves to be painted into quite the corner. Had we put that baby to bed long ago, it would have ended quietly. Now the likelihood grows that the threats to liberty will not be extinguished without significant blood, and even then I have my doubts because we have been so verily trained to the insanity of tolerance of the intolerable. The left will simply start from a lesser position in the waks of crushing defeat and they will continue to whine and complain. The left and the right are no longer able to peaceably coexist on a day to day basis. Therefore, I have no problem with a blood-soaked cleansing of the political gene-pool, so to speak. It should happen, which is pretty sad stuff, but here we are. I see no path of escape for the choice that now faces us.