The quotes more or less support what I said. Post-structuralism is not about the working classes. It moved onto issues such as the deconstruction of race/ethnicity (when it suites them, of course, as they won't deconstruct non-white races/ethnicities) and gender/sex, as a way of critiquing Western culture.

That the

reds under the beds

scaremongering is still being wheeled out in 2015 - 30 years since the fall of the USSR is more than a bit ridiculous.

Let's face it; Marxism isn't some dangerous and powerful boogieman anymore - it's just a very old criticism of capitalism.

polite_gandalf wrote on Dec 3^rd, 2015 at 6:41am:


Hmm  'Isms' and 'phobias' Gandalf?

As soon as you mention "the Right" you are committing 'politics-ism' or would it be better described as 'ideology-ism'...... which is no better than racism, sexism, homophobia, fatism, dumbism ManlySeaEagleism or whatever....

"People that live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones...." 

...and before you go on...I'm guilty as well. 

Progressive ochlocrats conveniently leave 'politics-ism' / 'ideology-ism' off their list of nasty behaviours, due to the fact that whinging and bitching about the rich and successful is their best means of getting other people to pay for their way in life.... 

I guess that's why Marx is considered one of the very first Sociologists (along with Durkheim, Comte and others).

But I get the feeling that the kinds of Conservatives who use the term "Cultural Marxism" to defend racists and push for traditionalism would also call Sociology a form of "Cultural Marxism".

There's a particular kind of American conservative using this term - the most iconic being William S. Lind (who gets a mention on the Wikipedia).

But yeah, this William S. fellow has a book you can read online: traditionalright com/victoria

It's all about PC thugs taking over America, has quotes like this in it:


"The flow of yen also brought the federal army new recruits, mostly black gang members from the inner city, immigrants straight off the banana boat, and women. The gangs demanded they be accepted whole and designated as military units, with names like the Bad Boyz Battalion and the West Philly Skullsuckers, on the grounds that “forcing them into a white male structure would deny their unique cultural richness.” The result was units that spread drugs and mayhem throughout the federal army but ran as soon as someone shot at them. The immigrant outfits had Spanish as the language of command, and their officers would do anything for a bribe and nothing without one. The all-female infantry battalions were issued cardboard penises so they could take a leak in the field without wetting their drawers."

Sociology is seen as leftist because it looks at the cause of social issues like poverty and crime, rather than proscribing black and white knee-jerk reactions.

Remember, ideology disguises the social cause of things as inherently natural or biological; as if the way we distribute wealth is completely outside our control. As if our societies and our lives are driven by natural forces - like the weather.

Ideology is one thing, but porkies are another. Lies fuel ideology, and ideology fuels lies. The purpose of knowledge is to expose this.

The cultural Marxist thing is not an attack on "the left", it's an attack on knowledge.

William S. Lind. However his "factual" writings aren't much better:

"Today, when the cultural Marxists want to do something like “normalize” homosexuality, they do not argue the point philosophically. They just beam television show after television show into every American home where the only normal-seeming white male is a homosexual"


...yep, I knew it all along - Television is making everyone gay.


SOURCE: marylandthursdaymeeting com/Archives/SpecialWebDocuments/Cultural.Marxism.htm

Karnal wrote on Dec 3^rd, 2015 at 3:37pm:


I tend to agree with this, by declaring these loosely related academic movements "Cultural marxism" American conservatives are attempting to distance themselves from having to interact with the ideas of the past half century.

It's an ignorant kind of traditionalism that Christian Conservatives in America are trying to push.