Cultural Marxism and Gen-Z

 Cultural Marxism and Gen-Z

 After observing riots and demonstrations by young people all over the world, but particularly in the U.S. and Europe, the question arises “what is the ideology or ideologies fueling and firing these demonstrations”?  How can young people possibly be demonstrating against Israel, and for the Hamas butchers that slaughtered more than 1300 innocent Israeli civilians?  And, the people demonstrating are the same ones who caused 25 deaths and billions in damages during the 2020 Black Lives Matter riots.

 An obvious answer is cultural Marxism opposing what they see as oppression of the Palestinians by Israel.

  “As Karl Marx’s ideological heirs in Communist nations struggled to transform his political legacy, his intellectual heirs on American campuses have virtually completed their own transformation from brash, beleaguered outsiders to assimilated academic insiders. It could be considered a success story for the students of class struggle, who were once regarded as subversives.”

 The Heritage Foundation summarizes:

 “The United States has successfully confronted Marxist attempts to derail it from its historic path of liberty and order. The multifaceted effort to defeat the enemy, generally referred to as the Cold War, concentrated many of the best minds in the country. In 1991, when the Soviet Union dissolved, many Americans and others around the globe justifiably believed that communism had been defeated.

 However, American Marxists, making use of the complacency that victory often produces, have gained more influence than ever before. Cloaking their goals under the pretense of social justice, they now seek to dismantle the foundations of the American republic by rewriting history; reintroducing racism; creating privileged classes; and determining what can be said in public discourse, the military, and houses of worship.  Unbalanced activist environmentalism and feminism, abortion on demand, LGBTQ++++ hegemony, and gender changes and mutilations are offshoots of cultural Marxism.  Societal oppression, real and manufactured, is thrown into the cultural Marxist mix.

 So, the ideology fueling youthful demonstrations and violence is sourced in the cultural Marxism being taught in our schools and colleges.  It hides behind euphemisms such as “Critical Race Theory”, “1619 Project”, or other less controversial course names, but peel back the cover-ups, and what do we find, “cultural Marxism”

 Unless Marxist thought is defeated again, today’s cultural Marxists will achieve what the Soviet Union never could: the subjugation of the United States to a totalitarian, soul-destroying ideology.

 KEY TAKEAWAYS FROM THE HERITAGE ARTICLE:

“With the end of the Cold War, many Americans justifiably believed communism had been defeated. But American Marxists have gained more influence than ever before.

 Cloaking their goals under the pretense of social justice, these cultural Marxists want to distort America’s history and dismantle its very foundations.

 Unless Marxist ideas are defeated, their proponents will push the United States to follow a totalitarian ideology that obliterates freedom and opportunity.”

 Left-wing ideologues would like to cast cultural Marxism as some sort of far left-wing conspiracy theory.  In fact, it has its origins exactly 100 years ago in the controversial Frankfurt School of Philosophy and its views on Critical Theory.

 Socialist oriented retreads from previous generations, are now not only the movers and shakers of leftist political administrations, they are also the college professors who are teaching the principles of so-called “social justice”, which is really cultural Marxism hidden behind the course names.

 As the Heritage article points outs, if we don’t come to grips with this ever-encroaching cultural Marxism and take steps to root it out or curtail it, we will not have a viable country left.

 Ray Gruszecki

October 22, 2023