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ORIGINAL: cerius1

Cultural Marxism: a term used by right wing ideologues to connect any and all ideas that they disagree with to Marxism, thus frightening simpletons while at the same time providing a veneer of intellectualism to their narrow minded and morally bankrupt world view. See Pat Buchanan; John Birch Society



Did you not read what I said? Cultural Marxism would have been rejected by Marx, and he himself never had anything to do with it; rather, the Frankfurt School applied a modified form of his dialectic to non-economic social phenomenon. Cultural Marxism/Critical Theory....there's no difference.

Your (first) post reeks of a narrow-minded simpleton. You clearly don't understand the topic at hand.

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ORIGINAL: farglebargle

Paleocons aren't the ones listening to Rush and Fox....

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I think that these days people fail to realize how extreme the Right has gotten. It is my personal opinion that the attack on 9-11 did more psychological damage to the U.S. than people realize. There's a joke that "A man becomes a Conservative the first time he gets mugged, and a liberal the first time he goes to jail." Perhaps 9/11 was America getting mugged, but it seems that everything shifted one step to the right. Bill Maher likes to say, "The Left moved to the center, and the Right moved into an insane asylum." There are things that lend merit to this. Here are some things to put it in perspective:

First let's start with Dick Cheney talking about Iraq in '94, before 9-11:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EstVJo6URdQ

Going back further, here is conservative icon Barry Goldwater, on the subject of the Religious Right:

"I'm frankly sick and tired of the political preachers across this country telling me as a citizen that if I want to be a moral person, I must believe in "A," "B," "C" and "D." Just who do they think they are? And from where do they presume to claim the right to dictate their moral beliefs to me?
And I am even more angry as a legislator who must endure the threats of every religious group who thinks it has some God-granted right to control my vote on every roll call in the Senate. I am warning them today: I will fight them every step of the way if they try to dictate their moral convictions to all Americans in the name of "conservatism."

Going back even further, here's Republican President Teddy Roosevelt, sounding like a member of Occupy Wall Street:

"there can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains. To put an end to it will be neither a short nor an easy task, but it can be done.

We must have complete and effective publicity of corporate affairs, so that the people may know beyond peradventure whether the corporations obey the law and whether their management entitles them to the confidence of the public. It is necessary that laws should be passed to prohibit the use of corporate funds directly or indirectly for political purposes; it is still more necessary that such laws should be thoroughly enforced. Corporate expenditures for political purposes, and especially such expenditures by public-service corporations, have supplied one of the principal sources of corruption in our political affairs. ”

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Alright then. Point taken. It will hitherto be referred to as its proper name in accordance with the Frankfurt School: critical theory. (I've been labeling it cultural marxism because most don't know what critical theory is.)

Critical theory is infecting America.

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Did you not read what I said? Cultural Marxism would have been rejected by Marx, and he himself never had anything to do with it;

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Alright then. Point taken. It will hitherto be referred to as its proper name in accordance with the Frankfurt School: critical theory. (I've been labeling it cultural marxism because most don't know what critical theory is.)


If you had labled it critical theory in the first place no one would have jumped in your shit about this nonsense about "cultural marxism" which no one knew your definition of either.


Critical theory is infecting America.

Is this because some people are upfed and sick of some punk ass motherfucker sending their sons and daughters off to die so rich people can be richer?