The prodigiously eloquent Rafe Heydel-Mankoo gives us Cultural Marxism in five minutes.
I’ve written about Cultural Marxism since the beginning of this blog. The Left want to convince us that it’s a “just a conspiracy theory”, because they don’t want us to notice. Noticing makes it more troublesome for them to pursue it.
But the evidence is there, has been there and remains in front of our eyes. Cultural Marxism is a thing. It’s as crazy to claim Cultural Marxism is “just a conspiracy theory” as it would be to claim Socialism doesn't exist, and that claiming it does is “just a conspiracy theory”.
The simplest distinction between Classical Marxism and Cultural Marxism is this:
- Classical Marxism is about Class. The capitalist class oppresses the working class. Everywhere and for all time. This was what Karl Marx gave us. Thanks a bunch, Karl…
- Cultural Marxism is about Race and Identity. White people oppress people of colour. Everywhere and for all time. This was what the Frankfurt School and the European post-modernists gave us. Thanks a lot, Antonio Gramsci.
The common factor in both versions of Marxism: Oppression.
There are the Oppressors and there are the Oppressed. So… somebody like me, living in Hong Kong, I’m the Oppressor (because I’m white ). The 8 million Chinese Hongkongers who surround me, are the Oppressed (because the are People of Colour). Apparently.
If I dispute this, that only proves it. The classic Kafka Trap.
Similarly, Israel is (deemed to be) white. Palestinians are (deemed to be) people of colour. Ergo: Israel oppresses Palestinians. No further argument or nuance is necessary. Not, for example, that Israelis, 0.2% of the world’s population, are surrounded by Muslim states, 25% of the world’s population. Doesn’t count. Irrelevant.
ADDED: A good book to read on this is Christopher Rufo “America’s Cultural Revolution”.
Also: Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay “Cynical Theories, Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity…”.
