Despite its late arrival, “Judeo-Christian” is an accurate term. It’s accurate in church on Sunday. It’s an accurate description of the tradition of the West’s great religion. JPII properly told Catholics that the Jews are their older brothers. In other words, it is not some baseless invention. It reflects and describes the actual tradition.
“Multiculturalism” is an attempt to bring “class action” grievances in a pluralistic society, i.e., complaints against the American tradition of universal values, in order to carve separate cultural identities, with special advantages, in the name of inclusion. Hall of mirrors stuff meant to extend class warfare on a horizontal axis.
“Cultural Marxism,” while it can be defined more broadly, can be nutshelled as a reference to certain concepts of the Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci. Gramsci focused on why Marxist revolution had not swept through the proletariat of Western societies according to the dictates of class struggle.
His observation was that the cultural, as opposed to the economic, institutions of those societies maintained hegemony over the class interests of the workers. Church, family, schools, universities, etc. served to divert the energies of underlying class struggle and kept workers in conformity with capitalist or bourgeois norms (“false consciousness”).
His answer was that those cultural institutions needed to be undermined and turned to the interests of the revolution. He called that process “cultural counter-hegemony.”
That is a succint description of the meaning of “cultural Marxism.” That can be broadened to include the “critical theory” of the (Neo-)Marxist Frankfurt School.
And then down in the trenches of everyday life we see all the various elements of the “culture war,” which is essentially the face-off between the Marxist re-orientation of values and traditional/bourgeois culture.
http://newpaltzjournal.com/?p=2220
“Multiculturalism” is an attempt to bring “class action” grievances in a pluralistic society, i.e., complaints against the American tradition of universal values, in order to carve separate cultural identities, with special advantages, in the name of inclusion. Hall of mirrors stuff meant to extend class warfare on a horizontal axis.
“Cultural Marxism,” while it can be defined more broadly, can be nutshelled as a reference to certain concepts of the Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci. Gramsci focused on why Marxist revolution had not swept through the proletariat of Western societies according to the dictates of class struggle.
His observation was that the cultural, as opposed to the economic, institutions of those societies maintained hegemony over the class interests of the workers. Church, family, schools, universities, etc. served to divert the energies of underlying class struggle and kept workers in conformity with capitalist or bourgeois norms (“false consciousness”).
His answer was that those cultural institutions needed to be undermined and turned to the interests of the revolution. He called that process “cultural counter-hegemony.”
That is a succint description of the meaning of “cultural Marxism.” That can be broadened to include the “critical theory” of the (Neo-)Marxist Frankfurt School.
And then down in the trenches of everyday life we see all the various elements of the “culture war,” which is essentially the face-off between the Marxist re-orientation of values and traditional/bourgeois culture.
http://newpaltzjournal.com/?p=2220
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