Cultural Marxism (keyword)

Cultural Marxism (on German about cultural Marxism ) is a political slogan of " Old Right " movement and the political right , the alleged conspiracy of the political Left , or the (neo-) Marxist describes.

According to political scientist Thomas Grumke , the new American right has reinterpreted the image of the enemy because the classic red fear no longer works. Part of this strategy is to introduce battle concepts such as “cultural Marxism” into the debate. According to Grumke, describe as the fighting term of the American new right,

"Cultural Marxism, by attacking the 'alleged conspiracy, the left attempt' American way of life , the culture and morality of the United States to destroy. The term can also be described as a kind of 'doped political correctness '. "

According to Grumke, the development can be traced back to the 1930s, when a small group of Jewish philosophers fled from the German Reich to the United States. According to his speculation, these representatives of the Frankfurt School were active at Columbia University , where they (further) developed a form of (neo-) Marxism that did not deal with the economic system but with culture. Since then, this group has set itself the goal of dissuading white Americans from being proud of their European ancestry and ethnicity and portraying Christian or conservative family values ​​as reactionary and backward, with sexual liberation as good instead. In addition to the philosophers of the Frankfurt School, William Sturgiss Lind also defines feminists , homosexuals , multiculturalists , migrants and environmentalists as hostile "cultural warriors".

The attacks in Norway in 2011 were justified by the Norwegian right-wing extremist Anders Behring Breivik, among other things, with wanting to defend Norway against Islam and “cultural Marxism”.

Representatives of the alt-right movement such as Andrew Breitbart , Stephen Bannon and Paul Joseph Watson spread the conspiracy theory that Jewish emigrants such as Theodor W. Adorno or Herbert Marcuse who came to the USA during the Nazi era imported cultural Marxism in order to undermine American values ​​and enable world government .

See also

• Freudo Marxism
• Cultural Bolshevism
• totalitarianism

Web links

• Samuel Moyn : The Alt-Right's Favorite Meme Is 100 Years Old , The New York Times , November 13, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Thomas Grumke : “Take this country back!” The new right in the USA . In: The New Right - a Danger to Democracy? Vs Verlag, 2004. ISBN 3-8100-4162-9 . Pp. 175–181 ( excerpt from Google book search)
2. ↑ Wilhelm Reich in particular believes that the patriarchally organized family must be opposed for two reasons:
   • The patriarchal family serves the politically intended suppression of sexuality (see also biopower ) and this results in psychological crippling (e.g. neuroses would arise from it) of affected individuals.
   • Patriarchal family structures are the basic sociological condition for the emergence of despotic-authoritarian state systems.
   Wilhelm Reich: The forced family as an educational apparatus. In: The Sexual Revolution. Frankfurt 1972. Cf. Volkmar Sigusch: History of Sexual Science . Frankfurt 2008, p. 73.
3. ↑ Thomas Assheuer, Evelyn Finger, Özlem Topcu: Bombs for the West. An analysis of Anders Breivik's terrorist program. In: The time. July 28, 2011, p. 3 f.
4. ↑ Roger Schawinski : Conspiracy! The fanatical hunt for the evil in the world. NZZ Libro, Zurich 2018, p. 168 f.