Temple of Zagan

An anon asks “what is cultural marxism?” to another in a discussion on 4chan, and receives a very competent answer back.  Very helpful for understanding this popular buzzword that gets tossed around online frequently nowadays:

>What is cultural marxism

Fucking christ this again.

In Classical Marxism, the “working class” is defined as the class of wage labourers.
That this class will overthrow the existing social order and implement communism is a prediction. In Classical Marxism, the objective is to improve conditions for the working class, and implementing communism is seen as a solution.

In Weimar (cultural) Marxism, the “working class” is defined as the class that will overthrow the existing social order and implement communism. That this class was once assumed to be a class of wage labourers is seen as an error on the part of Marx. In Weimar Marxism, the objective is to implement communism, and the working class is now simply whatever group can be used as tool to that end.

The issue historically was that the trajectory of the world diverged from that which Marx predicted. Western wage labourers did not evolve towards a point where their only material value was in their labour, but away from it. Classical Marxists then concluded that the increasing quality of life of western wage labourers must only be possible due to exploitation of those outside the west. Marx himself had conjectured that capitalists depended upon national borders as a means to alienate labour and prevent global organization.

But again, the trajectory of the world diverged from what was predicted. The quality of life of those outside the west was increasing too, outpacing the west in many cases, albeit starting from behind. The capitalists ended up opposing national borders, as they benefited from deregulation of the labour market. The result was that while Marxism became the dominant world view in the post Christian west, it never translated into revolutionary action. The purpose of revolution was to free the working class from oppression, but the working class themselves no longer saw this as necessary.

This is where a political divide began to emerge. Those who were set on improving life for the working class, and those who were set on implementing communism. These were originally seen as necessarily equivalent, so there was no political distinction between the groups, even if there was a distinction in motives. As Marxist predictions began to be falsified however, many in the former group began to accept the system as it was, abandoning revolution in favour of reform. Those in the latter group were largely those from the Weimar Jewish elite who had relocated en-mass to the US, Max Horkheimer, Theodore Adorno, Herbert Marcuse, Walter Benjamin etc.

This is the origin of the various modern leftist identity groups (black, female, gay, trans etc.). These are just different groups that the Weimar elite were testing as candidates for their new definition of the “working class”. As each group “failed” to overthrow capitalism, they were de-emphasized in favour of a new candidate group. Cultural Marxism of the Frankfurt School acknowledges that Marxism failed. The primary culprit of this failure is the culture of the West. The goal is not to create economic Marxism, but to destroy the culture that makes Marxism impossible. They says all of this openly, but the mainstream considers this to be an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory.

Critical Theory is the weapon that they use. It combines Hegelian dialectics with Freudian analysis to deconstruct a target. Identify a victim class (thesis), blame an oppressor (antithesis), propose a “solution”(synthesis), and pathologize opponents as mentally ill or blinded with hatred (Freud). With Feminism they empower women against men to deconstruct the concepts of sex and family, while calling any opponents misogynists. Critical Theory makes sure that we have constant conflict and disorder in every part of our lives.

The way a Marxist revolution works is that one half of the population is convinced it is oppressed by the other half, then resentment is flamed in their hearts, and eventually they are unleashed upon the “oppressors” to execute murderous violence. There cannot be a Marxist revolution without “the great struggle versus the oppressor”. In classic economic Marxism, the oppressor were the bourgeoisie, who had “class privilege”. In the Cultural Marxist context, class privilege has been replaced with “White privilege” (and “male privilege”). All White people are defined as the oppressor that must have their power removed for the utopia to be delivered.

White privilege = everything owned by Whites redefined as obtained by theft.

The distinction between the two different types of Marxists and their goals was an interesting read.  More importantly for me, the need for the Cultural Marxists to have a bogeyman to fight and revolt against also explains why whites/males have been made into a punching bag of sorts in the media in the past decade or so.  I’ve always found it puzzling why certain people, usually the rabidly left leaning ones, were set on demonizing whites/males even when there doesn’t seem to be any direct benefits for them.