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Yes, I agree, it was the Universities and Colleges of America that were the primary source of the neo-Marxist/Postmodernist concepts that , over 60 years, ultimately leaked out into mainstream American society. I'm taking about doctrines like multiculturalism, the oft-repeated slogan "Diversity is our Strength, Corporations forcing their workers to undergo training sessions in Critical Race Theory, Political Correctness and the growing Cancel Culture, :Affirmative Action" programs being run in educational institutions and the workplace (e.g. workplace QUOTA rules relating to race, ethnicity, gender, SES, etc), the notion of EQUITY equality of OUTCOME for everybody. being touted as as a reasonable/achievable goal.
The two main forms of neo-Marxist theory that infected American Universities and Colleges were "Critical Theory" which began to gain a firm foot-hold on US campuses in the 1960's and early 1970's, and the Postmodernist philosophical theory which was introduced to America in the late 1960s and by the early 1980's had begun established itself quite firmly in many prestigious US Universities. "Critical Theory" and Postmodern theory are both vehemently anti-Western/anti-American/anti-capitalist; both sets of theory were written by men who had been committed Marxists or neo-Marxists all of their lives (Herbert Marcuse, Theodore Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Richard Rorty, etc) Their primary objective was to destroy the West - to eradicate Western culture and raze Western civilization to the ground. Herbert Marcuse, for instance spent many years in America teach at top Universities like Columbia, Harvard, Brandeis, University of California, San Diego, indoctrinating students with potently anti-American /(and anti-Western) values and inciting them to revolt against "the Establishment" (status quo). Marcuse was born in Germany and was also Jewish. When Hitler came to power in 1933, he and a number of other cutting-edge Marxist intellectuals (who were members of a group called "The Frankfurt School" fled to America and were accepted into the country as refugees from the Nazis who had already begun persecuting Jews in Hitler's Third Reich. Marcuse and his colleagues repaid the favour by teaching American students to hate their country and everything it stood for.
You need to understand that the neo-Marxist (Critical and Postmodern) theory that is taught in American Universities and Colleges is presented to students in a form that appears very rational and reasonable. Intellectuals like Marcuse (Critical Theory) and Jacques Derrida(Postmodernist philosophical theory) were exceptionally clever and crafty men. Their books were best-sellers in America; they were very dense and technical, though if you struggle slowly through the text, you tended to obtain the impression that a very sound argument has been put forth. It is only when you have the assistance of an academic who is a true expert in Western philosophy, that you come to understand that it is all bullshit - that Marcuse and Derrida are really intellectual charlatans pedaling hateful anti-Western propaganda. But the average 18 - 19 year-old college student who is studying humanities ( e.g. law, social science, English Literature, Anthropology, Political Science, Philosophy, History, etc) does have the benefit of a friend who is an expert to point out the nonsense they they being fed by their professors. And after three or four years of exposure to "woke" neo-Marxist theory they become brain-washed, and I mean that in literally the same sense that military Secret Service experts are able to brain-wash individuals or groups of people using certain psychological techniques. One you are genuinely brain-washed, the only way to return to your former state of mind is to undergo years of re-programming. That is why, no matter how many times you rightly point out to a leftie that what they are saying is illogical, irrational, not factual not scientific, they will simply ignore you and restate their crazy claim/s even more forcefully. Even when they know that some aspect of "woke" ideology is foolish, they will NEVER admit it. They will continue to defend the nonsense robustly even if they know they are lying to themselves, because there is always some twisted rationalization they will be able cook up for this later.
Half of all the Democrat Congressional Reps are now officially "progressive". "Progressive" means "woke" neo-socialist/neo-Marxist, people like AOC, Ilhan Omar, Maxine Waters, Adam Schiff, Beto O'Rourke, Corey Booker, and so on. If you take the time to look at the backgrounds of the current members of the Democratic Progressive Caucus you will see that almost all of them have, or have had, links to groups like the Democratic Socialist Party of America and the American Communist Party, you will also find that a number of them have repeatedly travelled to Cuba in the past, and were known to have been sympathetic to Fidel Castro's regime.
Most of the "progressive" Democrat Reps went to good universities, and most of them studied humanities courses like law and sociology. They are either Boomers or older Millennials, which means the Law, sociology, English Lit, etc courses they took were shot through with neo-Marxist Critical Theory and Postmodernist theory. By the time they graduated they were like little "Che Guevaras" who wanted to start a revolution that would transform American society into a socialist utopia. And the best way to do that, they thought, was to become a professional politician on the hard Left of the Democratic Party.
I think that the neo-Marxist poison which has been incubating in America's universities and colleges since the early 1960s is the cause of many of the serious problems American society is struggling with today. There is only one thing that can be done to halt to rot and that is for all of the Marxist professors, tutoring and research staff, who are currently working in US universities and colleges to be: (1) Identified (that's very easy to do, BTW) and then (2) Immediately fired and permanently prohibited from working in any American college or university again. Only a very strong President like Donald Trump could ever make this happen (and even he would find it difficult).
You are right to mention that moral relativism is toxic. "Woke" neo-Marxism ( both Critical Theory and Postmodernist philosophical theory teaches that there is no such thing as absolute, objective morality, that there is no such thing as THE Right and THE Wrong. Students are taught that what is right and what is wrong - what is morally good and what is morally bad, IS PURELY FORTHEM TO DECIDE. The problem with this is that everything in their lives ultimately becomes stripped of all meaning and value. They eventually discover that there is no purpose or meaning in their lives. And when life has no meaning or value or purpose, then there is really no reason to continue living it. The result of moral relativism in America is the epidemic of "Deaths of Despair" (hopelessness) in the US today. I'm taking about the many thousands of Americans who have died over recent years by overdosing (either intentionally or "accidently") on opioid drugs like "Fentanyl" This is just one example of the tremendous damage that neo-Marxism has brought to bear in America in the 21st century.
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