Libhater
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After the failures of the Parish Riots of '68, the collapse of the USSR's socialist economy, the collapse of the Berlin Wall, the spectacle of the Tiananmen Square Massacre, and the reign of both Thatcher and Reagan, the Left was at a loss to say the least. To quote Mao, the long march through the institutions had to begin. Now, the Marxist Left knew they had to change strategies.
The Left retreated deep inside academic and deep inside cultish, paralyzing theories of radical relativity: deconstruction and postmodernism.
It worked: Cancel culture has hounded many into silence. Literary critics like Myra Jehlen (1980s), was taken aback to find her job was reduced to "stripping away the lie and expose the liar" when celebrating Western Culture. At that point, the grandmasters such as Hemingway, Emerson, Thoreau, and Shakespeare, were all being frog-walked off the dead-white-male plank. The attack on Western Culture generally, and men of European descent specifically, was underway.
The Left needs crimes, bad news, and demoralization, even when problems aren't there. Jussie Smollett had to make it up!
Marxism now turns to a new approach. The assumption is that capitalism must be destroyed, but this time, the indictment is over cultural crimes against the environment, against people "of color," and against women (the list has gotten longer). Old Marxism could attack all of Western Culture on the "Systemic" economic front.
"Systemic" yoked together with "intersectionality". Translation: Everyone is equally oppressed by capitalism.
And the spark needed for Leftists to spark this Marxist Revolution was George Floyd. Then we had cities burning, statues torn down, distrust in our police, the institutions of law and jurisprudence mocked, riots, looting, etc.
Every new progressive idea was to be tested. Every new variant of COVID, mask types, lockdown restrictions, every new take on sexual deviance, speech and language mandates, drag queen reading hour, gun restrictions, gas stove restrictions, E.V. car mandates, every massive taxation and redistribution scheme, every new end-of-the-world theory on climate or race, etc.
More of this Leftist Marxist Vocabulary; The linguistic outrage by these Marxists includes:
Privilege, homophobia, Islamophobia, Xenophobia, transphobia, TERF, patriarchy, imperialism, colonialism, the (white, straight) man, phallocentric, logocentric, Anthropocene, me too, hierarchical, whiteness, ableism, and many more.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/07/the_left_must_always_be_resisting.html
It doesn't bother me in the least to continue to take time to post these very instructional Marxist ideals to the many Leftists here who are having
a hard time understanding or accepting that they are indeed modern day Marxists.
The Left retreated deep inside academic and deep inside cultish, paralyzing theories of radical relativity: deconstruction and postmodernism.
It worked: Cancel culture has hounded many into silence. Literary critics like Myra Jehlen (1980s), was taken aback to find her job was reduced to "stripping away the lie and expose the liar" when celebrating Western Culture. At that point, the grandmasters such as Hemingway, Emerson, Thoreau, and Shakespeare, were all being frog-walked off the dead-white-male plank. The attack on Western Culture generally, and men of European descent specifically, was underway.
The Left needs crimes, bad news, and demoralization, even when problems aren't there. Jussie Smollett had to make it up!
Marxism now turns to a new approach. The assumption is that capitalism must be destroyed, but this time, the indictment is over cultural crimes against the environment, against people "of color," and against women (the list has gotten longer). Old Marxism could attack all of Western Culture on the "Systemic" economic front.
"Systemic" yoked together with "intersectionality". Translation: Everyone is equally oppressed by capitalism.
And the spark needed for Leftists to spark this Marxist Revolution was George Floyd. Then we had cities burning, statues torn down, distrust in our police, the institutions of law and jurisprudence mocked, riots, looting, etc.
Every new progressive idea was to be tested. Every new variant of COVID, mask types, lockdown restrictions, every new take on sexual deviance, speech and language mandates, drag queen reading hour, gun restrictions, gas stove restrictions, E.V. car mandates, every massive taxation and redistribution scheme, every new end-of-the-world theory on climate or race, etc.
More of this Leftist Marxist Vocabulary; The linguistic outrage by these Marxists includes:
Privilege, homophobia, Islamophobia, Xenophobia, transphobia, TERF, patriarchy, imperialism, colonialism, the (white, straight) man, phallocentric, logocentric, Anthropocene, me too, hierarchical, whiteness, ableism, and many more.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/07/the_left_must_always_be_resisting.html
It doesn't bother me in the least to continue to take time to post these very instructional Marxist ideals to the many Leftists here who are having
a hard time understanding or accepting that they are indeed modern day Marxists.
