today i'm going to tell you about cultural marxism our enemy is cultural marxism political correctness is cultural marxism we won the cold war with political and economic communism we've lost the cultural war with cultural marxism you're referring to the cultural marxists and i really do think that they are so much that the heart of what has led to the crumbling of the west right now the decline of the west the thing is it doesn't exist at least not outside the fever dreams of far-right extremists and right-wing pundits and politicians in short here's the conspiracy theory
after 1920s a group of marxist academics set out to destroy western modernity from within but unlike classical marxism which locates the working class as the agent of change and economics as the sphere of struggle cultural marxist sought to change social values and norms gnawing away at the foundations of the west's very self-confidence are we the baddies at the same time they encouraged mass migration multiculturalism and even things like homosexuality to triumph where the mongols moors and ottomans failed namely to bring about the demise of european civilization why are we constantly browbeaten into being ashamed of
the west we shouldn't be ashamed to defend western civilization around this nebulous term you see the collapse made distinction between the politics the mainstream and the far right between seemingly respectable people who appear on television and those who actually commit terrorist attacks take question time's favorite nigel farage he claimed the bbc was responsible for a cultural marxist revolution or conservative party mp suella breverman the attorney general last year she claimed the conservative party was engaged in a battle against a cultural marxism and then there's anders breivik who killed 77 people primarily members of the youth
wing of norway's labour party in 2011. in a 15-page manifesto he mentions cultural marxism 107 times using it interchangeably with terms like multiculturalism and political correctness then there's brenton taran who killed 51 people across two mosques in the christchurch massacre of 2019. he wrote the western society had long since fallen to the long march through the institutions committed by the marxists then there was the 2018 pittsburgh synagogue shooter who murdered 11 people and blamed jews for among other things communism and yes cultural marxism and in britain well check out this video from the bnp's youth
wing in 2014 the heartless zionists whose interests are foreign interests cultural marxists who invest our teaching establishment we will not give in we will not back down we will protect our own identities and secure our own futures we are bmpu this guy is jack renshaw who alongside targeting militant homosexuals blames cultural marxism for britain's problems he's currently serving a lifetime prison sentence for plotting to murder labour mp rosie cooper despite this term being used so frequently by far-right terrorists it has slipped unnoticed it seems into the right-wing mainstream whether it's fraser nelson and a spectator
conservative members of parliament nigel farage or best-selling author douglas murray a lot of people on the right are very happy to say they believe in something called cultural marxism but the comfort of recent decades has become the comfort of espousing and following a basically culturally marxist view of the world so how did this happen how over the last decade has cultural marxism become a relatively mainstream talking point for both politicians and pundits on the right while it's easy to see a resemblance between contemporary claims around cultural marxism and what the nazis once referred to as
culture bullshitismus cultural bolshevism it goes beyond just that one important parallel between the two however is their flexibility and that's their political efficacy when the nazis used the term it was applied mainly to the arts but like cultural marxism today it was also deployed for a range of things they simply found disagreeable one journalist carl osietsky wrote cultural bolshevism is when a painter sweeps a colour into a sunset not seen in lower pomerania when one favors birth control when one builds a house with a flat roof when a caesarean birth is shown on the screen
in short it was anything reactionaries wanted it to be today cultural marxism serves a similar purpose ranging from antipathy towards gender-neutral pronouns to a secret conspiracy allying homosexuals muslims and leftists to destroy western civilization however it wasn't until decades after the fall of the third reich that cultural marxism as a recognizable conspiracy theory began to emerge arguably its godfather in this respect was lyndon larouche a conspiracy theorist often accused of racism hailing from a very very strange part of the left in 1974 larouche mentioned the frankfurt school for the first time as part of a
broader smear campaign against left-wing opponents according to a special report in his executive intelligence review larouche claimed angela davis was a cia agent whose purpose was to infiltrate the american communist party and split the organization he further alleged davis was prepared for such a role while studying under frankfurt school intellectuals and according to him cia agents herbert marcuza and theodorodorna larouche claimed that when davis was their student marcus rodono subjected her to a cia zombie brainwash program in essence transforming davis into a manchurian radical which is to say somebody who could infiltrate the very highest
levels of the american left the theme of the frankfurt school is a secret brainwashing operation continued in a 1977 counterintelligence report while arusha claimed those movements which emerged in the aftermath of the late 1960s around gender race and sexual rights had degenerated into violent fascism even alleging british intelligence actually established the frankfurt school themselves in the 1920s to assemble leading british agent intellectuals but how did the idea of cultural marxism go mainstream after all while culture bolshevismus and larouche's conspiracy theories have been around for a while the likes of farage and breivik didn't hear about
them after reading interwar histories of germany or the esoteric dejector of larouche no the transmission mechanism was 1990's paleo conservativism the united states with conservative thinkers like william lind pat buchanan and paul varick pushing the term into the mainstream while a small c conservative is meant to want to keep things the same and only believes in incremental change a paleo conservative is fundamentally a reactionary somebody who wants to go back to a mythical halcyon time before things went wrong the mythology to many of these people which gives forms their otherwise incoherent rejection of the modern
world is cultural marxism care about climate change cultural marxism think equal pay is important cultural marxism are you a vegetarian happy to be called they or them or pro-choice and abortion cultural marxism 101. it was also during the early 1990s it became increasingly common to hear the term political correctness another nebulous bug bearer of the right who's useless precisely in meaning both everything and nothing it's content essentially a matter of opinion for those mainstreaming cultural marxism the terms were broadly interchangeable with william lind defining it as a brand of western marxism commonly known as multiculturalism
or less formally political correctness though how either of those is marxist remains unclear he claimed the presence of lgbt people on television proved cultural marxist control the media and that herbert marcus considered a coalition of blacks students feminist women and homosexuals a vanguard for the cultural revolution but i thought he was a cia or was it mi6 anyway by now the idea of political correctness was far from marginal and increasingly amplified by the likes of the sun newspaper in britain and fox news in the us both owned by this guy indeed it was even highlighted
in 1991 speech by president bush we find free speech under assad throughout the united states by the end of 1992 feature stories on this crisis had appeared across the u.s print media from newsweek to the new york review of books that's right we've been having the exact same moral panic around freedom of speech for at least 30 years why because if the conversation moves to class living standards and economic justice these people don't have a leg to stand on for pat buchanan godfather of the 1990s culture wars in the us the importance of this struggle
was not to be understated with the culture war a religious war and in many ways no less important than the cold war it is an anti-christian anti-god anti-traditionalist revolution the sexual resolute revolution has a lot to do with it and so we are two countries now in his 2002 book the death of the west buchanan described cultural marxism as a regime to punish dissent and to stigmatize social heresy just as the inquisition punished religious heresy its trademark is intolerance now where have i heard that before the goal of the education system is to indoctrinate children
from kindergarten into a radical postmodern leftist communitarian equity oriented ethos it's andrew breitbart founder of breitbart news and close friend of former trump guru steve bannon similarly viewed the fight against cultural marxism as essentially a continuation of the cold war this country will be destroyed by people like you who think you are doing good while you divide you divide into separate different categories and we pit against each other these people are incredibly dangerous in 2014 william lind under the pseudonym thomas hobbes published victoria a novel of fourth generation war in which a group of christian
marines lead a bloody insurrection against cultural marxism as the federal government collapses at the book's climax knight swearing crusader crosses and singing christian hymns murder politically correct staff at dartmouth college the main characters and mr lin's alma mater the work of slaughter went quickly in less than five minutes of screams shrieks and howls it was all over the floor ran deep with the marxism such words wouldn't be out of place in the manifesto or diary of a far-right terrorist yet they were written by a man who wears a suit and tie and has worked inside
washington dc the very point of using the term cultural marxism is to collapse any boundary between a significant part of the population who don't view themselves as extremists and the far right people like william lind most importantly it tells that some of the most dangerous fanatics of the 21st century speak with polished accents went to excellent universities and most troubling of all are actively promoted by the media one thing is for sure any politician or pundit who utters the words cultural marxism has got nothing to say when it comes to the biggest issues of our
day which people actually care about and affect their everyday lives from health care to climate change economic inequality and the housing crisis some conspiracy theories are relatively harmless cultural marxism isn't that's partly because it relies on bigotry and xenophobia and partly because it's designed to distract us from the big existential challenges of the 21st century and there are plenty of those
