Critical Theory, Cultural Marxism, and “Political Correctness”

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Critical Theory, Cultural Marxism, and “Political Correctness” The Frankfort School Critical Theory, Cultural Marxism, and “Political Correctness”

Antonio Gramsci and Georg Lukacs Gramsci believed that a “new” person must be culturally created before a Marxist socialist state could succeed. His focus was on the fields of education and media. Lukacs thought that existing cultural norms had to be destroyed in order to replace them with the new, revolutionary Marxist principles. He said, “I saw the revolutionary destruction of society as the one and only solution to the cultural contradictions of the epoch.... Such a worldwide overturning of values cannot take place without the annihilation of the old values and the creation of new ones by the revolutionaries.” Together, they founded The Frankfort School

The Frankfort School In 1923, Lukacs and other Marxist intellectuals associated with the Communist Party of Germany founded the Institute of Social Research at Frankfurt University in Frankfurt, Germany Georg Lukacs Antonio Gramsci

Critical Theory The Frankfurt School’s studies combined Marxist analysis with Freudian psychoanalysis to form the basis of what became known as “Critical Theory.” The Frankfort School

The Frankfort School Moved to America In 1933, when Nazis came to power in Germany, the members of the Frankfurt School fled. Most came to the United States and many became influential in American universities, headquartered at Columbia. “Critical Theory” also became known as Cultural Marxism. The Coat of Arms for Columbia University

Critical Theory was essentially destructive criticism of the main elements of Western culture, including Christianity, capitalism, authority, the family, patriarchy, hierarchy, morality, tradition, sexual restraint, loyalty, patriotism, nationalism, heredity, ethnocentrism, convention and conservatism. Critical Theorists recognized that traditional beliefs and the existing social structure would have to be destroyed and then replaced with a “new thinking” that would become as much a part of elementary consciousness as the old one had been. Their theories took hold in the tumultuous 1960s.

The American “New Left” of the 1960s Student radicals of the era were strongly influenced by revolutionary ideas, among them those of Herbert Marcuse, a member of the Frankfurt School who preach the “Great Refusal,” a rejection of all basic Western concepts. Historical Revisionism, attacking the nation’s founders, was a key element Criticism of foundational principles, like Constitutional Democracy, rule of law, natural rights, majority rule, and limited government was crucial. Annihilation of such values would pave the way for wide acceptance of Marxist ideology. Herbert Marcuse

Political Correctness Critical Theory has fostered a system of beliefs, attitudes and values that we have come to know as “Political Correctness.” For many it is an annoyance and a self parodying joke. But Political Correctness is deadly serious in its aims, seeking to impose a uniformity of thought and behavior on all Americans. It is therefore totalitarian in nature. The intent is to intimidate dissenters into compliance with accepted dogma. Its roots lie in a version of Marxism which sees culture, rather than the economy, as the site of class struggle.

Critical Legal Studies The “Critical Legal Studies “ movement is a subordinate branch of Critical Theory or Cultural Marxism. Knowing the genesis of the movement helps to explain Seidman’s call to “Give Up on the Constitution.” His aim is to destroy public faith in constitutional government. Prof. Louis Michael Seidman, Georgetown Law School, is a major proponent of Critical Legal Studies.