Cultural Marxism

{{bronze}}[[File:Dummies Guide to Cultural Marxist caste system.png|thumb|right|From [[Rightpedia]]. Notice the part where it's [[DA JOOZ|all about “da jooz”]], which are the likes of [[Karl Marx]] himself?]]
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{{cquote|The good news is that "cultural Marxism" isn't real. The bad news is that people believe it is anyway.|||Chris Zappone, ''The Sydney Morning Herald''<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.smh.com.au/world/cultural-marxism--the-ultimate-postfactual-dog-whistle-20171102-gzd7lq.html |title=Cultural Marxism – the ultimate post-factual dog whistle |date=November 2, 2017 |publisher=The Sydney Morning Herald |accessdate=April 5, 2019 |first=Chris |last=Zappone}}</ref>}}

{{cquote|The [[Fairy tales|fairytale]] of cultural Marxism [[Jonanism|provided a post-communist adversary]] located specifically in the cultural realm – academics, Hollywood, [[journalist]]s, [[civil rights]] activists, and [[feminists]].|||Jason Wilson, ''[[The Guardian]]''<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jan/19/cultural-marxism-a-uniting-theory-for-rightwingers-who-love-to-play-the-victim|publisher=The Guardian|first=Jason|last=Wilson|title='Cultural Marxism': a uniting theory for rightwingers who love to play the victim|date=January 19, 2015|accessdate=April 5, 2019}}</ref>}}

'''Cultural [[Marxism]]''' generally refers to one of two things:
#First — ''extremely'' rarely in popular discourse — "cultural Marxism" (lower C, upper M) refers to a strain of critique of popular culture by the [[Frankfurt School]], framing such culture as being imposed by a [[capitalist]] culture-industry and consumed passively by the masses.
#Second — in common usage in the wild — "Cultural Marxism" (both uppercase) is a common [[snarl word]] used to paint anyone with [[progressive]] tendencies as a [[Red-baiting|secret Communist]]. The term alludes to a [[conspiracy theory]] in which sinister left-wingers have infiltrated [[Liberal media|media]], [[Liberal academia|academia]], and [[Evil Liberal Science Conspiracy|science]], and are engaged in a decades-long plot to undermine [[Western culture]]. Some variants of the conspiracy [[Jonanism|allege that basically all of modern social liberalism is]], in fact, a [[communist]] [[front group]].

The first meaning is indeed rare with very few people self-identifying as cultural Marxists, and only two academic works referring to the idea in positive way.<ref>Dennis L. Dworkin, ''Cultural Marxism in Postwar Britain'', Duke University Press, 1997. {{isbn|0822319144}}.</ref><ref>Frederic Jameson, ''Conversations on Cultural Marxism''. Duke University Press, 2007. {{isbn|0822341093}}.</ref><ref name=weigel>[https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/21427/4366 "Hating Theory: 'Cultural Marxism,' 'CRT,' and the Power of Media Affect"] by Moira Weigel (2023) ''International Journal of Communication'' 17:6504–6524.</ref>

The modern popularization of the second, pejorative meaning can be traced to [[Fox News]] [[Pundit|blowhard]] [[Mark Levin]] who on Jul 11, 2021 promoted his error-filled book ''American Marxism''<ref>[https://www.salon.com/2021/08/20/fox-news-host-mark-levins-bestseller-american-marxism-is-built-on-amazing-ignorance/ Fox News host Mark Levin's bestseller "American Marxism": A work of staggering ignorance: Hothead Fox News host keeps calling the Frankfurt School the "Franklin School." Does he mean the Franklin Mint?] by Zachary Petrizzo (August 20, 2021 5:50AM EDT) ''Salon''.</ref> on the air.<ref name=weigel/> While Levin did not use the term "Cultural Marxism", it is now recognized to be synonymous with his "Amercican Marxism". Levin claimed simultaneously and contradictorily that Cultural Marxism originated in [[American]] academia from from [[Herbert Marcuse]] and from the [[German]] "Franklin School", as he called it (apparently meaning the Frankfurt School).<ref name=weigel/><ref>''American Marxism''] by Mark R. Levin (2021) Threshold Editions. ISBN 150113597X.</ref> Levin further claimed that Cultural Marxism had spawned [[critical race theory]] (CRT).<ref name=weigel/> This claim is sort of a reverse [[poisoning the well]] from the then-already, baselessly-toxified CRT within the [[MAGA]]-sphere. The [[irony]] of the popularization of this phrase in the [[United States]] is that many of the phrase's proponents are graduates of Ivy League schools who make the accusation against those same Ivy League schools, places where true Marxists would be loathe to attend due to their elitist and hierarchical nature.<ref>''Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future'' by Jason Stanley (2024) One Signal Publishers / Atria. ISBN 9781668056912.</ref>{{rp|120-121}}


This Cultural Marxism conspiracy theory hinges on the idea that the Frankfurt School wasn't just an arcane strain of academic criticism.<ref group=note>Nobody denies that the Frankfurt School ''existed'' (and championed its fair share of nutty ideas). Critics of the [[Pseudohistory|pseudohistorical]] 'Cultural Marxism' conspiracy theory merely argue that the school was tediously unsuccessful (and, as such, somewhat unimportant) in the broad scheme of Western progressivism&nbsp;— and, more obvious still, that all liberals aren't [[Jonanism|commies as well]].</ref> Instead, the Frankfurt School was behind an ongoing Marxist plot to destroy the capitalist West from within, spreading its tentacles throughout academia and indoctrinating students to hate [[patriotism]] and [[freedom]]. Thus, [[Rock music|rock'n'roll]], [[Hippie|1960s counterculture]], the civil rights movement, the [[anti-war]] movement, [[homosexuality]],<ref>Jeffrey T. Kuhner [http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jul/5/america-home-of-the-gay/ explains why the gay agenda is Cultural Marxism!]</ref> modern feminism, and, in general, all the "decay" in the West since the 1950s are allegedly products of the Frankfurt School.<ref>[http://thedailybell.com/editorials/1240/Nelson-Hultberg-Cultural-Marxism-The-Corruption-of-America/ This ''Daily Bell'' article] sets out the claim pretty unambiguously.</ref> It's also the work of [[International Jewish conspiracy|the Jews]].<ref>http://www.jaegerresearchinstitute.org/articles/dummies.htm James Jaeger makes documentaries about Cultural Marxism</ref><ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20100208132005/http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2002/fall/mainstreaming-hate William S. Lind implicates the Jews</ref>

The conspiracy theory is descended from another, much older conspiracy theory referred to as "Cultural Bolshevism", used extensively in [[Nazism|Nazi Germany]], where ''Kulturbolschewismus'' ("Cultural Bolshevism") was used to degrade and abuse political opponents. In particular, Jews purportedly were [[International Jewish Conspiracy|secretly orchestrating the spread of communism]] ({{wpl|Jewish Bolshevism||)}} as well as [[Kinder, Küche, Kirche|promoting sexual & gender permissiveness]] ("[[sexual Bolshevism]]").<ref>See the Wikipedia articles in {{wpl|de:Kulturbolschewismus|German}} and {{wpl|Cultural Bolshevism|English}}.</ref>

If anyone rants about "Cultural Marxists taking over culture!", feel free to remind them that they're [[Neo-Nazism|spouting ''literal'' Nazi propaganda updated for the modern era]].

==History==
{{cquote|it slowly started off by [[homosexuality]] becoming acceptable, now it[']s starting to justify [[pedophilia]], and eventually [[Slippery slope|will lead to]] accepting [[bestiality|beastiality]]{{sic}} and [[necrophilia]] in the future. America, [[europe]], [[australia]] and the whole world is doomed. [C]ultural marxism is the best weapon the [[jew]] has ever used so far, after realizing [[Communism#Is communism at all workable?|communism will not win]].|||[[YouTube]] commenter<ref>Duffy, Nick.[http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2015/06/15/watch-little-boy-twerks-at-pride-parade-and-upsets-homophobes/ Watch: Little boy twerks at Pride parade and upsets homophobes], ''Pink News''. Accessed 15 June 2015.</ref>}}

===Nazi Germany===
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''A History of Nazi Germany'' describes how the Weimar Republic brought about increased freedom of expression (modernism), then described by critics as decadent and irrational. Traditionalist Germans thought that this was causing German culture to decay and that [[Moral panic|society was heading towards a moral collapse]].<ref name="history_of_nazi_germany">https://books.google.com/books?id=bsGhz4qfgKAC&pg=PA43&lpg=PA43&dq=cultural+bolshevism&source=bl&ots=f7pv9hCTt3&sig=CTuf-0nUE1i6WCwv-smbGYl5J_M&hl=fr&sa=X&sqi=2&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=cultural%20bolshevism A History of Nazi Germany: 1919-1945 by Joseph W. Bendersky</ref> They were at least [[Nazi Germany|catastrophically right]] about that last bit, though not in the way they intended.

The Nazis labeled this modernism as {{wpl|Cultural Bolshevism|"Cultural Bolshevism"|,}} and, through {{wpl|Jewish Bolshevism|"Jewish Bolshevism"|,}} claimed that Jews were primarily behind Communism. In particular, they argued that Jews had orchestrated the [[Russian Revolution]] and were the main power behind [[Bolshevik|Bolshevists]].<ref name="history_of_nazi_germany"/> This Jewish-led Bolshevist assault was described by [[Adolf Hitler]] as a disease that would weaken the Germans and leave them prey to the Jews (oh noes!), with Marxism being perceived as just another part of an "[[international Jewish conspiracy]]".<ref name="history_of_nazi_germany"/> Sometimes Nazis, past and present, [[Nutpicking|will cite "Red Rabbi Weiss" who conflated communism with Judaism as "proof"]], yet remain silent about [[Vladimir Putin]] claiming that communism is [[Christianity]]. An ideological objective was thus the "[[Holocaust|purification]]" to eliminate alien influences and protect Germany's culture.<ref name="history_of_nazi_germany"/>

Of course, Nazis also conflated Jews with [[capitalism]]. [[Fascist]] ideology's complicated relationship with capitalism<ref>{{wpa|Fascism and ideology#Capitalism}}</ref> led to [[Mussolini]] mainly attacking a {{wpl|Finance capitalism|"Finance capitalism"}} — the international nature of banks and the stock exchange — and praising a {{wpl|Heroic capitalism|"Heroic capitalism"|.}} In short: if you don't like it, it's probably the Jews.

Posters:
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Bolshevism Unmasked.jpg|Bolshevism unmasked: it's Jews.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/PropagandaPosters/comments/zrr02/german_ww2_anticommunist_bolshevism_unmasked/</ref>
Bolschewismus ist Judentum.jpg|Stabbing Jews = stabbing communism.
Jewish communist inquisition.png|Caption: Under the sign of Juda: What comes from the Jews has spoiled the world, cultures and peoples have died as a result.<ref group=note>It’s rather odd to invoke the [[Inquisition]] here, as it was not exactly known for its fondness for Jews (or anyone who weren’t staunch [[Catholic]]s, really).</ref>
Jew eating nations.png|Jews are apparently nation-eaters, communists, and [[freemason]]s.<ref>[https://i.pinimg.com/originals/03/9e/b8/039eb838b20166cbcd379c17400d68b7.jpg Der Stürmer, October 1936 (Issue #41)]</ref>
Nazi Schutzengel.jpg|Communists are the guardian angels of Jewish capitalists. (Mixed metaphors, this one.)
Jews are secretly Communists, Freemasons, and Jews.jpg|Jews are secretly [[Red-baiting|communists]], [[Freemason|freemasons]], and... [[Jew]]s.
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===Frankfurt School and academic usage===
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[[File:CulturalMarxism.jpeg|thumb|right|200px|Come back with me to a time when men were men, women were women, and self-avowed Cultural Marxists were self-avowed Cultural Marxists.]]
Conspiracy theorists often trace the origins of Cultural Marxist doctrine back to the Frankfurt School of social theory and critical philosophy.<ref>[https://amityunderground.com/antisemitic-cultural-marxist-fraser-anning-alt-right-frankfurt-school-theodor-adorno-christchurch-shooting/ Antisemitic ‘Cultural Marxist’ tropes have infected mainstream conservatism thanks to boomers using the internet - Amity Underground]</ref> [[Theodor Adorno]] and Max Horkheimer were indeed interested in applying the Marxist theory of alienation (alongside the psychoanalysis of Freud and Hegelian premises of idealist philosophy) to address social issues of the 20<sup>th</sup> century outside the economic analysis of positivists and scientific socialists.<ref>[https://www.marxists.org/subject/frankfurt-school/index.htm Marxists.org - Frankfurt School]</ref> They never advocated using cultural institutions to disseminate propaganda, as the conspiracy theory contends<ref>[https://amityunderground.com/antisemitic-cultural-marxist-fraser-anning-alt-right-frankfurt-school-theodor-adorno-christchurch-shooting/ Antisemitic ‘Cultural Marxist’ tropes have infected mainstream conservatism thanks to boomers using the internet - Amity Underground]</ref>.

Cultural Marxism was a criticism of the ''lack'' of revolutionary Marxism at the [[Frankfurt School]] by more orthodox Marxists; it remains an informal term for the school itself. The term "cultural Marxism" was first sighted around 1973 in ''The Critique of Domination: The Origins and Development of Critical Theory'' by Trent Schroyer.<ref>https://theconversation.com/cultural-marxism-and-our-current-culture-wars-part-2-45562</ref> [[Karl Marx]] himself never wrote at any length about culture (what he deemed "the {{wpl|base and superstructure|superstructure}}"), and many Marxists argue against cultural studies — as orthodox Marxists often assert that the only "real" societal division is the one of class. The fact that cultural theorists use ''multiple'' lenses of [[class]], race, [[gender]], and [[sexuality]] to analyze culture suggests that their methods probably don't come from Marxist classifications. Instead, these lenses are more likely to have come from the 1920s-30s {{wpl|Chicago school (sociology)|Chicago School of Sociology|'s}} focus on human behavior as shaped by social structures and physical environmental factors, rather than genetic and personal characteristics.

==Right-wing usage==
[[File:Negroes Beware Marxism in Alabama.jpg|thumb|right|Cultural Marxists have long supported social equality. The humanity!]]
{{cquote|Oh, sure, once upon a time “cultural Marxism” was indeed a school of Marxist thought dealing with, you guessed it, culture. But in recent years the term has become a popular buzzword amongst neo-Nazis and other proud bigots on the far right, who use it to suggest a vast Jewish conspiracy against Western Civilization and the white race … without having to use the J-word, which tends to give their anti-Semitic game away.|||[[WHTM]]<ref>http://www.wehuntedthemammoth.com/2015/07/07/whos-afraid-of-cultural-marxism-nazis-mostly-as-this-roundup-of-terrible-memes-reveals/</ref>}}
The term is a favourite of [[Pat Buchanan]] and, to the most dangerous extent, far-right [[terrorist]]s [[Anders Behring Breivik]] and [[Christchurch terrorist attacks|Brenton Tarrant]]. It is a [[Cold War]]rior's way of decrying "[[political correctness]]" or "[[multiculturalism]]."<ref>Bill Berkowitz. [https://www.splcenter.org/resources/reports/cultural-marxism-catching/ Cultural Marxism Catching On.] [[Southern Poverty Law Center]] ''Intelligence Report'', Summer 2003, Iss. 110.</ref><ref>Anders Behring Breivik. [https://web.archive.org/web/20120629132700/http://www.breiviksmanifesto.com/political-correctness-is-cultural-marxism How It All Began -- Political Correctness is Cultural Marxism], in Breivik's Manifesto, ''2083: A Declaration of European Independence''. (This will probably be analyzed by criminal studies professors for years to come.)</ref>

In current [[wingnut]] usage, it's additionally a favorite amongst [[Gamergate]]rs — demonstrating the movement's attraction of many [[anti-Semitism|anti-Semites]], [[white supremacy|white supremacists]], and [[MRA]]s — which they label feminist critics like Brianna Wu and [[Anita Sarkeesian]], who often receive sexist personal attacks and [[rape]] threats. They complained when discussions on [[Wikipedia]] predating their obsession with the term resulted in the "Cultural Marxism" article on Wikipedia being redirected to the "Conspiracy theory" section of {{wpl|Frankfurt School||,}} restored after [[w:Wikipedia:Appeals to Jimbo|appealing to the God-King]], no consensus after that, then deletion and redirection back to the conspiracy theory.<ref>[http://archive.ph/YzkIS Archive of "Cultural Marxism" Wikipedia article]</ref>

The term is odious enough that non-far-right people wanting to use it now sometimes apologise in advance,<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20120830205257/http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/edwest/100178296/criticising-cultural-marxism-doesnt-make-you-anders-breivik</ref><ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20170618203611/http://www.thelibertyconservative.com/cultural-marxism-conspiracy-theory/</ref> much as nobody behaving in a blatantly racist manner will accept the label "racist". Although [[Jordan Peterson]] and the UK [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] MP {{wpl|Suella Braverman}}<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/news/2019/mar/26/tory-mp-criticised-for-using-antisemitic-term-cultural-marxism Tory MP criticised for using antisemitic term 'cultural Marxism'], ''The Guardian'', 26 March 2019</ref> apparently didn't get the memo.

===Origin===
The first usage of the phrase "cultural Marxism" in the conspiracist sense was by William S. Lind of the Free Congress Foundation in his speech "The Origins of Political Correctness" to right-wing group Accuracy in Academia in July 1998, in which he described "political correctness” and "cultural Marxism" as "[[Godwin's Law|totalitarian ideologies]]" that were turning American campuses into "small ivy-covered [[North Korea]]s, where the student or faculty member who dares to cross any of the lines set up by the gender feminist or the homosexual-rights activists, or the local black or Hispanic group, or any of the other sainted 'victims' groups that revolves around, quickly find themselves in judicial trouble." Lind gave this speech many times; a 2000 version sets out his thesis:

{{quotebox|Political Correctness is cultural Marxism. It is Marxism translated from economic into cultural terms. It is an effort that goes back not to the 1960s and the hippies and the peace movement, but back to World War I. If we compare the basic tenets of Political Correctness with classical Marxism the parallels are very obvious.

[....]

How does all of this stuff flood in here? How does it flood into our universities, and indeed into our lives today? The members of the Frankfurt School are Marxist, they are also, to a man, Jewish.<ref>Bill Lind, [http://www.academia.org/the-origins-of-political-correctness/ The Origins of Political Correctness]. academia.org, 5 February 2000.</ref>}}

Lind was one of the most prominent figures in promoting the conspiracy theory in the early 2000s, in conjunction with organisations including Free Congress Foundation and ''American Conservative'' magazine.<ref name=jamin>Jerome Jamin. [https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/rec3.12258 "Cultural Marxism: A survey"]. ''Religion Compass''. 2018; 12:e12258. Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1111/rec3.12258</ref>

The conspiracy theory was also pushed around this time by Paul Weyrich's Free Congress Foundation, who spent the 1990s railing against "political correctness", culminating in the 1999 videotape ''Political Correctness: The Dirty Little Secret'', attacking the Frankfurt School.

At a campaign stop in Denver for the [[Reform Party]] in October 2000, [[Pat Buchanan]] accused [[Native Americans]] attempting to block a Columbus Day parade of "cultural Marxism" in the ''Rocky Mountain News''.<ref>Robert Weller (October 9, 2000) [https://web.archive.org/web/20150221092747/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/aponline/20001009/aponline112905_000.htm "Buchanan Criticizes Parade Protest"]</ref><ref>http://www.cbsnews.com/news/pat-trashes-columbus-day-protest/</ref> In his 2001 book ''The Death of the West'', he described "cultural Marxism" as a "regime to punish dissent and to stigmatize social heresy as the [[Inquisition]] punished religious [[heresy]]. Its trademark is intolerance." Buchanan also played a prominent role in James Jaeger's 2011 film ''Cultural Marxism: The Corruption of America'', which set out to explain how the Frankfurt School (according to the film's website) sought to "destroy American free‐enterprise capitalism by undermining its economic engine, the Middle Class and the basic building block of society, the family unit."<ref name=jamin/>

"Political correctness" had become the popular snarl word of choice after a 1991 speech by [[George H. W. Bush]], with ensuing press coverage and a ''[[Washington Times]]'' op-ed by Laurence Jarvik of the [[Heritage Foundation]] decrying "storm troopers" attacking "Western culture."<ref name=splc>https://www.splcenter.org/resources/reports/cultural-marxism-catching/</ref>

Prior to this, [[Soviet]] dissident {{wpl|Yuri Bezmenov}} suggested that civil rights and [[social justice]] movements in the Western world are secretly Soviet plots to weaken their countries from within, and that those who strive for such goals are "[[useful idiot]]s", because according to Bezmenov, "[[equality]] is a ridiculous goal".<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20200828134314/https://www.kotaku.com.au/2020/08/call-of-duty-trailer-recklessly-promotes-far-right-conspiracy-theory/ Call of Duty trailer recklessly promotes far right conspiracy theory] by Ian Walker (August 27, 2020) ''Kotaku''(archived from August 28, 2020).</ref> The inclusion of Bezmenov's interview with the conspiracy theorist {{wpl|G. Edward Griffin}} in the [[advertising]] for the popular video game ''Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War'' is met with praise by fellow conspiracy theorist [[Sargon of Akkad]].

===Neo-Nazi adoption===
[[File:Textgram_1392062780.png|thumb|right|Just a picture from your friendly neighbourhood 
fascist
 [[Third positionism|Third positionist]].<ref>[https://archive.ph/n4zm7 Global Capitalism and Cultural Marxism]. Archived from smashcm.blogspot.nl, 29 January 2017.</ref>]]
An article, "Subversive Jew Parasites Explode Over Antisemitic Leaflets in Sydney" by the [[neo-Nazi]] ''[[Daily Stormer]]'', states:

{{quotebox|[T]he rise of racial hatred is most certainly a threat to [[Australia]]'s future security and prosperity, with the '''Jewish nation-wreckers continuously attempting to weaken and overwhelm the White residents''' of what was previously a semi-inhabited wilderness. The never-ending tidal wave of feral migrant hordes, combined with idiotic '''Cultural Marxism, runs the risk of utterly crushing a prosperous and beautiful land''', and must be halted at any cost.

By observing the '''deranged reactions of the Jew''' to such a simple act of defiance, we come to the understanding that this kind of resistance must be increased exponentially. '''The World Parasite cannot stay quiet''' in the face of our propaganda exposure, and had the tendency to lose all composure when confronted with the truth.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20140901040727/http://www.dailystormer.com/australia-subversive-jew-parasites-explode-over-antisemitic-leaflets-in-sydney "Australia: Subversive Jew Parasites Explode Over Antisemitic Leaflets in Sydney", ''Daily Stormer'', archive]</ref>}}

Many members of the [[meme]]-Nazi [[alt-right]] similarly hold that Cultural Marxism is real, is done by Jews, and is a serious threat to their [[ethnostate]] dreams.

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===2011 Norway attacks===
[[Anders Behring Breivik]], the terrorist and mass-murderer behind the 2011 [[Norway]] Attacks in Utøya and Oslo was himself an adherent of said conspiracy theory. In fact Breivik's 1,518 page manifesto ''2083: A European Declaration of Independence'' contains numerous mentions of "Cultural Marxism" at least 100 times and he specifically blames it alongside feminism and [[Islam]] for the supposed decline of Europe and Western civilization in addition to having 27 pages worth of William Lind's writings.<ref name=jamin/>

===Gallery===
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File:The Nose Knows.jpg|No anti-semitism here. None at all.

File:Pol cultural Marxism conspiracy flowchart.jpg|A diagram posted to [[4chan|/pol/]]<ref>https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/38570562/</ref> outlining "the origins and effects" of Cultural Marxism: [[International Jewish conspiracy|the blasted international Heebs did it]]. Said chart was reposted with approval on the [[neoreactionary]] blog MoreRight, with the part about the Jews gently trimmed away.<ref>https://archive.today/vJD8F</ref>

File:Cultural marxism.jpg|A contest aiming to string [[association fallacy|association fallacies]] produced this.<ref>http://www.wehuntedthemammoth.com/2015/07/07/whos-afraid-of-cultural-marxism-nazis-mostly-as-this-roundup-of-terrible-memes-reveals/</ref>

File:Cm13.jpg|The Reptilians are controlled by Cultural Marxists.<ref>http://www.wehuntedthemammoth.com/2015/07/07/whos-afraid-of-cultural-marxism-nazis-mostly-as-this-roundup-of-terrible-memes-reveals/</ref>

File:Cm11.jpg|Smashing homosexuality invented by the Soviet Union?<ref>http://www.wehuntedthemammoth.com/2015/07/07/whos-afraid-of-cultural-marxism-nazis-mostly-as-this-roundup-of-terrible-memes-reveals/</ref>

File:Culturel marxisme.jpg|Ze culturel marxistes zey are committing genocide on whites.<ref group="note">In French, this says "no to [[white genocide]]" followed by "[[Anti-racist is a code word for anti-white|diversity is a code word for white genocide]], showing that white supremacist conspiracy memes have no language barrier. However, the word for diversity used is the Italian one rather than the French one for some reason.</ref> Sacrébleu ooh la la!<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20140608105855/http://www.dailystormer.com/stop-white-genocide-flags-for-the-nations/ "Stop White Genocide Flags for the Nations", ''Daily Stormer'', archive]</ref>

Cultural Marxism Your Race.png|Cultural Marxism = degenerate multiracial families. Your homogeneous race = God-men. Of course, we say this as non-racists.

Talmudism.png|Smash Cultural Talmudism?<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20170315004311/https://smashcm.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-jewish-high-commissaries.html</ref><ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20170315004311/http://smashcm.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-jewish-high-commissaries.html</ref>
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==Debunking==
Despite its widespread popularity among the hard-right, many both on the right and left have thoroughly debunked the concept as not being Marxist at all. [[Christian]] [[Dominionist]] [[Gary North]] calls Cultural Marxism an oxymoron.<ref>[http://www.garynorth.com/public/12623.cfm Cultural Marxism Is an Oxymoron], garynorth.com</ref> Actual Marxist Michael Acuña calls it a myth.<ref>Michael Acuña. [http://commonruin.wordpress.com/2014/02/02/on-the-myth-of-cultural-marxism/ On the Myth of "Cultural Marxism"], commonruin.wordpress.com</ref><ref>Michael Acuña. [http://commonruin.wordpress.com/2015/01/13/my-final-word-on-cultural-marxism/ My Final Word on “Cultural Marxism”], commonruin.wordpress.com</ref> And "How to Paint Your Panda" has debunked it as well.<ref>[http://paintyourpanda.blogspot.com/2014/10/cultural-marxism-cultural-conservatism.html Cultural Marxism, Cultural Conservatism and the Frankfurt School: Making Sense of Nonsense] (October 3, 2014) ''How to Paint Your Panda''.</ref>

==Trivia: John, Paul, George, and Marx==
[[File:C55c3-committee300.png|thumb|I hope that's all completely clear with everyone.]]
Although it doesn't get brought up much these days, similar conservative cranks frequently denounced [[the Beatles]] as a communist plot in their heyday. There's also a conspiracy theory that Theodor Adorno, leading light of the Frankfurt School, secretly wrote all their songs.<ref>[https://archive.ph/gBRyb Theodor W. Adorno; Songwriter for All Beatles Songs; Director of Frankfurt/Tavistock Social Engineering School]. Archived from tabublog.com, 3 February 2016.</ref> And in fact ''all the songs for the British Invasion'' of the 1960s.

This theory seems to have originated with supposedly ex-[[MI6]] [[crank]] John Coleman, in his 1991 book ''The Committee of 300''.<ref>https://archive.org/stream/TheStoryOfTheCommitteeOf300/TheStoryOfTheCommitteeOf300_djvu.txt</ref> Adorno is claimed to have worked with the {{wpl|Tavistock Institute}} (an organisation with which he had no connection), at the behest of the [[Jesuits]] rather than the Jews. Various alt-right blogs still contend that Adorno used the Tavistock Institute in order to disseminate propaganda through pop music that would provoke the 'degeneracy' of the [[sexual revolution]] of the 1960s.<ref>[https://archive.md/YriZO Antisemitic ‘Cultural Marxist’ tropes have infected mainstream conservatism thanks to boomers using the internet.] by Ruairi Wood (April 14, 2019) ''Amity Underground'' (archived from 14 Apr 2019 17:05:14 UTC).</ref> Because that's totally how societal shifts work in real life.

[[Henry Makow]] further theorises that this is the work of the [[Illuminati]], but then of course he would.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20140302104906/http://humansarefree.com/2014/03/the-beatles-were-illuminati-creation.html</ref>

Back in consensus reality, the music Adorno was actually into was Schoenberg's twelve-tone stuff, the main influence on his own compositions. He ''hated'' jazz (so he had ''some'' good sense) and popular music in general.<ref>http://www.moyak.com/papers/adorno-schoenberg-atonality.html</ref> And he particularly disliked the Beatles:

{{quotebox|What can be urged against the Beatles … is simply that what these people have to offer is … something that is retarded in terms of its own objective content. It can be shown that the means of expression that are employed and preserved here are in reality no more than traditional techniques in a degraded form.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=dAZmVD_AV9cC&pg=RA1-PA420&lpg=RA1-PA420&dq=the+beatles+and+adorno&source=bl&ots=5TDdW4lE1n&sig=Rys0FGs9Fa1f5sqewXRUpzSX-P0&hl=es&ei=dDWrSt-OA-KDtgf4r82oCA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result#v=onepage&q=the%20beatles%20and%20adorno&f=false] ''Akzente'', Summer 1965</ref>}}

Oh well.

==See also==
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*[[Critical race theory]]
*[[Cultural Christian]]
*[[International Jewish conspiracy#Antisemitism and anti-communism|International Jewish conspiracy § antisemitism and anti-communism]]
*[[Modern art and architecture]]
*[[Red baiting]]
*[[Sexual Bolshevism]] ([[Poe's Law|yes, really]])

==External links==
*Ben Alpers. [https://web.archive.org/web/20181001174113/https://s-usih.org/2011/07/frankfurt-school-right-wing-conspiracy/ The Frankfurt School, Right-Wing Conspiracy Theories, and American Conservatism.] US Intellectual History Blog Jul. 25, 2011.
*Dennis Dworkin. [https://web.archive.org/web/20150413200418/https://www.dukeupress.edu/Cultural-Marxism-in-Postwar-Britain/index-viewby=author&lastname=Fish&firstname=Stanley&middlename=&sort=newest.html ''Cultural Marxism in Postwar Britain: History, the New Left, and the Origins of Cultural Studies''] A history of the term before it became a dirty word.
*[https://youtu.be/vYQo6LI3Y7c Cultural Marxism: A Measured Response] (HBomberguy)

==Notes==
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==References==
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