Cultural Marxism is a branch of Western Marxism, different from Marxism- Leninism of old Soviet Union. From the beginning the promoters of Cultural Marxism have known they could be more effective if they concealed the Marxist nature of their work, hence they use the terms such as Multi-Culturism, Secularism etc.
Marxist theory had predicted that in event of big European war, the working-class all-over Europe would rise to overthrown capitalism and create communism, but it did not happen. Two Marxist theorists Antonio Gramsci (Italy) and George Lukacs (Hungary)said “Western culture and Christian religion had so blinder the working class to its true; Marxist class interest that communism was impossible in the west until both could be destroyed”
An understanding of cultural Marxism is essential for anyone who seeks to grasp the ideological forces that are moulding contemporary societies. It serves a broad ideological purpose to underline west’s traditional values and cultures which gives diverse matters a globalism, open borders, transgenderism, formlessness in the arts, music and architecture. There is a ironic contradiction present left makes use of ‘Identity Politics’ while at the same time, its destruction is intended to produce human mass that has cast aside all ethnic, land and even gender identity.
What is Cultural Marxism
Prof. Jerome Jamin, Department of political science has defined:
‘From phiosophical point of views, cultural Marxism as critical theory consider culture as something that needs to be studied within the system and the social relations through which it is produced and then carried by people.’
“Cultural Marxism considers cultures and ideologies as inextricably linked to the economic, social and political context, they are tools in the hands of powerful to control the people.” In other words, cultural Marxism in the intellectual elaboration of a ‘will destroy ‘as it pertains to traditional cultural and societal bastions.
KR Bolton, Academic Member, Athens Institute for education and Research, said – “Karl Marx has a will to destruction and communist manifesto is handbook for the destruction of late epoch of west of organic bonds such as family, marriage, faith and the pre- capitalist attachment to village, church and land.”
Cultural Marxists by broadening their subversion beyond economic critiques and working-class mobilisation, which left came to see as mainly unsuccessful.
Origin of Ideology: Cultural Marxism
According to Karl Marx, Western Man is an economic animal. But according to Sigmund Freud, Western Man is a sexual animal. Marx saw the gothic cathedral as a symbol of exploitation, Frued saw it as redirected sexuality. The combination of Freudian psychoanalysis and Marxism in an assault on tradition made sense, that is the aftermath of defeat, humiliation and demoralisation of Germany.
Post world war-l Germany became the centre for social experimentation. ‘Sexual Science ‘ (where first sex change operation was performed in 1931) founded in 1919. The purpose of this ‘Sexual Science ‘theorizing and experimentation was the destruction of marriage and the family, the prime targets of Marxism. With the rise of Hitler in 1933, Hirschfeld and host of other cultural Marxists found ready fame outside Germany, had a lasting legacy on ‘Progressive’, ‘Modern’ and Sexual attitudes. In 1940s, Freudian communist, or Wilhelm Reich, founded Political Sexology as revolutionary movement. Dr Reich described his doctrine: “Suppression of natural sexuality in the child, particularly of its genital sexuality, makes the child apprehensive, shy obedient, afraid of authority.” The goal of sexual suppression is that of producing an individual who is adjusted to the authoritarian order and who will submit to it in spite of all misery and degradation. The formation of authoritarian structure takes place through the anchoring of sexual inhibition and anxiety.
The doctrine became mainstreamed, by Germany and was employed by the institute for social research in New York, which had been established ‘Frankfurt School of Critical Theory’.
Sponsorship of Cultural Marxists
Dr Wilhelm Reich condemned the traditional patriarchal marriage and patriarchal family as the home of bourgeois sexual repression, leading to fascism. From the revolutionary point of view, sexual inhibition alters the structure of economically suppressed individuals in manner of their thinking and feeling.
Frankfurt School of critical theory was founded as the institute for social research in 1973 by members of German Communist party at Frankfurt university. They concluded that a communist state must preceded by radical subversion of cultural moves and institutions of society. Mark Harkheimer, who became Institute’s director in 1930, advocated the revolution must be made through the penetration and transformation of cultural traditions and institutions of Western Civilization. New school for Social Research (NSSR) founded by enlightened philanthropist and Rockefellar foundation, formed the faculty on Political and social science that helped to transform the social science and philosophy of the country. Rockefeller foundation remains a primary patron. In 1980, George Soros was awarded on an honorary doctorate by New school. NSSR’s social research conferences initiated in 1988 are funded by open society, Rockefeller Foundation, Rockefeller financial Services etc. NSSR is basically a ‘Gender and Sexuality Studies’ where familiar theme is taught that sexuality as an social construct and social justice in a gendered world.
Impact on Society
Critical theory, the new ideological weapon of cultural Marxism affects, the bonds among family members, in such a way that their faith and trust on each other starts shaking. This type of mentality dissects the society from their cultural and religious roots and fill their minds with western ideas which are particularly ‘self-centric’, but on the other hand the Bharat’s ideology teachers the ‘global-centric approach’ by giving the lessons of Vasudhaiva Kutumbam (the whole world is my family) and Bhandhutva (brotherhood).
The result of ideological subversion is leading to degrade own country’s values and upgrade the whole generation with falsely based European ideas of discrimination. The most common affected genre is emotion towards the country, as communist ideology has no such idea of motherland. The most common area of communist ideology is the dissection of social elements, in India its most common example is caste system, taken from the Portuguese word ‘Casta’ which means lineage or racial identifiers and that was forced by British. In Present days, opposition is doing their politics on the footstep of these dividing communist ideologies just for the sake of their political benefits.
Prof. Jerome Jamini identifies “Cultural Marxism” with the critical theory of Frankfurt School, goes on to state the product of Marxists social scientists, created a doctrine that has its roots in Marxism has become dominant within the social sciences not just within academia, but also within the mass media and NGOs. Their basic motive is to weaken the spirit of the nation and to divide the nation, so that Global market forces earn a huge profit. ‘The disturbed society leads to the disturbed nation.’ It is our duty to connect our families with the cultural and religious roots, so that these types of anti-national ideologies don’t affect the harmony and unified spirit of our country.
