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In this article, the author gives much valuable information about an intellectual movement that since World War II has had a profound effect on Western politics and culture. He observes that "Cultural Marxism" (a method of analysis having its origins in "Critical Theory") has become mainstream, and perhaps the dominant influence in the social sciences of the Western world. By combining Marxism with Freudian analysis, a doctrine was developed that "deconstructed" Western morality not just in economic terms, as original Marxism did, but questioned whether Western traditional morality causes neuroses and readiness to conform to social norms. The result has been to open Western morality not just to question, but to ridicule. This paper examines the origins of "Cultural Marxism," and in doing so poses an important question: whether the deconstruction of the West's traditional morality serves a broad political/social/cultural agenda.
Key words: Critical Theory, Cultural Marxism, Frankfurt School, Freud, Hirschfeld, Kinsey, Marx, New School for Social Research Sexual Reform, transgenderism
Introduction
In this article, we will examine a set of ideas that has a very real existence in today's world. Although a discussion of it draws us into an intellectual world that must seem quite alien and esoteric to the average person, an understanding of "Cultural Marxism" is essential for anyone who seeks to grasp the ideological forces that are moulding contemporary societies.
In our analysis, we will see that Cultural Marxism serves a broad ideological purpose. As an intellectual movement that seeks, with considerable success, to undermine the West's traditional values and cultures, it provides a rationale that buttresses the Left's position on a surprising array of contemporary issues. These include such diverse matters as globalism; open borders; transgenderism; and formlessness in the arts, music, and architecture. The thrust is to deconstruct, in the name of "progress," any vestiges of tradition. There is an ironic contradiction present: the Left makes much use of "identity politics" while, at the same time, its deconstruction is intended to produce a human mass that has cast aside all ethnic, land, and even gender identity. This push toward universal homogenization is promoted in the name of being "different."
If we want to see how this applies to such a thing as globalism, which we have said is...