anti-Marcuse

[Richard Fiero]

 From "What is the Frankfurt School?" by Dr. Gerald L. Atkinson CDR USN (Ret.)
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"One must wonder who 'they' are. Who in America today is at 
work destroying our traditions, our family bonds, our religious 
beginnings, our reinforcing institutions, indeed, our entire 
culture?  What is it that is changing our American civilization?
        Indeed, a thoughtful person should ask himself or 
herself whether or not all this 'change' from America's 
traditional culture is simply a random set of events played out 
by a random set of players, all independent of each other -- 
all disconnected from any central premise or guidance.
. . .
        If you believe, instead, that nature has a 'design,' 
and that all events can be connected and we humans can make 
sense out of many of them if we will only 'connect all of the 
dots,' then you may believe that this small core group has 
great influence, even today, in American Culture.  If this is 
your world view, you may (but not necessarily) even believe in 
a 'conspiracy. and 'conspirators' which and who aim to alter 
our culture on a vast scale.
. . .
        'Cultural Marxism' and 'critical theory' are concepts 
developed by a group of German intellectuals, who, in 1923 in 
Germany, founded the Institute of Social Research at Frankfurt 
University.  The Institute, modeled after the Marx-Engels 
Institute in Moscow, became known as the Frankfurt School 
[3].  In 1933, when the Nazis came to power in Germany, the 
members of the Frankfurt School fled to the United 
States.  While here, they migrated to major U.S. universities 
(Columbia, Princeton, Brandeis, and California at 
Berkeley).  These intellectual Marxists included Herbert 
Marcuse, who coined the phrase, 'make love, not war,' during 
the anti-Vietnam War demonstrations.
. . .
      We won the 55-year Cold War but, while winning it abroad, 
we have failed to understand that an intellectual elite has 
subtly but systematically and surely converted the economic 
theory of Marx to culture in American society.  And they did it 
while we were busy winning the Cold War abroad.  They 
introduced 'cultural Marxism' into the mainstream of American 
life over a period of thirty years, while our attention was diverted elsewhere.
        The vehicle for this introduction was the idealistic 
Boomer elite, those young middle-class and well-to-do college 
students who became the vanguard of America's counter-culture 
revolution of the mid-1960s -- those draft-dodging, 
pot-smoking, hippies who demonstrated against the Vietnam War 
and who fomented the destructive (to women) 'women's 
liberation' movement.  These New Totalitarians [7] are now in 
power as they have come to middle-age and control every public 
institution in our nation. . .
       It is important to realize that this movement, 'cultural 
Marxism,' exists, understand where it came from, and what its 
objectives were -- the complete destruction of Western 
Civilization in America.  That is, these 'cultural Marxists' 
aimed to destroy, slowly but surely from the bottom up, the 
entire fabric of American Civilization. . .
       The confluence of radical feminism and 'cultural 
Marxism' within the span of a single generation, that of the 
elite Boomers (possibly the most dangerous [27] generation in 
America's history), has imposed this yoke on the American 
male.  It remains to be seen whether or not he will continue 
his 'voluntary submission' to a future of slavery in a new 
American matriarchy, the precursor to a state of complete anarchy.
        If we allow this subversion of American values and 
interests to continue, we will (in future generations) lose all 
that our ancestors suffered and died for. . ."
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