Every once in a while, a hostile commenter wanders into the discussion here nattering about the evils of “Cultural Marxism.” One stopped by last night, prompting another commenter to ask what exactly this Cultural Marxism was, anyway.
I responded by saying the term essentially meant, at least to most of those using it, “the Evil Jews But We’ve Learned We Can’t Just Say That Publicly Outside of 4chan and Stormfront Without People Realizing We’re Basically Nazis.”
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.
But it’s not as if the opponents of “Cultural Marxism” go to great lengths to hide their racism and anti-Semitism. Indeed, a quick look at some of the “memes” and other graphics used by the Cultural Marxism-haters makes pretty clear where they’re coming from.
So here are some of the most, well, revealing images that popped up when I did a quick image search for “Cultural Marxism.” I’ve done this a couple of times before, but I felt it was time for a refresher, just a little reminder how many of the opponents of “Cultural Marxism” actually see the world.
CONTENT WARNING: All the bigotries you can imagine, and then some.
The last one is especially charming: don’t believe YOUR conspiracy theory, believe MINE.
Oh, and if these people start bringing up The Frankfurt School, well, it’s not because they’re interested in discussing the theories of actual cultural Marxists like Theodor Adorno or Herbert Marcuse. No, it’s just another way for them to say “teh evil Jews,” as this little “infographic” makes abundantly clear.
I should note that not everyone who talks about the alleged evils of alleged “Cultural Marxism” is a neo-Nazi. Some of them are simply people who, perhaps unknowingly, are getting a good deal of their “information” about the world from neo-Nazis who aren’t necessarily very upfront about being neo-Nazis. (There are a lot of these types hanging about in the manosphere and in GamerGate circles.)
If you’re one of the non-neo-Nazis and you’re dropping the phrase “Cultural Marxism” into your conversations online and possibly off, take a good hard look at the images above. The people who made these images are the people you’re aligning yourself with.
These are people who actually believe a secret cabal of hook-nosed Jews runs the world. These are people who think interracial classrooms = white genocide, and that supporters of multiculturalism not-so-secretly yearn for a world without white children. These are people who think Adolph Hitler had a lot of really good ideas, and not just about landscape painting. These are people, in other words, that you should have nothing to do with.
@Bina, they’re pretending that white women are all attractive and non-white women are unattractive, and that that imagined fact justifies bigotry.
It’s bigotry all the way down.
“If I got an euro every time some american rightwing idiot misuses words like “marxism”, “socialism”, “communism” etc. I would never be able to spend all that cash.”
Oh, this! What is even more appalling is that the USA is sometimes considered too “communist” simply because it isn’t free market-y enough, even though Democrats are too centre-right compared to the left-wingers in Europe. You can push your economy in a more market fundamentalist direction, make the rich get richer and the poor get poorer and STILL some arsehole would bitch and moan that there’s poverty because of some pernicious communist principle at work.
The mass-murderer Breivik was also very keen on the term Cultural Marxism, a term I first heard when he did what he did and his ‘manifesto’ became news. I have to say, when I heard it I instantly thought of Peter Hitchens (a reactionary UK journalist). To be fair, Hitchens (although he says much I’d object to) isn’t a racist or an antisemite. On a number of occasions he has either insinuated or outright stated that ‘progressive’ social change in the UK is down to a left-wing cabal (he likes to highlight the fact that many in the Blair government were in far-left groups in their youth) following Gramscian ideas on social change – essentially implementing communist social ideas (in Hitchens’ view, at least) while accepting communist economic ideas were a failure. The ‘cultural Marxism’ you’re talking about sounds a much cruder concept, though.
@Lord Crowstaff:
I occasionally see someone yelling about “fascist communists!!” and that’s when I spend the rest of the day with a huge red hand mark on my face.
@Adam Pack:
I expect the recent depiction of Coal Hill School on Doctor Who is closer to what a London school looks like than those cherry-picked pictures up there.
Anti-racist = anti-white | Racist = white?
I mean, if you spend so much energy arguing your bullshit code word theory, then I can only assume you also agree with the converse, that being racist is being white. Who says we accuse every white person of racism again?
Considering their definition of “white genocide” is something along the lines of
“Waah, some white women are choosing to have babies with [put racial slur here], those babies won’t look like me! Waah, how can they do this, don’t they know that white women belong to white men like me? Waah!”…
I have no objections to “white genocide” happening. (wonder if I’ll see that taken out of context and come back to bite me)
My favorite ridiculous Cultural Marxism memes:
http://powerpointparadise.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/FreeArabsCulturalMarxism.jpg
It says these are the nightmare of decent family people, but I think they sound like the coolest Scooby Doo reboot yet. They just need a Velma.
Also, I think I went to Sarah Lawrence with these people.
CW – gross! Gross gross gross. http://i0.wp.com/quietmike.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/image.jpg
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“Sex quotas are necessary because gender is a social construct” not sure what that means, or whether sex quotas mean we need to have more sex or less. But at least australia isn’t for want of nonsensical bullshit.
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tSEF6_Lgtl0/Uv_WjUPzhYI/AAAAAAAAAHQ/0M1CdXkOwOs/s1600/textgram_1392062780.png
It doesn’t make sense! Why is the skeleton two-headed of communism and capitalism are two sides of the same coin?! Coins have a head side and a tails side, except for some trick coins. And how are communism and capitalism in any way similar?
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MTNhLyU2R5w/VMqRBBZeZ2I/AAAAAAAAEmg/sGlJHdfJ81g/s1600/feminism%2Bgreat.jpg
Brb practicing witchcraft and becoming a lesbian
http://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/leftist_flow_chart.jpg
It all makes sense now! Wait… No, it doesn’t.
Oh look, it’s Anita Sarkeesian. But how is falling off your bike Marxist?
In case those luscious blonde braids didn’t make it clear, the model and baby are both dressed in white clothes too. God, so not subtle.
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Another from Sydney trads. Apparently I was supposed to study the traditional cannon, which had much to teach me of perennial truths. And here I thought it was just an old metal pipe outside the post office.
http://culturalmarxism.net/file/2014/12/pope-zionism-620×330.jpg
Et tu, Francis? I would be more shocked but the text is cut off by the pictures. 1/10 inept
http://www.dailystormer.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Republican-Policy.png
Rofl. This one is kind of amusing.
There’s lots more, maybe we should all post our favorites
Oh man. I’m sorry about #2. I thought it would just post links to these shitty memes. Maybe remove it, because it is pretty revolting
I know, right? I was looking at the Annie one and the “We have our own diversity” one and thinking, out of the context of this page I would not get the point. That there was a white girl in one Annie movie and a black girl in the newest one is just a fact. You’d have to BE RACIST to take that as a problem. Most people would probably interpret it as a social justice statement, if they couldn’t work out what Cultural Marxism meant.
As for the one with what looks like Charlie’s Angels in it, our American form of diversity is… differences in hair color? I’m completely baffled by this one. Unless they think brown hair is a sign of race mixing or something, I do not get what they could possibly be saying…
…oh oh OH I just got it. They’re saying that different hair colors is enough diversity and different skin tones would be too much. Um, okay? First of all, it was a struggle to discern that from that image. Secondly, well, that’s your opinion???? I guess it’s hard to argue convincingly when your argument is crap.
Can we add humanism to the mix too? I’m so tired of people saying “I’m not a feminist, I’m a humanist” and “why do we have to bring race into this? I believe in humanism, equality for all.”
Why do people not realize that humanism is already a thing with a specific definition and you can’t just call yourself a humanist to pretend that men, white people and cishet people are equally oppressed?
Doctor Who promotes white genocide too! How else can you explain this?
http://acollectivemind.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/martha.jpg
Checkmate cultural Marxists!
Considering “white” isn’t even a race, but an amalgamation of heritages linked only by a property that disappears when you stay in the sun too long… I have no objections to “white genocide” happening either.
In fact, “white genocide” has already happened; it started when people first started traveling to other places and marrying people not from the same bit of land as them, and it was accelerated by “first world” countries and the prosperity that allowed even more intermixing.
Sorry assholes, even if you truly cared about “racial purity,” the time for that has long since passed.
One of the (many, many, many) stupidest parts about this… Going by their own definitions, the odds of even one of them being “White” (as per their beloved one-drop rule, with no non-white ancestors at all) are basically zero. And that’s if we generously ignore the fact that Homo sapiens evolved in sub-Saharan Africa.
And they know this, as proven by the way they always cut off fellow white supremacists who embarrass them (such as Roosh or Naso) with “He’s swarthy.”
@Falconer – I’m English, and in the cities, you sometimes get schools where the racial mix is 50% white and 50% everyone else. Outside of the cities, you might have an Arab or whatever child in a class. One child. We’re not exactly being swamped (not that I would mind if we were – I intentionally live in a part of my city which has a lot of Arab and Indian people because they’re generally friendly, intelligent and helpful, and also, to be shallow, the food and music are much better).
@Bakunin – no-one said that. No one ever said anything like that. You are confused.
Ninja’d by Kirby! =P
@Adam
Bakunin was responding to one of the “Memes,” not to any of us.
It was meant rhetorically, if being anti-racist is anti-white, then being racist is white. They accuse us of saying all white people are racist, when their own rhetoric damns them.
I do get that not all white people are racist, we just benefit from racism.
Kevin MacDonald is one academic throughline for these people. He’s the guy who got Jim Goad, Roosh, and the rest of the manosphere fascinated with anti-semitism.
‘Bakunin – I’m terribly sorry, I completely misunderstood you. It was I who was confused. Please accept my apologies and a notional cake to make up for my rudeness. Or something else, if you don’t like cake.
It definitely says something when a group’s propaganda is unintelligible to anyone outside it.
Three thin rich white women, all with long hair = diversity. Riiiiiight.
Eh, it wasn’t the clearest I could have been. No worries.
Re: non-sensical term salads: I had an intro to PolSci professor who assigned a slew of _Very Short Introduction_ books (ex: Fascism: A Very Short Introduction https://www.amazon.com/dp/0199685363/ref=cm_sw_r_awd_VU.MvbG73R9YF ). He included Fascism, Communism, Socialism, Democracy…there were like two others, but they’re not coming to me.
On the first day of class, he told everyone that they were to read them before the next class / before our first discussion.
I wish I could do that to everyone who wishes to discuss politics on the Internet, but I’d take it one step further and require a quiz. If you don’t pass it, you can’t post.
I’m not sure if it would make comments sections more civil, but it would at least help them to be a bit more informed.
As a student of Frankfurt university, I’m flattered that there are people who believe our department of political philosophy is causing the end of Western Civilisation and the extinction of the White Race*. Pretty sure our neo-nazis have never heard of the Frankfurt School.
*As a German it’s also interesting to me when American racists talk about the “white race”. German nazis don’t care if you’re pale-skinned, they care if you’re “aryan” (i.e. vaguely north germanic ethnically). They want to save the German race, or possibly the Aryan race. Like, Slavs are pale, but they’re still evil subhumans. Germanic people getting outbred by, say, “racially” French people would be just as bad as them being outbred by Namibians.
I like to imagine German and American neo-nazis get in big, stupid arguments whenever they meet because they’ve reified different half-baked ideas of what constitutes a “race” — the American one that’s borne of slavery and the racial segregation system and goes by what you look like vs. the European one that’s based on ethnocentrism and only uses skin colour as an incidental marker.
“Who needs people of colour? The white women I fantasize about can have one of three hair colours.”