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Transformational Marxism, An Introduction
"Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
2. And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:
3. But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.
4. And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:
5. For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
6. And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.
7. And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons." Genesis 3: 1-7
Satan, the first facilitator, lured Eve into a dialogue, and through the dialectic process fixed Eve's obedience to God, and overthrew the absolute patriarchal authority of God. The human father in the family is a reflection of God's patriarchal authority, and the father is told to love his wife and children.
Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937), along with Georg Lukacs, was the founder
of cultural Marxism. Gramsci pioneered the concept of cultural
hegemony as a means of changing a society into a collectivist Marxist
state. Gramsci was from Italy while Lukacs was from Hungary.
Gramsci taught that capitalism in the West kept its control not only
by violence and economic power, but also by culture. The bourgeoisie
had created a hegemonic or dominant culture, which kept capitalism in
power. The Marxist revolution had to first change the culture to take
over capitalist society.
Gramsci thought that Marxism must first establish its cultural
dominance in society and then when that dominance was in place the
people would willingly obey the Marxist political authority. He saw
Marxist intellectuals as directors (later called "facilitators" in the
U.S.) who created Marxist cultural dominance by means of ideological
institutions which are education, the media, and religion.
Antonio Gramsci was an incremental, or slow step by step
revolutionary rather than an advocate of quick and violent takeover of
a government. Gramsci talked about the "long march through the
institutions" to take over Western society. This slower, step by
step takeover of the culture of the West is exactly what has been
happening since the fifties and sixties.
Georg Lukács (1885-1971) was one of the two founders of Western
Marxism, the ideology that departed from the Marxist orthodoxy of the
old Soviet Union. His Transformational Marxism advocated a slower
takeover of Western Europe and the United States by changing the
culture. As such, Transformational Marxism is not Bolshevism - of
Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin - which sought to take over capitalist
nations by overthrowing national governments and then purging out
those who opposed the Bolshevist regime by shooting them.
On Schiller Institute—THE NEW DARK AGE The Frankfurt School and "Political Correctness" and
Georg Lukács and "Aufhebung der Kultur," Abolishment of Culture, they
say "Lukacs identified that any political movement capable of bringing
Bolshevism to the West would have to be, in his words, "demonic"; it
would have to "possess the religious power which is capable of filling
the entire soul; a power that characterized primitive Christianity."
They go on to say that "What differentiated the West from Russia,
Lukacs identified, was a
Judeo-Christian cultural matrix which emphasized exactly the
uniqueness and sacredness of the individual which Lukacs abjured. At
its core, the dominant Western ideology maintained that the
individual, through the exercise of his or her reason, could discern
the Divine Will in an unmediated relationship. What was worse, from
Lukacs' standpoint: this reasonable relationship necessarily implied
that the individual could and should change the physical universe in
pursuit of the Good; that Man should have dominion over Nature, as
stated in the Biblical injunction in Genesis. The problem was, that as
long as the individual had the belief—or even the hope of the
belief—that his or her divine spark of reason could solve the problems
facing society, then that society would never reach the state of
hopelessness and alienation which Lukacs recognized as the necessary
prerequisite for socialist revolution."
Lukacs was aware of protestant individualism and its affirmation of an
individual's
personal relationship with God, as Jesus Christ the Son. The West had
affirmed the individual and his spiritual rise above the mere flesh of
man through Christ and the Holy Spirit. But Marxism affirms the
collective, the group. and hence the phrase "It takes a village to
raise a child" of Hillary and other Marxists.
The Transformational Marxists therefore set out to diminish that
individualism and individual spirituality
inspired by Biblical Christianity. To diminish individual
spirituality and the focus on the individual in Western culture, they
knew they must change the society surrounding the Christian churches
as well as infiltrate the churches themselves with the Marxist
dialectic process and replace man as a living soul with man as mere
flesh in the churches. And cultural Marxism also set out to diminish
the strength of the American family and overthrow the father and
husband as the authority in the family. The stealth Marxist
intellectuals following the lead of the Frankfurt School also knew
they had to infiltrate and change American public school education,
not only to dumb down the population so they would not be critical of
what was happening to their society, but also to change the society
from an individual based on to a collective based Marxist society.
Benjamin Bloom, a follower of Theodor Adorno and Eric Fromm, as he
admits in a footnote, was the key change agent for American public
school education, with his educational goal taxonomies, by which every
school teacher must be certified.
From its beginning, the leaders of Transformational Marxism knew they
could be more effective if they concealed the Marxist nature of their
work, and instead led the society of the West out of the protestant
individual based cultural dominance with its morality, individual
freedom, self-reliance and relationship to Jesus Christ.
"In 1919, Lukacs was the Hungarian Minister of Culture of the
government of the short-lived Hungarian Soviet Republic ."
Schiller Institute—THE NEW DARK AGE The Frankfurt School and "Political Correctness"
When Lukacs became Deputy Commissar for Culture in the Bolshevik
government in Hungary, one of Lukacs’s first acts was to introduce sex
education into Hungary’s public schools. Lukacs wanted to create a
culture in which sex outside of marriage was accepted, to help destroy
the West's Christian based sexual morality, and eventually to do away
with the Western, protestant individual based culture itself.
In 1922, inspired in part by Lukacs, a group of German Marxists
established a think tank at Frankfurt University in Germany called the
Institute for Social Research. This institute, soon known simply as
the Frankfurt School, would become the center of cultural Marxism.
The Frankfurters wanted to change the economic focus of traditional
Marxism to a cultural focus. To do this they first turned to Sigmund
Freud. Later in the United States, Theodor W. Adorno pretended to be
a personality-social psychologist and researcher using paper and
pencil questionnaires. Soon a number of 20th century change agents,
including some psychologists and psychiatrists - Abraham H. Maslow,
Carl R. Rogers, the Frankfurter Eric Fromm, Wilhelm Reich on the
fringes of the Frankfurters, Norman O. Brown, Irvin D. Yalom and
Herbert Marcuse, a Frankfurter Marxist sociologist, all began to lead
Gramsci's long march through the institutions of America.
How would Transformational Marxism began to take over our
institutions? The answer by the leaders of Transformational Marxism
was the counterculture of the sixties and seventies which was to begin
the process of takeover of the American culture. The counterculture
established the drug movement, sexual rebellion against Christian
sexual morality, plus feminism, the Black movement, as well as the
homosexual and lesbian movements. Lesbianism became politically and
sexually correct in the major universities soon after the seventies.
The major universities became change agents, with their politically
correct feminism, gay rights, lesbianism, self psychology, and
Marxist sociological ideology, all within cultural Marxism. Pornography, as on the Internet, is allied with all this because it too attacks Christianity and the family.
The Baby Boomer generation became the target of the Frankfurt School's
intellectuals, the first American generation to live under the new
collectivist cultural dominance created by Transformational Marxism.
American generations born before the Baby Boomers began in 1946 tended
to follow a culture of protestant based individualism, a culture that
valued individual freedom, individual moral responsibility and
self-reliance.
American Historians Frederick Jackson Turner and Walter
Prescott Webb wrote about the mentality of Americans of the western
frontier, saying they were more independent, self-reliant and
resourceful. Webb even said that people on the Great Plains were
"lawless." Many people on the Western frontier were more
unconventional than those who stayed back East. A few people in the
Great Plains of the 19th and early 20th centuries were outlaws, but what
Walter Prescott Webb meant by the Western people being "lawless" was
that they, as a culture then, were more independent and self-reliant, and
non-conformist. They were also more resourceful than the Eastern city dwellers.
The rural and small town Westerners were not as dependent on the nanny
state as Easterners of the cities, and Western people were more able to survive
off the land, fix their machines themselves, grow crops that were more healthy
to eat and many stayed out of hospitals and away from the allopathic type of
doctors who were taking over medicine from the East.
Even the Western children of the thirties were more likely to be less
dependent on society
to survive, more individualistic, and more self-reliant or resourceful
than their
children, the Baby Boomers. The Baby Boomers, as a generation, began
the departure from the American
protestant individual based culture.
Walter Prescott Webb in his 1931 book, The Great Plains, says
the West begins at the 98th meridian. In Texas it runs just east of
San Antonio and may run north so that Dallas, for example, is in the
East. Houston is an Eastern city. But San Antonio is part of the
West and of the Great Plains. However, California and the entire West
Coast is not exactly the West in its culture that Walter Prescott Webb
talks about. The states of the Great Plains represent Webb's West in
culture, which includes Wyoming and Montana and perhaps New Mexico and Arizona.
Now, in 2012, the people of the generation of the thirties still
alive, especially those born in the period of about 1928 to 1935, in
the West, are old. Its not surprising that a new collectivist Marxist
society would want to get rid of these more individualistic people,
some with their morals and a few with a belief in the absolute truth of
the Bible. Why not save money by denying health care to these older
people? However, I know that the majororty of those who belong to
the Remnant of Israel in America now tend to include more who are Baby
Boomers in their fifties, who do have more reliance on the absolute truth and morality of Scripture.
Transformational Marxism, An Introduction
"Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
2. And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:
3. But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.
4. And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:
5. For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
6. And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.
7. And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons." Genesis 3: 1-7
Satan, the first facilitator, lured Eve into a dialogue, and through the dialectic process fixed Eve's obedience to God, and overthrew the absolute patriarchal authority of God. The human father in the family is a reflection of God's patriarchal authority, and the father is told to love his wife and children.
Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937), along with Georg Lukacs, was the founder
of cultural Marxism. Gramsci pioneered the concept of cultural
hegemony as a means of changing a society into a collectivist Marxist
state. Gramsci was from Italy while Lukacs was from Hungary.
Gramsci taught that capitalism in the West kept its control not only
by violence and economic power, but also by culture. The bourgeoisie
had created a hegemonic or dominant culture, which kept capitalism in
power. The Marxist revolution had to first change the culture to take
over capitalist society.
Gramsci thought that Marxism must first establish its cultural
dominance in society and then when that dominance was in place the
people would willingly obey the Marxist political authority. He saw
Marxist intellectuals as directors (later called "facilitators" in the
U.S.) who created Marxist cultural dominance by means of ideological
institutions which are education, the media, and religion.
Antonio Gramsci was an incremental, or slow step by step
revolutionary rather than an advocate of quick and violent takeover of
a government. Gramsci talked about the "long march through the
institutions" to take over Western society. This slower, step by
step takeover of the culture of the West is exactly what has been
happening since the fifties and sixties.
Georg Lukács (1885-1971) was one of the two founders of Western
Marxism, the ideology that departed from the Marxist orthodoxy of the
old Soviet Union. His Transformational Marxism advocated a slower
takeover of Western Europe and the United States by changing the
culture. As such, Transformational Marxism is not Bolshevism - of
Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin - which sought to take over capitalist
nations by overthrowing national governments and then purging out
those who opposed the Bolshevist regime by shooting them.
On Schiller Institute—THE NEW DARK AGE The Frankfurt School and "Political Correctness" and
Georg Lukács and "Aufhebung der Kultur," Abolishment of Culture, they
say "Lukacs identified that any political movement capable of bringing
Bolshevism to the West would have to be, in his words, "demonic"; it
would have to "possess the religious power which is capable of filling
the entire soul; a power that characterized primitive Christianity."
They go on to say that "What differentiated the West from Russia,
Lukacs identified, was a
Judeo-Christian cultural matrix which emphasized exactly the
uniqueness and sacredness of the individual which Lukacs abjured. At
its core, the dominant Western ideology maintained that the
individual, through the exercise of his or her reason, could discern
the Divine Will in an unmediated relationship. What was worse, from
Lukacs' standpoint: this reasonable relationship necessarily implied
that the individual could and should change the physical universe in
pursuit of the Good; that Man should have dominion over Nature, as
stated in the Biblical injunction in Genesis. The problem was, that as
long as the individual had the belief—or even the hope of the
belief—that his or her divine spark of reason could solve the problems
facing society, then that society would never reach the state of
hopelessness and alienation which Lukacs recognized as the necessary
prerequisite for socialist revolution."
Lukacs was aware of protestant individualism and its affirmation of an
individual's
personal relationship with God, as Jesus Christ the Son. The West had
affirmed the individual and his spiritual rise above the mere flesh of
man through Christ and the Holy Spirit. But Marxism affirms the
collective, the group. and hence the phrase "It takes a village to
raise a child" of Hillary and other Marxists.
The Transformational Marxists therefore set out to diminish that
individualism and individual spirituality
inspired by Biblical Christianity. To diminish individual
spirituality and the focus on the individual in Western culture, they
knew they must change the society surrounding the Christian churches
as well as infiltrate the churches themselves with the Marxist
dialectic process and replace man as a living soul with man as mere
flesh in the churches. And cultural Marxism also set out to diminish
the strength of the American family and overthrow the father and
husband as the authority in the family. The stealth Marxist
intellectuals following the lead of the Frankfurt School also knew
they had to infiltrate and change American public school education,
not only to dumb down the population so they would not be critical of
what was happening to their society, but also to change the society
from an individual based on to a collective based Marxist society.
Benjamin Bloom, a follower of Theodor Adorno and Eric Fromm, as he
admits in a footnote, was the key change agent for American public
school education, with his educational goal taxonomies, by which every
school teacher must be certified.
From its beginning, the leaders of Transformational Marxism knew they
could be more effective if they concealed the Marxist nature of their
work, and instead led the society of the West out of the protestant
individual based cultural dominance with its morality, individual
freedom, self-reliance and relationship to Jesus Christ.
"In 1919, Lukacs was the Hungarian Minister of Culture of the
government of the short-lived Hungarian Soviet Republic ."
Schiller Institute—THE NEW DARK AGE The Frankfurt School and "Political Correctness"
When Lukacs became Deputy Commissar for Culture in the Bolshevik
government in Hungary, one of Lukacs’s first acts was to introduce sex
education into Hungary’s public schools. Lukacs wanted to create a
culture in which sex outside of marriage was accepted, to help destroy
the West's Christian based sexual morality, and eventually to do away
with the Western, protestant individual based culture itself.
In 1922, inspired in part by Lukacs, a group of German Marxists
established a think tank at Frankfurt University in Germany called the
Institute for Social Research. This institute, soon known simply as
the Frankfurt School, would become the center of cultural Marxism.
The Frankfurters wanted to change the economic focus of traditional
Marxism to a cultural focus. To do this they first turned to Sigmund
Freud. Later in the United States, Theodor W. Adorno pretended to be
a personality-social psychologist and researcher using paper and
pencil questionnaires. Soon a number of 20th century change agents,
including some psychologists and psychiatrists - Abraham H. Maslow,
Carl R. Rogers, the Frankfurter Eric Fromm, Wilhelm Reich on the
fringes of the Frankfurters, Norman O. Brown, Irvin D. Yalom and
Herbert Marcuse, a Frankfurter Marxist sociologist, all began to lead
Gramsci's long march through the institutions of America.
How would Transformational Marxism began to take over our
institutions? The answer by the leaders of Transformational Marxism
was the counterculture of the sixties and seventies which was to begin
the process of takeover of the American culture. The counterculture
established the drug movement, sexual rebellion against Christian
sexual morality, plus feminism, the Black movement, as well as the
homosexual and lesbian movements. Lesbianism became politically and
sexually correct in the major universities soon after the seventies.
The major universities became change agents, with their politically
correct feminism, gay rights, lesbianism, self psychology, and
Marxist sociological ideology, all within cultural Marxism. Pornography, as on the Internet, is allied with all this because it too attacks Christianity and the family.
The Baby Boomer generation became the target of the Frankfurt School's
intellectuals, the first American generation to live under the new
collectivist cultural dominance created by Transformational Marxism.
American generations born before the Baby Boomers began in 1946 tended
to follow a culture of protestant based individualism, a culture that
valued individual freedom, individual moral responsibility and
self-reliance.
American Historians Frederick Jackson Turner and Walter
Prescott Webb wrote about the mentality of Americans of the western
frontier, saying they were more independent, self-reliant and
resourceful. Webb even said that people on the Great Plains were
"lawless." Many people on the Western frontier were more
unconventional than those who stayed back East. A few people in the
Great Plains of the 19th and early 20th centuries were outlaws, but what
Walter Prescott Webb meant by the Western people being "lawless" was
that they, as a culture then, were more independent and self-reliant, and
non-conformist. They were also more resourceful than the Eastern city dwellers.
The rural and small town Westerners were not as dependent on the nanny
state as Easterners of the cities, and Western people were more able to survive
off the land, fix their machines themselves, grow crops that were more healthy
to eat and many stayed out of hospitals and away from the allopathic type of
doctors who were taking over medicine from the East.
Even the Western children of the thirties were more likely to be less
dependent on society
to survive, more individualistic, and more self-reliant or resourceful
than their
children, the Baby Boomers. The Baby Boomers, as a generation, began
the departure from the American
protestant individual based culture.
Walter Prescott Webb in his 1931 book, The Great Plains, says
the West begins at the 98th meridian. In Texas it runs just east of
San Antonio and may run north so that Dallas, for example, is in the
East. Houston is an Eastern city. But San Antonio is part of the
West and of the Great Plains. However, California and the entire West
Coast is not exactly the West in its culture that Walter Prescott Webb
talks about. The states of the Great Plains represent Webb's West in
culture, which includes Wyoming and Montana and perhaps New Mexico and Arizona.
Now, in 2012, the people of the generation of the thirties still
alive, especially those born in the period of about 1928 to 1935, in
the West, are old. Its not surprising that a new collectivist Marxist
society would want to get rid of these more individualistic people,
some with their morals and a few with a belief in the absolute truth of
the Bible. Why not save money by denying health care to these older
people? However, I know that the majororty of those who belong to
the Remnant of Israel in America now tend to include more who are Baby
Boomers in their fifties, who do have more reliance on the absolute truth and morality of Scripture.
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