The enemy within

03 Aug: How cultural Marxism came to dominate Western culture

Cultural Marxism, dubbed “the greatest cancer in the Western world”, is the ideological driver behind political correctness. It is the destructive criticism and undermining of all institutions of Western civilization and the traditional values underpinning it. Cultural Marxism was formulated as a way to subvert Western nations and civilization using methods other than direct political action. Cultural Marxism is largely a synthesis of Marx and Freud. It is Marxism as applied in the cultural sphere and the analysis and control of the media, art, theatre, film and other cultural institutions in society, often with an emphasis on class, race and gender. Shortly after the Russian Revolution, in 1919 the Bolsheviks founded Comintern (the Communist International) to “fight by all available means … for the overthrow of the international bourgeoisie for the creation of an international Soviet republic.”  Two Marxist theorists, Antonio Gramsci of Italy and Georg Lukacs of Hungary, concluded that…

27 Jan: The enemy within

Western countries, particularly the English-speaking  countries, face threats from a number of enemies within, including the Greens who want to de-industrialize the West, the anti-capitalist movements, Islamist groups seeking to replace Western-style democracy with the Sharia system and  Left-wing academics undermining Western cultural values and traditions. The words of Roman philosopher, politician and orator, Marcus Tullius Cicero two thousand years ago were never more true than today. “A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments,…