The Imminent Collapse of Cultural Marxism

Mar 27, 2018 by

by Gregory Slysz, Quarterly Review:

The dreadful damage inflicted on Western societies by Cultural Marxism, popularly known as Political Correctness (PC), has attracted much conservative commentary, most of which focuses on the imminent death of all things Western. The eleventh hour has been reached and the last chance of salvation from a Maoist nightmare is an Arthurian counter offensive whose chances of success are slim to nothing. ‘If Trump fails in his attempt to defeat political correctness’, writes Edward J. Erler, ‘no one—certainly no Republican—is likely to try it again. It is easy to predict the First Amendment’s fate if Trump fails.’

Yet terrible as the situation has become, the time for panic is premature. Re-capturing the state from PC zealots must remain foremost for conservatives, but to view it as a make or break situation not only invests the architects of Cultural Marxism with unparalleled sagacity but also overlooks the inherent, self-destructive contradictions of their ideology. Its progressive façade is no longer adequate to disguise its moral bankruptcy – its authoritarianism, its spiritual vacuity, its cultural nihilism and its irrationality. The more extreme it gets, the more it is rejected. Nevertheless, it remains entrenched within state institutions and notwithstanding the great successes that have been achieved against it recently, as Trump and Brexit have demonstrated, the counter-revolutionary strategy, so to speak, has been a slow, wearisome processes of attrition that has inflicted considerable battle scars on its protagonists. Recognition of the inherent weaknesses of Cultural Marxism will serve to reinvigorate the conservative Right and channel effort more effectively. Justin Trudeau’s increasingly bizarre antics or the Archbishop of Canterbury’s latest leftist pronouncement or CNN’s explicit promotion of adultery should not be regarded as evidence of ideological ascendancy but rather of hubris: “Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad”.

Paradoxically, the Western liberal state has assisted its ideological antithesis. The point at which liberalism turned the private person into a ‘citizen’ was the point at which society became politicised. A political merry-go-round emerged, pitting citizens’ lobby groups against the state, the former insisting on freedoms, the latter legitimising itself by providing them. It was fertile soil for groups hell bent on ‘promoting/defending’ special interests in the name of democracy and equality. Areas which hitherto had been the private domain of the individual became policed by the state, under the watchful eye of lobby groups to ensure that legislation to protect new rights was being enforced.

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