ORIGIN OF POLITICAL CORRECTNESS
This an essay on a website called Gates Of Vienna that deals with the Marxist origins of Political Correctness. I found it through a link on Relapsed Catholic by Kathy Shaidle .This is a dense and long read by someone going by the name of Fjordman but it is, quite frankly one of the best pieces I have ever read on Political Correctness. I implore anyone who cares about this subject to take the time to read it. It also explains much as to why political correctness and the New Left are so hateful of Christianity.
Here is a sample:
Just as in classical economic Marxism certain groups, i.e. workers and peasants, are a priori good, and other groups, i.e., the bourgeoisie and capital owners, are evil. In the cultural Marxism of Political Correctness certain groups are good,” for instance feminist women. Similarly, “white males are determined automatically to be evil, thereby becoming the equivalent of the bourgeoisie in economic Marxism.” Both economic and cultural Marxism “have a method of analysis that automatically gives the answers they want. For the classical Marxist, it’s Marxist economics. For the cultural Marxist, it’s deconstruction. Deconstruction essentially takes any text, removes all meaning from it and re-inserts any meaning desired.”
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William S. Lind points out that this cultural Marxism had its beginnings after the Marxist Revolution in Russia in 1917 failed to take roots in other countries. Marxists tried to analyze the reasons for this, and found them in Western civilization and culture itself. “Gramsci said the workers will never see their true class interests, as defined by Marxism, until they are freed from Western culture, and particularly from the Christian religion – that they are blinded by culture and religion to their true class interests. Lukacs, who was considered the most brilliant Marxist theorist since Marx himself, said in 1919, “Who will save us from Western Civilization?”
Ahhh, Gramsci, MacKinnon, Marx...feels like I'm back in university.
Thanks again to Kathy Shaidle for finding this and to the Fjordman for writing it.
Thanks also to Baron Bodissey for contacting us so that proper credti could be given.
posted by Nicol DuMoulin @ 6:58 AM
4 Comments:
Very thought provoking, Nicol. You might want to check out Dust My Broom's latest post on "No Dad City". I think you'll find it interesting.
to hell with all this pc crap! i say we go back to calling the spades "spades"....
KEvron
Thanks for the link!
I'd like to say that I wrote the essay, but I didn't; it's by Fjordman. He has chosen not to be a contributor at Gates of Vienna, which means that he sends his guest-posts to me, and I post them for him. That's why they have my byline, although I credit him at the top of the post.
I wish I could claim credit for such fine work, but I can't!
If you could change your post to attribute the piece to Fjordman, we'd both appreciate it.
Philosophical views on the meaning of life The question "What is the significance of life?" has turned philosophers toward the study of significance itself and how it is derived and presented (see semiotics). The question has also been extensively explored by those who attempt to explain the relationship of life to its environment (the universe), and vice versa. Thus, from a scientific point of view, the significance of life is what it is, what it does, and what mechanisms are behind it. In psychology and biology, it is evident significance only exists within human and animal minds; significance is subjective and is an emotional function of brains, making it impossible to exist outside of people's thoughts and feelings
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