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Interesting video and article that documents the history of Political
Correctness, except for one detail, they are both too politically
correct to mention the tribal affiliation of nearly all the
perpetrators of this modern day scourge. Is it an anomaly that nearly
everyone mentioned: Georg Lukács, Max Horkheimer, Herbert Marcuse,
Theodor Adorno, Erich Fromm, and Wilhelm Reich are all Jewish? Or is
the promotion of Political Correctness rather another manifestation of
Jewish group evolutionary strategy designed to break down the defenses
of a homogeneous society? We post this video and article and leave you
to decide.

The Historical Roots of "Political Correctness"
By Raymond V. Raehn

America is today dominated by an alien system of beliefs, attitudes
and values that we have come to know as "Political Correctness."
Political Correctness seeks to impose a uniformity of thought and
behavior on all Americans and is therefore totalitarian in nature. Its
roots lie in a version of Marxism which seeks a radical inversion of
the traditional culture in order to create a social revolution.

Social revolution has a long history, conceivably going as far back as
Plato's Republic. But it was the French Revolution of 1789 that
inspired Karl Marx to develop his theories in the nineteenth century.
In the twentieth century, the success of the Bolshevik Revolution of
1917 in Russia set off a wave of optimistic expectation among the
Marxist forces in Europe and America that the new proletarian world of
equality was finally coming into being. Russia, as the first communist
nation in the world, would lead the revolutionary forces to victory.

The Marxist revolutionary forces in Europe leaped at this opportunity.
Following the end of World War I, there was a Communist "Spartacist
uprising in Berlin, Germany lead by Rosa Luxemburg; the creation of a
"Soviet" in Bavaria led by Kurt Eisner; and a Hungarian communist
republic established by Bela Kun in 1919. At the time, there was great
concern that all of Europe might fall under the banner of Bolshevism.
This sense of impeding doom was given vivid life by Trotsky's Red Army
invasion of Poland in 1919.

However, the Red Army was defeated by Polish forces at the battle of
the Vistula in 1920. The Spartacist, Bavarian Soviet and Bela Kun
governments all failed to gain widespread support from the workers and
after a brief time they were all overthrown. These events created a
quandary for the Marxist revolutionaries in Europe. Under Marxist
economic theory, the oppressed workers were supposed to be the
beneficiaries of a social revolution that would place them on top of
the power structure. When these revolutionary opportunities presented
themselves, however, the workers did not respond. The Marxist
revolutionaries did not blame their theory for these failures. They
blamed the workers.

One group of Marxist intellectuals resolved their quandary by an
analysis that focused on society's cultural "superstructure" rather
than on the economic substructures as Marx did. The Italian Marxist
Antonio Gramsci and Hungarian Marxist Georg Lukacs contributed the
most to this new cultural Marxism.

Antonio Gramsci worked for the Communist International during 1923-24
in Moscow and Vienna. He was later imprisoned in one of Mussolini's
jails where he wrote his famous "Prison Notebooks." Among Marxists,
Gramsci is noted for his theory of cultural hegemony as the means to
class dominance. In his view, a new "Communist man" had to be created
before any political revolution was possible. This led to a focus on
the efforts of intellectuals in the fields of education and culture.
Gramsci envisioned a long march through the society's institutions,
including the government, the judiciary, the military, the schools and
the media. He also concluded that so long as the workers had a
Christian soul, they would not respond to revolutionary appeals.

Georg Lukacs was the son a wealthy Hungarian banker. Lukacs began his
political life as an agent of the Communist International. His book
History and Class Consciousness gained him recognition as the leading
Marxist theorist since Karl Marx. Lukacs believed that for a new
Marxist culture to emerge, the existing culture must be destroyed. He
said, "I saw the revolutionary destruction of society as the one and
only solution to the cultural contradictions of the epoch," and, "Such
a worldwide overturning of values cannot take place without the
annihilation of the old values and the creation of new ones by the
revolutionaries."

When he became Deputy Commissar for Culture in the Bolshevik Bela Kun
regime in Hungary in 1919, Lukacs launched what became known as
"Cultural Terrorism." As part of this terrorism he instituted a
radical sex education program in Hungarian schools. Hungarian children
were instructed in free love, sexual intercourse, the archaic nature
of middle-class family codes, the out-datedness of monogamy, and the
irrelevance of religion, which deprives man of all pleasures. Women,
too, were called to rebel against the sexual mores of the time.
Lukacs's campaign of "Cultural Terrorism" was a precursor to what
Political Correctness would later bring to American schools.

In 1923, Lukacs and other Marxist intellectuals associated with the
Communist Party of Germany founded the Institute of Social Research at
Frankfurt University in Frankfurt, Germany. The Institute, which
became known as the Frankfurt School, was modeled after the Marx-
Engels Institute in Moscow. In 1933, when Nazis came to power in
Germany, the members of the Frankfurt School fled. Most came to the
United States.

The members of the Frankfurt School conducted numerous studies on the
beliefs, attitudes and values they believed lay behind the rise of
National Socialism in Germany. The Frankfurt School's studies combined
Marxist analysis with Freudian psychoanalysis to form the basis of
what became known as "Critical Theory." Critical Theory was
essentially destructive criticism of the main elements of Western
culture, including Christianity, capitalism, authority, the family,
patriarchy, hierarchy, morality, tradition, sexual restraint, loyalty,
patriotism, nationalism, heredity, ethnocentrism, convention and
conservatism. These criticisms were reflected in such works of the
Frankfurt School as Erich Fromm's Escape from Freedom and The Dogma of
Christ, Wilhelm's Reich's The Mass Psychology of Fascism and Theodor
Adorno's The Authoritarian Personality.

The Authoritarian Personality, published in 1950, substantially
influenced American psychologists and social scientists. The book was
premised on one basic idea, that the presence in a society of
Christianity, capitalism and the patriarchal-authoritarian family
created a character prone to racial prejudice and German fascism. The
Authoritarian Personality became a handbook for a national campaign
against any kind of prejudice or discrimination on the theory that if
these evils were not eradicated, another Holocaust might occur on the
American continent. This campaign, in turn, provided a basis for
Political Correctness.

Critical Theory incorporated sub-theories which themselves were
intended to chip away at specific elements of the existing culture,
including "matriarchal theory," "androgyny theory," "personality
theory," "authority theory," "family theory," "sexuality theory,"
"racial theory," "legal theory" and "literary theory." Put into
practice, these theories were to be used to overthrow the prevailing
social order and usher in social revolution based on cultural Marxism.

To achieve this, the Critical Theorists of the Frankfurt School
recognized that traditional beliefs and the existing social structure
would have to be destroyed and then replaced. The patriarchal social
structure would be replaced with matriarchy; the belief that men and
women are different and properly have different roles would be
replaced with androgyny; and the belief that heterosexuality is normal
would be replaced with the belief that homosexuality is "normal."

As a grand scheme intended to deny the intrinsic worth of white,
heterosexual males, the Critical Theorists of the Frankfurt School
opened the door to the racial and sexual antagonisms of the
Trotskyites. Leon Trotsky believed that oppressed blacks could be the
vanguard of a communist revolution in North America. He denounced
white workers who were prejudiced against blacks and instructed them
to unite with the blacks in revolution. Trotsky's ideas were adopted
by many of the student leaders of the 1960s counterculture movement,
who attempted to elevate the black revolutionaries to positions of
leadership in their movement.

The student revolutionaries were also strongly influenced by the ideas
of Herbert Marcuse, another member of the Frankfurt School. Marcuse
preached the "Great Refusal," a rejection of all basic Western
concepts, sexual liberation and the merits of feminist and black
revolutions. His primary thesis was that university students, ghetto
blacks, the alienated, the asocial, and the Third World could take the
place of the proletariat in the Communist revolution. In his book, An
Essay on Liberation, Marcuse proclaimed his goals of a radical
transvaluation of values; the relaxation of taboos, cultural
subversion; Critical Theory; and a linguistic rebellion that would
amount to a methodical reversal of meaning. As for racial conflict,
Marcuse wrote that white men are guilty and that blacks are the most
natural force of rebellion.

Marcuse may be the most important member of the Frankfurt School in
terms of the origins of Political Correctness, because he was the
critical link to the counterculture of the 1960s. His objective was
clear: "One can rightfully speak of a cultural revolution, since the
protest is directed toward the whole cultural establishment, including
morality of existing society..." His means was liberating the powerful,
primeval force of sex from its civilized restraints, a message
preached in his book, Eros and Civilization, published in 1955.
Marcuse became one of the main gurus of the 1960s adolescent sexual
rebellion; he himself coined the expression, "make love, not war."
With that role, the chain of Marxist influence via the Frankfurt
School was completed: from Lukacs's service as Deputy Commissar for
Culture in the Bolshevik Hungarian government in 1919 to American
students burning the flag and taking over college administration
buildings in the 1960s. Today, many of these same colleges are
bastions of Political Correctness, and the former student radicals
have become the faculties.

One of the most important contributors to Political Correctness was
Betty Friedan. Through her book The Feminine Mystique, Friedan became
the mother of the modern feminist movement in America. Friedan was not
a member of the Frankfurt School, but she was strongly influenced by
it. Her work offers a useful case study of the Marxist roots of
Political Correctness.

Friedan devoted almost a full chapter of The Feminine Mystique to
Abraham Maslow's theory of self-actualization. Maslow was a social
psychologist who in his early years did research on female dominance
and sexuality. Maslow was a friend of Herbert Marcuse at Bandeis
University and had met Erich Fromm in 1936. He was strongly impressed
by Fromm's Frankfurt School ideology. He wrote an article, "The
Authoritarian Character Structure," published in 1944, that reflected
the personality theory of Critical Theory. Maslow was also impressed
with the work of Wilhelm Reich, who was another Frankfurt School
originator of personality theory.

The significance of the historical roots of Political Correctness
cannot be fully appreciated unless Betty Friedan's revolution in sex
roles is viewed for what it really was - a manifestation of the social
revolutionary process begun by Karl Marx. Friedan's reliance on
Abraham Maslow's reflection of Frankfurt School ideology is simply one
indicator. Other indicators include the correspondence of Friedan's
revolution in sex roles with Georg Lukacs' annihilation of old values
and the creation of new ones, and with Herbert Marcuse's
transvaluation of values. But the idea of transforming a patriarchy
into a matriarchy - which is what a sex-role inversion is designed to
do - can be connected directed to Friedrich Engels book The Origin of
the Family, Private Property, and the Sate. First published in 1884,
this book popularized the now-accepted feminist belief that deep-
rooted discrimination against the oppressed female sex was a function
of patriarchy. The belief that matriarchy was the solution to
patriarchy flows from Marx's comments in The German Ideology,
published in 1845. In this work Marx advanced the idea that wives and
children were the first property of the patriarchal male. The
Frankfurt School's matriarchal theory (and its near-relation,
androgyny theory) both originated from these sources.

When addressing the general public, advocates of Political Correctness
- or cultural Marxism, to give it its true name - present their
beliefs attractively. It's all just a matter of being "sensitive" to
other people, they say. They use words such as "tolerance" and
"diversity," asking, "Why can't we all just get along?"

The reality is different. Political Correctness is not at all about
"being nice," unless one thinks gulags are nice places. Political
Correctness is Marxism, with all that implies: loss of freedom of
expression, thought control, inversion of the traditional social order
and, ultimately, a totalitarian state. If anything, the cultural
Marxism created by the Frankfurt School is more horrifying than the
old, economic Marxism that ruined Russia. At least the economic
Marxists did not exalt sexual perversion and attempt to create a
matriarchy, as the Frankfurt School and its descendants have done.

This short essay has sought to show one critical linkage, that between
classical Marxism and the ingredients of the "cultural revolution"
that broke out in America in the 1960s. The appendices to this paper
offer a "wiring diagram" which may make the trail easier to follow,
along with a more detailed look at some of the main actors. Of course,
the action does not stop in the '60s; the workings of Frankfurt School
are yet very much with us, especially in the field of education. That
topic, and other present-day effects of Frankfurt School thinking,
will be the subjects of future chapters in this book.

Profiles

Georg Lukacs

* He began his political life as a Kremlin agent of the Communist
International.

* His History and Class-Consciousness gained him recognition as the
leading Marxist theorist since Karl Marx.

* In 1919 he became the Deputy Commissar for Culture in the Bolshevik
Bela Kun Regime in Hungary. He instigated what become known as the
"Cultural Terrorism."

* The Cultural Terrorism was a precursor of what was to happen in
American schools.

* He launched an "explosive" sex education program. Special lectures
were organized in Hungarian schools and literature was printed and
distributed to instruct children about free love, the nature of sexual
intercourse, the archaic nature of the bourgeois family codes, the
outdatedness of monogamy and the irrelevance of religion, which
deprives man of all pleasure. Children urged thus to reject and deride
paternal authority and the authority of the Church, and to ignore
precepts of morality, were easily and spontaneously turned into
delinquents with whom only the police could cope. This call to
rebellion addressed to Hungarian children was matched by a call to
rebellion addressed to Hungarian women.

* In rejecting the idea that Bolshevism spelled the destruction of
civilization and culture, Lukacs stated: "Such a worldwide overturning
of values cannot take place without the annihilation of the old values
and the creation of new ones by the revolutionaries."

* Lukacs' state of mind was expressed in his own words:

o "All the social forces I had hated since my youth, and which I
aimed in spirit to annihilate, now came together to unleash the First
Global War."

o "I saw the revolutionary destruction of society as the one and
only solution to the cultural contradictions of the epoch."

o "The question is, Who will free us from the yoke of Western
Civilization?"

o "Any political movement capable of bringing Bolshevism to the
West would have to be 'Demonic'."

o "The abandonment of the soul's uniqueness solves the problem of
'unleashing' the diabolic forces lurking in all the violence which are
needed to create a revolution."

* Lukacs' state of mind was typical of those who represented the
forces of Revolutionary Marxism.

* At a secret meeting in Germany in 1923, Lukacs proposed the concept
of inducing "Cultural Pessimism" in order to increase the state of
hopelessness and alienation in the people of the West as a necessary
prerequisite for revolution.

* This meeting led to the founding of the Institute for Social
Research at Frankfurt University in Germany in 1923 - an organization
of Marxist and Communistoriented psychologists, sociologists and other
intellectuals that came to be known as the Frankfurt School, which
devoted itself to implementing Georg Lukacs's program.

Antonio Gramsci

* He was an Italian Marxist on an intellectual par with Georg Lukacs
who arrived by analysis at the same conclusions as Lukacs and the
Frankfurt School regarding the critical importance of intellectuals in
fomenting revolution in the West.

* He had traveled to the Soviet Union after the Bolshevik Revolution
of 1917 and made some accurate observations that caused him to
conclude that a Bolshevikstyle uprising could not be brought about by
Western workers due to the nature of their Christian souls.

* Antonio Gramsci became the leader of the Italian Communist Party,
which earned him a place in one of Mussolini's jails in the 1930s,
where he wrote Prison Notebooks and other documents.

* These works became available in English to Americans.

* His advice to the intellectuals was to begin a long march through
the educational and cultural institutions of the nation in order to
create a new Soviet man before there could be a successful political
revolution.

* This reflected his observations in the Soviet Union that its leaders
could not create such a new Soviet man after the Bolshevik Revolution.

* This blueprint for mind and character change made Gramsci a hero of
Revolutionary Marxism in American education and paved the way for
creation of the New American Child in the schools by the education
cartel.

* The essential nature of Antonio Gramsci's revolutionary strategy is
reflected in Charles A. Reich's The Greening of America: "There is a
revolution coming. It will not be like revolutions in the past. It
will originate with the individual and the culture, and it will change
the political structure as its final act. It will not require violence
to succeed, and it cannot be successfully resisted by violence. This
is revolution of the New Generation."

Wilhelm Reich

* In his 1933 book entitled The Mass Psychology of Fascism, he
explained that the Frankfurt School departed from the Marxist
sociology that set "Bourgeois" against "Proletariat." Instead, the
battle would be between "reactionary" and "revolutionary" characters.

* He also wrote a book entitled The Sexual Revolution, which was a
precursor of what was to come in the 1960s.

* His "sex-economic" sociology was an effort to harmonize Freud's
psychology with Marx's economic theory.

* Reich's theory was expressed in his words: "The authoritarian family
is the authoritarian state in miniature. Man's authoritarian character
structure is basically produced by the embedding of sexual inhibitions
and fear in the living substance of sexual impulses. Familial
imperialism is ideologically reproduced in national imperialism...the
authoritarian family...is a factor where reactionary ideology and
reactionary structures are produced."

* Wilhelm Reich's theory, when coupled with Georg Lukacs' sex
education in Hungary, can be seen as the source for the American
education cartel's insistence on sex education from kindergarten
onwards and its complete negation of the paternal family, external
authority, and the traditional character structure.

* Reich's theory encompassed other assertions that seem to have
permeated American education:

o The organized religious mysticism of Christianity was an element
of the authoritarian family that led to Fascism.

o The patriarchal power in and outside of man was to be dethroned.

o Revolutionary sexual politics would mean the complete collapse
of authoritarian ideology.

o Birth control was revolutionary ideology.

o Man was fundamentally a sexual animal.

* Reich's The Mass Psychology of Fascism was in its ninth printing as
of 1991, and is available in most college bookstores.

Erich Fromm

* Like Wilhelm Reich, Fromm was a social psychologist of the Frankfurt
School who came to America in the 1930s.

* His book Escape from Freedom, published in 1941, is an ideological
companion to Wilhelm Reich's The Mass Psychology of Fascism.

* Fromm asserted that early capitalism created a social order that
bred a sadomasochistic and authoritarian character of which Martin
Luther and Adolph Hitler were prime examples.

* He asserted that the same capitalistic social order resulted in
Calvin's Theory of Predestination, which reflected the principle of
the basic inequality of men that was revived in Nazi ideology.

* He asserted the authoritarian character experiences only domination
or submission and "differences, whether sex or race, to him are
necessarily of superiority or inferiority."

* He asserted that "Positive Freedom" implies the principle that there
is no higher power than the unique individual self; that man is the
center and purpose of life; that the growth and realization of man's
individuality is an end that can never be subordinated to purposes
which are supposed to have a greater dignity.

* Fromm made the real meaning of this "Positive Freedom" clear in
another of his many books - The Dogma of Christ... wherein he describes
a revolutionary character such as himself as: the man who has
emancipated himself from the ties of blood and soil, from his mother
and father, and from special loyalties to state, race, party or
religion.

* Fromm makes his revolutionary intent very clear in The Dogma of
Christ... "We might define revolution in a psychological sense, saying
that a revolution is a political movement led by people with
revolutionary characters, and attracting people with revolutionary
characters."

Herbert Marcuse

* Like Wilhelm Reich and Erich Fromm, Herbert Marcuse was an
intellectual of the Frankfurt School who came to America in the 1930s.

* He has often been described as a Marxist philosopher, but he was in
fact a fullblooded social revolutionary who contemplated the
disintegration of American society just as Karl Marx and Georg Lukacs
contemplated the disintegration of German society: "One can rightfully
speak of a cultural revolution, since the protest is directed toward
the whole cultural establishment, including the morality of existing
society...there is one thing we can say with complete assurance: the
traditional idea of revolution and the traditional strategy of
revolution has ended. These ideas are old-fashioned...What we must
undertake is a type of diffuse and dispersed disintegration of the
system."

* Marcuse published Eros and Civilization in 1955, which became the
founding document of the 1960s counterculture and brought the
Frankfurt School into the colleges and universities of America.

* He asserted that the only way to escape the one-dimensionality of
modern industrial society was to liberate the erotic side of man, the
sensuous instinct, in rebellion against "technological rationality."

* This erotic liberation was to take the form of the "Great Refusal,"
a total rejection of the capitalist monster and its entire works,
including technological reason and ritual-authoritarian language.

* He provided the obtuse intellectual justifications for adolescent
sexual rebellion, and the slogan "Make Love, Not War."

* His theory included the belief that the Women's Liberation Movement
was to be the most important component of the opposition, and
potentially the most radical.

* His revolutionary efforts would blossom into a full-scale war by
revolutionary Marxism against the European white male in the schools
and colleges.

Theodor Adorno

* He was another Marxist revolutionary and member of the Frankfurt
School who came to America in the 1930s.

* Along with others, Adorno authored The Authoritarian Personality,
which was published in 1950.

* Adorno's book was inspired by the same kind of theoretical
assertions revealed in the works of Wilhelm Reich, Erich Fromm and
Herbert Marcuse based on analytical studies of German society that
were begun in 1923.

* The basic theme was the same. There was such a thing as an
authoritarian character that was the opposite of the desired
revolutionary character. This authoritarian character was a product of
capitalism, Christianity, conservatism, the patriarchal family and
sexual repression. In Germany, this combination induced prejudice,
anti-Semitism and fascism according to Frankfurt School theory.

* It so happened that most Americans were products of capitalism,
Christianity, conservatism, the patriarchal family and sexual
repression in their youth. So Theodor Adorno and other members of the
Frankfurt School had a golden opportunity to execute Georg Lukacs's
and Antonio Gramsci's program for creating social revolution in
America instead of Germany.

* They would posit the existence of authoritarian personalities among
Americans with tendencies toward prejudice, and then exploit this to
force the "scientifically planned re-education" of Americans with the
excuse that it was being done in order to eradicate prejudice.

* This scientifically-planned re-education would become the master
plan for the transformation of America's system of fundamental values
into their opposite revolutionary values in American education so that
school children would become replicas of the Frankfurt School
revolutionary characters and thus create the New American Child.

* This can be confirmed by noting that The Authoritarian Personality
is the key source of the affective domain of Benjamin Bloom's Taxonomy
of Educational Objectives of 1964, which guided the education cartel
thereafter.

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