The Frankfurt School, Transformational Marxism and the Identity Politics of the Present Democratic Party
Bernard Pyron
Georg Lukács (1885-1971) was one of the two founders of Transformational Marxism and Lukács was a founder of the Frankfurt School which developed this form of Marxism in Germany. The other founder of Transformational Marxism was Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937).
Transformational Marxism advocated a slower
takeover of Western Europe and the United States by changing the
culture which supports capitalism. . 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.
As it turned out - by the time of the Counterculture of the Sixties and Seventies - the mass of followers of Transformational Marxism in the U.S. were not the working class, the lower middle class, but was the students and the professors in the universities. By the early 21st century the Leftist Corporate Media became a major platform for the promotion of the Left, which was under the influence of Transformational Marxism and its use of Identity Politics, which is also called Political Correctness - the constant use of race, gender, sexual orientation and other ways of dividing the people.
From (Schiller Institute—THE NEW DARK AGE The Frankfurt School and "Political Correctness" and
Georg Lukács and "Aufhebung der Kultur,"or 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 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.
Remember that Georg Lukács wrote about the "abolishment of culture."
"The task of the Frankfurt School, then, was first,..... the"abolition of culture" *Aufhebung der Kultur* in Lukacs' German." From:
http://schillerinstitute.org/fid_91-96/921_frankfurt.htmlThe translation of the German word "aufhebung" into English is interesting. See:
https://dictionary.reverso.net/german-english/AufhebungThis site says aufhebung in English can mean "abolition...cancellation....capture, seizure..."
Georg Lukács said that Transformational Marxism must abolish the culture of Western Europe and of the United States. which focuses upon the importance of the individual, which means abolishing Protestant Christianity, and taking that culture captive so that it can be replaced by a collectivist society and culture controlled by a totalitarian government.
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,all began to lead
Gramsci's long march through the institutions of America.
In part because the Transformational Marxists operated out of the major American universities and were supported in the period right before the election of 2016 by the Leftist Corportate Media, the Conservatives in the U.S. did not fully understand what was happening as the Left was in its "Long March Through the Institutions."
The Short Wave Broadcasters of the nineties who were the forerunners of the Populist-Patriot-Aternative Media Movement which established a "beach head" in the 2016 election did not deal much with the rise of this form of Marxism. It is true that Bill Cooper did sometimes call people who disagreed with him "Baby Marxists." But Mark Koernke, Larry Nichols, Steve Quayle and other short wave broadcasters of the nineties did not warn of the danger of Transformational Maxism.
It was not until the Short Wave Broadcaster Movement turned into the Populist-Patriot-Alternatrive Media Movement on the Internet, soon after Matt Drudge had established his Drudge Report and Andrew Breitbarft had joined him for a time, that Brietbart began explaining in an explicit way what Transformational Marxiam was.
https://www.vox.com/…/8/…/12552602/breitbart-trump-explained
"Breitbart saw the enemy as something that he called "cultural Marxism" (importantly distinct from the actual approach to cultural studies inspired by Marx)."
"Breitbart believed that in the mid-20th century, a series of European intellectuals immigrated to America and developed a plot to destroy it. According to Breitbart, these intellectuals — mostly Frankfurt School thinkers like Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer..."
"In the 1940s, the left came in and said, ‘America is not susceptible to the argument that its economic system, capitalism, is wrong,’" Breitbart said in a 2011 lecture. "These social engineering ingrates — ingrates! — who came from the University of Frankfurt ... they were the ones that devised that America’s capitalism could not survive an assault on its checks and balances..."
"Breitbart believed, very firmly, that today’s left was executing on this plot — that the mainstream media, the academy, and Hollywood were all leftist-dominated institutions working to transform American society to lay the groundwork for a Marxist revolution. Their weapons, he says, are "political correctness [and] multiculturalism." Breitbart’s mission was to fight back, to liberate culture from leftist political correctness."
"The left is smart enough to understand that the way to change a political system is through its cultural systems," he explained to Mead. "So you look at the conservative movement — working the levers of power, creating think tanks, and trying to get people elected in different places — while the left is taking over Hollywood, the music industry, the churches."
"Beginning in 2007, he started expanding Breitbart.com into the Breitbart News media empire. He started with Breitbart.tv, which focused on videos, and then expanded to print news with the "Big" network of sites: Big Journalism, Big Hollywood, Big Government, and Big Peace."
"Unlike more traditional conservative publications like National Review or the Weekly Standard, the Big sites didn’t really focus on policy or dissections of conservative ideas. The Big sites shared their founder’s populist aesthetic, as well as his view of politics as cultural combat."
"But Breitbart got results, getting scoops and infuriating liberals. Not only that, but many conservatives believe "political correctness" and anti-racism — things like affirmative action — are bigger problems today than racism itself. Breitbart’s campaign against cultural Marxism was music to their ears."
"So Breitbart became something akin to a right-wing rock god, a staple at major conservative conferences and gatherings hosted by the conservative old guard. He was constantly on Fox News, yelling about cultural Marxism."
"I cannot tell you how beloved Andrew Breitbart was," Rush Limbaugh said in a 2013 monologue. "He was a hero to everyone that knew him."
The foundation of American resistance to Transformational Marxism is the spiritual power of the Gospel to change people, and to make the changed individual more important. and outstanding in public perception. This is not a message which has been brought to the Conservative or Patriot-Populist-Alternative Media Movement by Breitbart, Alex Jones, Rush Limbaugh. Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson, Ann Counter or by Michael Savage.