Antonio Gramsci, Cultural Marxism, Wokeness, and Leninism 4.0 (57:33) ~ New Discourses

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I found this video deeply insightful as a clear summary on the seeds of Cultural Totalitarianism (a more appropriate name than Cultural Communism or Cultural Marxism) that grows unfettered in our current age.

I must point out that the Woke™ culture infecting education and churches was mentioned but not mass media culture - the primary influence on most of us, directly or indirectly.

I knew there was more to this Woke™ media than the simple division of culture (to have them perpetually fight in tribes), distraction (from any political awareness, much less authentic contextual understanding), and shitty screenplays and agenda driven productions that clearly are anything but financially successful.

I found his concise words to be illuminating on how the Woke™ folks have a dogmatic religion with absurd goals for a utopian world that can never be. I believe we can build our own anti-tyranny counter-movement with contextual understanding and sustainable, flexible, resilient, decentralized goals.

Above all, what spoke to me, is the idea of creating culture. He mentions the status quo culture and the new Woke™ culture to replace it - but he didn't mention any other culture where the authentic revolution for freedom from tyranny might occur.

I won't go into it right here, but will soon be sharing a series of posts that I've long been developing, regarding many things, including creating some open-source manifestos (to declare our intentions, goals, plans, etc), as well as many interactive social media and video production projects - all to be hosted on SaidIt, WikiSpooks, and beyond.

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See also:

/s/politics/comments/7bsv/the_new_wave_of_communism_critical_theory_america/

/s/politics/comments/7brv/antonio_gramsci_cultural_marxism_wokeness_and/

[–]slushpilot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Thanks for the nudge, friend. I've been meaning to catch up on James' podcast myself. Last one I listened to was "The Birth of a New American Mythology" which was also excellent... But anyway, now that we're on this subject, check this out:

Exhibit One: from the Wikipedia on Cultural Marxism (which has recently been deleted and now redirects you to an article called "Cultural Marxism conspiracy theory")

While the theory originated in the United States during the 1990s, it entered mainstream discourse in the 2010s and is promoted [...] by right-wing politicians, fundamentalist religious leaders, political commentators in mainstream print and television media and white supremacist terrorists.

or,

in the editorial "The Alt-Right's Favorite Meme is 100 Years Old" (2018), law professor Samuel Moyn said it is an antisemitic canard.

Further the article is sure to include mentions of that nutter Anders Breivik, and a whole bunch of irrelevant or misleading garbage that insinuates this is a recently-invented foil with no grounding in actual Leftist philosophy. Gramsci does not feature a mention, but Jordan Peterson does—if that tells you anything.

I have no idea what theory this article is actually trying to portray, but it only barely resembles what I would consider to mean "Cultural Marxism"...

Cultural Marxism is innovative in comparison with old styled theories of a similar nature, such as those involving Freemasons, Bavarian Illuminati, Jews or even Wall Street bankers.

Yeah, whatever... So which of these supposed scapegoats are the ones currently deconstructing education and saying that standardized tests are racist!? Or that men are women!? Or that Jews have white privilege!? This is all quite open and widespread for it to be a conspiracy.

Exhibit Two: from the Wikipedia article on Marxist cultural analysis

The tradition of Marxist cultural analysis since the 1930s has occasionally also been referred to as "cultural Marxism".

...followed by the description of the development of this neo-Marxist theory by—you guessed it, Gramsci. This version of the article should probably be the canonical "Cultural Marxism" page, although it's still quite thin in details.

We just can't fight these distortions with reason and logic. Even pointing to the hypocrisy doesn't phase anyone anymore, or they don't yet understand it. Either way, I'm buying my books in print again. Used bookstores, preferably.