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Notice the part where it's <a href="/wiki/International_Jewish_Conspiracy" class="mw-redirect" title="International Jewish Conspiracy">all about “da joos”</a>?</div></div></div> <table class="infobox" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" style="float: right; margin: 0 0 0.5em 0.5em; text-align:left; border: 1px solid #ff6600; width:175px;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; text-align:center; color:White; background-color:#ff6600"><b>Some dare call it</b><br /><a href="/wiki/Conspiracy_theory" title="Conspiracy theory"><font size="4" color="White"><b>Conspiracy</b></font></a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#ffe6d5;" align="center"><a href="/wiki/Category:Conspiracy_theories" title="Category:Conspiracy theories"><img alt="Icon conspiracy.svg" src="/w/images/thumb/5/58/Icon_conspiracy.svg/100px-Icon_conspiracy.svg.png" decoding="async" width="100" height="100" srcset="/w/images/thumb/5/58/Icon_conspiracy.svg/150px-Icon_conspiracy.svg.png 1.5x, /w/images/thumb/5/58/Icon_conspiracy.svg/200px-Icon_conspiracy.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="195" data-file-height="195" /></a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; color:White; background-color:#ff6600; text-align:center;"><b>What <i>THEY</i> don't want<br />you to know!</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; background-color:#ffe6d5;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Pattern_recognition" title="Pattern recognition">Pattern recognition</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fort_Knox" title="Fort Knox">Fort Knox</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Unidentified_flying_object" title="Unidentified flying object">Unidentified flying object</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/November_3rd_Seattle_nuclear_attack" title="November 3rd Seattle nuclear attack">November 3rd Seattle nuclear attack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/HAARP" title="HAARP">HAARP</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spinster.xyz" title="Spinster.xyz">Spinster.xyz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Baked_Alaska" title="Baked Alaska">Baked Alaska</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neoconservatism" title="Neoconservatism">Neoconservatism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Illegal_schools_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Illegal schools in the United Kingdom">Illegal schools in the United Kingdom</a></li></ul> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; color:White; background-color:#ff6600; text-align:center;"><b><a href="/wiki/Sheeple" title="Sheeple"><span style="color:white">Sheeple</span></a> <a href="/wiki/Wake_up" title="Wake up"><span style="color:white">wakers</span></a></b> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; background-color:#ffe6d5;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Frank_Gaffney" title="Frank Gaffney">Frank Gaffney</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aaron_Russo" title="Aaron Russo">Aaron Russo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jose_Luis_de_Jes%C3%BAs" title="Jose Luis de Jesús">Jose Luis de Jesús</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Manning" title="James Manning">James Manning</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Snyder" title="Michael Snyder">Michael Snyder</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/TruthWiki" title="TruthWiki">TruthWiki</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eric_Jon_Phelps" title="Eric Jon Phelps">Eric Jon Phelps</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lauren_Chen" title="Lauren Chen">Lauren Chen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jean-Marie_Le_Pen" title="Jean-Marie Le Pen">Jean-Marie Le Pen</a></li></ul> <div class="vte plainlinks" style="font-size:smaller; text-align:center;"><a href="/wiki/Template:Conspiracynav" title="Template:Conspiracynav">v</a> - <a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Conspiracynav" title="Template talk:Conspiracynav">t</a> - <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://rationalwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Conspiracynav&action=edit">e</a></div> </td></tr></tbody></table> <table style="margin: auto; border-collapse:collapse; border-style:none; background-color:transparent;" class="cquote"> <tbody><tr> <td><div style="padding:4px 50px;position:relative;"><span style="position:absolute;left:10px;top:-6px;z-index:1;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;color:#B2B7F2;font-size:36px">“</span><span style="position:absolute;right:10px;bottom:-20px;z-index:1;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;color:#B2B7F2;font-size:36px">”</span>The good news is that "cultural Marxism" isn't real. The bad news is that people believe it is anyway.</div> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="padding:4px 10px 8px;font-size:smaller;line-height:1.6em;text-align:right;"><cite style="font-style:normal;position:relative;z-index:2">—Chris Zappone, <i>The Sydney Morning Herald</i><sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a></sup></cite> </td></tr></tbody></table> <table style="margin: auto; border-collapse:collapse; border-style:none; background-color:transparent;" class="cquote"> <tbody><tr> <td><div style="padding:4px 50px;position:relative;"><span style="position:absolute;left:10px;top:-6px;z-index:1;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;color:#B2B7F2;font-size:36px">“</span><span style="position:absolute;right:10px;bottom:-20px;z-index:1;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;color:#B2B7F2;font-size:36px">”</span>The <a href="/wiki/Fairy_tales" title="Fairy tales">fairytale</a> of cultural Marxism <a href="/wiki/Jonanism" title="Jonanism">provided a post-communist adversary</a> located specifically in the cultural realm – academics, Hollywood, <a href="/wiki/Journalist" class="mw-redirect" title="Journalist">journalists</a>, <a href="/wiki/Civil_rights" title="Civil rights">civil rights</a> activists, and <a href="/wiki/Feminists" class="mw-redirect" title="Feminists">feminists</a>.</div> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="padding:4px 10px 8px;font-size:smaller;line-height:1.6em;text-align:right;"><cite style="font-style:normal;position:relative;z-index:2">—Jason Wilson, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Guardian" title="The Guardian">The Guardian</a></i><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2">[2]</a></sup></cite> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Cultural <a href="/wiki/Marxism" class="mw-redirect" title="Marxism">Marxism</a></b> generally refers to one of two things: </p> <ol><li>First — <i>extremely</i> rarely in popular discourse — "cultural Marxism" (lower C, upper M) refers to a strain of critique of popular culture by the <a href="/wiki/Frankfurt_School" title="Frankfurt School">Frankfurt School</a>, framing such culture as being imposed by a <a href="/wiki/Capitalist" class="mw-redirect" title="Capitalist">capitalist</a> culture industry and consumed passively by the masses.</li> <li>Second — in common usage in the wild — "Cultural Marxism" (both uppercase) is a common <a href="/wiki/Snarl_word" class="mw-redirect" title="Snarl word">snarl word</a> used to paint anyone with <a href="/wiki/Progressive" class="mw-redirect" title="Progressive">progressive</a> tendencies as a <a href="/wiki/Red-baiting" title="Red-baiting">secret Communist</a>. The term alludes to a <a href="/wiki/Conspiracy_theory" title="Conspiracy theory">conspiracy theory</a> in which sinister left-wingers have infiltrated <a href="/wiki/Liberal_media" title="Liberal media">media</a>, <a href="/wiki/Liberal_academia" class="mw-redirect" title="Liberal academia">academia</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Evil_Liberal_Science_Conspiracy" title="Evil Liberal Science Conspiracy">science</a>, and are engaged in a decades-long plot to undermine <a href="/wiki/Western_culture" class="mw-redirect" title="Western culture">Western culture</a>. Some variants of the conspiracy <a href="/wiki/Jonanism" title="Jonanism">allege that basically all of modern social liberalism is</a>, in fact, a <a href="/wiki/Communist" class="mw-redirect" title="Communist">communist</a> <a href="/wiki/Front_group" title="Front group">front group</a>.</li></ol> <p>This conspiracy theory hinges on the idea that the Frankfurt School wasn't just an arcane strain of academic criticism.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3">[note 1]</a></sup> Instead, the Frankfurt School was behind an ongoing Marxist plot to destroy the capitalist West from within, spreading its tentacles throughout academia and indoctrinating students to hate <a href="/wiki/Patriotism" title="Patriotism">patriotism</a> and <a href="/wiki/Freedom" class="mw-redirect" title="Freedom">freedom</a>. Thus, <a href="/wiki/Rock_music" title="Rock music">rock'n'roll</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hippie" class="mw-redirect" title="Hippie">1960s counterculture</a>, the civil rights movement, the <a href="/wiki/Anti-war" class="mw-redirect" title="Anti-war">anti-war</a> movement, <a href="/wiki/Homosexuality" title="Homosexuality">homosexuality</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4">[3]</a></sup> modern feminism, and, in general, all the "decay" in the West since the 1950s are allegedly products of the Frankfurt School.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5">[4]</a></sup> It's also the work of <a href="/wiki/International_Jewish_conspiracy" title="International Jewish conspiracy">the Jews</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6">[5]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7">[6]</a></sup> </p><p>The conspiracy theory is descended from another, much older conspiracy theory referred to as "Cultural Bolshevism", used extensively in <a href="/wiki/Nazism" title="Nazism">Nazi Germany</a>, where <i>Kulturbolschewismus</i> ("Cultural Bolshevism") was used to degrade and abuse political opponents. In particular, Jews purportedly were <a href="/wiki/International_Jewish_Conspiracy" class="mw-redirect" title="International Jewish Conspiracy">secretly orchestrating the spread of communism</a> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Bolshevism" class="extiw" title="wp:Jewish Bolshevism" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: Jewish Bolshevism">Jewish Bolshevism</span></a>)<sup><img alt="Wikipedia" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></sup> as well as <a href="/wiki/Kinder,_K%C3%BCche,_Kirche" title="Kinder, Küche, Kirche">promoting sexual & gender permissiveness</a> ("<a href="/wiki/Sexual_Bolshevism" title="Sexual Bolshevism">sexual Bolshevism</a>").<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8">[7]</a></sup> </p><p>If anyone rants about "Cultural Marxists taking over culture!", feel free to remind them that they're <a href="/wiki/Neo-Nazism" title="Neo-Nazism">spouting <i>literal</i> Nazi propaganda updated for the modern era</a>. </p> <div id="toc" class="toc" role="navigation" aria-labelledby="mw-toc-heading"><input type="checkbox" role="button" id="toctogglecheckbox" class="toctogglecheckbox" style="display:none" /><div class="toctitle" lang="en" dir="ltr"><h2 id="mw-toc-heading">Contents</h2><span class="toctogglespan"><label class="toctogglelabel" for="toctogglecheckbox"></label></span></div> <ul> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="#History"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">History</span></a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-2"><a href="#Nazi_Germany"><span class="tocnumber">1.1</span> <span class="toctext">Nazi Germany</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3"><a href="#Frankfurt_School_and_academic_usage"><span class="tocnumber">1.2</span> <span class="toctext">Frankfurt School and academic usage</span></a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4"><a href="#Right-wing_usage"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Right-wing usage</span></a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5"><a href="#Origin"><span class="tocnumber">2.1</span> <span class="toctext">Origin</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6"><a href="#Neo-Nazi_adoption"><span class="tocnumber">2.2</span> <span class="toctext">Neo-Nazi adoption</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-7"><a href="#2011_Norway_attacks"><span class="tocnumber">2.3</span> <span class="toctext">2011 Norway attacks</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-8"><a href="#Gallery"><span class="tocnumber">2.4</span> <span class="toctext">Gallery</span></a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-9"><a href="#Debunking"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Debunking</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-10"><a href="#Trivia:_John.2C_Paul.2C_George.2C_and_Marx"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">Trivia: John, Paul, George, and Marx</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-11"><a href="#See_also"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">See also</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-12"><a href="#External_links"><span class="tocnumber">6</span> <span class="toctext">External links</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-13"><a href="#Notes"><span class="tocnumber">7</span> <span class="toctext">Notes</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-14"><a href="#References"><span class="tocnumber">8</span> <span class="toctext">References</span></a></li> </ul> </div> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="History">History</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cultural_Marxism&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <table style="margin: auto; border-collapse:collapse; border-style:none; background-color:transparent;" class="cquote"> <tbody><tr> <td><div style="padding:4px 50px;position:relative;"><span style="position:absolute;left:10px;top:-6px;z-index:1;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;color:#B2B7F2;font-size:36px">“</span><span style="position:absolute;right:10px;bottom:-20px;z-index:1;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;color:#B2B7F2;font-size:36px">”</span>it slowly started off by <a href="/wiki/Homosexuality" title="Homosexuality">homosexuality</a> becoming acceptable, now it[']s starting to justify <a href="/wiki/Pedophilia" title="Pedophilia">pedophilia</a>, and eventually <a href="/wiki/Slippery_slope" title="Slippery slope">will lead to</a> accepting <a href="/wiki/Bestiality" title="Bestiality">beastiality</a><small><sup>[<span title="short for: sic erat scriptum ('thus was it written'), meaning that it is intentionally spelled here like it was originally transcribed or translated from" style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><i>sic</i></span>]</sup></small> and <a href="/wiki/Necrophilia" title="Necrophilia">necrophilia</a> in the future. America, <a href="/wiki/Europe" title="Europe">europe</a>, <a href="/wiki/Australia" title="Australia">australia</a> and the whole world is doomed. [C]ultural marxism is the best weapon the <a href="/wiki/Jew" class="mw-redirect" title="Jew">jew</a> has ever used so far, after realizing <a href="/wiki/Communism#Is_communism_at_all_workable.3F" title="Communism">communism will not win</a>.</div> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="padding:4px 10px 8px;font-size:smaller;line-height:1.6em;text-align:right;"><cite style="font-style:normal;position:relative;z-index:2">—<a href="/wiki/YouTube" title="YouTube">YouTube</a> commenter<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9">[8]</a></sup></cite> </td></tr></tbody></table> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Nazi_Germany">Nazi Germany</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cultural_Marxism&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Nazi Germany">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3> <div role="note" class="hatnote">See the main article on this topic: <a href="/wiki/Nazi_Germany" title="Nazi Germany">Nazi Germany</a></div> <p><i>A History of Nazi Germany</i> describes how the Weimar Republic brought about increased freedom of expression (modernism), then described by critics as decadent and irrational. Traditionalist Germans thought that this was causing German culture to decay and that <a href="/wiki/Moral_panic" title="Moral panic">society was heading towards a moral collapse</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-history_of_nazi_germany_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-history_of_nazi_germany-10">[9]</a></sup> They were at least <a href="/wiki/Nazi_Germany" title="Nazi Germany">catastrophically right</a> about that last bit, though not in the way they intended. </p><p>The Nazis labeled this modernism as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Bolshevism" class="extiw" title="wp:Cultural Bolshevism" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: Cultural Bolshevism">"Cultural Bolshevism"</span></a>,<sup><img alt="Wikipedia" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></sup> and, through <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Bolshevism" class="extiw" title="wp:Jewish Bolshevism" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: Jewish Bolshevism">"Jewish Bolshevism"</span></a>,<sup><img alt="Wikipedia" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></sup> claimed that Jews were primarily behind Communism. In particular, they argued that Jews had orchestrated the <a href="/wiki/Russian_Revolution" title="Russian Revolution">Russian Revolution</a> and were the main power behind <a href="/wiki/Bolshevik" title="Bolshevik">Bolshevists</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-history_of_nazi_germany_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-history_of_nazi_germany-10">[9]</a></sup> This Jewish-led Bolshevist assault was described by <a href="/wiki/Adolf_Hitler" title="Adolf Hitler">Adolf Hitler</a> as a disease that would weaken the Germans and leave them prey to the Jews (oh noes!), with Marxism being perceived as just another part of an "<a href="/wiki/International_Jewish_conspiracy" title="International Jewish conspiracy">international Jewish conspiracy</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-history_of_nazi_germany_10-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-history_of_nazi_germany-10">[9]</a></sup> Sometimes Nazis, past and present, <a href="/wiki/Nutpicking" title="Nutpicking">will cite "Red Rabbi Weiss" who conflated communism with Judaism as "proof"</a>, yet remain silent about <a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Putin" title="Vladimir Putin">Vladimir Putin</a> claiming that communism is <a href="/wiki/Christianity" title="Christianity">Christianity</a>. An ideological objective was thus the "<a href="/wiki/Holocaust" title="Holocaust">purification</a>" to eliminate alien influences and protect Germany's culture.<sup id="cite_ref-history_of_nazi_germany_10-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-history_of_nazi_germany-10">[9]</a></sup> </p><p>Of course, Nazis also conflated Jews with <a href="/wiki/Capitalism" title="Capitalism">capitalism</a>. <a href="/wiki/Fascist" class="mw-redirect" title="Fascist">Fascist</a> ideology's complicated relationship with capitalism<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11">[10]</a></sup> led to <a href="/wiki/Mussolini" class="mw-redirect" title="Mussolini">Mussolini</a> mainly attacking a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finance_capitalism" class="extiw" title="wp:Finance capitalism" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: Finance capitalism">"Finance capitalism"</span></a><sup><img alt="Wikipedia" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></sup> — the international nature of banks and the stock exchange — and praising a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroic_capitalism" class="extiw" title="wp:Heroic capitalism" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: Heroic capitalism">"Heroic capitalism"</span></a>.<sup><img alt="Wikipedia" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></sup> In short: if you don't like it, it's probably the Jews. </p><p>Posters: </p> <center><ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional" style="max-width: 729px;"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 235px"><div style="width: 235px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 230px;"><div style="margin:15px auto;"><a href="/wiki/File:Bolshevism_Unmasked.jpg" class="image"><img alt="" src="/w/images/thumb/b/ba/Bolshevism_Unmasked.jpg/136px-Bolshevism_Unmasked.jpg" decoding="async" width="136" height="200" srcset="/w/images/thumb/b/ba/Bolshevism_Unmasked.jpg/205px-Bolshevism_Unmasked.jpg 1.5x, /w/images/thumb/b/ba/Bolshevism_Unmasked.jpg/273px-Bolshevism_Unmasked.jpg 2x" data-file-width="480" data-file-height="703" /></a></div></div> <div class="gallerytext"> <p>Bolshevism unmasked: it's Jews.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12">[11]</a></sup> </p> </div> </div></li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 235px"><div style="width: 235px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 230px;"><div style="margin:15px auto;"><a href="/wiki/File:Bolschewismus_ist_Judentum.jpg" class="image"><img alt="" src="/w/images/thumb/4/42/Bolschewismus_ist_Judentum.jpg/158px-Bolschewismus_ist_Judentum.jpg" decoding="async" width="158" height="200" srcset="/w/images/thumb/4/42/Bolschewismus_ist_Judentum.jpg/237px-Bolschewismus_ist_Judentum.jpg 1.5x, /w/images/thumb/4/42/Bolschewismus_ist_Judentum.jpg/316px-Bolschewismus_ist_Judentum.jpg 2x" data-file-width="564" data-file-height="714" /></a></div></div> <div class="gallerytext"> <p>Stabbing Jews = stabbing communism. </p> </div> </div></li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 235px"><div style="width: 235px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 230px;"><div style="margin:15px auto;"><a href="/wiki/File:Jewish_communist_inquisition.png" class="image"><img alt="" src="/w/images/thumb/1/16/Jewish_communist_inquisition.png/197px-Jewish_communist_inquisition.png" decoding="async" width="197" height="200" srcset="/w/images/thumb/1/16/Jewish_communist_inquisition.png/295px-Jewish_communist_inquisition.png 1.5x, /w/images/thumb/1/16/Jewish_communist_inquisition.png/393px-Jewish_communist_inquisition.png 2x" data-file-width="853" data-file-height="868" /></a></div></div> <div class="gallerytext"> <p>Caption: Under the sign of Juda: What comes from the Jews has spoiled the world, cultures and peoples have died as a result.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13">[note 2]</a></sup> </p> </div> </div></li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 235px"><div style="width: 235px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 230px;"><div style="margin:16.5px auto;"><a href="/wiki/File:Jew_eating_nations.png" class="image"><img alt="" src="/w/images/thumb/9/9f/Jew_eating_nations.png/200px-Jew_eating_nations.png" decoding="async" width="200" height="197" srcset="/w/images/thumb/9/9f/Jew_eating_nations.png/300px-Jew_eating_nations.png 1.5x, /w/images/thumb/9/9f/Jew_eating_nations.png/400px-Jew_eating_nations.png 2x" data-file-width="498" data-file-height="490" /></a></div></div> <div class="gallerytext"> <p>Jews are apparently nation-eaters, communists, and <a href="/wiki/Freemason" title="Freemason">freemasons</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14">[12]</a></sup> </p> </div> </div></li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 235px"><div style="width: 235px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 230px;"><div style="margin:15px auto;"><a href="/wiki/File:Nazi_Schutzengel.jpg" class="image"><img alt="" src="/w/images/thumb/6/6f/Nazi_Schutzengel.jpg/143px-Nazi_Schutzengel.jpg" decoding="async" width="143" height="200" srcset="/w/images/thumb/6/6f/Nazi_Schutzengel.jpg/214px-Nazi_Schutzengel.jpg 1.5x, /w/images/thumb/6/6f/Nazi_Schutzengel.jpg/286px-Nazi_Schutzengel.jpg 2x" data-file-width="572" data-file-height="800" /></a></div></div> <div class="gallerytext"> <p>Communists are the guardian angels of Jewish capitalists. (Mixed metaphors, this one.) </p> </div> </div></li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 235px"><div style="width: 235px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 230px;"><div style="margin:15px auto;"><a href="/wiki/File:Jews_are_secretly_Communists,_Freemasons,_and_Jews.jpg" class="image"><img alt="" src="/w/images/thumb/b/ba/Jews_are_secretly_Communists%2C_Freemasons%2C_and_Jews.jpg/186px-Jews_are_secretly_Communists%2C_Freemasons%2C_and_Jews.jpg" decoding="async" width="186" height="200" srcset="/w/images/thumb/b/ba/Jews_are_secretly_Communists%2C_Freemasons%2C_and_Jews.jpg/278px-Jews_are_secretly_Communists%2C_Freemasons%2C_and_Jews.jpg 1.5x, /w/images/thumb/b/ba/Jews_are_secretly_Communists%2C_Freemasons%2C_and_Jews.jpg/371px-Jews_are_secretly_Communists%2C_Freemasons%2C_and_Jews.jpg 2x" data-file-width="441" data-file-height="475" /></a></div></div> <div class="gallerytext"> <p>Jews are secretly <a href="/wiki/Red-baiting" title="Red-baiting">communists</a>, <a href="/wiki/Freemason" title="Freemason">freemasons</a>, and... <a href="/wiki/Jew" class="mw-redirect" title="Jew">Jews</a>. </p> </div> </div></li> </ul></center> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Frankfurt_School_and_academic_usage">Frankfurt School and academic usage</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cultural_Marxism&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Frankfurt School and academic usage">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3> <div role="note" class="hatnote">See the main article on this topic: <a href="/wiki/Frankfurt_School" title="Frankfurt School">Frankfurt School</a></div> <div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:202px;"><a href="/wiki/File:CulturalMarxism.jpeg" class="image"><img alt="" src="/w/images/thumb/f/fe/CulturalMarxism.jpeg/200px-CulturalMarxism.jpeg" decoding="async" width="200" height="356" class="thumbimage" srcset="/w/images/thumb/f/fe/CulturalMarxism.jpeg/300px-CulturalMarxism.jpeg 1.5x, /w/images/thumb/f/fe/CulturalMarxism.jpeg/400px-CulturalMarxism.jpeg 2x" data-file-width="1836" data-file-height="3264" /></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/wiki/File:CulturalMarxism.jpeg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div>Come back with me to a time when men were men, women were women, and self-avowed Cultural Marxists were self-avowed Cultural Marxists.</div></div></div> <p>Conspiracy theorists often trace the origins of Cultural Marxist doctrine back to the Frankfurt School of social theory and critical philosophy.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15">[13]</a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Theodor_Adorno" title="Theodor Adorno">Theodor Adorno</a> and Max Horkheimer were indeed interested in applying the Marxist theory of alienation (alongside the psychoanalysis of Freud and Hegelian premises of idealist philosophy) to address social issues of the 20<sup>th</sup> century outside the economic analysis of positivists and scientific socialists.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16">[14]</a></sup> They never advocated using cultural institutions to disseminate propaganda, as the conspiracy theory contends<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17">[15]</a></sup>. </p><p>Cultural Marxism was a criticism of the <i>lack</i> of revolutionary Marxism at the <a href="/wiki/Frankfurt_School" title="Frankfurt School">Frankfurt School</a> by more orthodox Marxists; it remains an informal term for the school itself. The term "cultural Marxism" was first sighted around 1973 in <i>The Critique of Domination: The Origins and Development of Critical Theory</i> by Trent Schroyer.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18">[16]</a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Karl_Marx" title="Karl Marx">Karl Marx</a> himself never wrote at any length about culture (what he deemed "the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/base_and_superstructure" class="extiw" title="wp:base and superstructure" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: base and superstructure">superstructure</span></a><sup><img alt="Wikipedia" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></sup>"), and many Marxists argue against cultural studies — as orthodox Marxists often assert that the only "real" societal division is the one of class. The fact that cultural theorists use <i>multiple</i> lenses of <a href="/wiki/Class" class="mw-redirect" title="Class">class</a>, race, <a href="/wiki/Gender" title="Gender">gender</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Sexuality" title="Sexuality">sexuality</a> to analyze culture suggests that their methods probably don't come from Marxist classifications. Instead, these lenses are more likely to have come from the 1920s-30s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_school_(sociology)" class="extiw" title="wp:Chicago school (sociology)" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: Chicago school (sociology)">Chicago School of Sociology</span></a>'s<sup><img alt="Wikipedia" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></sup> focus on human behavior as shaped by social structures and physical environmental factors, rather than genetic and personal characteristics. </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Right-wing_usage">Right-wing usage</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cultural_Marxism&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Right-wing usage">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:302px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Negroes_Beware_Marxism_in_Alabama.jpg" class="image"><img alt="" src="/w/images/thumb/3/33/Negroes_Beware_Marxism_in_Alabama.jpg/300px-Negroes_Beware_Marxism_in_Alabama.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="426" class="thumbimage" srcset="/w/images/thumb/3/33/Negroes_Beware_Marxism_in_Alabama.jpg/450px-Negroes_Beware_Marxism_in_Alabama.jpg 1.5x, /w/images/3/33/Negroes_Beware_Marxism_in_Alabama.jpg 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="710" /></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/wiki/File:Negroes_Beware_Marxism_in_Alabama.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div>Cultural Marxists have long supported social equality. The humanity!</div></div></div> <table style="margin: auto; border-collapse:collapse; border-style:none; background-color:transparent;" class="cquote"> <tbody><tr> <td><div style="padding:4px 50px;position:relative;"><span style="position:absolute;left:10px;top:-6px;z-index:1;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;color:#B2B7F2;font-size:36px">“</span><span style="position:absolute;right:10px;bottom:-20px;z-index:1;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;color:#B2B7F2;font-size:36px">”</span>Oh, sure, once upon a time “cultural Marxism” was indeed a school of Marxist thought dealing with, you guessed it, culture. But in recent years the term has become a popular buzzword amongst neo-Nazis and other proud bigots on the far right, who use it to suggest a vast Jewish conspiracy against Western Civilization and the white race … without having to use the J-word, which tends to give their anti-Semitic game away.</div> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="padding:4px 10px 8px;font-size:smaller;line-height:1.6em;text-align:right;"><cite style="font-style:normal;position:relative;z-index:2">—<a href="/wiki/WHTM" class="mw-redirect" title="WHTM">WHTM</a><sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19">[17]</a></sup></cite> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The term is a favourite of <a href="/wiki/Pat_Buchanan" title="Pat Buchanan">Pat Buchanan</a> and, to the most dangerous extent, far-right <a href="/wiki/Terrorist" class="mw-redirect" title="Terrorist">terrorists</a> <a href="/wiki/Anders_Behring_Breivik" title="Anders Behring Breivik">Anders Behring Breivik</a> and <a href="/wiki/Christchurch_terrorist_attacks" title="Christchurch terrorist attacks">Brenton Tarrant</a>. It is a <a href="/wiki/Cold_War" title="Cold War">Cold Warrior</a>'s way of decrying "<a href="/wiki/Political_correctness" title="Political correctness">political correctness</a>" or "<a href="/wiki/Multiculturalism" title="Multiculturalism">multiculturalism</a>."<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20">[18]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21">[19]</a></sup> </p><p>In current <a href="/wiki/Wingnut" title="Wingnut">wingnut</a> usage, it's additionally a favorite amongst <a href="/wiki/Gamergate" title="Gamergate">Gamergaters</a> — demonstrating the movement's attraction of many <a href="/wiki/Anti-Semitism" class="mw-redirect" title="Anti-Semitism">anti-Semites</a>, <a href="/wiki/White_supremacy" title="White supremacy">white supremacists</a>, and <a href="/wiki/MRA" class="mw-redirect" title="MRA">MRAs</a> — which they label feminist critics like Brianna Wu and <a href="/wiki/Anita_Sarkeesian" title="Anita Sarkeesian">Anita Sarkeesian</a>, who often receive sexist personal attacks and <a href="/wiki/Rape" title="Rape">rape</a> threats. They complained when discussions on <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia" title="Wikipedia">Wikipedia</a> predating their obsession with the term resulted in the "Cultural Marxism" article on Wikipedia being redirected to the "Conspiracy theory" section of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt_School" class="extiw" title="wp:Frankfurt School" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: Frankfurt School">Frankfurt School</span></a>,<sup><img alt="Wikipedia" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></sup> restored after <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Appeals_to_Jimbo" class="extiw" title="w:Wikipedia:Appeals to Jimbo">appealing to the God-King</a>, no consensus after that, then deletion and redirection back to the conspiracy theory.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22">[20]</a></sup> </p><p>The term is odious enough that non-far-right people wanting to use it now sometimes apologise in advance,<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23">[21]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24">[22]</a></sup> much as nobody behaving in a blatantly racist manner will accept the label "racist". Although <a href="/wiki/Jordan_Peterson" title="Jordan Peterson">Jordan Peterson</a> and the UK <a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> MP <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suella_Braverman" class="extiw" title="wp:Suella Braverman" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: Suella Braverman">Suella Braverman</span></a><sup><img alt="Wikipedia" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></sup><sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25">[23]</a></sup> apparently didn't get the memo. </p> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Origin">Origin</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cultural_Marxism&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Origin">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3> <p>The first usage of the phrase "cultural Marxism" in the conspiracist sense was by William S. Lind of the Free Congress Foundation in his speech "The Origins of Political Correctness" to right-wing group Accuracy in Academia in July 1998, in which he described "political correctness” and "cultural Marxism" as "<a href="/wiki/Godwin%27s_Law" class="mw-redirect" title="Godwin's Law">totalitarian ideologies</a>" that were turning American campuses into "small ivy-covered <a href="/wiki/North_Korea" title="North Korea">North Koreas</a>, where the student or faculty member who dares to cross any of the lines set up by the gender feminist or the homosexual-rights activists, or the local black or Hispanic group, or any of the other sainted 'victims' groups that revolves around, quickly find themselves in judicial trouble." Lind gave this speech many times; a 2000 version sets out his thesis: </p> <blockquote class="letter" style="width:auto; background:#f8f8ff; border:1px solid #C9C9CF;"> <p>Political Correctness is cultural Marxism. It is Marxism translated from economic into cultural terms. It is an effort that goes back not to the 1960s and the hippies and the peace movement, but back to World War I. If we compare the basic tenets of Political Correctness with classical Marxism the parallels are very obvious. </p><p>[....] </p><p>How does all of this stuff flood in here? How does it flood into our universities, and indeed into our lives today? The members of the Frankfurt School are Marxist, they are also, to a man, Jewish.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26">[24]</a></sup> </p> </blockquote> <p>Lind was one of the most prominent figures in promoting the conspiracy theory in the early 2000s, in conjunction with organisations including Free Congress Foundation and <i>American Conservative</i> magazine.<sup id="cite_ref-jamin_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-jamin-27">[25]</a></sup> </p><p>The conspiracy theory was also pushed around this time by Paul Weyrich's Free Congress Foundation, who spent the 1990s railing against "political correctness", culminating in the 1999 videotape <i>Political Correctness: The Dirty Little Secret</i>, attacking the Frankfurt School. </p><p>At a campaign stop in Denver for the <a href="/wiki/Reform_Party" title="Reform Party">Reform Party</a> in October 2000, <a href="/wiki/Pat_Buchanan" title="Pat Buchanan">Pat Buchanan</a> accused <a href="/wiki/Native_Americans" class="mw-redirect" title="Native Americans">Native Americans</a> attempting to block a Columbus Day parade of "cultural Marxism" in the <i>Rocky Mountain News</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28">[26]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29">[27]</a></sup> In his 2001 book <i>The Death of the West</i>, he described "cultural Marxism" as a "regime to punish dissent and to stigmatize social heresy as the <a href="/wiki/Inquisition" title="Inquisition">Inquisition</a> punished religious <a href="/wiki/Heresy" title="Heresy">heresy</a>. Its trademark is intolerance." Buchanan also played a prominent role in James Jaeger's 2011 film <i>Cultural Marxism: The Corruption of America</i>, which set out to explain how the Frankfurt School (according to the film's website) sought to "destroy American free‐enterprise capitalism by undermining its economic engine, the Middle Class and the basic building block of society, the family unit."<sup id="cite_ref-jamin_27-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-jamin-27">[25]</a></sup> </p><p>"Political correctness" had become the popular snarl word of choice after a 1991 speech by <a href="/wiki/George_H._W._Bush" title="George H. W. Bush">George H. W. Bush</a>, with ensuing press coverage and a <i><a href="/wiki/Washington_Times" class="mw-redirect" title="Washington Times">Washington Times</a></i> op-ed by Laurence Jarvik of the <a href="/wiki/Heritage_Foundation" class="mw-redirect" title="Heritage Foundation">Heritage Foundation</a> decrying "storm troopers" attacking "Western culture."<sup id="cite_ref-splc_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-splc-30">[28]</a></sup> </p><p>Prior to this, <a href="/wiki/Soviet" class="mw-redirect" title="Soviet">Soviet</a> dissident <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Bezmenov" class="extiw" title="wp:Yuri Bezmenov" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: Yuri Bezmenov">Yuri Bezmenov</span></a><sup><img alt="Wikipedia" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></sup> suggested that civil rights and <a href="/wiki/Social_justice" title="Social justice">social justice</a> movements in the Western world are secretly Soviet plots to weaken their countries from within, and that those who strive for such goals are "<a href="/wiki/Useful_idiot" title="Useful idiot">useful idiots</a>", because according to Bezmenov, "<a href="/wiki/Equality" title="Equality">equality</a> is a ridiculous goal".<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31">[29]</a></sup> The inclusion of Bezmenov's interview with the conspiracy theorist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._Edward_Griffin" class="extiw" title="wp:G. Edward Griffin" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: G. Edward Griffin">G. Edward Griffin</span></a><sup><img alt="Wikipedia" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></sup> in the <a href="/wiki/Advertising" title="Advertising">advertising</a> for the popular video game <i>Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War</i> is met with praise by fellow conspiracy theorist <a href="/wiki/Sargon_of_Akkad" title="Sargon of Akkad">Sargon of Akkad</a>. </p> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Neo-Nazi_adoption">Neo-Nazi adoption</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cultural_Marxism&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Neo-Nazi adoption">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3> <div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:302px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Textgram_1392062780.png" class="image"><img alt="" src="/w/images/thumb/4/4c/Textgram_1392062780.png/300px-Textgram_1392062780.png" decoding="async" width="300" height="300" class="thumbimage" srcset="/w/images/thumb/4/4c/Textgram_1392062780.png/450px-Textgram_1392062780.png 1.5x, /w/images/thumb/4/4c/Textgram_1392062780.png/600px-Textgram_1392062780.png 2x" data-file-width="612" data-file-height="612" /></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/wiki/File:Textgram_1392062780.png" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div>Just a picture from your friendly neighbourhood <s>fascist</s> <a href="/wiki/Third_positionism" class="mw-redirect" title="Third positionism">Third positionist</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32">[30]</a></sup></div></div></div> <p>An article, "Subversive Jew Parasites Explode Over Antisemitic Leaflets in Sydney" by the <a href="/wiki/Neo-Nazi" class="mw-redirect" title="Neo-Nazi">neo-Nazi</a> <i><a href="/wiki/Daily_Stormer" class="mw-redirect" title="Daily Stormer">Daily Stormer</a></i>, states: </p> <blockquote class="letter" style="width:auto; background:#f8f8ff; border:1px solid #C9C9CF;"> <p>[T]he rise of racial hatred is most certainly a threat to <a href="/wiki/Australia" title="Australia">Australia</a>'s future security and prosperity, with the <b>Jewish nation-wreckers continuously attempting to weaken and overwhelm the White residents</b> of what was previously a semi-inhabited wilderness. The never-ending tidal wave of feral migrant hordes, combined with idiotic <b>Cultural Marxism, runs the risk of utterly crushing a prosperous and beautiful land</b>, and must be halted at any cost. </p><p>By observing the <b>deranged reactions of the Jew</b> to such a simple act of defiance, we come to the understanding that this kind of resistance must be increased exponentially. <b>The World Parasite cannot stay quiet</b> in the face of our propaganda exposure, and had the tendency to lose all composure when confronted with the truth.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33">[31]</a></sup> </p> </blockquote> <p>Many members of the <a href="/wiki/Meme" title="Meme">meme</a>-Nazi <a href="/wiki/Alt-right" title="Alt-right">alt-right</a> similarly hold that Cultural Marxism is real, is done by Jews, and is a serious threat to their <a href="/wiki/Ethnostate" class="mw-redirect" title="Ethnostate">ethnostate</a> dreams. </p> <div style="clear:both;"></div> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="2011_Norway_attacks">2011 Norway attacks</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cultural_Marxism&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: 2011 Norway attacks">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3> <p><a href="/wiki/Anders_Behring_Breivik" title="Anders Behring Breivik">Anders Behring Breivik</a>, the terrorist and mass-murderer behind the 2011 <a href="/wiki/Norway" title="Norway">Norway</a> Attacks in Utøya and Oslo was himself an adherent of said conspiracy theory. In fact Breivik's 1,518 page manifesto <i>2083: A European Declaration of Independence</i> contains numerous mentions of "Cultural Marxism" at least 100 times and he specifically blames it alongside feminism and <a href="/wiki/Islam" title="Islam">Islam</a> for the supposed decline of Europe and Western civilization in addition to having 27 pages worth of William Lind's writings.<sup id="cite_ref-jamin_27-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-jamin-27">[25]</a></sup> </p> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Gallery">Gallery</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cultural_Marxism&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Gallery">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3> <div role="note" class="hatnote">See the main article on this topic: <a href="/wiki/I%27m_not_racist,_but..." class="mw-redirect" title="I'm not racist, but...">I'm not racist, but...</a></div> <center><ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional" style="max-width: 1215px;"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 235px"><div style="width: 235px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 230px;"><div style="margin:42px auto;"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Nose_Knows.jpg" class="image"><img alt="" src="/w/images/thumb/5/51/The_Nose_Knows.jpg/200px-The_Nose_Knows.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="146" srcset="/w/images/thumb/5/51/The_Nose_Knows.jpg/300px-The_Nose_Knows.jpg 1.5x, /w/images/thumb/5/51/The_Nose_Knows.jpg/400px-The_Nose_Knows.jpg 2x" data-file-width="545" data-file-height="397" /></a></div></div> <div class="gallerytext"> <p>No anti-semitism here. None at all. </p> </div> </div></li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 235px"><div style="width: 235px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 230px;"><div style="margin:52px auto;"><a href="/wiki/File:Pol_cultural_Marxism_conspiracy_flowchart.jpg" class="image"><img alt="" src="/w/images/thumb/1/14/Pol_cultural_Marxism_conspiracy_flowchart.jpg/200px-Pol_cultural_Marxism_conspiracy_flowchart.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="126" srcset="/w/images/thumb/1/14/Pol_cultural_Marxism_conspiracy_flowchart.jpg/300px-Pol_cultural_Marxism_conspiracy_flowchart.jpg 1.5x, /w/images/thumb/1/14/Pol_cultural_Marxism_conspiracy_flowchart.jpg/400px-Pol_cultural_Marxism_conspiracy_flowchart.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4621" data-file-height="2914" /></a></div></div> <div class="gallerytext"> <p>A diagram posted to <a href="/wiki/4chan" title="4chan">/pol/</a><sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34">[32]</a></sup> outlining "the origins and effects" of Cultural Marxism: <a href="/wiki/International_Jewish_conspiracy" title="International Jewish conspiracy">the blasted international Heebs did it</a>. Said chart was reposted with approval on the <a href="/wiki/Neoreactionary" class="mw-redirect" title="Neoreactionary">neoreactionary</a> blog MoreRight, with the part about the Jews gently trimmed away.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35">[33]</a></sup> </p> </div> </div></li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 235px"><div style="width: 235px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 230px;"><div style="margin:15px auto;"><a href="/wiki/File:Cultural_marxism.jpg" class="image"><img alt="" src="/w/images/thumb/9/90/Cultural_marxism.jpg/102px-Cultural_marxism.jpg" decoding="async" width="102" height="200" srcset="/w/images/thumb/9/90/Cultural_marxism.jpg/153px-Cultural_marxism.jpg 1.5x, /w/images/thumb/9/90/Cultural_marxism.jpg/204px-Cultural_marxism.jpg 2x" data-file-width="776" data-file-height="1522" /></a></div></div> <div class="gallerytext"> <p>A contest aiming to string <a href="/wiki/Association_fallacy" title="Association fallacy">association fallacies</a> produced this.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36">[34]</a></sup> </p> </div> </div></li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 235px"><div style="width: 235px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 230px;"><div style="margin:46.5px auto;"><a href="/wiki/File:Cm13.jpg" class="image"><img alt="" src="/w/images/thumb/d/d5/Cm13.jpg/200px-Cm13.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="137" srcset="/w/images/thumb/d/d5/Cm13.jpg/300px-Cm13.jpg 1.5x, /w/images/thumb/d/d5/Cm13.jpg/400px-Cm13.jpg 2x" data-file-width="822" data-file-height="562" /></a></div></div> <div class="gallerytext"> <p>The Reptilians are controlled by Cultural Marxists.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37">[35]</a></sup> </p> </div> </div></li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 235px"><div style="width: 235px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 230px;"><div style="margin:15px auto;"><a href="/wiki/File:Cm11.jpg" class="image"><img alt="" src="/w/images/thumb/9/97/Cm11.jpg/141px-Cm11.jpg" decoding="async" width="141" height="200" srcset="/w/images/thumb/9/97/Cm11.jpg/212px-Cm11.jpg 1.5x, /w/images/thumb/9/97/Cm11.jpg/283px-Cm11.jpg 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="707" /></a></div></div> <div class="gallerytext"> <p>Smashing homosexuality invented by the Soviet Union?<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38">[36]</a></sup> </p> </div> </div></li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 235px"><div style="width: 235px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 230px;"><div style="margin:78.5px auto;"><a href="/wiki/File:Culturel_marxisme.jpg" class="image"><img alt="" src="/w/images/thumb/5/54/Culturel_marxisme.jpg/200px-Culturel_marxisme.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="73" srcset="/w/images/thumb/5/54/Culturel_marxisme.jpg/300px-Culturel_marxisme.jpg 1.5x, /w/images/thumb/5/54/Culturel_marxisme.jpg/400px-Culturel_marxisme.jpg 2x" data-file-width="627" data-file-height="230" /></a></div></div> <div class="gallerytext"> <p>Ze culturel marxistes zey are committing genocide on whites.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39">[note 3]</a></sup> Sacrébleu ooh la la!<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40">[37]</a></sup> </p> </div> </div></li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 235px"><div style="width: 235px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 230px;"><div style="margin:33px auto;"><a href="/wiki/File:Cultural_Marxism_Your_Race.png" class="image"><img alt="" src="/w/images/thumb/c/c8/Cultural_Marxism_Your_Race.png/200px-Cultural_Marxism_Your_Race.png" decoding="async" width="200" height="164" srcset="/w/images/thumb/c/c8/Cultural_Marxism_Your_Race.png/300px-Cultural_Marxism_Your_Race.png 1.5x, /w/images/thumb/c/c8/Cultural_Marxism_Your_Race.png/400px-Cultural_Marxism_Your_Race.png 2x" data-file-width="1022" data-file-height="840" /></a></div></div> <div class="gallerytext"> <p>Cultural Marxism = degenerate multiracial families. Your homogeneous race = God-men. Of course, we say this as non-racists. </p> </div> </div></li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 235px"><div style="width: 235px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 230px;"><div style="margin:15px auto;"><a href="/wiki/File:Talmudism.png" class="image"><img alt="" src="/w/images/thumb/f/fb/Talmudism.png/126px-Talmudism.png" decoding="async" width="126" height="200" srcset="/w/images/thumb/f/fb/Talmudism.png/190px-Talmudism.png 1.5x, /w/images/f/fb/Talmudism.png 2x" data-file-width="195" data-file-height="308" /></a></div></div> <div class="gallerytext"> <p>Smash Cultural Talmudism?<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41">[38]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42">[39]</a></sup> </p> </div> </div></li> </ul></center> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Debunking">Debunking</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cultural_Marxism&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Debunking">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <p>Despite its widespread popularity among the hard-right, many both on the right and left have thoroughly debunked the concept as not being Marxist at all. <a href="/wiki/Christian" class="mw-redirect" title="Christian">Christian</a> <a href="/wiki/Dominionist" class="mw-redirect" title="Dominionist">Dominionist</a> <a href="/wiki/Gary_North" title="Gary North">Gary North</a> calls Cultural Marxism an oxymoron.<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43">[40]</a></sup> Actual Marxist Michael Acuña calls it a myth.<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44">[41]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45">[42]</a></sup> And "How to Paint Your Panda" has debunked it as well.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46">[43]</a></sup> </p> <h2><span id="Trivia:_John,_Paul,_George,_and_Marx"></span><span class="mw-headline" id="Trivia:_John.2C_Paul.2C_George.2C_and_Marx">Trivia: John, Paul, George, and Marx</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cultural_Marxism&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Trivia: John, Paul, George, and Marx">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:302px;"><a href="/wiki/File:C55c3-committee300.png" class="image"><img alt="" src="/w/images/thumb/e/e3/C55c3-committee300.png/300px-C55c3-committee300.png" decoding="async" width="300" height="225" class="thumbimage" srcset="/w/images/thumb/e/e3/C55c3-committee300.png/450px-C55c3-committee300.png 1.5x, /w/images/e/e3/C55c3-committee300.png 2x" data-file-width="524" data-file-height="393" /></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/wiki/File:C55c3-committee300.png" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div>I hope that's all completely clear with everyone.</div></div></div> <p>Although it doesn't get brought up much these days, similar conservative cranks frequently denounced <a href="/wiki/The_Beatles" title="The Beatles">the Beatles</a> as a communist plot in their heyday. </p><p>But separately, there's also a conspiracy theory that Theodor Adorno, leading light of the Frankfurt School, secretly wrote all their songs.<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47">[44]</a></sup> And in fact <i>all the songs for the British Invasion</i> of the 1960s. </p><p>This theory seems to have originated with supposedly ex-<a href="/wiki/MI6" class="mw-redirect" title="MI6">MI6</a> <a href="/wiki/Crank" title="Crank">crank</a> John Coleman, in his 1991 book <i>The Committee of 300</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48">[45]</a></sup> Adorno is claimed to have worked with the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tavistock_Institute" class="extiw" title="wp:Tavistock Institute" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: Tavistock Institute">Tavistock Institute</span></a><sup><img alt="Wikipedia" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></sup> (an organisation with which he had no connection), at the behest of the <a href="/wiki/Jesuits" class="mw-redirect" title="Jesuits">Jesuits</a> rather than the Jews. Various alt-right blogs still contend that Adorno used the Tavistock Institute in order to disseminate propaganda through pop music that would provoke the 'degeneracy' of the <a href="/wiki/Sexual_revolution" title="Sexual revolution">sexual revolution</a> of the 1960s.<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49">[46]</a></sup> Because that's totally how societal shifts work in real life. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Henry_Makow" title="Henry Makow">Henry Makow</a> further theorises that this is the work of the <a href="/wiki/Illuminati" title="Illuminati">Illuminati</a>, but then of course he would.<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50">[47]</a></sup> </p><p>Back in consensus reality, the music Adorno was actually into was Schoenberg's twelve-tone stuff, the main influence on his own compositions. He <i>hated</i> jazz (so he had <i>some</i> good sense) and popular music in general.<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51">[48]</a></sup> And he particularly disliked the Beatles: </p> <blockquote class="letter" style="width:auto; background:#f8f8ff; border:1px solid #C9C9CF;"> <p>What can be urged against the Beatles … is simply that what these people have to offer is … something that is retarded in terms of its own objective content. It can be shown that the means of expression that are employed and preserved here are in reality no more than traditional techniques in a degraded form.<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52">[49]</a></sup> </p> </blockquote> <p>Oh well. </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="See_also">See also</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cultural_Marxism&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: See also">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <div style="clear: right; float:right; border:solid #ff8500 1px; margin: 1px 0; width:250px; padding:2px; background:#ffff80;"> <table cellspacing="0"> <tbody><tr> <td style="width:45px;height:45px;text-align:center"><span class="plainlinks"><a href="/wiki/File:Icon_fun.svg" class="image"><img alt="Icon fun.svg" src="/w/images/thumb/5/5c/Icon_fun.svg/50px-Icon_fun.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="50" srcset="/w/images/thumb/5/5c/Icon_fun.svg/75px-Icon_fun.svg.png 1.5x, /w/images/thumb/5/5c/Icon_fun.svg/100px-Icon_fun.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="200" data-file-height="200" /></a></span> </td> <td style="font-size:9pt;padding:4pt;line-height:1.25em;color:red;">For those of you in the mood, <a href="/wiki/RationalWiki" title="RationalWiki">RationalWiki</a> has a <i>fun</i> article about <a href="/wiki/Fun:Cultural_Marxism" title="Fun:Cultural Marxism"><i>Cultural Marxism</i></a>. </td></tr></tbody></table></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Critical_race_theory" title="Critical race theory">Critical race theory</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cultural_Christian" class="mw-redirect" title="Cultural Christian">Cultural Christian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/International_Jewish_conspiracy#Antisemitism_and_anti-communism" title="International Jewish conspiracy">International Jewish conspiracy § antisemitism and anti-communism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Modern_art_and_architecture" title="Modern art and architecture">Modern art and architecture</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Red_baiting" class="mw-redirect" title="Red baiting">Red baiting</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sexual_Bolshevism" title="Sexual Bolshevism">Sexual Bolshevism</a> (<a href="/wiki/Poe%27s_Law" title="Poe's Law">yes, really</a>)</li></ul> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="External_links">External links</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cultural_Marxism&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: External links">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <ul><li>Ben Alpers. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20181001174113/https://s-usih.org/2011/07/frankfurt-school-right-wing-conspiracy/">The Frankfurt School, Right-Wing Conspiracy Theories, and American Conservatism.</a> US Intellectual History Blog Jul. 25, 2011.</li> <li>Dennis Dworkin. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.dukeupress.edu/Cultural-Marxism-in-Postwar-Britain/index-viewby=author&lastname=Fish&firstname=Stanley&middlename=&sort=newest.html"><i>Cultural Marxism in Postwar Britain: History, the New Left, and the Origins of Cultural Studies</i></a> A history of the term before it became a dirty word.</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://youtu.be/vYQo6LI3Y7c">Cultural Marxism: A Measured Response</a> (HBomberguy)</li></ul> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Notes">Notes</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cultural_Marxism&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Notes">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <div class="references-small" style="font-size:90%;"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-3">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Nobody denies that the Frankfurt School <i>existed</i> (and championed its fair share of nutty ideas). Critics of the <a href="/wiki/Pseudohistory" title="Pseudohistory">pseudohistorical</a> 'Cultural Marxism' conspiracy theory merely argue that the school was tediously unsuccessful (and, as such, somewhat unimportant) in the broad scheme of Western progressivism — and, more obvious still, that all liberals aren't <a href="/wiki/Jonanism" title="Jonanism">commies as well</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-13">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">It’s rather odd to invoke the <a href="/wiki/Inquisition" title="Inquisition">Inquisition</a> here, as it was not exactly known for its fondness for Jews (or anyone who weren’t staunch <a href="/wiki/Catholic" class="mw-redirect" title="Catholic">Catholics</a>, really).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-39"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-39">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">In French, this says "no to <a href="/wiki/White_genocide" title="White genocide">white genocide</a>" followed by "<a href="/wiki/Anti-racist_is_a_code_word_for_anti-white" title="Anti-racist is a code word for anti-white">diversity is a code word for white genocide</a>, showing that white supremacist conspiracy memes have no language barrier. However, the word for diversity used is the Italian one rather than the French one for some reason.</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="References">References</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cultural_Marxism&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: References">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <div class="references-small" style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; font-size:80%;"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-1">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><span class="citation news">Zappone, Chris (November 2, 2017). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.smh.com.au/world/cultural-marxism--the-ultimate-postfactual-dog-whistle-20171102-gzd7lq.html">"Cultural Marxism – the ultimate post-factual dog whistle"</a>. The Sydney Morning Herald<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved April 5, 2019</span>.</span><span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.btitle=Cultural+Marxism+%E2%80%93+the+ultimate+post-factual+dog+whistle&rft.atitle=&rft.aulast=Zappone&rft.aufirst=Chris&rft.au=Zappone%2C%26%2332%3BChris&rft.date=November+2%2C+2017&rft.pub=The+Sydney+Morning+Herald&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.smh.com.au%2Fworld%2Fcultural-marxism--the-ultimate-postfactual-dog-whistle-20171102-gzd7lq.html&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Cultural_Marxism"><span style="display: none;"> </span></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-2">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><span class="citation news">Wilson, Jason (January 19, 2015). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jan/19/cultural-marxism-a-uniting-theory-for-rightwingers-who-love-to-play-the-victim">"'Cultural Marxism': a uniting theory for rightwingers who love to play the victim"</a>. The Guardian<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved April 5, 2019</span>.</span><span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.btitle=%27Cultural+Marxism%27%3A+a+uniting+theory+for+rightwingers+who+love+to+play+the+victim&rft.atitle=&rft.aulast=Wilson&rft.aufirst=Jason&rft.au=Wilson%2C%26%2332%3BJason&rft.date=January+19%2C+2015&rft.pub=The+Guardian&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fcommentisfree%2F2015%2Fjan%2F19%2Fcultural-marxism-a-uniting-theory-for-rightwingers-who-love-to-play-the-victim&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Cultural_Marxism"><span style="display: none;"> </span></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-4">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Jeffrey T. Kuhner <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jul/5/america-home-of-the-gay/">explains why the gay agenda is Cultural Marxism!</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-5">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://thedailybell.com/editorials/1240/Nelson-Hultberg-Cultural-Marxism-The-Corruption-of-America/">This Daily Bell article</a> sets out the claim pretty unambiguously.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-6">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.jaegerresearchinstitute.org/articles/dummies.htm">http://www.jaegerresearchinstitute.org/articles/dummies.htm</a> James Jaeger makes documentaries about Cultural Marxism</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-7">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2002/fall/mainstreaming-hate">http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2002/fall/mainstreaming-hate</a> William S. Lind implicates the Jews</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-8">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">See the Wikipedia articles in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/de:Kulturbolschewismus" class="extiw" title="wp:de:Kulturbolschewismus" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: de:Kulturbolschewismus">German</span></a><sup><img alt="Wikipedia" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></sup> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Bolshevism" class="extiw" title="wp:Cultural Bolshevism" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: Cultural Bolshevism">English</span></a><sup><img alt="Wikipedia" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></sup>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-9">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Duffy, Nick.<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2015/06/15/watch-little-boy-twerks-at-pride-parade-and-upsets-homophobes/">Watch: Little boy twerks at Pride parade and upsets homophobes</a>, <i>Pink News</i>. Accessed 15 June 2015.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-history_of_nazi_germany-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">↑ <sup><a href="#cite_ref-history_of_nazi_germany_10-0">9.0</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-history_of_nazi_germany_10-1">9.1</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-history_of_nazi_germany_10-2">9.2</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-history_of_nazi_germany_10-3">9.3</a></sup></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=bsGhz4qfgKAC&pg=PA43&lpg=PA43&dq=cultural+bolshevism&source=bl&ots=f7pv9hCTt3&sig=CTuf-0nUE1i6WCwv-smbGYl5J_M&hl=fr&sa=X&sqi=2&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=cultural%20bolshevism">https://books.google.com/books?id=bsGhz4qfgKAC&pg=PA43&lpg=PA43&dq=cultural+bolshevism&source=bl&ots=f7pv9hCTt3&sig=CTuf-0nUE1i6WCwv-smbGYl5J_M&hl=fr&sa=X&sqi=2&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=cultural%20bolshevism</a> A History of Nazi Germany: 1919-1945 by Joseph W. Bendersky</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-11">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">See the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia" title="Wikipedia">Wikipedia</a> article on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism_and_ideology#Capitalism" class="extiw" title="wp:Fascism and ideology" rel="nofollow">Fascism and ideology § Capitalism</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-12">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://www.reddit.com/r/PropagandaPosters/comments/zrr02/german_ww2_anticommunist_bolshevism_unmasked/">https://www.reddit.com/r/PropagandaPosters/comments/zrr02/german_ww2_anticommunist_bolshevism_unmasked/</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-14">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://i.pinimg.com/originals/03/9e/b8/039eb838b20166cbcd379c17400d68b7.jpg">Der Stürmer, October 1936 (Issue #41)</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-15">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://amityunderground.com/antisemitic-cultural-marxist-fraser-anning-alt-right-frankfurt-school-theodor-adorno-christchurch-shooting/">Antisemitic ‘Cultural Marxist’ tropes have infected mainstream conservatism thanks to boomers using the internet - Amity Underground</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-16">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.marxists.org/subject/frankfurt-school/index.htm">Marxists.org - Frankfurt School</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-17">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://amityunderground.com/antisemitic-cultural-marxist-fraser-anning-alt-right-frankfurt-school-theodor-adorno-christchurch-shooting/">Antisemitic ‘Cultural Marxist’ tropes have infected mainstream conservatism thanks to boomers using the internet - Amity Underground</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-18">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://theconversation.com/cultural-marxism-and-our-current-culture-wars-part-2-45562">https://theconversation.com/cultural-marxism-and-our-current-culture-wars-part-2-45562</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-19">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.wehuntedthemammoth.com/2015/07/07/whos-afraid-of-cultural-marxism-nazis-mostly-as-this-roundup-of-terrible-memes-reveals/">http://www.wehuntedthemammoth.com/2015/07/07/whos-afraid-of-cultural-marxism-nazis-mostly-as-this-roundup-of-terrible-memes-reveals/</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-20">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Bill Berkowitz. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2003/summer/reframing-the-enemy">Cultural Marxism Catching On.</a> <a href="/wiki/Southern_Poverty_Law_Center" title="Southern Poverty Law Center">Southern Poverty Law Center</a> <i>Intelligence Report</i>, Summer 2003, Iss. 110.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-21">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Anders Behring Breivik. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.breiviksmanifesto.com/political-correctness-is-cultural-marxism">How It All Began -- Political Correctness is Cultural Marxism</a>, in Breivik's Manifesto, <i>2083: A Declaration of European Independence</i>. (This will probably be analyzed by criminal studies professors for years to come.)</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-22"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-22">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://archive.is/YzkIS">Archive of "Cultural Marxism" Wikipedia article</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-23"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-23">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/edwest/100178296/criticising-cultural-marxism-doesnt-make-you-anders-breivik/">http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/edwest/100178296/criticising-cultural-marxism-doesnt-make-you-anders-breivik/</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-24"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-24">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.thelibertyconservative.com/cultural-marxism-conspiracy-theory/">http://www.thelibertyconservative.com/cultural-marxism-conspiracy-theory/</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-25"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-25">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/2019/mar/26/tory-mp-criticised-for-using-antisemitic-term-cultural-marxism">Tory MP criticised for using antisemitic term 'cultural Marxism'</a>, <i>The Guardian</i>, 26 March 2019</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-26"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-26">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Bill Lind, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.academia.org/the-origins-of-political-correctness/">The Origins of Political Correctness</a>. academia.org, 5 February 2000.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-jamin-27"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">↑ <sup><a href="#cite_ref-jamin_27-0">25.0</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-jamin_27-1">25.1</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-jamin_27-2">25.2</a></sup></span> <span class="reference-text">Jerome Jamin. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/rec3.12258">"Cultural Marxism: A survey"</a>. <i>Religion Compass</i>. 2018; 12:e12258. Wiley. <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://doi.org/10.1111/rec3.12258">https://doi.org/10.1111/rec3.12258</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-28"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-28">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Robert Weller (October 9, 2000) <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/aponline/20001009/aponline112905_000.htm">"Buchanan Criticizes Parade Protest"</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-29"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-29">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.cbsnews.com/news/pat-trashes-columbus-day-protest/">http://www.cbsnews.com/news/pat-trashes-columbus-day-protest/</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-splc-30"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-splc_30-0">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2003/summer/reframing-the-enemy">http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2003/summer/reframing-the-enemy</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-31"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-31">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.kotaku.com.au/2020/08/call-of-duty-trailer-recklessly-promotes-far-right-conspiracy-theory/">Call of Duty trailer recklessly promotes far right conspiracy theory</a> Ian Walker, Kotaku</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-32"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-32">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.ph/n4zm7">Global Capitalism and Cultural Marxism</a>. Archived from smashcm.blogspot.nl, 29 January 2017.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-33"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-33">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140901040727/http://www.dailystormer.com/australia-subversive-jew-parasites-explode-over-antisemitic-leaflets-in-sydney">"Australia: Subversive Jew Parasites Explode Over Antisemitic Leaflets in Sydney", <i>Daily Stormer</i>, archive</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-34"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-34">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/38570562/">https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/38570562/</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-35"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-35">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://archive.today/vJD8F">https://archive.today/vJD8F</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-36"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-36">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.wehuntedthemammoth.com/2015/07/07/whos-afraid-of-cultural-marxism-nazis-mostly-as-this-roundup-of-terrible-memes-reveals/">http://www.wehuntedthemammoth.com/2015/07/07/whos-afraid-of-cultural-marxism-nazis-mostly-as-this-roundup-of-terrible-memes-reveals/</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-37"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-37">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.wehuntedthemammoth.com/2015/07/07/whos-afraid-of-cultural-marxism-nazis-mostly-as-this-roundup-of-terrible-memes-reveals/">http://www.wehuntedthemammoth.com/2015/07/07/whos-afraid-of-cultural-marxism-nazis-mostly-as-this-roundup-of-terrible-memes-reveals/</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-38"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-38">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.wehuntedthemammoth.com/2015/07/07/whos-afraid-of-cultural-marxism-nazis-mostly-as-this-roundup-of-terrible-memes-reveals/">http://www.wehuntedthemammoth.com/2015/07/07/whos-afraid-of-cultural-marxism-nazis-mostly-as-this-roundup-of-terrible-memes-reveals/</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-40"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-40">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140608105855/http://www.dailystormer.com/stop-white-genocide-flags-for-the-nations/">"Stop White Genocide Flags for the Nations", <i>Daily Stormer</i>, archive</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-41"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-41">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://smashcm.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-jewish-high-commissaries.html">http://smashcm.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-jewish-high-commissaries.html</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-42"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-42">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170315004311/http://smashcm.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-jewish-high-commissaries.html">https://web.archive.org/web/20170315004311/http://smashcm.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-jewish-high-commissaries.html</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-43"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-43">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.garynorth.com/public/12623.cfm">Cultural Marxism Is an Oxymoron</a>, garynorth.com</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-44"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-44">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Michael Acuña. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://commonruin.wordpress.com/2014/02/02/on-the-myth-of-cultural-marxism/">On the Myth of "Cultural Marxism"</a>, commonruin.wordpress.com</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-45"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-45">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Michael Acuña. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://commonruin.wordpress.com/2015/01/13/my-final-word-on-cultural-marxism/">My Final Word on “Cultural Marxism”</a>, commonruin.wordpress.com</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-46"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-46">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://paintyourpanda.blogspot.com/2014/10/cultural-marxism-cultural-conservatism.html">Cultural Marxism, Cultural Conservatism and the Frankfurt School: Making Sense of Nonsense</a> (October 3, 2014) <i>How to Paint Your Panda</i>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-47"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-47">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://tabublog.com/2016/02/03/theodor-w-adorno-songwriter-for-all-beatles-songs-director-of-frankfurttavistock-social-engineering-school/">https://tabublog.com/2016/02/03/theodor-w-adorno-songwriter-for-all-beatles-songs-director-of-frankfurttavistock-social-engineering-school/</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-48"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-48">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://archive.org/stream/TheStoryOfTheCommitteeOf300/TheStoryOfTheCommitteeOf300_djvu.txt">https://archive.org/stream/TheStoryOfTheCommitteeOf300/TheStoryOfTheCommitteeOf300_djvu.txt</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-49"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-49">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.md/YriZO">Antisemitic ‘Cultural Marxist’ tropes have infected mainstream conservatism thanks to boomers using the internet.</a> by Ruairi Wood (April 14, 2019) <i>Amity Underground</i> (archived from 14 Apr 2019 17:05:14 UTC).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-50"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-50">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://humansarefree.com/2014/03/the-beatles-were-illuminati-creation.html">http://humansarefree.com/2014/03/the-beatles-were-illuminati-creation.html</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-51"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-51">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.moyak.com/papers/adorno-schoenberg-atonality.html">http://www.moyak.com/papers/adorno-schoenberg-atonality.html</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-52"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-52">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" 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