The source of our present troubles: How did CRT
and other Neo-Marxist ideas permeate our culture?
We need to go back to the Second World War and to William
"Wild Bill" Donovan, who was the head of the U.S. Office of Strategic
Services (or the OSS which was the antecedent to the CIA), who hired several
members of the Frankfurt School of Cultural Marxism to help the United States
understand how Nazism operated. Their involvement led to the OSS using what is
known as Cultural Marxist Critical Theory in their analysis of Nazi Germany to
the advantage of the secret service but much to the detriment of America in the
long run. They ensured that the Cultural Marxist tool of dialectical analysis would
synthesise new ways of viewing reality. Their goal was not merely to defeat Nazi
Germany and Imperial Japan but also to influence academia and politics. This process
is known as the long march through the institutions. By the 1960’s students who
had been subjected to this ideological thinking had become slaves to the
simulacra that the Frankfurt School had helped to create. Simulacra which have been
successfully employed to replace reality with dialectical illusions.
Simulacra have long been of interest to philosophers. In
his Sophist, Plato speaks of two kinds of image-making. The first is a faithful
reproduction, attempted to copy precisely the original. The second is
intentionally distorted in order to make the copy appear correct to viewers. He
gives the example of Greek statuary, which was crafted larger on the top than
on the bottom so that viewers on the ground would see it correctly. If they
could view it in scale, they would realize it was malformed. This example from
the visual arts serves as a metaphor for the philosophical arts and the
tendency of some philosophers to distort the truth so that it appears accurate
unless viewed from the proper angle. Nietzsche addresses the concept of
simulacrum (but does not use the term) in the Twilight of the Idols, suggesting
that most philosophers, by ignoring the reliable input of their senses and
resorting to the constructs of language and reason, arrive at a distorted copy
of reality. And what has resulted? Identity politics, Anti-Semitism,
censorship, and taxing the very air we breathe to stop the weather, crony
capitalism, WOKE capitalism, corrupt investment banking policies, the list goes
on ad infinitum. Therefore, if you wonder as I do why society has come to
believe in delusional ideation, look no further than to Hegel who is always patiently
waiting at the beginning of the dialectical path toward totalitarianism to guide
the way!
And of course, the Cultural Marxists from the Frankfurt School
also sought to wage war on free market capitalism. I just heard noted hedge
fund manager Sir Paul Marshall who was speaking at the London conference of the
Alliance for Responsible Citizenship assert that the world needs another Teddy
Roosevelt to take on the vested interests to rid the business world of cronyism,
regulatory capture and WOKE false virtue to make free enterprise once again a
pillar of human flourishing. He also stated that the bank crisis of 2008 was
the largest transference of wealth from the poor to the rich in human history
where the bankers privatised the gains and socialised the losses for their own corruption
and planning failures. Again in during COVID with unconstitutional and ineffective
lockdowns small businesses were crushed while multinational conglomerates continued
unimpeded even as the pharmaceutical industry gained immunity from the
consequences for untested gene therapy being unleased on an unsuspecting public
with the full cooperation of governments throughout the West.
And what of one of the deadliest versions of Critical
Theory known as Critical Race Theory which has been forced into public consciousness
in the wake of Hamas’s demonic attack on innocents in Israel? Even the Canadian
government has appointed a special envoy to deal with this, from the Canadian
government’s own web-site https://www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/news-releases/2023/10/16/prime-minister-announces-new-special-envoy-preserving-holocaust
“In the wake of Hamas’ large-scale terrorist
attacks against Israel, the world was again reminded that antisemitism is not a
relic of the past – it is a daily reality experienced by Jewish communities
here in Canada and around the world. Antisemitism is not a problem for the
Jewish community to confront alone. We all have an obligation to continue to
speak up against it wherever and whenever it occurs.
The Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, today
announced the appointment of Deborah Lyons as Canada’s new Special Envoy on
Preserving Holocaust Remembrance and Combatting Antisemitism. Ms. Lyons will
serve for a term of two years.”
Just yesterday I had someone attempt to deny that Critical
Race Theory had increased Anti-Semitism on campuses today. Make no mistake,
your taxes are being used to fund instruction in hatred in our universities due
to this toxic CRT ideology. I, for one, will never rest until this ideological
poison is extracted from our institutions of higher learning and see those
responsible for it being there charged with disseminating hate.
So back to how CRT came to North America.
William "Wild Bill" Donovan hired the
following members of the Frankfurt School who were:
1. Franz Leopold Neumann (23
May 1900 – 2 September 1954) was a German political activist, Western Marxist
theorist, and labor lawyer. He became a political scientist in exile and is
best known for his theoretical analyses of Nazism. He studied in Germany and
the United Kingdom, and spent the last phase of his career in the United States.
Neumann's main field of expertise was law and political
science. He earned a doctorate in 1923 with a thesis on method in the theory of
punishment. His main aim was to explain the socialist acceptance of liberal
individualism in this sphere, in contradiction to Socialist theory.
During the Second World War, Neumann worked for the Office
of Strategic Services from 1943 to 1945. He analysis concluded that “Like the
Behemoth in Jewish mythology and the writings of Thomas Hobbes, Hitler’s regime
was a chaotic, lawless, and amorphous monster. Its policies expressed the
sometimes overlapping and sometimes contending drives of the four symbiotic but
separate power centers (the Nazi party, the German state bureaucracy, the armed
forces, and big business) that composed it. Both the enormous might and the
inherent vulnerability of Nazi Germany stemmed, according to Neumann, from its
very nature as a conspiracy among these four self-interested groups, each of
which sought to expand German power and territory without ceding authority or
status to any of the other parties” quote from (Germany, Behemoth: The
Structure and Practice of National Socialism)
2. Herbert Marcuse (July
19, 1898 – July 29, 1979) was a German-American philosopher, social critic, and
political theorist associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory. He
studied at the Humboldt University of Berlin and then at Freiburg, where he
received his PhD.
Marcuse's philosophy was deeply influenced by both Marxism
and Freudian theories. He criticized capitalism, modern technology, Soviet
Communism, and popular culture, arguing that they represent new forms of social
control. His notable ideas include technological rationality, great refusal¹,
one-dimensional man, work as free play, repressive tolerance, repressive
desublimation, negative thinking, and totalitarian democracy.
In his book "Eros and Civilization" (1955),
Marcuse argued for a widened experience of sexuality through the embrace of
eros, in general, within polymorphous sensuality, fantasy, and the arts. He was
a leading inspiration to the "Flower Children," the theme of
"Make Love, Not War," and a great portion of the Rock music and drug
culture of the age.
Marcuse's work had a significant influence on the leftist
student movements of the 1960s. Some even consider him "the Father of the
New Left".
It is crucial to understand Marcuse in order to understand
where we are now. The radical students of 1968 are now our professors and
politicians.
https://www.devilslane.com/the-toxic-disciples-of-marcuse/
"Marcuse instructed his acolytes to sell their
totalitarianism as tolerance, “partisan tolerance,” which he introduced in an
essay he penned in 1965 as a guide for how to shut down debate and silence the
critics of Critical Theory.....According to Marcuse, classic tolerance has
failed our societies. Why? Well because it tolerates all ideas, even those that
are “wrong.” As a result, tolerance as it has been practiced since the word has
had any meaning at all is in fact “repressive tolerance,” since it permits the
expression of “unjust” views that perpetuate exploitation and oppression. As a
result, we must redefine tolerance in such a way that oppression is removed.
Meaning that from now on, one need only tolerate that which does not maintain
established societal norms of “oppression.” Tolerance, to be “real” tolerance
from now on must be “partisan tolerance."
3. Otto Kirchheimer (11
November 1905, Heilbronn – 22 November 1965, Washington, D.C.) was a German
jurist of Jewish ancestry and political scientist of the Frankfurt School¹. His
work essentially covered the state and its constitution.
During the Weimar Republic, Kirchheimer came to prominence
with sensational analyses of the relationship between social structures and
constitutions¹. His essay from 1930 "Weimar und was dann? Entstehung und
Gegenwart der Weimarer Verfassung" (Weimar and then what? Origin and
present of the Weimar Constitution), in which Kirchheimer described the Weimar
Constitution as an unsustainable foundation of the state, was widely
discussed¹.
Kirchheimer worked as a research analyst at the Office of
Strategic Services (OSS), the forerunner of the CIA, starting in World War II
and continuing to 1952. He also worked for four years as a researcher in the
Institute for Social Research. He began working with Georg Rusche on
"Sozialstruktur und Strafvollzug" (Punishment and Social Structure).
The Rusche-Kirchheimer version of Punishment and Social Structure was published
in 1939 as the first English-language publication of the institute.
As Otto Kirchheimer worked as a research analyst at the
forerunner of the CIA, starting during World War II and continuing to 1952. He
was responsible for preparing analyses. Together with Franz Neumann, Herbert
Marcuse, and others he helped turn the OSS to be the place where the
left-Hegelian Weltgeist (World Spirit) found its temporary abode and spread from
there into Academia and Politics. This is the origin of the ideas which drive
the Besserwissers who share in his ideas to constantly harping on about “global
governance”.
My thoughts:
Remarkably the weaponization of Dialectical analysis created
by the Jews from the Frankfurt School has become the very tool which is now
being used to persecute Jews. After all, the members of the Frankfurt School
fled Nazi Germany to escape National Socialism because they were Jews. Nazism was
yet another totalitarian ideology that employed Hegelian Dialectics to analyse
the structure of reality. And so, I inquired of those from the left who remain friends
on social media, “To my socially conscience friends: Have you not read about
the horrendous unconscionable Anti-Semitic racists screaming Jew hatred in our
universities? How on earth do you think this is possible? University professors
teaching CRT are indoctrinating kids at the taxpayers’ expense to hate Jews and
view terrorists with rose coloured glasses! Type CRT and any university of your
choosing into Google to find out that this hideous ideology is being taught in
all of them! Why are you still silent about this???” And you guessed it,
not one from the left responded. Apparently, they only care about hate when you
dislike or challenge something that they believe, namely, that it is appropriate
to hate others who do not think like you. This is why I have very few friends
from the left remaining on my social media feeds. These include my dearest and
oldest friends and closest family members. Oh, how very loving they are, especially
given the fact that I have not stopped caring for them 😉
FIRST READING: How Canada spent millions
pushing an ideology used to frame Jews as oppressors
The doctrine of 'anti-racism,' now mandatory
across the federal civil service, holds that Jews have "become white"
to benefit from white supremacy.
Author of the article:Tristin Hopper
Published Oct 23, 2023 • 8
minute read
https://montrealgazette.com/opinion/canada-crt-anti-racism-initiative
FIRST READING: How
Canada spent millions pushing an ideology used to frame Jews as oppressors
The doctrine of 'anti-racism,' now mandatory
across the federal civil service, holds that Jews have "become white"
to benefit from white supremacy
TOP STORY
“Hamas terrorists were still in the process of
pulling Israeli civilians from their homes and executing them when McMaster
University associate professor Ameil Joseph wrote on X.com that “postcolonial,
anticolonial, and decolonial are not just words you heard in your DEI
workshop.”
DEI refers to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion,
an ideology touting anti-racism and decolonization that has come to define
massive swaths of Canadian academia in recent years. And Joseph was far from
the only Canadian academic to excuse the mass-murder of more than 1,000 people
using words from a DEI glossary.
“Decolonization is not just a theory” was a
sign held by a woman in a Carleton University jacket attending an Ottawa rally
celebrating the Oct. 7 attacks. Mohammad Fadel, a law professor at the
University of Toronto, recirculated posts cheering Hamas fighters who crossed
“into their colonisers’ territory.”
Black Lives Matter Canada — a group that the
federal government has openly endorsed as a source on “racial equity” — issued
a statement that made no mention whatsoever of the Oct. 7 violence, saying only
that Israel was an apartheid oppressor state engaged in the “torture and
murder” of Palestinians.
In just the last five years, the Trudeau
government has leaned hard into a project to remake the federal government
under the guise of “anti-racism.” Stemming from the U.S.-created discipline of
“critical race theory,” anti-racism is wholly different from the principles of
tolerance, multiculturalism and equal treatment that used to characterize the
federal approach to race. Rather, anti-racism holds that Canada’s structures
are so irredeemably racist that — in the words of Ottawa’s own literature on the
subject — it can be defeated only with “deliberate systems and supports”
favouring marginalized groups.
Canada now has a federal Anti-Racism
Secretariat. It spent $45 million on an official “Anti-Racism Strategy” – and
showered grants onto an archipelago of “anti-racism initiatives.” What’s more;
every soldier, diplomat, judge and civil servant collecting a federal paycheque
must now undergo mandatory training to learn how to grapple with their own
“unearned privilege” and work for a country that is irredeemably shot through
with systemic oppression.
But as Jewish voices have been warning for
years, anti-racism has a troubling blind spot when it comes to Jews: They’re
either omitted, or framed as colonialist oppressors. As Canada’s strongest
bastions of “anti-racism” thought now openly cheer terrorism and call for
Israel’s destruction, it’s not entirely off-brand for an ideology that has
often framed Jews as standard-bearers for white supremacy.
“Critical Race Theory simplistically erases the
uniqueness of the Jewish experience and identifies Jews as ‘white’, CRT’s
oppressor class,” reads a critique by Russell A. Shalev, an Israeli lawyer (and
McGill University graduate) who has credited CRT with fostering a boom of
anti-Semitism within academia.”
In summation:
As I mentioned, few of my old leftist friends have any further
use for me other than to mischaracterise and insult me. Which I find almost
amusing if it weren’t for the fact that they have been left bereft of my
excellent company and good humour. It might surprise them to know the source of
my renewed interest in understanding what is no doubt a complex topic full of contradictions
and hermetic mysteries. I suppose that in order for those who truly seek to
upset the applecart to make everything over in their own image that this was out
of necessity, since their ideology makes no sense when examined in the clear
light of day and in comparison to the legacy of responsible government and functional
institutions that we inherited from our ancestors whom they label and patriarchal
tyrannists, bigots, unenlightened and backwards. It is the reason for my
awakening that might surprise them, however.
My wife is a kind and gentle person. She is educated both
by the military at Naval Academy and Staff College as well as holding a degree
from the University of Oslo. She is calm, and above all quiet in only the way that
a Norwegian knows how to be. If you hear someone shouting in the streets of
Norway that person will not be a Norwegian, that behaviour is simply not done.
She has a deep and abiding love of her culture and her country whom she has
served with stoic resolution despite her not being treated well by those for
whom she served faithfully. Her own children disregard her, a sin so heinous
that I find their behaviour toward their loving mother unconscionable. But
enough of that, since other than praying for them, I have no control over the
situation which must leave in God’s hands. So given her gentle and quiet nature
my both my detractors and my friends might find it difficult to appreciate that
my awakening to the hellish nightmare which has been caused by the social
collectivists who are using Hegel to steer society toward ruin is due to her and
her alone. It was Anne-Siri who first opened my eyes to the source of this ideological
pathogen. A brain worm so deadly that it has reawakened the basest instincts of
mankind to return us to tribalism, Anti-Semitism, collectivism, and a remarkable
hatred for the freest, most prosperous economies the world has yet seen. All so
that we can live smaller, pettier, colder, poorer lives beholden to those are
playing this Dialectical game of globalist Monopoly. A world in which two opposites
are synthesised into an impossibility. Thewy are attempting to indoctrinate us into
believing in two mutually exclusive propositions that any sane person knows
should instantly cancel one another out. This is why my wife’s kids won’t talk
to her for she is guilty of the grievous sin of telling them that reality is
their friend and there is no escaping from it. The simulacra that Critical
Theory has created are attempting to replace the very foundations of peace,
order and good governance upon which Canada was founded.
Part of our problem as people who believe in personal
freedom, morality, and individual autonomy is that since we are individualistic
collective efforts are not our forte. The left excels at this since Neo-Marxism
is a globalist phenomenon. So, I wish Jordan Peterson, John Anderson, and
Baroness Stroud the greatest successes with the Alliance for Responsible
Citizenship and its conference which seeks to address these very issues. May it
be as John Anderson wished that their new effort will be “a response to the
"civilisational" moment, of western decline, as liberal democracies
"are plagued with self doubt" as to their own values and beliefs”.
For these are things to think about pray about as we reflect on our own role to
challenge the silliness of Critical Theory and the enormous damage it has wrecked
on the West.
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