Quote: (08-09-2013 07:52 AM)N°6 Wrote:
Quote: (08-09-2013 07:05 AM)Sp5 Wrote:
So, are capitalists the real "Cultural Marxists?"
I think so but they are better described as oligarchs than capitalists. It wasn't the union movement which abolished the Christian, Sunday day of rest for a materialist day at the mall instead of a family lunch. It was profit-maximising capitalism.
It wasn't the Soviet Union that filled the world with porn.
With the Cultural Marxist identity politics of the New Left from the 1960s, niche markets have been created for identities that hadn't even existed before.
We have already discussed women's liberation into the workplace being the means to tax the other half of the population and increasing consumption. We can also say the creation of the homosexual movement created a new market of consumption by people who spend money on themselves rather than on children.
Also, in the US and UK, there is now no credible union movement to oppose finance-capitalism since the New Left (now called liberals) took over from the traditional unions. Yes, I'd say that backing Cultural Marxism was a good investment for capital.
During the Cold War, the CIA was motivated to stop sympathy to Communism from increasing in the US and Western Europe so it probably thought it prudent to divert youth interest into the 60s Counter Culture.
Both the Marxian and Randian point of view is purely materialist. Questions of culture seem to have little to do with either. Nor does the family, except as an economic unit, spirituality, or art and music except as commodities.
Remember this: the main "person" in market economies now is the corporation. And corporations are essentially sociopathic, in that their only purpose is to return value to shareholders.
Greece and Rome had widespread homosexuality and imperial government. Nothing to do with "cultural Marxism."
Most of this "cultural Marxism" BS is just another way to distract people while they are picking your pocket.