Cultural Marxism Explained

This video is an explanation of cultural Marxism, which is a term often thrown around in contemporary political and social debates. Here, those ideas are explored in a brief format.

[ジョジョさま]

In my diversity and culture class, the teacher was literally teaching us what Marxism "is" and why it's needed.

Talk about straight indoctrination.

[renatogdn]

"The individual is the smallest minority on Earth."

[qwertyuiop]

Yuri Bezmenov.. Find him and listen to him. He will open your mind.

[MotherMissionary]

Thank you. It’s difficult to fight against something you neither understand or can explain. Most of us in western countries know little about the origin of these ideas that are now flooding our institutions and society. As a Christian I am wanting to be able to offer a biblical world view while also showing some understanding of these ideas. Thank you again. Very much appreciate your non academic academic style of teaching.

[samuelrosander]

"Various communist countries coming into power" at around 2:20 basically discredited the explanation. Sorry, but a country isn't communist simply because its party wants to create the conditions required for EVENTUAL communism. The countries that Cooper would point to were all poor, mostly agrarian countries that employed something called "state capitalism, " which was to take the place of private capitalism, so that the countries could rapidly build up productivity and join the modern (of their time) world. Their "not all that positive" results make a laughingstock of private capitalism as an economic force. Both Russia and China built up in 50 years what took the United States 150. Living conditions in Russia improved far more rapidly than ever happened in any capitalist country. A good portion of that is because the models and technology were already developed, but both countries were still obscenely poor and agrarian, making rapid industrialization THAT MUCH HARDER.
Yes, it was a very inadequate description of Karl Marx. Also not overly accurate.
You jump from critical theory to postmodernism and then say "That, essentially is, what we know as cultural Marxism." That was a mental leap. You introduced the "idea of cultural Marxism" without ever explaining what it was around half-way through the video. I'm still trying to figure out what you're saying cultural Marxism actually is. Unless you're saying that "cultural Marxism is recognizing that there are oppressors and oppressed groups, " in which case why call it "cultural Marxism" except to bend knee to people like Jordan Peterson?
All-in-all, I don't see this as an explanation of cultural Marxism so much as personal biases injected into something that could easily have been compressed into two minutes of "Here's an inadequate/inaccurate description of Marx and Marxism, a vague description of cultural Marxism that boils down to 'oppressor and oppressed classes exist within society, ' and I don't like it."

[aaronh]

“Even a good emotion, pity, if not controlled by charity and justice, leads through anger to cruelty. Most atrocities are stimulated by accounts of the enemy’s atrocities; and pity for the oppressed class, when separated from the moral law as a whole, leads to a very natural process to the unremitting brutalities of a reign of terror.”” -C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

Prophetic words for his time.

[andhi]

This really helped clear up the current obsession with groups. I'm sick of being judged based on the group I belong to.

[SimplicitySingularity]

It's really hard not to notice that all of the Franklin School were all of the tribe. So was marx, Lenin, Trotsky and many others.

[lorenzomm]

The 1938
Leon Trotsky
4 th International.
The beginning of Cultural Marxism.😢

[jimbo]

As an older American born uneducated White agnostic Male. I found this video eye opening and informative! You made it easier for me to understand with keeping your keeping it short and simple. Thanks Doc your a good person!

[mdnis]

Wow! He explained Cultural Marxism without once uttering the word “Jews.”
Now that’s a lesson for you.

[psycharol]

Love your self, love your country
I am white and proud to be white
I am English and proud to be English
I love my country, it's culture, Christian values, its green fields, its amazing coastline, its historical buildings!
I love our history, good and bad.
I love its music, art, dance and food (good and bad).
I love my nation, bordered on other nations which defines my Englishness as opposed to their Scottishness, Welshness etc!
I am English, England is my nation.
I AM A NATIONALIST, GET OVER IT!

[DonMitchell]

Dr. Cooper, oddly you have left out one of the most important originators of Cultural Marxism, namely Antonio Gramsci. I propose that Gramsci, whose writings preceded the formation and work of the Frankfurt school, actually drew the road map or created the overarching strategy of what we now know as Cultural Marxism. The scholars of the Frankfurt School rather developed and implemented the tactics—Critical Theory, Repressive Tolerance, etc.—to advance that strategy. Gramsci created this strategy first by redefining Marxism, changing it from an economic class struggle that would eventually spark a world-wide armed revolt (as Marx himself predicted) to a struggle between a class of “oppressors” and the “oppressed.” Secondly Gramsci said that the process of establishing Communist states, rather than armed revolt, would be breaking the “cultural hegemony” of the institutions that supported and nurtured Capitalism—institutions such as the nuclear family, the Christian church, schools and academia and other social organizations that buttressed cultural norms. He saw the way to do this would be to morally delegitimize all these institutions by condemning them as oppressors, and the way to do that was to infiltrate these institutions—especially education—and promulgate a moral condemnation of them in what he termed a “long march through the institutions.” I agree that they borrow concepts of compassion for the weak and oppressed from Christian moral thought—even as they work to condemn Christianity itself. Ironically the heart of Critical Theory tactics is to morally denounce in absolutist terms all institutions and ideas that support free market enterprise though its proponents simultaneously repudiate objective morality. Gramsci originally saw the oppressed classes as racial and religious minorities, ex-convicts, and others outside of the hegemonic cultural mainstream, but work by his Frankfurt School successors and now their students in academia, media and politics, have greatly expanded the ranks of the oppressed by focusing on an ever expanding coalition of identity groups. Their latest invention is intersectionalism by which they assign more victimhood authority to any individual who has membership in more than one group of the “oppressed.” “Oppressor” and the “oppressed”; this is the language of Cultural Marxism—and it was first coined by Antonio Gramsci.

[valentinozangobbo]

The true oppressors disappear from our eyes and rage, they prefer to put some alteregos to the public judgement... they've learned from the history...

[sofitocyn]

I am a master's student in political science in western europe. All my class are heavily alt-left loaded. The texts we have to read to prepare each class are completely biased. It took me several minutes of my first class this year to understand that I was going to be dealing with professors and fellow students who believe in the "leftists are sweet/rightists are evil" dichotomy. This is something I never realized when I was a bachelor's student many years ago. In the hindsight, a lot of my classes were openly marxist. Some professors were even communists and made us study Marx. I remember that the first time I had to study a book of Marx, I would complain because I had heard about him all my life already (talk about endoctrination from the earliest age...). After the third book or so, I was hooked and morphed into the perfect woke girl and in my mind, whoever thought differently was evil. That's what this ideology makes you believe. I am older now and I have opened my eyes but all the people I know are severely brainwashed. What a cult!!

[ThePhilosorpheus]

The core of the issue is: Christianity cares about the oppressed because of their personhood, the inherent value of their lives as children of God. Marxism claims to care about the oppressed because of their contingent social/material circumstances. In other words, oppression must end not out of charity and love for the oppressed but to tweak the engines of historical necessity and reach a pragmatically desirable situation that will generate conformity and end class struggle.

[iangibblet]

This video cleared the fog on a quite a few questions I had. Thanks for taking the time to make it.

[antikytheramechanism]

Frankfurt is where it ESCAPED FROM. Wish it had stayed there.

[mstek]

“So what do we do with this idea”?


We dismantle it.

[codex]

But if the goal is to have the oppressed overcome the oppressor, doesn't that always just create a new oppressor -- not "equality"?