{"id":380850,"date":"2018-10-13T21:06:34","date_gmt":"2018-10-13T20:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-is-cultural-marxism-americas-new-mainline-ideology\/"},"modified":"2018-10-13T21:06:34","modified_gmt":"2018-10-13T20:06:34","slug":"prison-planet-com-is-cultural-marxism-americas-new-mainline-ideology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-is-cultural-marxism-americas-new-mainline-ideology\/","title":{"rendered":"Prison Planet.com \u00bb Is Cultural Marxism America\u2019s New Mainline Ideology?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Anthony Mueller<\/strong>
The Mises Institute
<\/a>October 13, 2018<\/p>\n

This theory says that the driving force behind the socialist revolution is not the proletariat \u2013 but the intellectuals. <\/strong><\/p>\n

While Marxism has largely disappeared from the\u00a0workers\u2019<\/em>\u00a0movement, Marxist theory flourishes today in cultural institutions, in the academic world, and in the mass media. This \u201ccultural Marxism\u201d goes back to\u00a0Antonio Gramsci<\/a>\u00a0(1891-1937) and theFrankfurt School<\/a>. The theorists of Marxism recognized that the proletariat would not play the expected historical role as a \u201crevolutionary subject.\u201d Therefore, for the revolution to happen, the movement must depend on the cultural leaders to destroy the existing, mainly Christian, culture and morality and then drive the disoriented masses to Communism as their new creed. <\/strong>The goal of this movement is to establish a world government in which the Marxist intellectuals have the final say. In this sense, the cultural Marxists are the continuation of what started with the Russian revolution.<\/p>\n

Lenin and the Soviets<\/u><\/h3>\n

Led by\u00a0Lenin<\/a>, the perpetrators of the revolution regarded their victory in Russia only as the first step to the world revolution.<\/strong>The\u00a0Russian Revolution\u00a0<\/a>was neither Russian nor proletarian. In 1917, the industrial workers in Russia represented only a small part of the workforce, which mainly consisted of peasantry. The Russian Revolution was not the result of a labor movement but of a group of\u00a0professional revolutionaries\u00a0<\/a>. A closer look at the composition of the Bolshevist party and of the first governments of the Soviet state and its repressive apparatus reveals the true character of the Soviet revolution as a project that did not aim at freeing the Russian people from the Tsarist yoke but was to serve as the launchpad for the world revolution.<\/p>\n

The experience of World War I and its aftermath showed that the Marxist concept of the \u201cproletariat\u201d as a…<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Anthony MuellerThe Mises InstituteOctober 13, 2018 This theory says that the driving force behind the socialist revolution is not the proletariat \u2013 but the intellectuals. While Marxism has largely disappeared from the\u00a0workers\u2019\u00a0movement, Marxist theory flourishes today in cultural institutions, in the academic world, and in the mass media. This \u201ccultural Marxism\u201d goes back to\u00a0Antonio Gramsci\u00a0(1891-1937) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-380850","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}