against the ever-oppressive “straight White male,” in the same way that Orthodox Marxists attempted to weaponize the working-class against their “bourgeois oppressors.” (Again, the Orthodox Marxist strategy failed because the White working-class were nationalistic conservative bigots). They weaponized women, minorities, LGBT, etc. To achieve this, Western Marxists invented a bunch of theories (now called “cultural studies”) that were explicitly designed to disrupt, destabilize, and undermine White society. To secure victory, they must first (in the words Lukács) “destroy society” by eroding all existing social values: Family, religion, racialism, nationalism, traditional culture, and so on. The central theory of Western Marxism (known colloquially as “Cultural” Marxism) is that the Left cannot achieve victory in the West through violent revolution, because White culture is (or was) too nationalistic and socially conservative. This is because Leftist ideology evolves through a process commonly known as “Hegelian Dialectics,” though Hegel himself did not use the term.
Postmodernist ideas were eventually re-absorbed into Western Marxism, forming the modern Leftist ideology we are familiar with today. If you aren’t familiar with Postmodernism (begins 1960s-70s), it can be summarized as follows: “Everything is a social construct, universal truth does not exist, facts are unimportant, ideas are true only if they benefit the oppressed, categorization causes marginalization (and thus oppression).” Many leading Postmodernists (Foucault, Baudrillard, Lyotard, etc.) began their academic careers as Western Marxists, before eventually “rejecting” Western Marxism. The links to modern Leftist ideology should be pretty obvious. If you aren’t familiar with the Frankfurt School (also known as The Institute for Social Research), check out their most famous works: The Authoritarian Personality (1950), Eros and Civilization (1966), and Repressive Tolerance (1965). The Frankfurt School, a Marxist think tank based in Columbia University and Goethe University, Frankfurt.Georgy Lukács, Commissar for Culture of the Hungarian Soviet Republic.Antonio Gramsci, leader of the Italian Communist Party.The fact that Peterson has successfully linked these ideologies to genocidal socialist regimes around the world, highlighting their natural endpoint, makes Leftists seethe all the more.Īlmost all modern Leftist ideology is rooted in Western Marxism, which was pioneered by: To this day, Leftists furiously whine about Jordan Peterson’s (correct) analysis that modern Leftist ideology is, essentially, a fusion of Marxism and Postmodernism. * I don’t use the term disparagingly, they literally declared war on our culture. Look up “Cultural Marxism” on YouTube and you’ll find a lot of Leftist content, produced from 2015 to 2017, whining about the Right-Wing exposing their culture war,* its ideological lineage, and fundamental goals (which can be summarized as ‘the total destruction of the West’). These tools are broadly categorized as “cultural studies” and form the theoretical underpinning of the Left’s relentless attack on White people, which they frame as a never-ending “critique” of White culture.
Before 2017, the Right-Wing - especially the anon “far-right” - made great progress in exposing the Left’s cultural subversion, their Long March Through the Institutions, and the Marxist lineage of their subversive ideological tools (critical race theory, postcolonialism, sexual revolution, intersectionality, etc.).