It’s time for another Open Q&A. Write a question on any topic in the comments. Then, later today, I’ll answer as many as I can and collect highlights for a future post.
How to irrefutably link movements, like the Trans Agenda or the LGBQT+ Flag to Marxism? Every school or admin that waves the pride flag should fully understand that the equivalence is the gold hammer and sickle on a red background. Every parent should see it for what it is!
It's not such a direct link. The genealogies of critical race theory, for example, and transgender ideology are different. CRT is more directly derived from identity-based neo-Marxism, as you will see in my book. But transgender ideology has mostly a different lineage, deriving from postmodernism and left-wing Nietzscheanism, predominantly through Michel Foucault. There is some overlap, as some theorists have tried to hitch trans identity into a Marxist oppressor-oppressed dynamic and believe that "transgender liberation" can only be achieved through the abolition of both gender and capitalism. On the Left, there is usually a "blender effect," in which all of these ideologies are mixed together. But from a strict historical perspective, they developed out of different lines of thought.
Yes, It does appear like a coalition of false, not yet publicly discredited, theories that share a common opposition to those who seek honest discourse -- for the pleasure of the power-above-all-else democrats' voting block. Quite a tent.
There’s a lot of overlap! The point is we’re the fuel came from driving this, the citizens of these United States through there tax dollars courtesy The Biden Administration!!! Other wise these groups would be a bunch of indoctrinated college kids flapping there jaws and of course the rest of the older gays, bi’s and xyz’s demanding the world’s recognition while being used as pawns by the very people that will extinguish them after they help destroy the idea of a country founded on Judeo Christian beliefs!
It’s been used and going on sense Jesus Christ walked the face of the earth!
It might be useful to review the contents of the "sex education" program Bela Kun and Gyorgy Lukacs introduced in Hungarian state schools in 1919. While this curriculum most definitely targeted Christian family values, I believe it was also designed to create gender confusion and to advance a transhumanist agenda.
I wrote to Joe "Caesar's Messiah" Atwill for details in that I've heard him lecture on this topic. I would also consider the activities of Wilhelm Reich in Vienna in the mid-1920's and his comrades like Fritz Perls.
GEORG LUKÁCS' MARXISM: ALIENATION, DIALECTICS, REVOLUTION. By Victor Zitta.
Zitta wrote that "education became something perverse" under Lukács and that special lectures were organized in school and literature printed and distributed to “instruct” children about free love, about the nature of sexual intercourse, about the archaic nature of the bourgeois family codes, about the outdatedness of monogamy, and the irrelevance of religion which deprives man of all pleasure. Children were urged thus to reject and deride paternal authority and the authority of the church, and "to ignore precepts of morality".
I disagree. It really does not matter whether they have the same genealogies or different ones. They arrived at the same point and share the same fundamental principles and the same implementation as those found in totalitarianism. They are variants of Marxism, which is an ideology that constantly mutates--much like COVID-19--to form new variants.
You are deeply mistaken in your concepts.I was born under the hammer and sickle and lived for 42 years.Nothing like what you write about happened there, and if it happened secretly, it was punishable.
The relationship between Marxism and the family is quite interesting. Orthodox Marxists believed that the "patriarchal family" was an impediment to developing revolutionary consciousness. At the same time, many left-wing theorists complained that the left-wing political parties in Europe, for example, upheld largely bourgeois cultural standards. Foucault made a variation on this argument quite forcefully in relation to the trade unionists, who did not accept the cultural revolution that was driving the student rioters in France during the late 1960s. There was always a sense that changes to the family did not go fast or far enough. Now, looking back, we can see that these cultural changes, which happened not only in Marxist countries but also in the capitalist countries of the West, especially the United States, have been a disaster.
Not to mention Karl Marx didn't work and was nortiously horrible to his kids and family and was an alcoholic, freeloading, failed aristocratic pos but I digress.
Also what Foucault and the French intelligentsia thought of the family (a bourgeois structure that needed to be dismantled) is very different from the position of the French Communist Party, which, like all communist parties, was very conservative when it came to sex. (I am a French scholar, btw) There were women who were excommunicated from the French Communist Party for "moral reasons." In Communist Romania there was a concept called "the socialist morality" which meant that even divorce was frowned upon. None of this is known by American Marxists because their view of Marxism is completely divorced from the reality of it in former Communist countries.
I was born in the USSR and family narrative was pretty strong there along with criminalized homosexuality (rus. «мужеложество»). It was also shameful for a woman to be divorced or having a kid outside marriage.
There is an enormous difference between Marxists in contemporary Anglo countries and the way Marxism was applied in all Communist countries. In the latter, all alternative sexualities were punished by law. In Communist Romania where I lived, a homosexual could go to prison for 20 years. Contemporary Western queer Marxists are very much like "Queers for Palestine." Marx had no concept of "gender" and would be perplexed to see what his theory has become.
You are misunderstanding his point. He is talking about parallels between Communism and the LGBTQ/Trans movement's oppressor vs. oppressed framework for interpreting reality. Now we see Trans bringing Hamas into their intersectionality of the oppressed. The aim in all cases is the destruction of categories, the rise of Transhumanism (Communism's concept of the New Man), and destruction of the West itself.
I agree I missed the point. The LGBTQ/Trans movement did not exist under communism. It utilized different pairs of oppressor/oppressed. Elena, I apologize if your comment was not a denial but rather a clarification of this important difference between life under communism vs life under woke. Of course, both lead to human suffering, but they are different -- with the commonality that both were/are based on placing people in camps against themselves.
I think your misunderstanding, the rise of Hilters regime was ground floor separation of the family by I doctrinarian of the children and pitting them against there families. Then pushing the the pure blood agendas.
The approach here in US is very similar!
All the groups mentioned haven’t been persecuted at least not since the mid-70s in the far is interracial marriage that’s been excepted for 25 years or more. Black life matters, LBGTXYZ community is all been added to attack the family base in general coupled with the attack on Christianity in this country, which is the base of its founders .
I think what the Left and the radical Islamists have in common is the desire to destroy Christianity, whose decline has already brought about a weakening of morality and social cohesion, and whose destruction will allow those ideologies to impose themselves on all Western countries.
It forever shocks me that we just flat out kill or incarcerate black men in the US so black families have zero chance. And no one says anything- DNC, BLM, President Obama have changes nothing. Here in the quiet Midwest of Missouri we have the highest black murder victimization rate in the US and have been 1 or 2 in the US for the last 14 years but the MOGOP concedes STL and KC cities without even trying and "targeting races" is the BS excuse I suppose. https://www.riverfronttimes.com/news/missouris-black-homicide-victimization-rate-again-highest-in-us-39941072
"It's forever shocks me that we just flat out kill or incarcerate black men in the US so black families have zero chance." This is not true at all and, to the extent that it reflects any reality, gets the causation backwards.
While both your statements are basically true, I've been all through the issue. I want to know why it's acceptable to anyone but especially black voters. And if we as conservatives say the nuclear family is the key to our society, then this is a problem for us as well.
Destruction of the current system/ institution is the end goal of critical theory. It's sinister in the Democratic Party bc some really are standing for trans rights and then when they realize the point is them being used to break the only system which actually has trans rights in it, it's too late.
Trans. as an ideology, with ideological categories. This phenomenon is wholly apart from adult persons who pursue their delusions surgically.
And, what is "No you don't?" Are you..."scolding" this man for saying something you don't care for? If so, then is it not enough to prove him wrong - without tedious moralisms?
The "No, you don't" is a response to this from him, "Now we see Trans bringing Hamas into their intersectionality of the oppressed."
Also, being transgender is not an ideology. Being transgender is the same as being black, Hispanic, or Asian. They simply are. Just like you simply are. Your ideologies aren't you. The difference is that you have a choice in agreeing with an ideology, whereas you do not have a choice in being you The same applies to trans people.
Like all people, transgender people do have ideologies they agree with. There are trans people who are adhere to conservativism, republicanism, liberalism, etc. as there are in any other population.
His point would have been more accurate had he said "Now we see Trans ideologists bringing..." That said, there is an ambiguity which has arisen (and which you clarify) - and that is over the word "Trans" - whether (in caps) it refers to individuals or the ideology/movement. I have used it as he did, but am not committed to that - reality is what matters. I will say "Trans ideologists" going forward, now that I see the ambiguity (I did not consider it ambiguous, until now - but speech should be clear).
The rest I agree with and stated above (in my own way) - unless you mean to say that "being trans" is a reality - which I do not believe. And this is an ambiguity for you to address/resolve: are you saying that there are people who exist who believe themselves to be transexual/have had surgeries, etc., or are you saying that they are actually correct to think that?
I am sure many if not most trans people do not want the destruction of the West, but, unfortunately, there is a big difference between trans people and the Trans ideological movement of the radical far left. The leading academics of the ideology are Judith Butler and Susan Striker, among others. They call for the obliteration of all categories of meaning that Western civilization has produced because its values, accomplishments and systems of social organization and scientific endeavor are nothing but patriarchal oppression masquerading as progress. It is sheer nonsense. I have a feeling that you might agree, but read those authors for yourself and you will see blatant statements to destroy the West.
I'm not so sure that "many if not most trans people do not want the destruction of the West." My sense is that Americans who claim to be transgender are very far to the left on the political spectrum.
Most trans people do not know who Judith Butler or Susan Striker are and could care less about their academic philosophies.
While they are academics, they are by no means leading academics on what it means to be transgender. Just as your views are yours, and you are entitled to them, their views are theirs, and they also entitled to them too.
Of course, we are all entitled to our own views. They are in fact the leading academics in the fields of transgenderism, queer theory and gender studies. So, they, along with others, have laid the foundation and are the thought leaders of the far left radical Trans ideological movement now waving the banner at pro-Hamas rallies on campuses everywhere. Trans people are not necessarily part of this movement but they should call out injustice when they see it, as we all should. Lastly, if we are interested in rational thinking, we have a responsibility to analyze ideas and critique bad ideas that negatively impact our social cohesion, and therefore, you should take a closer look..
Part of the reason for my initial post was I've really been thinking about "Queers for Palestine." I cannot imagine they realize what would happen to them in Palestine. So what convinces a person to support a cause that would likely or eventually violently kill them?
I don't know, James. It makes no sense to me. I still don't know why Log Cabin Republican's support a party that seeks to erase and delete every word that would identify them from across the entire federal enterprise and that doesn't not want them in the party.
There is a direct parallelism between the "classic" Marxism and the neo-Marxism/Communism. It's exactly the same divide of society based on the oppressed /oppressor antagony. In the classic Marxism - workers versus bourgeoisie, in the neo-Marxism - sexual minorities, racial and religious minorities versus white people ann Christians.
The parallelism is in the structure of ideology, per-se. It has a gnostic (Manichean) religious basis which will make all such movements/ideologies "familial."
Bourgeois Radicalism (the present phenomenon) is no exception - what you say of the dualism is correct, and true of all of them (Communist Marxism (Lenin) Fascist Marxism (Mussolini), National Socialism, Bourgeois Radicalism, etc. etc.
Bourgeois Radicalism. I think you are spot on. But what does that mean? These people think the rebellion is transkids products in the front of the store at Target. The next week when it is pushed to the back and the following week removed, they are looking for tiny Palestinian or Ukrainian flags for their profile. And the main reason all this happened is so someone at PRSA or in marketing can get another data point on a consumer.
You raise more than one question - and all good. As to Bourgeois Radicalism and ideology, I can answer well. My third reply is more tentative.
Bourgeois Radicalism is the ideology of the "Liberation of the Individual from all Oppressions." Ideology is in-turn a gnostic religious recurrence combined with (and governing as an idealism) by Praxis, as understood by Francis Bacon to Karl Marx.
In the case of Bourgeois Radicalism, it predates Marx. It was suppressed by Marxism and its related social ideologies (Fascism, etc.) but, in the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union (and the other régimes in WWII) and objective defeat of Marx's counter to the Bourgeois Radicals - Dialectical Materialism - B.R. has been rediscovered (Stirner to Marcuse).
All ideology is utopic, and a comprehensive falsification of reality. Its votaries look to utopia, and devalue the world of reality to a symbol - they constantly talk about what "should be" (but is not). They try to remake the world as this "should," which is not an ethical "should" based upon human nature/anthropology but a fideistic "should" based on utopia. Combined with Praxis, this means violently remaking the world w/o ethical considerations. It is a kind of violent, dishonest moralism.
To your question of outcomes. My thoughts are more tentative, and I have only generally written about this. I just spent over a week in New York meeting with other Catholic philosophers, and this was our main subject!
Trans is a good case: they try to alter reality itself, but find that they cannot - something about forms in nature prevents success. They cannot via technology change men into women or horses into men. To put this another way, their Praxis fails to remake the world. What next?
I believe postmodern theory is the place to look. The way to read it broadly is as a description of life under total ideological régime - it is underrated by its opponents and misunderstood by its proponents. It describes life as an immersive fiction - a LARP. This is the fall-back position of the ideologists - if they cannot radically transform reality via technology (and it appears that they cannot), then they will settle for a comprehensive immersive fiction. You see both approaches or "attempts" side-by-side (remember, as "Praxis" all of this is "experimental").
There is a related phenomenon of careerists and fellow-travelers who "don't really mean it." Well, they are responsible for what they say - their motives are their own. They are furthering the problem, and become part of it - future camp notaries and press-agents who "didn't know." They will execute whatever orders they receive - as they are informing us. The Hamas Atrocity Exhibition is a stress-test both for votaries and fellow-travelers - how much will they be complicit in? Quite a lot, it seems...
I hope that this attempt is worthy, and furthers your thinking. If you wish to question it or disagree, you will find me receptive - I am after comprehensive understanding of the truth. As a servant of God, I am not permitted to make this "about me."
Cordially,
PS, I will be soon making a new comment to Christopher concerning the effect of "Intersectionality." I hope that you will read it when it posts.
Elana, I am happy you were not touched. But as a child I lived a few months with many Russian children who would told me how they would hide their Bibles because they did not want to go to prison. And the documentation is quite extensive. Denial is surely conducive to pleasurable thoughts about the past, but for the millions of people who suffered greatly under Stalin and others Russian leaders, not so much.
I agree with what you say of Marxism - mostly. That is, "Intersectionality" is a Bourgeois Radical conception, and only Marxist insofar as it tries to "pick up the pieces" of Marxism after the real-world refutation of Dialectical Materialism. Really, "Marxism" is a kind of "Mystification" - a rhetorical device by both the Bourgeois Radicals and their enemies on the "Right." The real pedigree is Max Stirner, et. al. along with Mao - who himself emulated the "social movements" of the National Socialists, etc.
This seems directionally correct. I'm assuming you mean that the Marxist political movements never shed their bourgeois origins—and now refuse to shed even their bourgeois desires. This is one of the great lessons from Del Noce.
Marx did try to suppress Bourgeois Radicalism - which predates him; his comments on Stirner and other "Left-Hegelians" are brutal. What he offered - Dialectical Materialism - failed objectively (by his standards). "Mystifications" of "Right" and "Left" ideologists aside (both have a stake in propping-up Marx's corpse and many outright don't understand and/or are sentimentalists), the "Left" has returned to its Bourgeois Radical roots. Of course, some never left those roots - as Marx and both Communists and Fascists never tired of observing.
At this point, the Left IS Bourgeois Radicalism - which in-reality means a kind of universal bureaucratic administrative/economic state dedicated to "physical an emotional 'well-being.'" That is, a kind of (gated) Bourgeois Disneyland.
This much said, "Intersectionality" has opened a grotesque, perverse, laughable and repulsive complication - as your recent Twitter post of the Judith Butler talk attests. Your typical B.R. aspirant - say Ta-Nehisi Coates - both aspires to Bourgeois Disneyland and advocates murder.
Then you are not seeing it. Go back and watch those activist leftists...rallies. The Hammer & Sickle is proudly displayed in the mob, along side BLM and Pride flags. Sometimes you will see a hammer sickle wrapped in pride stripes. It is no longer subversive. You own lived historical experience could very well be foretelling a near future. Messaging is key. Open people’s eyes to what the possible future may look like if this path continues.
No, I saw it and it just amused me.Most of the people you mentioned have no idea how it was.Under the hammer and sickle was a different morality and concepts.Therefore, one should not mix one with the other, otherwise it is simply ridiculous
An excellent question. We do need to show Americans these ideologies are all variants of Marxism because they are. We need to clearly explain this to Americans so they know we are dealing with the hammer and sickle. If we can't get the diagnosis correct, we will not have the right cure. Saying transgender is a new theory is a wrong diagnosis that simply confuses people. In fundamental principles transgenderism and critical race theory are essentially the same. They are variants of Marxism. Now is the time to increase Americans' awareness of the real nature of the ideology that is destroying America.
It's not insane. Everything that's happening now, every one of the moronic groups and "movements" (e.g. BLM, LGBTQ) are part of the agenda to destroy white/Western civilization. Wake up.
You clearly know, nothing about Communism, the Black community, or the gay community. Please go read a book and get your head out of QAnon conspiracies.
Have you read Rufo's book? See the index for "Intersectionality," pp. 237-39. A quotation that might be helpful:
"The simplest way to explain intersectionality is that it expands the Marxist oppressor-oppressed binary into a finely graded, multivariate hierarchy of oppression."
The hierarchy is not based on economic class, but identity, hence "NEO" Marxism.
OK. Everything and everyone are always prosperous, well, and happy under communism and BLM leadership. All sunshine and roses. Is that what I'm not understanding about communism and BLM?
I don't think my grandparents were feeling the sunshine when they fled Russia, nor did my great- grandfather and uncle when they had to return to Russia due to an eye infection. They were summarily executed upon their arrival in their homeland.
Very "2020" - hostile, emotive rhetoric and no substance.
None of it has any effect any more - those of us who refuse to be ruled by ideologists have come to accept your social aggression and obdurate irrationality as a given, and very much part of the problem. We were put off for a bit by the sheer incivility and unreason of it, but we have "gotten over it," and are moving forward to reassert our right to govern our own lives without your permission or approval.
By "you," I do not speak of you personally - there is always hope for you personally - but your movement and its weird gnostic religion.
You are one of the few warriors the conservative movement has to battle the Left, yet they seem to have an endless supply on their side. How can we level the playing field?
Yes, they say "Do not attribute to malice what can be attributed to ignorance." The useful idiots are the army of those far fewer warmongers with deep seeded hate converted into irrational activism.
We need legislation to stop this massive transgender social contagion. The government, universities, major medical associations and social media are complicit. Thousands of parents like me are experiencing indescribable grief as our young adult children are misled to poison and mutilate themselves. How can we stop it?
This is a tragedy and I'm sorry to hear about your adult child. You are correct that all of the major institutions have been promoting this ideology, despite the mounting evidence that is it based on a false metaphysics, science, and medical practice. The good news is that public opinion is shifting, due to the work of many journalists, doctors, and activists who are exposing the transgender movement for what it is: a nihilistic cult that engages in child sacrifice as an expression of moral purification. The bad news is that this is likely cold comfort for those who have children currently struggling with this ideology. My recommendation cannot be universal—each particular family must approach it with a sense of prudence, based on particular experience—but my general sense is that you must love your child unconditionally, try to maintain a connection as much as possible, and be patient, steady, and faithful. Remember the story of the prodigal son.
One of the best things I have seen you write. You are, after all, a father.
The Transgender cult as "a nihilistic cult that engages in child sacrifice as an expression of moral purification" is strong and points to what we know of human history/anthropology. It goes straight to the regressive nature of neo-gnosticism - in this case a recurrence of child-sacrifice - as if Judaism had never happened! We see the same with race ideology.
Have you written on this specific element, or can you point to anyone who discusses this cultic recurrence? This strikes me as a vital insight.
This is America, so lawsuits - which are already happening.
Turns out it's legally risky to use the consent of inherently mentally ill people as the basis for untested & unstudied chemical and surgical experimentation! Who could have guessed?
"Everything" is a bit strong. Do not understand the reference to Finland. But I do agree that we Americans need to rediscover our true compassions -- which have been hijacked by the left in too many corporations who find virtue signaling profitable, not to mention the educational institutions who use it to defend their stupid theories and attract useful-idiot followers.
read the article linked by rethink earlier to understand the finland reference.. here it is again for convenience.. the position in the usa is this transgender thing is driven by big money as i see it.. i am not down with this left-right divide.. i think it is too simplistic.. cheers https://www.thefp.com/p/gender-affirming-care-dangerous-finland-doctor
How to irrefutably link movements, like the Trans Agenda or the LGBQT+ Flag to Marxism? Every school or admin that waves the pride flag should fully understand that the equivalence is the gold hammer and sickle on a red background. Every parent should see it for what it is!
It's not such a direct link. The genealogies of critical race theory, for example, and transgender ideology are different. CRT is more directly derived from identity-based neo-Marxism, as you will see in my book. But transgender ideology has mostly a different lineage, deriving from postmodernism and left-wing Nietzscheanism, predominantly through Michel Foucault. There is some overlap, as some theorists have tried to hitch trans identity into a Marxist oppressor-oppressed dynamic and believe that "transgender liberation" can only be achieved through the abolition of both gender and capitalism. On the Left, there is usually a "blender effect," in which all of these ideologies are mixed together. But from a strict historical perspective, they developed out of different lines of thought.
Yes, It does appear like a coalition of false, not yet publicly discredited, theories that share a common opposition to those who seek honest discourse -- for the pleasure of the power-above-all-else democrats' voting block. Quite a tent.
There’s a lot of overlap! The point is we’re the fuel came from driving this, the citizens of these United States through there tax dollars courtesy The Biden Administration!!! Other wise these groups would be a bunch of indoctrinated college kids flapping there jaws and of course the rest of the older gays, bi’s and xyz’s demanding the world’s recognition while being used as pawns by the very people that will extinguish them after they help destroy the idea of a country founded on Judeo Christian beliefs!
It’s been used and going on sense Jesus Christ walked the face of the earth!
It might be useful to review the contents of the "sex education" program Bela Kun and Gyorgy Lukacs introduced in Hungarian state schools in 1919. While this curriculum most definitely targeted Christian family values, I believe it was also designed to create gender confusion and to advance a transhumanist agenda.
Yes, important.
I wrote to Joe "Caesar's Messiah" Atwill for details in that I've heard him lecture on this topic. I would also consider the activities of Wilhelm Reich in Vienna in the mid-1920's and his comrades like Fritz Perls.
GEORG LUKÁCS' MARXISM: ALIENATION, DIALECTICS, REVOLUTION. By Victor Zitta.
Zitta wrote that "education became something perverse" under Lukács and that special lectures were organized in school and literature printed and distributed to “instruct” children about free love, about the nature of sexual intercourse, about the archaic nature of the bourgeois family codes, about the outdatedness of monogamy, and the irrelevance of religion which deprives man of all pleasure. Children were urged thus to reject and deride paternal authority and the authority of the church, and "to ignore precepts of morality".
I disagree. It really does not matter whether they have the same genealogies or different ones. They arrived at the same point and share the same fundamental principles and the same implementation as those found in totalitarianism. They are variants of Marxism, which is an ideology that constantly mutates--much like COVID-19--to form new variants.
True! But one can not paint the entire left (or right) with such a broad brush.
You are deeply mistaken in your concepts.I was born under the hammer and sickle and lived for 42 years.Nothing like what you write about happened there, and if it happened secretly, it was punishable.
The relationship between Marxism and the family is quite interesting. Orthodox Marxists believed that the "patriarchal family" was an impediment to developing revolutionary consciousness. At the same time, many left-wing theorists complained that the left-wing political parties in Europe, for example, upheld largely bourgeois cultural standards. Foucault made a variation on this argument quite forcefully in relation to the trade unionists, who did not accept the cultural revolution that was driving the student rioters in France during the late 1960s. There was always a sense that changes to the family did not go fast or far enough. Now, looking back, we can see that these cultural changes, which happened not only in Marxist countries but also in the capitalist countries of the West, especially the United States, have been a disaster.
Not to mention Karl Marx didn't work and was nortiously horrible to his kids and family and was an alcoholic, freeloading, failed aristocratic pos but I digress.
Marx was a gem!
I'm honestly suprised he couldn't get some vodka profits to live off of from the czar. Lol
Also what Foucault and the French intelligentsia thought of the family (a bourgeois structure that needed to be dismantled) is very different from the position of the French Communist Party, which, like all communist parties, was very conservative when it came to sex. (I am a French scholar, btw) There were women who were excommunicated from the French Communist Party for "moral reasons." In Communist Romania there was a concept called "the socialist morality" which meant that even divorce was frowned upon. None of this is known by American Marxists because their view of Marxism is completely divorced from the reality of it in former Communist countries.
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André Marty was quite a figure, yes. Nothing about gender or dismantling families.
Most of the traditional heroes in Communist countries were very macho.
I was born in the USSR and family narrative was pretty strong there along with criminalized homosexuality (rus. «мужеложество»). It was also shameful for a woman to be divorced or having a kid outside marriage.
Exactly. See may answers too.
There is an enormous difference between Marxists in contemporary Anglo countries and the way Marxism was applied in all Communist countries. In the latter, all alternative sexualities were punished by law. In Communist Romania where I lived, a homosexual could go to prison for 20 years. Contemporary Western queer Marxists are very much like "Queers for Palestine." Marx had no concept of "gender" and would be perplexed to see what his theory has become.
In the land of the hammer and sickle, which was based on the ideology of K.Marx, the family was erected and supported.
As for this country, quick and smart reforms will help and save it.
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After the revolution they at first tried to destroy the family. That was ultimately such a disaster that they had to reverse course.
After the revolution from 1917-1923 there was a Civil War.It is unlikely that at this time someone had the right thoughts in their heads.
Basically, the contradictions were about the inheritance of property, and not for any other reasons.
But since the whole idea is that "a strong family is a cell of a strong society," these problems were quickly sorted out.
You are misunderstanding his point. He is talking about parallels between Communism and the LGBTQ/Trans movement's oppressor vs. oppressed framework for interpreting reality. Now we see Trans bringing Hamas into their intersectionality of the oppressed. The aim in all cases is the destruction of categories, the rise of Transhumanism (Communism's concept of the New Man), and destruction of the West itself.
I agree I missed the point. The LGBTQ/Trans movement did not exist under communism. It utilized different pairs of oppressor/oppressed. Elena, I apologize if your comment was not a denial but rather a clarification of this important difference between life under communism vs life under woke. Of course, both lead to human suffering, but they are different -- with the commonality that both were/are based on placing people in camps against themselves.
I think your misunderstanding, the rise of Hilters regime was ground floor separation of the family by I doctrinarian of the children and pitting them against there families. Then pushing the the pure blood agendas.
The approach here in US is very similar!
All the groups mentioned haven’t been persecuted at least not since the mid-70s in the far is interracial marriage that’s been excepted for 25 years or more. Black life matters, LBGTXYZ community is all been added to attack the family base in general coupled with the attack on Christianity in this country, which is the base of its founders .
I think what the Left and the radical Islamists have in common is the desire to destroy Christianity, whose decline has already brought about a weakening of morality and social cohesion, and whose destruction will allow those ideologies to impose themselves on all Western countries.
But I should add that Christians and Muslims will surely unite against transgender ideology and that may make a strong bond.
It forever shocks me that we just flat out kill or incarcerate black men in the US so black families have zero chance. And no one says anything- DNC, BLM, President Obama have changes nothing. Here in the quiet Midwest of Missouri we have the highest black murder victimization rate in the US and have been 1 or 2 in the US for the last 14 years but the MOGOP concedes STL and KC cities without even trying and "targeting races" is the BS excuse I suppose. https://www.riverfronttimes.com/news/missouris-black-homicide-victimization-rate-again-highest-in-us-39941072
"It's forever shocks me that we just flat out kill or incarcerate black men in the US so black families have zero chance." This is not true at all and, to the extent that it reflects any reality, gets the causation backwards.
> It's forever shocks me that we just flat out kill or incarcerate black men in the US
We don't. We kill or incarcerate Black men when they commit crimes, just like we do to everybody else.
> Here in the quiet Midwest of Missouri we have the highest black murder victimization rate in the US
Well most killers kill within their race.
While both your statements are basically true, I've been all through the issue. I want to know why it's acceptable to anyone but especially black voters. And if we as conservatives say the nuclear family is the key to our society, then this is a problem for us as well.
Destruction of the current system/ institution is the end goal of critical theory. It's sinister in the Democratic Party bc some really are standing for trans rights and then when they realize the point is them being used to break the only system which actually has trans rights in it, it's too late.
Well-put.
No you don't. Hamas is a terrorist group. Most trans people I know will quickly tell you that too and no they do not want the destruction of the west.
Trans. as an ideology, with ideological categories. This phenomenon is wholly apart from adult persons who pursue their delusions surgically.
And, what is "No you don't?" Are you..."scolding" this man for saying something you don't care for? If so, then is it not enough to prove him wrong - without tedious moralisms?
BTW, this "Cassandra" is a know shill.
It will be interesting to see what she (?) says to my question whether she affirms that the Trans delusions are truth (not delusions).
The "No, you don't" is a response to this from him, "Now we see Trans bringing Hamas into their intersectionality of the oppressed."
Also, being transgender is not an ideology. Being transgender is the same as being black, Hispanic, or Asian. They simply are. Just like you simply are. Your ideologies aren't you. The difference is that you have a choice in agreeing with an ideology, whereas you do not have a choice in being you The same applies to trans people.
Like all people, transgender people do have ideologies they agree with. There are trans people who are adhere to conservativism, republicanism, liberalism, etc. as there are in any other population.
> Also, being transgender is not an ideology.
Yes it is. It is also a denial of objective reality.
Attempting to become another sex is a choice. Race is a separate issue. It is fixed, just like age. Surely, you actually know this to be true.
His point would have been more accurate had he said "Now we see Trans ideologists bringing..." That said, there is an ambiguity which has arisen (and which you clarify) - and that is over the word "Trans" - whether (in caps) it refers to individuals or the ideology/movement. I have used it as he did, but am not committed to that - reality is what matters. I will say "Trans ideologists" going forward, now that I see the ambiguity (I did not consider it ambiguous, until now - but speech should be clear).
The rest I agree with and stated above (in my own way) - unless you mean to say that "being trans" is a reality - which I do not believe. And this is an ambiguity for you to address/resolve: are you saying that there are people who exist who believe themselves to be transexual/have had surgeries, etc., or are you saying that they are actually correct to think that?
I am sure many if not most trans people do not want the destruction of the West, but, unfortunately, there is a big difference between trans people and the Trans ideological movement of the radical far left. The leading academics of the ideology are Judith Butler and Susan Striker, among others. They call for the obliteration of all categories of meaning that Western civilization has produced because its values, accomplishments and systems of social organization and scientific endeavor are nothing but patriarchal oppression masquerading as progress. It is sheer nonsense. I have a feeling that you might agree, but read those authors for yourself and you will see blatant statements to destroy the West.
I'm not so sure that "many if not most trans people do not want the destruction of the West." My sense is that Americans who claim to be transgender are very far to the left on the political spectrum.
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"Trans" people are confused about their own gender. They're not going to have coherent positions on civilizational issues.
Most trans people do not know who Judith Butler or Susan Striker are and could care less about their academic philosophies.
While they are academics, they are by no means leading academics on what it means to be transgender. Just as your views are yours, and you are entitled to them, their views are theirs, and they also entitled to them too.
Of course, we are all entitled to our own views. They are in fact the leading academics in the fields of transgenderism, queer theory and gender studies. So, they, along with others, have laid the foundation and are the thought leaders of the far left radical Trans ideological movement now waving the banner at pro-Hamas rallies on campuses everywhere. Trans people are not necessarily part of this movement but they should call out injustice when they see it, as we all should. Lastly, if we are interested in rational thinking, we have a responsibility to analyze ideas and critique bad ideas that negatively impact our social cohesion, and therefore, you should take a closer look..
Part of the reason for my initial post was I've really been thinking about "Queers for Palestine." I cannot imagine they realize what would happen to them in Palestine. So what convinces a person to support a cause that would likely or eventually violently kill them?
> So what convinces a person to support a cause that would likely or eventually violently kill them?
Possession of a latent death wish.
I don't know, James. It makes no sense to me. I still don't know why Log Cabin Republican's support a party that seeks to erase and delete every word that would identify them from across the entire federal enterprise and that doesn't not want them in the party.
I see what you tried to do there. Your analogy misses by the length of a 3-story drop tied to a chair to your death.
There is a direct parallelism between the "classic" Marxism and the neo-Marxism/Communism. It's exactly the same divide of society based on the oppressed /oppressor antagony. In the classic Marxism - workers versus bourgeoisie, in the neo-Marxism - sexual minorities, racial and religious minorities versus white people ann Christians.
The parallelism is in the structure of ideology, per-se. It has a gnostic (Manichean) religious basis which will make all such movements/ideologies "familial."
Bourgeois Radicalism (the present phenomenon) is no exception - what you say of the dualism is correct, and true of all of them (Communist Marxism (Lenin) Fascist Marxism (Mussolini), National Socialism, Bourgeois Radicalism, etc. etc.
Bourgeois Radicalism. I think you are spot on. But what does that mean? These people think the rebellion is transkids products in the front of the store at Target. The next week when it is pushed to the back and the following week removed, they are looking for tiny Palestinian or Ukrainian flags for their profile. And the main reason all this happened is so someone at PRSA or in marketing can get another data point on a consumer.
You raise more than one question - and all good. As to Bourgeois Radicalism and ideology, I can answer well. My third reply is more tentative.
Bourgeois Radicalism is the ideology of the "Liberation of the Individual from all Oppressions." Ideology is in-turn a gnostic religious recurrence combined with (and governing as an idealism) by Praxis, as understood by Francis Bacon to Karl Marx.
In the case of Bourgeois Radicalism, it predates Marx. It was suppressed by Marxism and its related social ideologies (Fascism, etc.) but, in the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union (and the other régimes in WWII) and objective defeat of Marx's counter to the Bourgeois Radicals - Dialectical Materialism - B.R. has been rediscovered (Stirner to Marcuse).
All ideology is utopic, and a comprehensive falsification of reality. Its votaries look to utopia, and devalue the world of reality to a symbol - they constantly talk about what "should be" (but is not). They try to remake the world as this "should," which is not an ethical "should" based upon human nature/anthropology but a fideistic "should" based on utopia. Combined with Praxis, this means violently remaking the world w/o ethical considerations. It is a kind of violent, dishonest moralism.
To your question of outcomes. My thoughts are more tentative, and I have only generally written about this. I just spent over a week in New York meeting with other Catholic philosophers, and this was our main subject!
Trans is a good case: they try to alter reality itself, but find that they cannot - something about forms in nature prevents success. They cannot via technology change men into women or horses into men. To put this another way, their Praxis fails to remake the world. What next?
I believe postmodern theory is the place to look. The way to read it broadly is as a description of life under total ideological régime - it is underrated by its opponents and misunderstood by its proponents. It describes life as an immersive fiction - a LARP. This is the fall-back position of the ideologists - if they cannot radically transform reality via technology (and it appears that they cannot), then they will settle for a comprehensive immersive fiction. You see both approaches or "attempts" side-by-side (remember, as "Praxis" all of this is "experimental").
There is a related phenomenon of careerists and fellow-travelers who "don't really mean it." Well, they are responsible for what they say - their motives are their own. They are furthering the problem, and become part of it - future camp notaries and press-agents who "didn't know." They will execute whatever orders they receive - as they are informing us. The Hamas Atrocity Exhibition is a stress-test both for votaries and fellow-travelers - how much will they be complicit in? Quite a lot, it seems...
I hope that this attempt is worthy, and furthers your thinking. If you wish to question it or disagree, you will find me receptive - I am after comprehensive understanding of the truth. As a servant of God, I am not permitted to make this "about me."
Cordially,
PS, I will be soon making a new comment to Christopher concerning the effect of "Intersectionality." I hope that you will read it when it posts.
We are not discussing parallels with Marxism and neo/marxism.
I responded to the previous comment exactly as it was submitted.
Take care
Elana, I am happy you were not touched. But as a child I lived a few months with many Russian children who would told me how they would hide their Bibles because they did not want to go to prison. And the documentation is quite extensive. Denial is surely conducive to pleasurable thoughts about the past, but for the millions of people who suffered greatly under Stalin and others Russian leaders, not so much.
Solzhenitsyn talked about it.
I agree with what you say of Marxism - mostly. That is, "Intersectionality" is a Bourgeois Radical conception, and only Marxist insofar as it tries to "pick up the pieces" of Marxism after the real-world refutation of Dialectical Materialism. Really, "Marxism" is a kind of "Mystification" - a rhetorical device by both the Bourgeois Radicals and their enemies on the "Right." The real pedigree is Max Stirner, et. al. along with Mao - who himself emulated the "social movements" of the National Socialists, etc.
This seems directionally correct. I'm assuming you mean that the Marxist political movements never shed their bourgeois origins—and now refuse to shed even their bourgeois desires. This is one of the great lessons from Del Noce.
Marx did try to suppress Bourgeois Radicalism - which predates him; his comments on Stirner and other "Left-Hegelians" are brutal. What he offered - Dialectical Materialism - failed objectively (by his standards). "Mystifications" of "Right" and "Left" ideologists aside (both have a stake in propping-up Marx's corpse and many outright don't understand and/or are sentimentalists), the "Left" has returned to its Bourgeois Radical roots. Of course, some never left those roots - as Marx and both Communists and Fascists never tired of observing.
At this point, the Left IS Bourgeois Radicalism - which in-reality means a kind of universal bureaucratic administrative/economic state dedicated to "physical an emotional 'well-being.'" That is, a kind of (gated) Bourgeois Disneyland.
This much said, "Intersectionality" has opened a grotesque, perverse, laughable and repulsive complication - as your recent Twitter post of the Judith Butler talk attests. Your typical B.R. aspirant - say Ta-Nehisi Coates - both aspires to Bourgeois Disneyland and advocates murder.
Then you are not seeing it. Go back and watch those activist leftists...rallies. The Hammer & Sickle is proudly displayed in the mob, along side BLM and Pride flags. Sometimes you will see a hammer sickle wrapped in pride stripes. It is no longer subversive. You own lived historical experience could very well be foretelling a near future. Messaging is key. Open people’s eyes to what the possible future may look like if this path continues.
No, I saw it and it just amused me.Most of the people you mentioned have no idea how it was.Under the hammer and sickle was a different morality and concepts.Therefore, one should not mix one with the other, otherwise it is simply ridiculous
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An excellent question. We do need to show Americans these ideologies are all variants of Marxism because they are. We need to clearly explain this to Americans so they know we are dealing with the hammer and sickle. If we can't get the diagnosis correct, we will not have the right cure. Saying transgender is a new theory is a wrong diagnosis that simply confuses people. In fundamental principles transgenderism and critical race theory are essentially the same. They are variants of Marxism. Now is the time to increase Americans' awareness of the real nature of the ideology that is destroying America.
That’s completely insane.
It's not insane. Everything that's happening now, every one of the moronic groups and "movements" (e.g. BLM, LGBTQ) are part of the agenda to destroy white/Western civilization. Wake up.
@Frans. I think you are confused about who is replying to who. This is hard to follow on Substance.
You clearly know, nothing about Communism, the Black community, or the gay community. Please go read a book and get your head out of QAnon conspiracies.
Have you read Rufo's book? See the index for "Intersectionality," pp. 237-39. A quotation that might be helpful:
"The simplest way to explain intersectionality is that it expands the Marxist oppressor-oppressed binary into a finely graded, multivariate hierarchy of oppression."
The hierarchy is not based on economic class, but identity, hence "NEO" Marxism.
Yes, this is right. It's a practical, radical than ideological, question of alliances.
Spot On!
OK. Everything and everyone are always prosperous, well, and happy under communism and BLM leadership. All sunshine and roses. Is that what I'm not understanding about communism and BLM?
I don't think my grandparents were feeling the sunshine when they fled Russia, nor did my great- grandfather and uncle when they had to return to Russia due to an eye infection. They were summarily executed upon their arrival in their homeland.
I was being sarcastic. Sheldon is sleeping while BLM burns down cities.
Are you related to Sheldon W. Helms?
I was being sarcastic. Sheldon is sleeping while cities burn.
Very "2020" - hostile, emotive rhetoric and no substance.
None of it has any effect any more - those of us who refuse to be ruled by ideologists have come to accept your social aggression and obdurate irrationality as a given, and very much part of the problem. We were put off for a bit by the sheer incivility and unreason of it, but we have "gotten over it," and are moving forward to reassert our right to govern our own lives without your permission or approval.
By "you," I do not speak of you personally - there is always hope for you personally - but your movement and its weird gnostic religion.
If you weren't so dedicated to committing ad hominem attacks, you might have suggested that s/he read The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx, but...
Childish comment.
Sheldon, you clearly need to wake up to the reality of what's going on around you!
You are one of the few warriors the conservative movement has to battle the Left, yet they seem to have an endless supply on their side. How can we level the playing field?
I'm training journalists and activists this year to expand our team: https://manhattan.institute/article/the-manhattan-institute-announces-the-logos-fellowship.
Read a book, become the warrior.
Yeah, read Rufo's book and lend it to anyone who's willing to read it.
Most warmongers refer illiterate warriors.
Yes, they say "Do not attribute to malice what can be attributed to ignorance." The useful idiots are the army of those far fewer warmongers with deep seeded hate converted into irrational activism.
Ignorance above all, but also idiocy and mental dysfunction/failure are underrated! That still leaves plenty of malice...
We need legislation to stop this massive transgender social contagion. The government, universities, major medical associations and social media are complicit. Thousands of parents like me are experiencing indescribable grief as our young adult children are misled to poison and mutilate themselves. How can we stop it?
This is a tragedy and I'm sorry to hear about your adult child. You are correct that all of the major institutions have been promoting this ideology, despite the mounting evidence that is it based on a false metaphysics, science, and medical practice. The good news is that public opinion is shifting, due to the work of many journalists, doctors, and activists who are exposing the transgender movement for what it is: a nihilistic cult that engages in child sacrifice as an expression of moral purification. The bad news is that this is likely cold comfort for those who have children currently struggling with this ideology. My recommendation cannot be universal—each particular family must approach it with a sense of prudence, based on particular experience—but my general sense is that you must love your child unconditionally, try to maintain a connection as much as possible, and be patient, steady, and faithful. Remember the story of the prodigal son.
One of the best things I have seen you write. You are, after all, a father.
The Transgender cult as "a nihilistic cult that engages in child sacrifice as an expression of moral purification" is strong and points to what we know of human history/anthropology. It goes straight to the regressive nature of neo-gnosticism - in this case a recurrence of child-sacrifice - as if Judaism had never happened! We see the same with race ideology.
Have you written on this specific element, or can you point to anyone who discusses this cultic recurrence? This strikes me as a vital insight.
This is America, so lawsuits - which are already happening.
Turns out it's legally risky to use the consent of inherently mentally ill people as the basis for untested & unstudied chemical and surgical experimentation! Who could have guessed?
Criminal conduct.
You can ask your child to read and answer questions about this article https://www.thefp.com/p/gender-affirming-care-dangerous-finland-doctor
good article.. i think the difference is in the usa, everything is driven by profit.. not so in finland....
"Everything" is a bit strong. Do not understand the reference to Finland. But I do agree that we Americans need to rediscover our true compassions -- which have been hijacked by the left in too many corporations who find virtue signaling profitable, not to mention the educational institutions who use it to defend their stupid theories and attract useful-idiot followers.
read the article linked by rethink earlier to understand the finland reference.. here it is again for convenience.. the position in the usa is this transgender thing is driven by big money as i see it.. i am not down with this left-right divide.. i think it is too simplistic.. cheers https://www.thefp.com/p/gender-affirming-care-dangerous-finland-doctor
Great article. Thx.