In 1923, Lukacs and
other Marxist intellectuals associated with the Communist Party of Germany
founded the Institute of Social Research at Frankfurt University in Frankfurt,
Germany. The Institute, which became known as the Frankfurt School, was modeled
after the Marx-Engels Institute in Moscow. In 1933, when Nazis came to power in
Germany, the members of the Frankfurt School fled. Most came to the United
States and many became influential in American universities. The Frankfurt
School’s studies combined Marxist analysis with Freudian psychoanalysis to form
the basis of what became known as “Critical Theory.”
Critical Theory was essentially destructive criticism of the
main elements of Western culture, including Christianity, capitalism,
authority, the family, patriarchy, hierarchy, morality, tradition, sexual
restraint, loyalty, patriotism, nationalism, heredity, ethnocentrism,
convention and conservatism.
Critical Theorists recognized that traditional beliefs and
the existing social structure would have to be destroyed and then replaced with
a “new thinking” that would become as much a part of elementary consciousness
as the old one had been. Their theories took hold in the tumultuous 1960s, when
the Vietnam War opened a Pandora’s Box of reevaluaton and revolution. The
student radicals of the era were strongly influenced by revolutionary ideas,
among them those of Herbert Marcuse, a member of the Frankfurt School who
preach the “Great Refusal,” a rejection of all basic Western concepts and an
embrace of sexual liberation, and the merits of feminist and black revolutions.
His primary thesis was that university students, ghetto blacks, the alienated,
the asocial, and the Third World could take the place of the proletariat in the
coming Communist revolution.
Marcuse may be the most important member of the Frankfurt
School in terms of the origins of Political Correctness, because he was the
critical link to the counterculture of the 1960s. His objective was clear: “One
can rightfully speak of a cultural revolution, since the protest is directed
toward the whole cultural establishment, including morality of existing society.”
When addressing the general public, contemporary advocates of
Political Correctness – or Cultural Marxism, as it might just as easily be
called – present their beliefs with appealing simplicity as merely a commitment
to being “sensitive” to other people and embracing values such as “tolerance”
and “diversity.”
The reality is different. Political Correctness is the use of
culture as a sharp weapon to enforce new norms and to stigmatize those who
dissent from the new dispensation; to stigmatize those who insist on values
that will impede the new "PC" regime: free speech and free and
objective intellectual inquiry.
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