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America’s Cultural Revolution: A Review

4 pointsby mutant_glofishalmost 2 years ago

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MountainMan1312almost 2 years ago
That&#x27;s the highest concentration of far-right-wing crap I&#x27;ve read in a long time, but what did I really expect from a site called IM-1776. A name like that could only attract right-wing loyalists, or Red Coats as I like to call them for the irony.<p>I find their incessant focus on Marcuse to be a symptom of the right-wing obsession with &quot;great men&quot;, and totally ignorant of most of leftist and anarchist history.<p>I especially feel the need to call out the last sentence in the first paragraph: <i>&quot;And the fruit of the Left’s latest conquest has been the same as always — the extreme degradation of a decent, productive society&quot;</i>. We all know right-wingers are the ones who degrade decency, and let&#x27;s not pretend productivity isn&#x27;t just a buzzword used by capitalist parasites who benefit from all our extra labor.<p>Another completely and blatantly false statement is <i>&quot;the Left today dominates all areas of American life, not only all levels of government, directly or indirectly, but also private enterprise, education, media, culture, the military, and religious institutions&quot;</i>. No they f*** don&#x27;t, this country is right-wing to the core! The only people who think it&#x27;s left-wing are people who mistakenly use <i>liberal</i> as a synonym for <i>leftist</i>, even though liberalism is a right-wing ideology. Get FOX &quot;News&quot; lies out of your head and look around you.<p>The author claims <i>&quot;[leftists] wanted to destroy the deep structures of the West, achieve total emancipation from all unchosen bonds, combined with forced total equality of individuals, in order to usher in utopia&quot;</i>. I see the problem now! Since the author is a right-winger, they do that right-wing thing where they think <i>liberal, leftist, socialist, marxist,</i> and <i>communist</i> are all the same same thing. In this case, they&#x27;re talking about <i>Marxism</i> and other authoritarian socialist ideologies, NOT the <i>left</i> as they claim. This is one of the most effective methods of right-wing brainwashing, and that&#x27;s why it&#x27;s difficult to have a decent political discussion with American right-wingers; they simply don&#x27;t know what the words mean.<p>Another ridiculous statement: <i>&quot;goal behind the Left is the belief that the perfection of mankind is not only achievable, but just ahead&quot;</i>. Everyone knows that&#x27;s a right-wing take. That&#x27;s literally right out of the Nazi playbook. That&#x27;s why they did eugenics and genocide.<p>Another ridiculous statement: <i>&quot;... that emotional arguments are far more effective at changing public opinion in a feminized society ...&quot;</i>. Yeah, we all know right-wingers are sexists who can&#x27;t stand the decline in mindless <i>machismo</i>, and who think women are emotional ignoramuses who can&#x27;t make decisions for themselves.<p>The author just keeps mentioning right-wing things and blaming them on leftists. I especially found irony in their statement that &quot;For the Left’s project, facts are always irrelevant. Most important is emotional manipulation&quot;.<p>For crying out loud, they claim Marcuse&#x27;s <i>One Dimensional Man</i> was &quot;an update to Marxist theory&quot;. I mean how dense can you get? No leftist I&#x27;ve ever spoken to had anything nice to say about that book or Marcuse.<p>This author plain old doesn&#x27;t know what they&#x27;re talking about.