– the Frankfurt School and how we got here
Probably the most influential member of the newly established Frankfurt School in America was Herbert Marcuse. He defined what he meant by disintegrating and destroying the Christian Western civilization from within: “One can rightfully speak of a cultural revolution, since the protest is directed toward the whole cultural establishment, including the morality of existing society – there is one thing we can say with complete assurance: the traditional idea of revolution and the traditional strategy of revolution has ended- What we must undertake is a type of diffuse and dispersed disintegration of the system.”
Christian Western civilization = Christian terrorists. Aren’t you glad the FIB is on top of that crisis?
https://francischristian.substack.com/p/know-your-enemy-part-2
In my previous Substack essay, I addressed the urgent imperative for our present generation to understand the pressing, pertinent, ever present and long shadow of Bolshevism (the Russian brand of Communism) in society today. My readers are encouraged to refer back to Part 1 of this essay, since in every way, this essay is a continuation of the previous one.
After the violent, bloody events of October 1917 brought the Communists to power in Russia, it became clear to the Bolsheviks over the next few years, that much of Europe would not succumb to a bloody political takeover and revolution. It had been tried – incipient, violent Communist takeover projects in Germany, Hungary and Italy had all failed and were extinguished in their very early stages. Since the internationalization of Communism/Bolshevism is a fundamental goal of the Communist tyranny, a different way to take over society had to be found.
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In a diabolically evil and brilliant move, the Bolsheviks decided to corrupt, subvert, radically change and transform society from within. No cataclysmic, single, violent revolution was necessary. The takeover would be accomplished by a pervasive rot from within.
Just as a chief goal of the Bolsheviks of the Russian revolution was the overthrow of Russian Christian society and the Russian Orthodox Church with the declaration of atheism as the only State doctrine, those who wished to export the revolution to Western Europe realized that Western civilization had resulted from the touch of Christ upon the Western centuries. The foundations of the value systems of the West built in these Christian centuries had to be attacked from within – and overturned.
In Frankfurt, Germany, a group of intellectuals (who had earlier met with Lenin and the Bolsheviks in Moscow) founded the “Institute for Social Research” in 1923 and subsequently formulated the goal of achieving the takeover of society by fostering a “cultural revolution.” The Institute worked closely with the Marx-Engels Institute in Moscow. During its first ten years in Germany, it used the Weimar Republic (post-first world war Germany) and its citizens as a testing ground for the cultural takeover of the West. The cultural and moral decadence of Germany in the 1920s was largely a result of the activities of the Frankfurt “Institute for Social Research” and affiliated groups and disciples of the new Bolshevism, including theatre/burlesque and the German film industry (which later migrated to Hollywood).
Rather than a murderous, continuous class struggle between the oppressed worker and the “bourgeois” as envisioned by Marx, the new cultural Marxists of Frankfurt put forward the theory that everyone in the West was oppressed by the norms of Western, Christian civilization – the logical, next step for them, was the overthrow of the Christian West. The revolution would then be complete.
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