![]() As a result, many of these programs have been instituted to get people dependent on the government. These groups, in turn, have influenced the political conversation, especially on the left. Hollywood, academia and the media are some of the proudest champions of the Frankfurt School. who operated all over the world and they were largely successful as can be seen in these institutions 100 years later. These were people funded from the U.S.S.R. In particular, Hollywood, academia and media were targeted by Communist operatives in the ‘20s and ‘30s. Marxists were fantastically successful in getting their ideas entrenched. As a result, followers of Marx started opposing family formation and with the help of fiat money, they successfully debased the family over the past 100 years. The Frankfurt School blamed the family for why socialist revolution hadn't come. This is what they called critical theory, whose descendants critical race theory, queer theory and intersectionality pervades leftist politics today. What Marx implied would be natural, the left figured out had to be instilled into everyone to get the elusive socialist revolution to come. The meaning of the word "woke" was to get people to be class conscious and in agreement with Marxist ideology so that they could bring about a socialist revolution predicted by Marx. The language should sound familiar because current vernacular continues this trend. They cited Freud and claimed that people were enslaved to a false consciousness due to their familial ties and needed to be woken. Instead, they blamed families for preventing class consciousness. Marxists before the 1920s thought that class consciousness would develop from the economic crises themselves, but the Frankfurt school argued that this wasn't a given. Specifically, for violent revolution to bring about the next stage toward worker's paradise, the proletariat had to be class conscious first. Their answer depended on the idea of class consciousness. The answer came from Frankfurt by a group of Marxists who were thinking through this very thorny problem. If Marx was right, the next stage of the inevitable economic progress that he predicted had to come to pass. What was going on?įor many Marxists of the time, this was an existential dilemma. Clearly, there was a crisis in capitalism, yet the people wouldn't rise up and usher in socialism. and Canada, and yet there was no revolution. In the 1930s there was the Great Depression in the U.S. In the 1920s there were huge economic crises in Europe, especially in Central Europe with hyperinflation episodes in Austria, Germany and Hungary. Karl Marx had written that when there was an economic crisis in capitalism, there would be a class consciousness that would develop which would lead to a revolution which would then usher in socialism. Marxism in the 1920s and ‘30s had a big problem. This has been the explicit goal of a certain, fairly influential ideology for the past 100 years: the Frankfurt School. What might surprise you is that this replacement of family by government is no accident. We've traded intimate, productive family bonds for rent-seeking political ones which work until they don't. ![]() ![]() From a civilization standpoint, the trade from family dependency to government dependency is a Faustian bargain. In an extended family, the lazy, no-good scoundrel would be disowned, but in a democracy, that person's vote matters more, so their dependency is not just tolerated, but encouraged. The productive are stolen from so that the unproductive can continue their dependency on the government. The various ways in which the government has induced dependence is all based on stealth theft through inflation. All of these government programs would not exist without fiat money. Of course, all these goodies come at the cost of compliance to government mandates.
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