Pioneering comic book artist Will Eisner satirised the 60s underground comix movement with a drawing portraying the hippies as brutish hypocrites. One particularly neanderthal fellow asks, “I just had a horrible thought: what if we are the Establishment?” Today’s Marxist left already know the answer to that one, though they don’t want to admit it: they are the Establishment now.
From the vantage point of 2021, former FBI agent W Cleon Skousen’s 1960s best seller The Naked Communist reads more like a prophecy come true than its intended exposure of an ambitious, post-war, Marxist Manifesto. In just 60 years, nearly all its goals have been achieved. While US centric, the Manifesto has been applied universally.
In keeping with Dutschke and Marcuse’s framework for a “Long March through the institutions”, virtually every institution of the West has been white-anted, if not thoroughly subsumed by what is now known as Cultural Marxism.
Not just the staffers and public servants who drive politicians, but judges and captains of industry. And, above all, schools and media.
Schools were to become transmission belts for socialist propaganda. By softening the curriculum, teachers’ associations would carry the party-line in required-reading textbooks, anti-capitalist teachings and the vilification of Western society.
Propaganda would replace education. No wonder nearly 30 per cent of Australia’s 15-year-olds can’t achieve baseline standards in maths, reading and science.
Marxist teaching holds degeneracy and promiscuity as “normal, natural and healthy”. Laws governing obscenity are attacked as “censorship”.
Today, acceptance of pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio and TV has become part of everyday life.
“Cultural Marxism” also demands traditional religion be replaced by “social religion”.
The Bible must be discredited and its believers mocked for needing a “religious crutch”. And so it has come to pass.
But the media have been the most useful idiots in the Marxists’ long march to hegemony.
Much of post-war Marxism’s success has been through the media, where it has won ideological control of editorial writing, book reviews and student newspapers.
Key positions in radio, television and film are now filled with sympathetic presenters, actors and producers.
Today, mainstream and social media along with Hollywood and the arts are dominated by leftwing propagandists.
These are not just the paranoid rantings of “right-wingers”: the left openly admits it. Boasting about “the increase in LGBTQ characters and themes in children’s programming”, Entertainment Insider reports that “gay activists behind the scenes have been pushing for more LGBTQ messages in children’s programming”. At the same time, once activists get their foot in the door, they keep it wedged open by only hiring like-minded activists. “Taneka Stotts, a genderfluid writer on Cartoon Network’s “Steven Universe: Future,” told Insider that to find other genderfluid, nonbinary, and bisexual staff, the series showrunner searched for talent on outlets like Twitter and Tumblr rather than via more traditional headhunting means.” Another transgender showrunner made it clear that activists “routinely fight to make sure pro-LGBTQ content makes it to air”.
Even the most supposedly conservative institutions have been re-educated and subjugated.
Defence Department personnel were recently encouraged to hold morning teas for the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, Interphobia and Transphobia.
The last institution left standing, perhaps, is the family. This is why Marxists openly hate the traditional family and are actively trying to abolish it. Abolishing traditional marriage was just the start. Just as the Maoists herded children into collective creches while their parents were herded onto collective farms, Marxists in the West are using earlier and earlier childcare to implement a literally cradle-to-grave nanny-state. Hence, the otherwise perplexing explosion of transgenderism and increasingly open championship of paedophilia.
Covid has put the drive to an all-powerful state on steroids.
To see the end game, we need only observe Beijing’s Marxist utopia. Having taken 70 years to reach maturity, the top 0.1 per cent of earners have more wealth than the bottom 50 per cent.
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Indeed, China has more billionaires than America, India and Germany combined. For that inequity, China’s poor have endured the disastrous Great Leap Forward, which claimed 40 million lives, the havoc of the Cultural Revolution, and the 1989 Tiananmen Massacre.
If you think it can’t happen here, I invite you to consider the increasingly violent authoritarianism of the political and bureaucratic elite — and the speed with which they dropped the mask of benevolence when protesters dared to take to the streets of Melbourne.
As post-Soviet Russian leader Boris Yeltsin warned: “We don’t appreciate what we have until it’s gone. Freedom is like that. It’s like air. When you have it, you don’t notice it.’’