Threats

The Threats to the State: Cultural Marxism vs Radical Islam
By Daniel G. Jennings
In his excellent series on the Next Conservatism Paul Weyrich writes that one of conservatives’ biggest tasks in the years ahead will be to defend the state, or government from forces that want to destroy it.
Two of those forces, Radical Islam and Cultural Marxism, are now in conflict on the streets of France. Although they seem radical opposites, Cultural Marxism and Radical Islam are revolutionary dogmas whose adherents refuse to acknowledge the legitimacy and authority of the state.
Cultural Marxism is a nihilist doctrine that teaches that all authority and tradition is illegitimate and must be resisted and overturned. The Cultural Marxist believes that all institutions, governments in particular are corrupt and not worth defending. Cultural Marxism is now the official ideology of France which explains why French men are not defending their cities from rampaging mobs of Islamic youth.
The Cultural Marxists have spent the last half century or so in the deconstruction of Western Civilization that is teaching that Western countries are corrupt, racist, brutal, oppressive, imperialistic etc. The accomplishments and basic values of civilization are ignored and its shortcomings highlighted.
The young Muslims running amuck in France’s streets were taught the Cultural Marxist dogma that Western Civilization is evil and inferior in school and the media. They learned from their teachers that France and Europe are corrupt, evil and not worth defending.
Is it any wonder many of them have turned to Radical Islam a revolutionary doctrine that teaches modern secular civilization is illegitimate because it is not based on Islamic law and the Koran? Like Cultural Marxism, Radical Islam seeks to overturn modern secular civilization, but unlike Cultural Marxism Radical Islam has something to replace modern civilization with. That something is a romanticized fantasy of an historic Islamic Empire that only exists in Hollywood movies.
The Cultural Marxists on the other hand have nothing to replace the civilization they would destroy with. Unlike the old time Marxists who had least had something to replace the existing order with, a socialist utopia that doesn’t work. The Cultural Marxists have nothing to replace our present day society with except some vague notions of moral relativism and multiculturalism. Is it any wonder that the French immigrant youth educated by Cultural Marxists finds the romantic past nonsense spewed out by the Muslim radicals so intoxicating?
What has happened in France is the ultimate result of the forces working against the state. Cultural Marxism has undermined the moral, cultural and ideological foundations of the state. Leaving the state vulnerable for the physical attack of the Radical Muslims.
France’s conservatives paved the way for this debacle by allowing the Cultural Marxists to takeover their educational, cultural, political and media institutions. This enabled the Cultural Marxists to undermine French Culture which meant the poor immigrants of France’s ghettos turned not to France’s traditions but to their Islamic culture. These immigrants already the victims of discrimination and poverty view the French as enemies to be conquered not as fellow countrymen.
France has important lessons to teach Americans and particularly American conservatives about the damage Cultural Marxism can do to a society. Fortunately America’s immigrants have plenty of economic opportunity and political freedom to make them feel at home but if that were to change (say because of an economic collapse) we could see similar disenfranchisement and violence in our cities.