Cultural Marxism

Why Should People Worry About Cultural Marxism?
By Daniel G. Jennings
Thanks to Jay Bennish, the simple minded Colorado high school teacher who tried to teach his students President Bush is no better than Adolph Hitler, the Left’s efforts to turn our schools into Cultural Marxist indoctrination centers are once again in the spotlight.
Watching such antics average people ask the question why should we worry about Cultural Marxism? After all Cultural Marxism is a silly, simplistic dogma whose practitioners must resort to charlatanism to convince anybody of their arguments. That’s exactly why we would should worry about Cultural Marxism, for all its sophistication, CM is quickly reducing education to the level of a cheap carnival act.
The arguments advanced by Cultural Marxists and other extreme leftists are so ludicrous that the only way to convince people of them is through trickery and lies. When someone like Jay Bennish states an obvious falsehood for instance America being a violent, terrorist state he is lying both to himself and others. To get the class to believe such nonsense, the teacher or professor must trick them.
For example, Bennish disguises his argument that Bush and Hitler are the same as a question and a debate. By doing this Bennish isn’t trying to provoke a debate, he is trying to insert propaganda into education.
At its worst, Cultural Marxist education becomes a carnival act as the antics of Ward Churchill, the controversial ethnic studies professor at the University of Colorado, demonstrate. Churchill dresses up like a Hollywood Indian complete with ponytails and a cowboy hat. His lectures are little more than fashionable leftist propaganda about the evils of American society and the suffering of Native Americans. Outside the classroom, Churchill takes his act on the road to demonstrations and even charges crowds of leftists to listen to his drivel. Like controversial radio hosts, Churchill writes controversial essays and gives controversial speeches to attract attention. Like most conmen, Churchill bullies students who disagree with him and dismiss those who don’t believe his line of bullshit as his enemies.
By reducing education to a cheap carnival act Cultural Marxism takes the meaning out of education. It strips education of its most important element namely the transmission of information vital to our civilization’s survival to the next generation. Once truth is gone from the education process, morality follows as does all the basic values upon which our civilization (and all civilization) is based.
Worse, Cultural Marxism teaches students that trickery and lying are moral, ethical and even desirable behaviors. They are told it is okay to trick others to get your point across and that it is fine to lie as long you are lying in a good cause. It is little wonder we are seeing numerous corporate scandals like Enron and a political culture of attack ads, the executives and politicians are the products of Cultural Marxist Education.
Cultural Marxist education doesn’t indoctrinate the next generation in its sick ideology. It turns the classroom into a school for con artists where students learn from the teachers and professors how to trick others to get what they want.
The effect of such educational tactics on students can be profound. A tiny minority of gullible or stupid students will get indoctrinated and buy into the party line. The majority of students knows in their guts that something’s wrong here but go along with the party line because they need the good grades and the college degree. In effect Cultural Marxism is teaching the future generation not to question or dissent, just along and get ahead. A few brave students, usually those who have some real knowledge of the subject speak out and are made into examples of what will happen to those who question the system.
Another terrible result of this is that many of the best and brightest students get put off by education and learning completely. Students will real knowledge of subjects like history and philosophy quickly see that what is going on in the classroom is nonsense and drop out. If they are ethical people they may turn their backs on academia completely and end up swinging a hammer or working in a store because that at least is honest work.
Worst of all Cultural Marxism preys on ignorance and needs ignorance to flourish. Students with real knowledge of history would quickly know that someone like Ward Churchill or Jay Bennish is full of crap and walk out. Churchill and Bennish can only make fantastic claims like Bush being another Hitler or the US Army employing germ warfare in the 19th Century (before Pasteur had discovered that germs cause disease) because they know the students know nothing of the subject.
Like medical quackery, Cultural Marxism itself is nothing but snake oil but the damage it does is real. Especially when it is substituted for real education, Cultural Marxism shortchanges us all by substituting learning and knowledge with snake oil.