Is Cultural Marxism Just a Right-Wing Conspiracy Theory?

A recent post triggered my thinking on the state of our country, especially regarding a topic I’m especially drawn to: transgenderism. I suggested in a comment that this field is nothing more than human experimentation backed by the government. We have a government that is insisting on allowing children to mutilate their bodies and deny their gender. The government’s intrusion is just another way for them to destroy our commitment to Western beliefs and values; men can be women and women can be men. The sanctity of our bodies is a non-issue.

But I realized that these “human experiments” are only part of an agenda to transform our society. We have become part of a movement which ironically denies that it even exists, yet continues to make inroads into our traditions of the rule of law, education, US history, free speech, and condemnation of rioting and violence. What is this movement?

Cultural Marxism.

Imagine my surprise, however, when I learned that the term cultural Marxism is just part of a right-wing conspiracy theory. This is the way the Left sees it:

Cultural Marxism, as it is described by today’s right-wing commentators, is just a repackaged version of the age-old conservative complaint about diversity. Whether it’s sexuality, gender, race, religion, or otherwise: it is a threat to Western culture.

To take their definition further, they add these points:

Conservatives have successfully rewritten history by retroactively shoehorning an idea that never actually existed into the past, and then claiming that all of Western civilization has been infected with it. What the right-wing calls cultural Marxism can be explained by far less nefarious means. As oppressed groups—women, minorities, LGBTQ+ folks—gain the tools of liberation, such as the internet and civil rights protections, they will have an influence on culture. The systems that were created to oppress them—the patriarchy, the nuclear family, white supremacy—will then recede.

The Left is claiming that we have created the term, cultural Marxism, to fight their agenda of prioritizing the needs of what they define as oppressed groups, because we feel threatened by them. The fact is, we do feel threatened, even outraged, by the steps the Left is taking to marginalize us. The Left assumes that we have created a hateful, destructive, and cruel society because we refuse to agree with their premise that some people deserve “more equality” than the greater population. Our insistence on providing opportunities, not advantages; believing in fairness and truth; honoring our past rather than discrediting it: all of these are turning our society into a bastion of ideas that allow us to live in the freedom that this country stands for. Yet we have gradually allowed the Left to undermine our way of life.

What are the many ways that the Left has betrayed our Founders and the Constitution?

Conjuring up cases for the J6 protestors that are based on lies and hidden evidence and then imprisoning them; refusals to release files to Republicans in Congress regarding a multitude of investigations; efforts to remove Trump from state ballots; creating bizarre court cases to hamstring Trump in his election plans; suppressing information by calling it “misinformation” when it contradicts the government positions; controlling the social media sites; revising U.S. history to mischaracterize our foundations; sexualizing our children by trying to put pornographic books in our school libraries; inhibiting free speech on college campuses, while at the same time allowing unacceptable abuses of some Jewish students; accepting open borders and threatening national security; accepting rioting and violence; claiming that we are destroying our democracy (which is not a democracy) but a Constitutional Republic; demanding that citizens submit to an untested vaccine and insisting on lockups and masks; insisting that people purchase impractical electric vehicles without a supportive infrastructure.

These are just the tip of the iceberg.

All of these examples have certain attributes in common: (1) the government assumes that they know what is best for its citizens; (2) they have no misgivings about limiting, even cancelling, our freedoms; (3) they have a blatant disregard and even disdain for our traditions and norms; (4) they ignore any problems that arise from their decisions; (5) they lie about the source of problems, usually blaming Republicans; (6) they refuse to enforce the current laws; (7) they favor “disadvantaged” groups to support equity, often putting people’s safety and wellbeing at risk.

Again, this is only a partial list, and you are welcome to add to it.

We see glimmers that the ship may be turning. The fact that the Left is discrediting Cultural Marxism when they once claimed they were cultural Marxists is a positive sign. Governors and parents are taking a hard look at their schools and the curriculum; appeals to the Supreme Court are beginning to favor traditional values; state governments are forbidding transgender surgeries for minors; people are backing away from buying electric vehicles.

People are finally realizing that we can fight against this takeover of our country.

The Left is relentless in establishing its power and primacy; it may seem like every victory we attain is followed by another insidious Leftist plan. But we must persist. We must keep trying to fight this cultural war.

Whether the Left believes it is real, or not.