The Catalyst To Success: The overwhelming success of the Cultural Marxist’s cultural revolution is due in great part to the significant influence its founding members who held powerful positions in American academia had on the student counter culture revolution of the mid 1960's. In turn the students rebellion catalyzed and supercharged their cultural revolution.

The 1960's were tumultuous times in America and cultural changes were beginning to manifest themselves. The most significant events were as follows:

1960's Revolutionaries Guru: Herbert Marcuse was one of the most influential members of the Frankfurt School who held a prestigious position in American academia. He was well respected by college and university students, and knew they represented the most effective means of unwittingly diffusing Cultural Marxist ideology throughout their environment. Accordingly, he passionately evangelized its resounding call for social revolution, cultural transformation, rejection of morality and authority, particularly among those considered as elite idealists. However, he never mentioned the true ideology but rather innocuous euphemisms e.g., progressivism, multiculturalism, and political correctness were subtly substituted in its stead.

The student rebels were in accord as to their targets of protest: the draft, the war, and the establishment. However, they lacked the following essential key elements:

America's New Left: Marcuse, already deeply entrenched in the bowls of elite academia and well respected by students and faculty, saw the rebellion as a golden opportunity: he would make Cultural Marxist ideology the theory of America's New Left and indoctrinate them with it as dogma under the aforementioned euphemisms of progressiveness, multiculturalism or political correctness. This would enable the revolutionaries to clearly identify and achieve the results they sought, i.e., supplanting the traditional values, morals, social structure, and culture of America with Cultural Marxist utopia. Likewise it would provide them with the means of achieving that end by using Political Correctness, Critical Theory, and the ideology's other tools that forced compliance with their cause through fear and intimidation.

Academia’s Fertile Grounds: In academia Marcuse immersed himself with the rebellious student protesters and became chief guru to the masses of radical students that formed the new left. He influenced and intellectually guided their revolution by incessantly ingraining educated elite, idealistic, radical Boomers with the tenets of Cultural Marxistm. Leaving little to chance, Marcuse fostered the total destruction of American culture's basic elements and transforming them into Cultural Marxist ideology.

As the term Cultural Marxism was never mentioned Marcuse used subterfuge to make the complex subject matter easy for the revolutionists to understand and absorb thereby facilitating acceptance and propagation without knowing its true ideology. Marcuse also taught the concept of “liberating tolerance”, which was intolerance for anything coming from the Right and tolerance for anything coming from the Left. Intolerance was always to be displayed through vicious, relentless criticism.

He broadened the group to include angry radical outcasts that considered themselves as oppressed victims of America, e.g., feminists, black militants, homosexuals, third world revolutionaries, and the like. The protests rapidly morphed into a full-blown movement known as “counter culture” that was comprised of radical, political, and social revolutionaries. As the movement grew it identified itself with the antithesis of what was deemed the moralistic Capitalist consumerism of “the establishment”. More succinctly, they were revolting against and viciously criticizing every element of traditional America culture. Their rallying cry was Marx, Marcuse, and Mao.

Sexual Liberation: Marcuse was a prolific writer. His book, “Eros and Civilization”, was intentionally made easy to read and became the bible for radicals and student revolutionaries of the 1960’s. In it he posits that the essence of capitalism is repression, which creates multiple hang-ups and neuroses in people because it represses their sexual instincts. He concludes that the only way for the future of the counter culture movement to succeed is to destroy the oppressive nature of capitalism by first liberating all traditional sexual taboos and restraints. The result would be a world of free love and polymorphous perversity where all traditional moral and cultural order is rejected and one is free to do as they please without working.

This was the perfect message for the Boomer students and other radicals of the ‘60s to hear and strive to attain through aggressive protests and vicious, relentless criticism of traditional American culture. Marcuse coined the most notable chant of the time, “Make Love Not War”, that resonated loudly throughout college campuses and streets in America.

Cultural Marxism Blooms: The toxic seeds of destruction created by the founding Cultural Marxists in 1923 and deviously sown throughout America by their elite intellectual acolytes were firmly in place. They had been well fertilized with a steady dose of Cultural Marxist ideology masked as progressivism, multiculturalism, or political correctness, and spoon-fed to elite intellectuals by respected educators. These seeds had begun to mature and were beginning to bear the desired fruits: a young generation that was eager to accept and create social change.

This was made abundantly clear by the momentum and effects of the Boomer’s Counter Culture Revolution of the 1960's that endeavored to destroy and transform every element of American culture by using Political Correctness and Critical Theory as their means. The same means are widely used today as enforcement weapons in almost every field of endeavor in America. Extensive information of these topics is available in my blog archive at http://suthenboy.com/blog_archive.htm

The devastation Marcuse's influence wreaked on America’s culture and traditions is irreparable. He successfully indoctrinated a generation of American students with adopting and propagating the tenets of Cultural Marxism while seeking to destroy their own country's culture. During this time the elite intellectual acolytes of the Frankfurt School's gurus have subtly, slowly, and systematically introduced Cultural Marxism into every aspect of mainstream America to the extent that has become our State ideology.

Power and Influence of Elite Boomers: Today's social revolutionaries, commonly called Progressives or Multiculturalists, are New Age elite Boomers from the 1960’s counter culture revolution. They remain as fervently committed today to rewriting American history, destroying every American institution, tradition, and value that have been built up over 240 years, and supplanting it with Cultural Marxist ideology.

That commitment has manifested itself far more aggressively during Obama’s reign since he shares the same end game although he is from a younger generation and did not experience the 1960's student revolution. Unlike today's Boomers however, from an early age Obama has been spoon-fed Cultural Marxist ideology and Islam by various people who significantly influenced his life, and whose grain of commonality was being vehemently anti-American.

Need proof that the commitment is alive and well? Listen to the daily anti-American rhetoric spewing from the hateful mouths of the MSM, most DC Democrats, Hollywood, and faux civil rights activists to name a few.

The majority of people in America are unaware that New Age Boomers now control her public institutions, academia, and most significantly, the media and entertainment industries where their ideology can be subtly disguised and propagated to the world’s largest audience. They also occupy prestigious positions of power in in a variety of fields in the private and governmental sectors.

William Strauss and Neil Howe, noted authors of the much-heralded book, Generations: The History of America's Future – 1584 – 2069, considers these elite New Age Boomers as the most dangerous generation in American history. In his 1977 Orbis Magazine article, NATO Expansions and the Ideas of the West, noted Claude Smith Professor of Political Science and editor James Kurth wrote:

“The United States itself has become a great power that opposes much of what was once thought of as Western Civilization, especially its cultural achievements and its social arrangements. The major American elites – those in power in politics, business, the media, and academia – now use American power, especially the “soft power” of information, communications, and popular entertainment, to displace Western Civilization not only in America but also in Europe”.

Ironically, the New Age Boomers who are now trampling on and revising our traditional Constitutional entitlements are the same 1960’s radicals who demanded those same freedoms from the “establishment” as the basis of their revolution 55 years ago.

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