Much of Cultural Marxism is pushed by the privileged few who take their wealth and position for granted and demand that even more is due them, as James Lindsay explains.
Some haunting words from Critical Theorist and father of the New Left, Herbert Marcuse, in an interview he gave in 1969, at least if you think about them.
Question: What is, in your opinion, the basic reason for these violent student demonstrations in so many countries?
Marcuse: For American and West German students, whom I know better, it is a requirement that is not merely intellectual, but “instinctual.” They want an entirely different kind of existence. They reject a life that is simply a struggle for existence…because they think it is no longer necessary.
There’s a lot to chew on there in just a few short sentences. The violent students acting in protest (and one might mark ours today as the same) “want an entirely different kind of existence” and “reject a life that is simply a struggle for existence.” That’s pretty concerning and incredible, really.
