THE academic term for Cultural Marxism is “critical theory”, which is increasingly permeating Australian universities and has now set its unrelenting sites on an unsuspecting community. Critical Theory rejects all essential truth and is critical of anything relating to men or western…
A COMMON concern for conservatives is the presence of Marxists within their nation’s political Parties. The Parties like to play this down, as if the presence of hard-line communists is a ludicrous suggestion. Then last week came concrete evidence.
THE essay “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” highlights the concept of aura, where a person or object has a presence greater than itself. Written in 1936 by German Marxist Walter Benjamin, it demonstrates that mass-produced works – such as photography, cinema, etc – have less aura, less presence, about them: an actor on-screen has less aura than the actor in real life, a book that is handwritten has more aura than a book that was printed by a machine.
