Notice today that anything European (except Marxism) is up for destruction.

Find any humanities degree online and review the subject descriptions of its foundational or core subjects: “critical theory”, “modern literary theory” are common finds.

DECONSTRUCTING

Cultural Marxism is an insidious series of comprehension tools and viewpoints permeating universities and now the common vernacular.

The purpose of cultural Marxism is to bring about Marxist political goals, particularly in the West, by deconstructing its established norms and reconstructing them with incompatible ones.

Regardless of topic, Critical Theory has five core themes or operations that permeate its theories.

• Politics is pervasive, where all actions and ideas are viewed through a political lens, and all actions, knowingly or unknowingly, have political ends.
• Truth is provisional, where truth is never absolute and constantly subject to change.
• Language is constitutive in that language constructs reality, not the other way around.
• Meaning is contingent upon one’s social status and material wealth, be it personal or, more commonly, historical to one’s race (known as Marxist dialectics). The oppressed or minority classes draw out more “accurate” meanings and definitions than others.
• Human nature is a myth. The mind is the basis of truth, not the body it inhabits. Gender is fluid, love is love.

These five themes are, above all, responsible for much of the ideological mess the West finds itself today.

Key to Critical Theory is the rejection of essentialism. Rather than an object or person having a fixed reality – of gender, race or sexual orientation etc – they are instead allocated a temporary reality or essence, which is “written” onto them.

OPPRESSION

This temporary reality becomes the “truth”. The “oppressed” minorities and “expert” academics determine what truth is and are able to identify objects, people or topics as “symbols of oppression”.

In this usage, “truth” becomes transitional to a political end.

The language of the narrative determines the reality, and this truth is defended vigorously until its opponents are silenced and kept from the process that eventually legally re-defines what something is.

Ever noticed that we no longer can identify when life begins?

With such fluid, politically-charged, and eventually legally-binding definitions, one starts to discover where else this permeates society.

These themes fit any topic you can think of: climate change, gender and gender norms, sexual orientation, clothing, history, education, medicine – if you can think of it, there’s a way to apply a cultural Marxist lens to it.

It interrogates anything of the West, of the masculine and the feminine, of the family, of religion and usurps it, claiming the Western order oppressive.

REDUCES

When language constructs reality, then it also completes its dimensions: anything beyond the dimensions of language does not exist. It reduces an object solely to its utility for a political goal.

Critical theory applies the oppressed/oppressor frame of Marx and applies them to the culture, where essentialist cultural narratives are considered “oppressive” like the bourgeoise.

Notice how, like the bourgeoise, Western civilisation and all its methods are now being torn down.

Roland Barthes writes in his 1977 essay The Death of the Author: “In precisely this way literature … by refusing to assign a ‘secret’, an ultimate meaning, to the text (and to the world as text), liberates what may be called an anti-theological activity, an activity that is truly revolutionary since to refuse to fix meaning is, in the end, to refuse God and his hypostases – reason, science, law.”

It is “truly revolutionary” to refuse to fix meaning. To refuse reason. To refuse science. Refuse law. Our students are being taught this.