This video is an explanation of cultural Marxism, which is a term often thrown around in contemporary political and social debates. Here, those ideas are explored in a brief format.
@Lloyd Gittens does government not apply to this rule of thumb? The elite? royality? These powers won't go away, they will only grow stronger. Is being an individual a crime? Or should everyone be the same, put in a box and shamed for having a different view. Is that how Jesus operated?? I don't think so. Do you think the rich and powerful will suddenly be equal? Or perhaps just more powerful? Can they not be corrupted by power like the "rich business owner?" "Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
@Lloyd Gittens I totally agree with this relationship between Capitalism and Christianity, that in capitalism market values subvert all other forms of value, including religious. However Evangelicals have proven that one can compartmentalize thought, holding contradictory views simultaneously. Ultimately, not many Evangelicals really, really believe in God. Perhaps they believe they should believe, which is good enough to them. But God, to them, is like state. Allegiance is expressed through the worship of empty symbols. The cross and the flag themselves, rather than the values those symbols represent. Christianity in the USA is not a religious belief, but a political affiliation.
Every person I have met who throws around the term "cultural Marxism" never seems to have any idea about the Frankfurt School, which is the only way in which this term could make any kind of sense. I appreciate that you attempted to address this, even if there was a good amount of simplification (I also appreciate your humility in acknowledging this). Marx was a philosophical materialist, so the use of the oxymoron "cultural Marxism" immediately reveals the ignorance of the person using it.
Thank you. It’s difficult to fight against something you neither understand or can explain. Most of us in western countries know little about the origin of these ideas that are now flooding our institutions and society. As a Christian I am wanting to be able to offer a biblical world view while also showing some understanding of these ideas. Thank you again. Very much appreciate your non academic academic style of teaching.
Well, let's just be honest, In their Scope of modern Cultural Marxism, the Communal Narcissistic Wokes of Today, view Muslims, Criminals, Felons, people from the 666 gender Rainbow spectrum like Tr@nn!es and P3d0s, Illegals, and yes, old-time Communists as the main protagonists of their so-called "SoCiAl ClAsS StRuGgLeS" while also viewing the Majority groups, Christians, Traditionalists, Straight people/couples, and families, Law abiding citizens and the Law, Middle-Classes, and the Capitalists as their main antagonists in their "CoMmUnAL SoCiAl ClAsS StRuGgLe" that's why they are hellbent on toppling down nations so that they could finally establish the "Social Class Revolution" in which those Cultural Marxist Communal Narcissist Wokes long for. and also, as a Christian, if we can understand Revelation 13, we can get the idea that Marxism could be the Mark of the Beast, employed and enforced by the Anti-Christ.
@@maxheadrom3088 That is encompassed by this affirmation. Each individual is unique, there is not two people exactly the same in the world, even Twins are different from one another. We are all different and there's no single answer for any problem that fits everyone.
My son couldn't get his last college credits (core 400 level Humanities) because he refused to take a pro-stance on Equity. He tried to fight it but the prof was an overweight black, single-mother, lesbian with a down-syndrome child who considered him a toxic-male and used him AS AN EXAMPLE of one in class!!! The Ombudsman even blew him off. It's a MAD WORLD!
@@aKaMizK That's Crazy and immoral to the core that Poltical ideology is forced and indoctrinated onto students, with no freedom of thought or questioning. He actually had to agree by force with the ideology of Equity (which is not equality - what do you mean?).
@@aKaMizK And what college is this you are talking about? Apparently there are some colleges that don't do that indoctrination in the US. Dr. Turley did a video on it once, how "Conservative" Colleges are increasing in enrollments, and lessening for Marxist ones. Jonathan Haidt also created "The Heterodox Academy" to address the problem of Educational Institutions,.esp Grienance Studies, being run by Principles of Indoctrination rather than of Education (in the US).
@@pebblepod30 Basically, he failed the class coz his took an anti-equity stance on his final project, which was about Creating Change in an Urban Landscape or something. He tried to fight it but he had no voice. He ended up not getting the final credits, not receiving the diploma! Now he HATES blue-haired lesbians when before he was indifferent. Way to go, Social Justice!
As an older American born uneducated White agnostic Male. I found this video eye opening and informative! You made it easier for me to understand with keeping your keeping it short and simple. Thanks Doc your a good person!
You can't -- it is a cultish religion and people who are indoctrinated into this ideology are dedicated to it's teaching and everything they believe as a human being is wrapped in it.
They did the exact same by putting All Capone out in front ..he wanted notoriety and in meantime they walked into public office and our judicial system ..its history folks look into it
“Even a good emotion, pity, if not controlled by charity and justice, leads through anger to cruelty. Most atrocities are stimulated by accounts of the enemy’s atrocities; and pity for the oppressed class, when separated from the moral law as a whole, leads to a very natural process to the unremitting brutalities of a reign of terror.”” -C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain Prophetic words for his time.
Grace and peace to you Dr. Cooper. Quick question, what software or program did you use to create you opening title. I love how simple and classy it is. Thanks for your time.
Bravo Dr. Cooper, doing a gloss on this subject that touches everything it needed to touch, and doing it fairly, shows a talented scholarly hand. My son came home from a rural Iowa high school with the spawn of Peggy McIntosh requiring him to explore his white male upper class privilege and I went ballistic. I've linked your piece here in communications with the school as to the sort of handling of the issue I find acceptable. This will be a very interesting experience as I deal with the school; I plan to win or home school my son.
@@josmooth896 After several emails I spoke with the Principal and explained that my state legislators were very interested to see the materials and quite interested in my objections. My statehouse is currently dominated by the conservative spectrum. There were several seconds of silence that I think were actually somewhat stunned innocence. This stuff has probably been in the curricular pipeline from the Obama days and is just reaching us Deplorables here in flyover country. I suspect there's nobody at the school who could follow Dr. Cooper's video perfectly without notes, much less Jordan Peterson's critique, and that's really as it should be in High School. That's one very good reason that Critical Theory and Intersectional Politics is not an appropriate topic. So its unlikely I'm dealing with ideologues. It will be very interesting to see what gets worked out as my son is one of the brighter bulbs in a school full of talented kids. I'm very grateful for the quality of education he's getting there. Its a school that can't field a full Varsity American Football squad (eight Ironmen needed to make a team) but they can pull off a spectacular Beauty and the Beast with their own pit orchestra. Remarkable for a High School with about 200 kids. This is very close to the ideal of American public schools and why I'm so gobsmacked that Peggy McIntosh came home from his English teacher.
@@clarkevanmeter2676 Teach your son about the truth. Unfortunately my parents have never been the anti-politically correct type, they follow biased and corrupt cultural narratives like slaves. It's frustrating to me to not know how to tell them things about history or politics without getting condescending mannerisms from my own family.... Teach your son to be critical in these times.
@@ism-pr5ym You have your own inoculation. You probably inherited it from an ancestor they don't talk about. You're already free. My son walked in the door after school laughing and saying, "you won't believe what my homework is tonight!" He's safe. What bugs me is that he'll get out of high school without having had to read The Gulag Archipelago because the liberals run the academe now. To understand how the young culture has rejected Political Correctness you only need watch, "No Tendies on My Plate" to understand how sophisticated the trolling of Boomer liberalism has become. My son showed me that CZcams video and it was perfectly clear he understood the irony of making the left protest anti-semitism. There is an edge to these kids that gives me hope. He's a bright kid, I can do better with him than the school can if they're going to waste their time on Critical Theory with 14 year olds.
@@michalvalta5231 Eh, I don't know. I lost the fight with his mother over electronics. He's become a life-support system for a phone charger. It turns out that the teacher really didn't have much idea of what she had unleashed and the assignment was never completed by the class or graded. I have been back in twice to deal with a leftist history teacher who keeps having "teachable moments" that always seem to go one direction.
Dr. Cooper, oddly you have left out one of the most important originators of Cultural Marxism, namely Antonio Gramsci. I propose that Gramsci, whose writings preceded the formation and work of the Frankfurt school, actually drew the road map or created the overarching strategy of what we now know as Cultural Marxism. The scholars of the Frankfurt School rather developed and implemented the tactics-Critical Theory, Repressive Tolerance, etc.-to advance that strategy. Gramsci created this strategy first by redefining Marxism, changing it from an economic class struggle that would eventually spark a world-wide armed revolt (as Marx himself predicted) to a struggle between a class of “oppressors” and the “oppressed.” Secondly Gramsci said that the process of establishing Communist states, rather than armed revolt, would be breaking the “cultural hegemony” of the institutions that supported and nurtured Capitalism-institutions such as the nuclear family, the Christian church, schools and academia and other social organizations that buttressed cultural norms. He saw the way to do this would be to morally delegitimize all these institutions by condemning them as oppressors, and the way to do that was to infiltrate these institutions-especially education-and promulgate a moral condemnation of them in what he termed a “long march through the institutions.” I agree that they borrow concepts of compassion for the weak and oppressed from Christian moral thought-even as they work to condemn Christianity itself. Ironically the heart of Critical Theory tactics is to morally denounce in absolutist terms all institutions and ideas that support free market enterprise though its proponents simultaneously repudiate objective morality. Gramsci originally saw the oppressed classes as racial and religious minorities, ex-convicts, and others outside of the hegemonic cultural mainstream, but work by his Frankfurt School successors and now their students in academia, media and politics, have greatly expanded the ranks of the oppressed by focusing on an ever expanding coalition of identity groups. Their latest invention is intersectionalism by which they assign more victimhood authority to any individual who has membership in more than one group of the “oppressed.” “Oppressor” and the “oppressed”; this is the language of Cultural Marxism-and it was first coined by Antonio Gramsci.
@Simon Barfield Any proof? Marxist parties have gotten less than 0.1% of seats in the developed world. And philosophers of critical theory interject and dislike cultural censorship of bigotry, even if they dislike bigotry. They would likely be against "political correctness" in the modern day. Or are you dumb? I'm not trying to be mean I'm just trying to genuinely understand why you'd ever think that, you sound like a conspiracy theorist.
@@not.a.robott shhh, don't be pointing out obvious and observable facts that make a complete mockery of someone's worldview. Isn't that sort of the real intolerance?
roganboard84 1) to morally discredit the existing free market economy and, as Gramsci put it, the “cultural hegemony” -made up of the cultural/social institutions such as the nuclear family and the church-that supports it. 2) to get people to accept the underlying ideas of Marxism--equality of result rather than equality of process, profit is theft/evil, private property is unjust, redistribution of wealth, leviathan state is benign, etc.-without the label of Marxism. Most young people have no idea what Marxism is, know nothing of its theory or jargon, but polls show us they have embraced many of its ideas via a shift in the culture, education and messages within popular media/entertainment promulgating these ideas. Gramsci said that the revolution would not come through armed insurrection as Marx predicted, but a slow transformation of the culture, breaking the cultural hegemony Capitalism held, and a “long march through the institutions.”
Excellent video. I’ve studied this in college and on my own but the video really helps me to reduce the topic to a manageable presentation for my church men’s group. I thank you for this very helpful explanation. God Bless you and your ministry.
I am impressed by your video. I was worried about a conservative describing "cultural Marxism" but it became clear that you have actually studied the ideas of these thinkers and have a good understanding of what is going on. Good video.
Why would you be worried about a conservative describing cultural Marxism ? Several conservatives who produce articles and videos accurately describe it to a T.
He is clueless, it just SEEMS like he knows what he is saying. You are clueless as well about cultural marxism. Also why would you be worried about a conservative describing cultural marxism? This shows you're indoctrinated.
Conservatives are the only ones that know about the subject. Liberals will literally say the term cultural marxism is a nazi dog whistle that is anti semetic somehow and will link a wikipedia source
So glad to see knowledge of this subversion is growing in awareness. The last few years, any time I even used the term I was instantly judged and dismissed. Truth finds a way.
Far too LATE !!!! By now Everyone is meat for these culturalmarxist-critical theory-politicalcorrectness nazi terrorists in the blm, antifa and academia !! Too fooking late as these new SS are absolutely everywhere - the real matrix !!! Mzlim terrorism, PC, blm terrorism - all are facets of the same evil.
Yes, you are correct. However, I think transgression is the heartbeat of this thinking. At the moment white people are that to be transgressed, but should that happen, they will need something else.
No. The formerly oppressed create their own system of Law & Order that the former oppressors don’t agree with because the tables have turned and now they themselves are being targeted by the authorities. E.g. 1917 Tsarist russia.
Yes, but Marx accounted for this. He suggested that government - leaders - would and should dissolve and be replaced by workers unions councils representing the views of the worker. But no big out of touch leader.
I'm a black woman and I support the BLM movement, however, I'm always open to different opinions, probably out of a need to explain to myself how others can question what I myself defend. My observation is that people who use the term "cultural marxism" most of the times do so when accusing others of focusing on a certain racial, class or gender group, rather than on the individual (implicitly, the ability of an individual to overcome their prestablished condition, I suppose?), like the same point which is explained in the video. My explanation for why that happens is that individuals are in the first place judged based on the group they belong to, so what follows after is merely a counter reaction of the perceived "unfairness". Would it be correct to call me a cultural marxist even if I until recently didn't know about the concept? Or rather, would it be fair to call it a deliberate, systematic attempt or an act of indoctrination whenever I state my opinions? I think the real difference between the two fronts is that one believes you can overcome your condition if you just try hard enough, while the other believes that things are not as simple as just trying, and that other factors come into play, possibly considerably determining the outcome of your choices , no matter the positive effort you put in, such as a lack of resources that comes along a certain social and economic background you are born with, psychological remnant trauma that prevails through generations and a big amount of generalizations and prejudices that's maybe bound to happen in society, but which I think this front believes can be counteracted positively if society even begins to acknowledge its existence.
Listen I see what you're saying but in America we all know this isn't going to work. Why? Well look at our government. The government we have today will only abuse the communism concept and more than likely will be a tit for tat. Example, you want free health care, fair wage, free housing etc? Well trade in your civil liberties for them. We will have to give up our rights (amendments) in the America to get what we want and it isn't fair. We are playing a very dangerous game here and the government will win. If we have our freedom of speech taken away and protest against them, most likely the government will send in active military troops like never before and a lot of people will die because the government doesn't play fair. Don't be fooled by this ideology working in the US, it just won't.
Cultural Marxism is a scare-term used to paint people trying to overcome structural barriers in order to have a more just and democratic society in conspiratorial terms. It appeals to their motives and accuses them of conspiratorial intent. All the sudden BLM doesn't want black equality, they want lawlessness and disorder. Feminists don't want justice for women they're executing a secret plot to destroy the family. The origins of this conspiratorial hoax is a text called the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. It's an anti-Semitic text that alleges conspiratorial Jews are advancing the values of liberal democracy (like racial and religious equality, parliamentary democracy and universal suffrage) as a plot to undermine Western Culture and install a new world order that would be a police state ruled by the Jews. Cultural Marxism is nothing but this anti-Semitic conspiracy theory cleaned up and rebooted for the 21st century.
Thanks for such a thoughtful comment. Personally, I think that while you make very valid comments, it is a question of balance. Also, I think that dividing people along racial and ethnic lines will end in disaster. Every group has a few players who will commit egregious acts - which will be used persecute the whole group - once judging people on the basis of race is OK again. Thanks again for your comment.
CRITICAL Race Theory - the clue is in the name. Constant criticism of society (as opposed to critical THINKING about a subject), even when it's not teally justified as in "all white people are born racist. BLM leaders claim that they're "trained Marxists". I'd prefer to say undoctrinated. Incidentally, Angela Davis' tutor (and "mentor") was Frankfurt School refugee Herbert Marcuse himself.
Peculiar, this fella also does not mention Antonio Gramsci! The man who coined the phrase cultural marxism! Why is this. Of course the contribution of the Frankfurter Schule is of great importance, but still, why no mention of Gramsci?
I believe that people are most comfortable with other people who have similar values, levels of education, interests, etc. College educated professionals will probably not socialize with their house cleaner. But the house cleaner wouldn't want to hang out with the professional person whose house she/he cleans anyway. They wouldn't have anything in common. The idea that whites who have no black friends means they are racist is absurd. Are blacks who don't socialize with whites racist? No, no one says that. Government needs to get its nose out of people's social lives, go do what they were intended to do. Just because someone has worked hard and made money doesn't make that person an oppressor. Just because a person drops out of school and starts using drugs doesn't mean white people or people with money are oppressing that person.
Critical Theory may hold some water but the truth is that some of the worst oppression occurs within each of these groups. Ever wonder why wealthy and even successful people can be so troubled? It is the way they are treated within their own groups and classes.
He forgot to mention that the term "cultural marxism" was invented by the Nazis, except they called it "cultural bolshevism", and used the term against communists who they viewed as Jews.
@Simon Barfield yeah, so the ***Democratic*** People's Republic of Korea is now Democratic because of their name. Also, here is a quote from Goebbels which clearly shows that the term "Cultural Marxism" was invented by the Nazis: "It [bolshevism] is not only anti-bourgeois, it is anti-cultural. It means, in the final consequence, the absolute destruction of all economic, social, state, cultural, and civilizing advances made by western civilization for the benefit of a rootless and nomadic international clique of conspirators, who have found their representation in Jewry." Now stop trying to hide, you Neo Nazi piece of shit. Go back to blaming people who don't look like you for all your problems.
cultural Marxism comes from the phrase Cultural Bolshevism (German: Kulturbolschewismus), sometimes referred to specifically as art Bolshevism, music Bolshevism or sexual Bolshevism,[1] was a term widely used by Nazi German-sponsored critics to denounce modernist and progressive movements in the culture. It’s from nazis And republicans are saying it about dems...kind of makes ya think
"when you hear about oppressed class and oppressor class", the it is cultural marxism. LOL Hahahahahahahaha.... Well, i guess cultural marxism has been there since dawn of civilization. "Love thy neighbour" is copyrighted in in bible. Hahahahahahahaha. Yes, ancient hindu, chinese, greek etc societies were waking up in morning and attack their neighbor.
@@beyondbatman4261 If you can be anti christian why can you not be anti Islamic or anti jewish ? I have nothing personal against any group , but any group can be criticized and that should be spoken and then the claim examined for its validity .The time for using Communist tactics of throwing meaningless labels to deflect and to discredit the criticism.
@@soulfirez4270 - The terms 'anti-Christian' and 'anti-Islamic' tend to be labels placed on people who make forceful arguments against the tenets and practices of these religions and cultures. By contrast, 'anti-semitic' all too often refers to people who use terms like 'rats' to describe an entire race of people in an attempt to dehumanise them. That's not the basis under which critical debate can take place, and it's why people like 'SonofOdin' and his angry, blind hatred needs to be exposed for the mindless idiocy that it is.
@SonOfOdin They don't keep deleting your replies, they're just downvoted so many times that the algorithm automatically makes them less visible. That's how moronic and disgusting your comments have been.
Did you realize that your biblical reference came from the pre-Christian part of the Bible - the Jewish part? Or at least what was not edited out of the Jewish part. There are many religions and societies that have, and had, what we would broadly see as a humanist/Christian approach to those in need. Recognizing as well that many were also more barbaric in their approach to the needy. The Reformation saw a suspension of the more charitable aspects of Christianity and how many people today, in nominally Christian countries, suffer needless, painful, undignified deaths because they can not afford healthcare.
I like this video, I've noticed for some time the relationship between cultural Marxism and religions like Christianity, and this explains the similarities pretty well. Islam also does this: it frames followers of Islam as "oppressed" and non-muslims as "oppressors", it's how it justifies Jihad.
Very good video. Thank you. And thank you for reminding of how Christianity has brought goodness into the world. I know many people have used religion in bad ways but that is on them to answer for.
Yes, Christianity is a Jewish Sect ... some even say that Jesus was Jewish. As I saw some Rabi put it (a nice guy who has some videos on CZcams) once someone asked Hillel the Elder to summarize the Hebrew faith "standing on one feet with eyes closed" - so a very short summary - and he replied "Don't do to others what you don't want others to do to you". So, the main difference, AFAIK, between the two faiths is that Judaism is for Hebrews and Christianity is for everybody. For the Catholic doctrine you actually don't even need to be a believer or a Christian to reach salvation for it's more important to behave like Jesus proposed - and Jesus really said very few things ...
@@spirit-walkerwaters4521 I should have used the quotation marks like you did ... but, please, don't be so sensitive - Christianity was born from Judaism and Jesus was Jewish. BTW, AFAIK, all three western religions come from the Zoroastrianism. Since all this information is AFAIK, maybe @Dr. Jordan B Cooper could help us. I don't know what you mean by "education" ... I studied engineering and like History a lot. I also went to Catholic Sunday School (it was actually never on Sunday) and did my years there from 6 years of age until a year after Chrism. I knew both Priests who were there - both very good men - and both reminded us that Jesus was Jewish. I want to tell you about something that happened in Brazil, in the mid 70s: during the military dictatorship, a Jewish journalist called Vladimir Herzog was killed under torture. The Rabi Henry Sobel buried him in holy ground even though the oficial cause of death was suicide; and the Bishop Dom Paulo Evaristo Arns made an ecumenical 7th day celebration in Sé Cathedral in São Paulo with Henry Sobel, the Presbyterian Pastor Nelson Wright and D. Paulo Evaristo. I was raise under this environment of understanding and respect so this is why I don't understand your stern reaction to my statement. These three religious leaders risked their lives in an act that is considered the most important blow to the 1964 Military Dictatorship. www.nytimes.com/1975/11/16/archives/issue-of-torture-growing-in-brazil-journalists-death-in-prison-is-a.html
@@maxheadrom3088 you got that a litte bit wrong. 90% of historians say he was Jewish, and indeed if he wasn't, there is no other option than for him to have been an Egyptian, whose views were completely incompatible with what he espoused. Also, Judaism isn't only for Jews, it's for ANYONE who WANTS to be a Jew, and therefore eternally bound to the covenant that Abraham made with G-d. Christianity and Judaism have a few things in common, mainly that G-d loves people and that we are all responsible for one another (love, respect, kindness to animals, e.t.c) but that is where the similarities end. Judaism shows us that there are 613 commandments that all men (women only need to follow some) need to follow (some aren't applicable today). Of course, this is very hard, and it is almost impossible to be perfect, but nevertheless, we are told to "walk with G-d" (which means follow the commandments he gave us. Christianity doesn't have any commandments that people must abide by (other than the 10), and therefore has no code of conduct to which individuals can be held morally responsible. Also, Judaism has a very different justice system. The one MAIN difference, though, is that Judaism says that G-d is G-d and there is no changing that. It does NOT say that G-d was a person, BCS if He was, then He wasn't G-d at all, merely a person pretending to be G-d. I hope this outlines a few things for you and that you understand that if Christianity was. "Jewish" sect as you say, it would look completely and utterly different.
Marxism takes incredibly complex issues and simplifies them to a ridiculous degree. The human condition is terribly difficult, we get old and die, its a tragedy and we all suffer if we live long enough and it does not matter where you happen to be in society or where you were born, you come in alone , live alone (in many ways) soul and spirit and by god you die alone. One group taking over the other group will not change anything. Its all be tried before.
This video makes some interesting interestiong points, but does not back up many of the claims. At 9:00 the video talks how there are many, many ways someone can be opressed or privileged and we never know, on an individual level, how priveliged or not somebody is. This is true! But this does not mean privilege on a group level does not exist. In my country, for example, when two people with the same CV apply for a job, somebody with a Dutch name has a much higher chance of being invited for an interview than someone with a Moroccan name. Showing that privilege definitely exists on a societal level. As the third problem, the video talks about how the opressed use the exact same mechanisms to become the opressors. This is cannot be stated as fact without any explanation. it can also be used to gain equality. Finally, I disagree with the point that the state cannot force individuals to change for the benefit of society as a whole. Using that argument, the state should not have banned slavery. Afterall, why would the state force the slaveowners to change?
Different privileges are given in different contexts by different people. For example, you might be given black privilege if you're black and want to become a rapper or skinny privilege if you're treated better for being skinny. There is no way to "tax" all privileges and make things "equal" without oppressing somebody along the way
The core of the issue is: Christianity cares about the oppressed because of their personhood, the inherent value of their lives as children of God. Marxism claims to care about the oppressed because of their contingent social/material circumstances. In other words, oppression must end not out of charity and love for the oppressed but to tweak the engines of historical necessity and reach a pragmatically desirable situation that will generate conformity and end class struggle.
Ah, Christianity vs communism. The Kaduceus Phenomenon. Mercury, the god of shopkeepers, merchants, tricksters and thieves. Look to the origins of both and you'll find out who is deceiving you. And it ain't no made up 'satan'
Servants of God vs equals to God. One God many variegated servants vs if all are equally God but that is not manifest in this world, it is my duty to make all equal.
Who's to say that ending class struggle is even realistically possible, or that it wouldn't just open up a greater pandora's box? Trying to end it already created some of the greatest catastrophes of human history via the 20th century. There is class struggle because there is consistent interaction between a melting pot of different people that have fundamentally different abilities. I don't think one could create a situation where people have biologically the same abilities, or even a society that demands absolutely equal abilities or social roles, and so communism or Marxism (where everyone is equally on their knees before a few select tyrants) is absurd on that basis alone but by no means only on that basis.
@@daftsutradesign1318 and Jesus Himself said we would always have the poor among us. The Founders of the US understood this and wrote about not being able to guarantee equal outcomes, due to both circumstance and ability.
Love your self, love your country I am white and proud to be white I am English and proud to be English I love my country, it's culture, Christian values, its green fields, its amazing coastline, its historical buildings! I love our history, good and bad. I love its music, art, dance and food (good and bad). I love my nation, bordered on other nations which defines my Englishness as opposed to their Scottishness, Welshness etc! I am English, England is my nation. I AM A NATIONALIST, GET OVER IT!
"Various communist countries coming into power" at around 2:20 basically discredited the explanation. Sorry, but a country isn't communist simply because its party wants to create the conditions required for EVENTUAL communism. The countries that Cooper would point to were all poor, mostly agrarian countries that employed something called "state capitalism," which was to take the place of private capitalism, so that the countries could rapidly build up productivity and join the modern (of their time) world. Their "not all that positive" results make a laughingstock of private capitalism as an economic force. Both Russia and China built up in 50 years what took the United States 150. Living conditions in Russia improved far more rapidly than ever happened in any capitalist country. A good portion of that is because the models and technology were already developed, but both countries were still obscenely poor and agrarian, making rapid industrialization THAT MUCH HARDER. Yes, it was a very inadequate description of Karl Marx. Also not overly accurate. You jump from critical theory to postmodernism and then say "That, essentially is, what we know as cultural Marxism." That was a mental leap. You introduced the "idea of cultural Marxism" without ever explaining what it was around half-way through the video. I'm still trying to figure out what you're saying cultural Marxism actually is. Unless you're saying that "cultural Marxism is recognizing that there are oppressors and oppressed groups," in which case why call it "cultural Marxism" except to bend knee to people like Jordan Peterson? All-in-all, I don't see this as an explanation of cultural Marxism so much as personal biases injected into something that could easily have been compressed into two minutes of "Here's an inadequate/inaccurate description of Marx and Marxism, a vague description of cultural Marxism that boils down to 'oppressor and oppressed classes exist within society,' and I don't like it."
The end of the video ❤ I think you got It Just right. The main problem is that people use "cultural marxism" as a slogan to point out to someone or something that do not understand. There are people that does not care about inform thenselves, Just repeat what they got somewere. Congratulations for not having that narrow view!
I think the only ones who don't understand are those who have been brainwashed by Cultural Marxism (and Postmodernism) have surrendered their critical thinking completely, becoming what i call P-borgs. "P" for Postmodernist and "borgs" referring to the fictional characters of the series Start Trek, defined as: “the fictional civilization of Borgs is based on a hive or group mind known as the Collective. Each Borg is linked to the collective by a network that ensures each member is given constant supervision and guidance. The collective consciousness ensures that they share the same thoughts”. Does it sound familiar? As perhaps... you?
This guy missed the point by a half mile and tried to make it about race and the defense of a Christian identity, clearly equating Marxist philosophy with its secular manifestations. When really Marxism is simply a critique of capitalism which foretold the conflicts between labor and capital, when the means of production in a society are vested in private interests. Whites aren’t the borgeois, we are all proles. The capitalists are the inconceivably wealthy elites who own our government and are exploiting the resources of the planet, as well as the old money heirs who live off the capital gains of their inheritance and have never worked a day in their life who push the economy further and further each day into the junk economics of financialization. The postmodernist mainstream left is nothing more than a tool being used to distract everyone from their true enemy. Making religious whites feel defensive and disenfranchised minorities feel angry baiting them with retributive fantasies of “social justice”. This video is not woke. Keep looking people. For something less juvenile look up Marxism 101, how capitalism is destroying itself.
Still, even so, always leave everyone's opinions open to consideration. You do not have to believe it, but leaving opinions open as a possibility, you are never wrong as long as you never fully jump on the bandwagon, but leave it open as a possibility that might or might not be true.
WHAT AN MORONIC CONCLUSION. DID YOU EVER LISTEN TO RABBI FINKESHTEIN AND HOW THEY EATING AND KILLING CHILDREN? WELL, THAT PEOPLE FOR THOUSANDS YEARS INVENTING DIFFERENT PHILOSOPHIES IN ORDER TO HIDE THEIR CRIMES. THE PEOPLE JUST SWALLOWING THEIR INVENTIONS MARXISM SOCIALISM FEMINISM CULTURE MARXISM GENDER SHIT MIGRATION SHIT NAZISM FASCISM ETC
Morality existed outside of Christianity and before Christianity, much of christianity is simultaneously built off of Judaism and alternative belief structures at the time. The basis of your thesis is refutable, but the analysis in the beginning on cultural Marxism historically,though short and simplistic, was objective and fair.
Pecu Alex I would also disagree with this as well. Class consciousness and community orientation, though nice to liken towards the things Christianity did contribute ideologically, was a long held belief by many non violent cultures of the time and beforehand.
Your premise that caring for the oppressed is based on christian ideals is completely off base. China has a number of programs provided by the government, such as healthcare, employment, retirement pensions, housing, and education. As does India. And many other non-christian nations.
i think the difference is that state sponsored humanitarian programmes are intrinsically linked to the benefits they bring to the system whereas Christian ideals are ( or should be ) motivated purely by love and altruism.
10:08 "But in reality we know that the world is not necessarily getting better" That's quite the assertion, claiming "we know". I'm not saying that the world is rosy, but at what point was is better, and which parameters are we looking at in trying to make this general assessment?
IMO, with the word "necessarily", it's not even a very controversial claim. All it requires is that it's not inevitable that the world always gets better.
@@HaecceitasQuidditas Yeah, it's almost a non statement. Although, If I'm gonna be fussy I would say that we still can't claim knowledge. Perhaps the world by necessity gets better (whatever that means) as an inevitable consequence of its governing laws. How would we know?
Not bad for a rogh overview but your own speech shows signs of being infected with cultural Marxism. When did "Problematic" enter into your vocabulary ? what happened to "Wrong" ? 10:38 "although we must confess that equality is a good" What do you mean by equality ? How can you reconcile that with scripture ?
You're leaving out the history of the term, why its used and the link to cultuur bolsiavisme. Look up Shaun or 3 arrows for a more complete view on this.
What Cooper refers to as 'Cultural Marxism' is more accurately depicted as post-modern thought. Marxism and the Frankfurt School are inherently critical of post-modern thought.
In any society Communist or Capitalist there will always be the 1%ers who have all the power, wealth and control.( Putin's Russia, XI Jinping's China, Trump's USA etc,) It is not politics, it is human nature - has always been that way and always will be.Some people are smarter and more devious than others.
RememberNineEleven - Totally agree. If you work hard in America you will be successful. You may not be in the 1% but if you can afford to support your family and raise your children to understand the value of of honest hard work, you will find happiness and meaning.
Chris Dittmer RememberNineEleven The point has been missed. Of course it’s human nature that some will always be richer than most. But what’s not human nature is when the numbers are disproportionately spread across a population. As a human, no matter what, quality food is a right, health is a right.While I agree everyone should work hard, it’s not that simple. It is a proven fact that throughout history groups of people whether race, religion, gender, have been and continue to be marginalized. No matter how hard you work. The problem is groups of people believing privilege doesn’t exist and doesn’t play a role in society
Chance Henry - I understand what you’re saying. I agree that some people have horrible disadvantages and start out at level zero hence cannot compete. These people do need help getting access to equal opportunity. I don’t think people are being marginalized just because of their race or gender (and definitely not because of religion in the USA). Poverty doesn’t care what color or gender you are. I believe that investing in communities where poverty is rampant - be it big cities or small towns - will do more help in the long term. It seems that whatever we’re doing now isn’t working too well. Again, I totally agree that we always need to work on helping those in need. But if we’re going to succeed in this mission we need remember that we’re all on the same side and have to same goals regardless of immutable characteristics like race, gender, sexual preference etc. We can’t work together if we’re divided from the start✌️
Be sure to check out my follow up video to this: czcams.com/video/O_vbWG6H57M/video.html
@Lloyd Gittens interesting comment about Jesus. So what did Jesus say or do that means he was a Marxist?
@Lloyd Gittens does government not apply to this rule of thumb? The elite? royality? These powers won't go away, they will only grow stronger. Is being an individual a crime? Or should everyone be the same, put in a box and shamed for having a different view. Is that how Jesus operated?? I don't think so. Do you think the rich and powerful will suddenly be equal? Or perhaps just more powerful? Can they not be corrupted by power like the "rich business owner?" "Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
cultural marxism isn't class reductionist and therefore not really marxist
@Lloyd Gittens I totally agree with this relationship between Capitalism and Christianity, that in capitalism market values subvert all other forms of value, including religious. However Evangelicals have proven that one can compartmentalize thought, holding contradictory views simultaneously. Ultimately, not many Evangelicals really, really believe in God. Perhaps they believe they should believe, which is good enough to them. But God, to them, is like state. Allegiance is expressed through the worship of empty symbols. The cross and the flag themselves, rather than the values those symbols represent. Christianity in the USA is not a religious belief, but a political affiliation.
Every person I have met who throws around the term "cultural Marxism" never seems to have any idea about the Frankfurt School, which is the only way in which this term could make any kind of sense. I appreciate that you attempted to address this, even if there was a good amount of simplification (I also appreciate your humility in acknowledging this).
Marx was a philosophical materialist, so the use of the oxymoron "cultural Marxism" immediately reveals the ignorance of the person using it.
Thank you. It’s difficult to fight against something you neither understand or can explain. Most of us in western countries know little about the origin of these ideas that are now flooding our institutions and society. As a Christian I am wanting to be able to offer a biblical world view while also showing some understanding of these ideas. Thank you again. Very much appreciate your non academic academic style of teaching.
Well, let's just be honest, In their Scope of modern Cultural Marxism, the Communal Narcissistic Wokes of Today, view Muslims, Criminals, Felons, people from the 666 gender Rainbow spectrum like Tr@nn!es and P3d0s, Illegals, and yes, old-time Communists as the main protagonists of their so-called "SoCiAl ClAsS StRuGgLeS" while also viewing the Majority groups, Christians, Traditionalists, Straight people/couples, and families, Law abiding citizens and the Law, Middle-Classes, and the Capitalists as their main antagonists in their "CoMmUnAL SoCiAl ClAsS StRuGgLe" that's why they are hellbent on toppling down nations so that they could finally establish the "Social Class Revolution" in which those Cultural Marxist Communal Narcissist Wokes long for.
and also, as a Christian, if we can understand Revelation 13, we can get the idea that Marxism could be the Mark of the Beast, employed and enforced by the Anti-Christ.
Lol. Its the same shit Nazies fought against calling it Cultural Bolshevism. Dont be fooled by nazi scum
It's difficult to fight against something that doesn't exist.
@@33onlytwinUnfortunately, barmy Marxists exist.
Lol, christianity is literally the roots and the origin to all modern leftist decadent ideologies 😁
"The individual is the smallest minority on Earth."
@jeremy Lyons
'Embracing the Pack'.
Do you mean embracing the mob, and therefore mob rule?
Oh spicy
But even among individuals, some are smaller than others.
@@maxheadrom3088 That is encompassed by this affirmation. Each individual is unique, there is not two people exactly the same in the world, even Twins are different from one another.
We are all different and there's no single answer for any problem that fits everyone.
@jeremy Lyons no
In my diversity and culture class, the teacher was literally teaching us what Marxism "is" and why it's needed.
Talk about straight indoctrination.
My son couldn't get his last college credits (core 400 level Humanities) because he refused to take a pro-stance on Equity. He tried to fight it but the prof was an overweight black, single-mother, lesbian with a down-syndrome child who considered him a toxic-male and used him AS AN EXAMPLE of one in class!!!
The Ombudsman even blew him off. It's a MAD WORLD!
@@aKaMizK
That's Crazy and immoral to the core that Poltical ideology is forced and indoctrinated onto students, with no freedom of thought or questioning.
He actually had to agree by force with the ideology of Equity (which is not equality - what do you mean?).
What country and college is this?
@@aKaMizK
And what college is this you are talking about?
Apparently there are some colleges that don't do that indoctrination in the US. Dr. Turley did a video on it once, how "Conservative" Colleges are increasing in enrollments, and lessening for Marxist ones.
Jonathan Haidt also created "The Heterodox Academy" to address the problem of Educational Institutions,.esp Grienance Studies, being run by Principles of Indoctrination rather than of Education (in the US).
@@pebblepod30 Basically, he failed the class coz his took an anti-equity stance on his final project, which was about Creating Change in an Urban Landscape or something. He tried to fight it but he had no voice. He ended up not getting the final credits, not receiving the diploma! Now he HATES blue-haired lesbians when before he was indifferent. Way to go, Social Justice!
This video cleared the fog on a quite a few questions I had. Thanks for taking the time to make it.
Yuri Bezmenov.. Find him and listen to him. He will open your mind.
@WHOFAN78 Oh yes illuminating. And Hisory start yester day right?
Victim cards...and fake oppression...most people are oppressed cause they can get out of their own ways!
@mongol tyrant , Yuri Bezmenov is great; so glad videos with him are still on youtube.
@Jay James I'm not so bright either, but I'm pretty sure you are butchering the English language there Yoda.
Rebellion PL half baked intellectuals who do yoga will take over the world !!!!!
This video is perfect for a broad over view of these ideas and give you a great starting point to learn more! Thank you!
As an older American born uneducated White agnostic Male. I found this video eye opening and informative! You made it easier for me to understand with keeping your keeping it short and simple. Thanks Doc your a good person!
This really helped clear up the current obsession with groups. I'm sick of being judged based on the group I belong to.
Dont be
perhaps you're in the wrong group.
Nobody likes being judged by the group they're part of, but don't ignore that we are part of those groups and how that affects who we are.
@@coaldoubt2879 that sounds very racist
@@XanderFenikkusu does it? Perhaps you're viewing it through a racist lens.
“So what do we do with this idea”?
We dismantle it.
How?
It's ingrained now and you cannot dismantle a conspiracy theory as it does not exist 😅😅 that is the state of the world we live in
Use guns
You can't -- it is a cultish religion and people who are indoctrinated into this ideology are dedicated to it's teaching and everything they believe as a human being is wrapped in it.
The true oppressors disappear from our eyes and rage, they prefer to put some alteregos to the public judgement... they've learned from the history...
They did the exact same by putting All Capone out in front ..he wanted notoriety and in meantime they walked into public office and our judicial system ..its history folks look into it
Yup, the invisible hand that's pulling the strings.
I've been searching for a clear cut answer for this. Thank you. It's crazy how vague the definitions are for cultural Marxism
“Even a good emotion, pity, if not controlled by charity and justice, leads through anger to cruelty. Most atrocities are stimulated by accounts of the enemy’s atrocities; and pity for the oppressed class, when separated from the moral law as a whole, leads to a very natural process to the unremitting brutalities of a reign of terror.”” -C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain
Prophetic words for his time.
This video has to be included in the "things you must see before engaging the rest of society" so informative on so many levels. Bravo.
Finally. I thought I was alone in seeing this filthy Frankfurt school gibberish for what it is
Spoken like a true boomer ❤️
@@reinarforeman6518 sadly, many of them embraced it in their youth, but it was beat/ killed out of them
Great starting point for further study !!!
You can see these things unfolding before your eyes !!!
It's terrifying
Thank you. Insightful (and it is an understatement). Cheers. 👌🏻👋🏻
I have watched several videos on this topic and this is definitely one of the best available. Thank you Dr C for posting.
3:44 Happy Merchant...
Grace and peace to you Dr. Cooper. Quick question, what software or program did you use to create you opening title. I love how simple and classy it is. Thanks for your time.
Easy to follow. Thank you Dr. Cooper!
Bravo Dr. Cooper, doing a gloss on this subject that touches everything it needed to touch, and doing it fairly, shows a talented scholarly hand. My son came home from a rural Iowa high school with the spawn of Peggy McIntosh requiring him to explore his white male upper class privilege and I went ballistic. I've linked your piece here in communications with the school as to the sort of handling of the issue I find acceptable. This will be a very interesting experience as I deal with the school; I plan to win or home school my son.
@@josmooth896 After several emails I spoke with the Principal and explained that my state legislators were very interested to see the materials and quite interested in my objections. My statehouse is currently dominated by the conservative spectrum. There were several seconds of silence that I think were actually somewhat stunned innocence. This stuff has probably been in the curricular pipeline from the Obama days and is just reaching us Deplorables here in flyover country. I suspect there's nobody at the school who could follow Dr. Cooper's video perfectly without notes, much less Jordan Peterson's critique, and that's really as it should be in High School. That's one very good reason that Critical Theory and Intersectional Politics is not an appropriate topic. So its unlikely I'm dealing with ideologues. It will be very interesting to see what gets worked out as my son is one of the brighter bulbs in a school full of talented kids. I'm very grateful for the quality of education he's getting there. Its a school that can't field a full Varsity American Football squad (eight Ironmen needed to make a team) but they can pull off a spectacular Beauty and the Beast with their own pit orchestra. Remarkable for a High School with about 200 kids. This is very close to the ideal of American public schools and why I'm so gobsmacked that Peggy McIntosh came home from his English teacher.
@@clarkevanmeter2676 Teach your son about the truth. Unfortunately my parents have never been the anti-politically correct type, they follow biased and corrupt cultural narratives like slaves. It's frustrating to me to not know how to tell them things about history or politics without getting condescending mannerisms from my own family.... Teach your son to be critical in these times.
@@ism-pr5ym You have your own inoculation. You probably inherited it from an ancestor they don't talk about. You're already free. My son walked in the door after school laughing and saying, "you won't believe what my homework is tonight!" He's safe. What bugs me is that he'll get out of high school without having had to read The Gulag Archipelago because the liberals run the academe now. To understand how the young culture has rejected Political Correctness you only need watch, "No Tendies on My Plate" to understand how sophisticated the trolling of Boomer liberalism has become. My son showed me that CZcams video and it was perfectly clear he understood the irony of making the left protest anti-semitism. There is an edge to these kids that gives me hope. He's a bright kid, I can do better with him than the school can if they're going to waste their time on Critical Theory with 14 year olds.
@@clarkevanmeter2676 I know this discussion is old but what the hell... Your son is lucky to have you!
@@michalvalta5231 Eh, I don't know. I lost the fight with his mother over electronics. He's become a life-support system for a phone charger. It turns out that the teacher really didn't have much idea of what she had unleashed and the assignment was never completed by the class or graded. I have been back in twice to deal with a leftist history teacher who keeps having "teachable moments" that always seem to go one direction.
Dr. Cooper, oddly you have left out one of the most important originators of Cultural Marxism, namely Antonio Gramsci. I propose that Gramsci, whose writings preceded the formation and work of the Frankfurt school, actually drew the road map or created the overarching strategy of what we now know as Cultural Marxism. The scholars of the Frankfurt School rather developed and implemented the tactics-Critical Theory, Repressive Tolerance, etc.-to advance that strategy. Gramsci created this strategy first by redefining Marxism, changing it from an economic class struggle that would eventually spark a world-wide armed revolt (as Marx himself predicted) to a struggle between a class of “oppressors” and the “oppressed.” Secondly Gramsci said that the process of establishing Communist states, rather than armed revolt, would be breaking the “cultural hegemony” of the institutions that supported and nurtured Capitalism-institutions such as the nuclear family, the Christian church, schools and academia and other social organizations that buttressed cultural norms. He saw the way to do this would be to morally delegitimize all these institutions by condemning them as oppressors, and the way to do that was to infiltrate these institutions-especially education-and promulgate a moral condemnation of them in what he termed a “long march through the institutions.” I agree that they borrow concepts of compassion for the weak and oppressed from Christian moral thought-even as they work to condemn Christianity itself. Ironically the heart of Critical Theory tactics is to morally denounce in absolutist terms all institutions and ideas that support free market enterprise though its proponents simultaneously repudiate objective morality. Gramsci originally saw the oppressed classes as racial and religious minorities, ex-convicts, and others outside of the hegemonic cultural mainstream, but work by his Frankfurt School successors and now their students in academia, media and politics, have greatly expanded the ranks of the oppressed by focusing on an ever expanding coalition of identity groups. Their latest invention is intersectionalism by which they assign more victimhood authority to any individual who has membership in more than one group of the “oppressed.” “Oppressor” and the “oppressed”; this is the language of Cultural Marxism-and it was first coined by Antonio Gramsci.
What's the end goal of Cultural Marxism to you?
@Simon Barfield Any proof? Marxist parties have gotten less than 0.1% of seats in the developed world. And philosophers of critical theory interject and dislike cultural censorship of bigotry, even if they dislike bigotry. They would likely be against "political correctness" in the modern day. Or are you dumb? I'm not trying to be mean I'm just trying to genuinely understand why you'd ever think that, you sound like a conspiracy theorist.
@@not.a.robott shhh, don't be pointing out obvious and observable facts that make a complete mockery of someone's worldview. Isn't that sort of the real intolerance?
@@pauldavies6810 'how come u won't tolerate my discussion about genocide! these ppl r so mean umu' 😂 lmao why are they like this
roganboard84 1) to morally discredit the existing free market economy and, as Gramsci put it, the “cultural hegemony” -made up of the cultural/social institutions such as the nuclear family and the church-that supports it. 2) to get people to accept the underlying ideas of Marxism--equality of result rather than equality of process, profit is theft/evil, private property is unjust, redistribution of wealth, leviathan state is benign, etc.-without the label of Marxism. Most young people have no idea what Marxism is, know nothing of its theory or jargon, but polls show us they have embraced many of its ideas via a shift in the culture, education and messages within popular media/entertainment promulgating these ideas. Gramsci said that the revolution would not come through armed insurrection as Marx predicted, but a slow transformation of the culture, breaking the cultural hegemony Capitalism held, and a “long march through the institutions.”
Thanks for this. It was exactly the simple answer I was looking for!
Excellent video. I’ve studied this in college and on my own but the video really helps me to reduce the topic to a manageable presentation for my church men’s group. I thank you for this very helpful explanation. God Bless you and your ministry.
Great video, but I must confess that I clicked because I thought the author was Dr. Jordan B. Peterson...
Frankfurt is where it ESCAPED FROM. Wish it had stayed there.
Yes, if it had stayed there it would have died there.
Escaped? No. Hitler helped them go. He knew they would destroy the west in 50 years.
Very interesting, and I’ll need to listen to this video twice if not a couple of times.
A tautology always sounds best when you say something twice in different words.
What an eye-opening explanation. Thank you so much
I am impressed by your video. I was worried about a conservative describing "cultural Marxism" but it became clear that you have actually studied the ideas of these thinkers and have a good understanding of what is going on. Good video.
Why would you be worried about a conservative describing cultural Marxism ? Several conservatives who produce articles and videos accurately describe it to a T.
@@TV-ob1if Most actually don't. It is embarrassing how little they understand cultural and political shifts.
@@AarmOZ84 actually most do. What I saw in this video was perfectly consistent with what I learned about CM over the years from Conservatives
He is clueless, it just SEEMS like he knows what he is saying. You are clueless as well about cultural marxism. Also why would you be worried about a conservative describing cultural marxism? This shows you're indoctrinated.
Conservatives are the only ones that know about the subject. Liberals will literally say the term cultural marxism is a nazi dog whistle that is anti semetic somehow and will link a wikipedia source
So glad to see knowledge of this subversion is growing in awareness.
The last few years, any time I even used the term I was instantly judged and dismissed.
Truth finds a way.
Far too LATE !!!! By now Everyone is meat for these culturalmarxist-critical theory-politicalcorrectness nazi terrorists in the blm, antifa and academia !! Too fooking late as these new SS are absolutely everywhere - the real matrix !!! Mzlim terrorism, PC, blm terrorism - all are facets of the same evil.
My father thinks I’ve turned into a conspiracy theorist because I believe in this
It's not too late to stop these people but it is too late to do it in a relatively peaceful manner.
@Paul Revere the Nazi’s were garbage just like the Communists. All extremist fools
@@solarhoney don’t pick a side. Be your own
This video presents exactly what I needed to know! Thanks!.
I love the old photos.
But if the goal is to have the oppressed overcome the oppressor, doesn't that always just create a new oppressor -- not "equality"?
in a truly free society equality will never exist and that is good!
Yes, you are correct. However, I think transgression is the heartbeat of this thinking. At the moment white people are that to be transgressed, but should that happen, they will need something else.
@@coinswaptrader2915 Yes this. Its the boogeyman that needs to be confronted more.
No. The formerly oppressed create their own system of Law & Order that the former oppressors don’t agree with because the tables have turned and now they themselves are being targeted by the authorities. E.g. 1917 Tsarist russia.
Yes, but Marx accounted for this. He suggested that government - leaders - would and should dissolve and be replaced by workers unions councils representing the views of the worker. But no big out of touch leader.
I'm a black woman and I support the BLM movement, however, I'm always open to different opinions, probably out of a need to explain to myself how others can question what I myself defend.
My observation is that people who use the term "cultural marxism" most of the times do so when accusing others of focusing on a certain racial, class or gender group, rather than on the individual (implicitly, the ability of an individual to overcome their prestablished condition, I suppose?), like the same point which is explained in the video. My explanation for why that happens is that individuals are in the first place judged based on the group they belong to, so what follows after is merely a counter reaction of the perceived "unfairness".
Would it be correct to call me a cultural marxist even if I until recently didn't know about the concept? Or rather, would it be fair to call it a deliberate, systematic attempt or an act of indoctrination whenever I state my opinions?
I think the real difference between the two fronts is that one believes you can overcome your condition if you just try hard enough, while the other believes that things are not as simple as just trying, and that other factors come into play, possibly considerably determining the outcome of your choices , no matter the positive effort you put in, such as a lack of resources that comes along a certain social and economic background you are born with, psychological remnant trauma that prevails through generations and a big amount of generalizations and prejudices that's maybe bound to happen in society, but which I think this front believes can be counteracted positively if society even begins to acknowledge its existence.
Listen I see what you're saying but in America we all know this isn't going to work. Why? Well look at our government. The government we have today will only abuse the communism concept and more than likely will be a tit for tat. Example, you want free health care, fair wage, free housing etc? Well trade in your civil liberties for them. We will have to give up our rights (amendments) in the America to get what we want and it isn't fair. We are playing a very dangerous game here and the government will win. If we have our freedom of speech taken away and protest against them, most likely the government will send in active military troops like never before and a lot of people will die because the government doesn't play fair. Don't be fooled by this ideology working in the US, it just won't.
Cultural Marxism is a scare-term used to paint people trying to overcome structural barriers in order to have a more just and democratic society in conspiratorial terms. It appeals to their motives and accuses them of conspiratorial intent. All the sudden BLM doesn't want black equality, they want lawlessness and disorder. Feminists don't want justice for women they're executing a secret plot to destroy the family.
The origins of this conspiratorial hoax is a text called the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. It's an anti-Semitic text that alleges conspiratorial Jews are advancing the values of liberal democracy (like racial and religious equality, parliamentary democracy and universal suffrage) as a plot to undermine Western Culture and install a new world order that would be a police state ruled by the Jews.
Cultural Marxism is nothing but this anti-Semitic conspiracy theory cleaned up and rebooted for the 21st century.
Thanks for such a thoughtful comment. Personally, I think that while you make very valid comments, it is a question of balance. Also, I think that dividing people along racial and ethnic lines will end in disaster. Every group has a few players who will commit egregious acts - which will be used persecute the whole group - once judging people on the basis of race is OK again. Thanks again for your comment.
CRITICAL Race Theory - the clue is in the name. Constant criticism of society (as opposed to critical THINKING about a subject), even when it's not teally justified as in "all white people are born racist. BLM leaders claim that they're "trained Marxists". I'd prefer to say undoctrinated.
Incidentally, Angela Davis' tutor (and "mentor") was Frankfurt School refugee Herbert Marcuse himself.
This was very interesting.i wanted to find out what it meant.i didn't want just a person's opinion but facts.thank you so much.
Peculiar, this fella also does not mention Antonio Gramsci! The man who coined the phrase cultural marxism! Why is this. Of course the contribution of the Frankfurter Schule is of great importance, but still, why no mention of Gramsci?
Awesome analysis! Thanx for the raising awareness.
Very interesting. I'm glad you showed its relationship to Christianity.
Thank you so much for this!
I believe that people are most comfortable with other people who have similar values, levels of education, interests, etc. College educated professionals will probably not socialize with their house cleaner. But the house cleaner wouldn't want to hang out with the professional person whose house she/he cleans anyway. They wouldn't have anything in common. The idea that whites who have no black friends means they are racist is absurd. Are blacks who don't socialize with whites racist? No, no one says that. Government needs to get its nose out of people's social lives, go do what they were intended to do. Just because someone has worked hard and made money doesn't make that person an oppressor. Just because a person drops out of school and starts using drugs doesn't mean white people or people with money are oppressing that person.
Critical Theory may hold some water but the truth is that some of the worst oppression occurs within each of these groups. Ever wonder why wealthy and even successful people can be so troubled? It is the way they are treated within their own groups and classes.
Thanks, a very lucid and informative video. Before, I was really vague about 'cultural Marxism' Well done.
He forgot to mention that the term "cultural marxism" was invented by the Nazis, except they called it "cultural bolshevism", and used the term against communists who they viewed as Jews.
@Simon Barfield yeah, so the ***Democratic*** People's Republic of Korea is now Democratic because of their name. Also, here is a quote from Goebbels which clearly shows that the term "Cultural Marxism" was invented by the Nazis:
"It [bolshevism] is not only anti-bourgeois, it is anti-cultural. It means, in the final consequence, the absolute destruction of all economic, social, state, cultural, and civilizing advances made by western civilization for the benefit of a rootless and nomadic international clique of conspirators, who have found their representation in Jewry."
Now stop trying to hide, you Neo Nazi piece of shit. Go back to blaming people who don't look like you for all your problems.
I remember this now ... nice basic refresher
Well done. Thank you.
What a thoughtful and concise summary of it. Thanks man
Honestly one of the best educational videos I've watched, so thought provoking. I could listen to you for hours
I love how this video was not at all biased
Who is the artist of the painting at 10:10?
cultural Marxism comes from the phrase Cultural Bolshevism (German: Kulturbolschewismus), sometimes referred to specifically as art Bolshevism, music Bolshevism or sexual Bolshevism,[1] was a term widely used by Nazi German-sponsored critics to denounce modernist and progressive movements in the culture. It’s from nazis
And republicans are saying it about dems...kind of makes ya think
This was so perfectly taught. You have a gift for teaching
"when you hear about oppressed class and oppressor class", the it is cultural marxism. LOL Hahahahahahahaha....
Well, i guess cultural marxism has been there since dawn of civilization.
"Love thy neighbour" is copyrighted in in bible. Hahahahahahahaha.
Yes, ancient hindu, chinese, greek etc societies were waking up in morning and attack their neighbor.
@@saimbhat6243 that's not what "love thy neighbor" means
Could anybody help me on this question: What form of Marxism did cultural studies adopt?
You are absolutely right brotha.
Wow! He explained Cultural Marxism without once uttering the word “Jews.”
Now that’s a lesson for you.
Woah, cool it with the antisemitism!
@@beyondbatman4261 If you can be anti christian why can you not be anti Islamic or anti jewish ? I have nothing personal against any group , but any group can be criticized and that should be spoken and then the claim examined for its validity .The time for using Communist tactics of throwing meaningless labels to deflect and to discredit the criticism.
@@soulfirez4270 - The terms 'anti-Christian' and 'anti-Islamic' tend to be labels placed on people who make forceful arguments against the tenets and practices of these religions and cultures. By contrast, 'anti-semitic' all too often refers to people who use terms like 'rats' to describe an entire race of people in an attempt to dehumanise them. That's not the basis under which critical debate can take place, and it's why people like 'SonofOdin' and his angry, blind hatred needs to be exposed for the mindless idiocy that it is.
Talking about Cultural Marxism without mentioning that is like talking about the Cultural Revolution without mentioning Mao or the Chinese.
@SonOfOdin They don't keep deleting your replies, they're just downvoted so many times that the algorithm automatically makes them less visible. That's how moronic and disgusting your comments have been.
Did you realize that your biblical reference came from the pre-Christian part of the Bible - the Jewish part? Or at least what was not edited out of the Jewish part. There are many religions and societies that have, and had, what we would broadly see as a humanist/Christian approach to those in need. Recognizing as well that many were also more barbaric in their approach to the needy. The Reformation saw a suspension of the more charitable aspects of Christianity and how many people today, in nominally Christian countries, suffer needless, painful, undignified deaths because they can not afford healthcare.
Humanism is a flaming dumpster fire, man. Open your eyes. And progressive Christianity is a failed false religion. Repent.
Thanks, this was helpful!
Good vid, thank you!
I like this video, I've noticed for some time the relationship between cultural Marxism and religions like Christianity, and this explains the similarities pretty well.
Islam also does this: it frames followers of Islam as "oppressed" and non-muslims as "oppressors", it's how it justifies Jihad.
It does not.
Thank you for this video!
This was a very good and easily understood explanation of cultural marxism.
Very good video. Thank you. And thank you for reminding of how Christianity has brought goodness into the world. I know many people have used religion in bad ways but that is on them to answer for.
So, it did not start with “Christianity” but with Torah.
You beat me to it, lol.
Yes, Christianity is a Jewish Sect ... some even say that Jesus was Jewish. As I saw some Rabi put it (a nice guy who has some videos on CZcams) once someone asked Hillel the Elder to summarize the Hebrew faith "standing on one feet with eyes closed" - so a very short summary - and he replied "Don't do to others what you don't want others to do to you".
So, the main difference, AFAIK, between the two faiths is that Judaism is for Hebrews and Christianity is for everybody. For the Catholic doctrine you actually don't even need to be a believer or a Christian to reach salvation for it's more important to behave like Jesus proposed - and Jesus really said very few things ...
@@spirit-walkerwaters4521 I should have used the quotation marks like you did ... but, please, don't be so sensitive - Christianity was born from Judaism and Jesus was Jewish. BTW, AFAIK, all three western religions come from the Zoroastrianism. Since all this information is AFAIK, maybe @Dr. Jordan B Cooper could help us.
I don't know what you mean by "education" ... I studied engineering and like History a lot. I also went to Catholic Sunday School (it was actually never on Sunday) and did my years there from 6 years of age until a year after Chrism. I knew both Priests who were there - both very good men - and both reminded us that Jesus was Jewish.
I want to tell you about something that happened in Brazil, in the mid 70s: during the military dictatorship, a Jewish journalist called Vladimir Herzog was killed under torture. The Rabi Henry Sobel buried him in holy ground even though the oficial cause of death was suicide; and the Bishop Dom Paulo Evaristo Arns made an ecumenical 7th day celebration in Sé Cathedral in São Paulo with Henry Sobel, the Presbyterian Pastor Nelson Wright and D. Paulo Evaristo. I was raise under this environment of understanding and respect so this is why I don't understand your stern reaction to my statement. These three religious leaders risked their lives in an act that is considered the most important blow to the 1964 Military Dictatorship.
www.nytimes.com/1975/11/16/archives/issue-of-torture-growing-in-brazil-journalists-death-in-prison-is-a.html
@@maxheadrom3088 you got that a litte bit wrong. 90% of historians say he was Jewish, and indeed if he wasn't, there is no other option than for him to have been an Egyptian, whose views were completely incompatible with what he espoused. Also, Judaism isn't only for Jews, it's for ANYONE who WANTS to be a Jew, and therefore eternally bound to the covenant that Abraham made with G-d. Christianity and Judaism have a few things in common, mainly that G-d loves people and that we are all responsible for one another (love, respect, kindness to animals, e.t.c) but that is where the similarities end. Judaism shows us that there are 613 commandments that all men (women only need to follow some) need to follow (some aren't applicable today). Of course, this is very hard, and it is almost impossible to be perfect, but nevertheless, we are told to "walk with G-d" (which means follow the commandments he gave us. Christianity doesn't have any commandments that people must abide by (other than the 10), and therefore has no code of conduct to which individuals can be held morally responsible. Also, Judaism has a very different justice system. The one MAIN difference, though, is that Judaism says that G-d is G-d and there is no changing that. It does NOT say that G-d was a person, BCS if He was, then He wasn't G-d at all, merely a person pretending to be G-d. I hope this outlines a few things for you and that you understand that if Christianity was. "Jewish" sect as you say, it would look completely and utterly different.
Marxism takes incredibly complex issues and simplifies them to a ridiculous degree. The human condition is terribly difficult, we get old and die, its a tragedy and we all suffer if we live long enough and it does not matter where you happen to be in society or where you were born, you come in alone , live alone (in many ways) soul and spirit and by god you die alone. One group taking over the other group will not change anything. Its all be tried before.
You have obviously never tried to read Kapital.
A brilliant mind amongst the sea of minds!
Very clear explanation, thank you.
This video makes some interesting interestiong points, but does not back up many of the claims.
At 9:00 the video talks how there are many, many ways someone can be opressed or privileged and we never know, on an individual level, how priveliged or not somebody is. This is true! But this does not mean privilege on a group level does not exist. In my country, for example, when two people with the same CV apply for a job, somebody with a Dutch name has a much higher chance of being invited for an interview than someone with a Moroccan name. Showing that privilege definitely exists on a societal level.
As the third problem, the video talks about how the opressed use the exact same mechanisms to become the opressors. This is cannot be stated as fact without any explanation. it can also be used to gain equality.
Finally, I disagree with the point that the state cannot force individuals to change for the benefit of society as a whole. Using that argument, the state should not have banned slavery. Afterall, why would the state force the slaveowners to change?
Different privileges are given in different contexts by different people. For example, you might be given black privilege if you're black and want to become a rapper or skinny privilege if you're treated better for being skinny. There is no way to "tax" all privileges and make things "equal" without oppressing somebody along the way
Marx never paid his bills .
Is it true that Marx never really had a job ? Aside from the short time on writing for a newspaper.. (if I remember correctly)
Are there sources for this video anywhere?
I also recommend Dr. James Lindsay and Helen Pluckrose New Discourses great videos. They also have a book out called Cynical Theories.
The core of the issue is: Christianity cares about the oppressed because of their personhood, the inherent value of their lives as children of God. Marxism claims to care about the oppressed because of their contingent social/material circumstances. In other words, oppression must end not out of charity and love for the oppressed but to tweak the engines of historical necessity and reach a pragmatically desirable situation that will generate conformity and end class struggle.
Ah, Christianity vs communism. The Kaduceus Phenomenon. Mercury, the god of shopkeepers, merchants, tricksters and thieves. Look to the origins of both and you'll find out who is deceiving you. And it ain't no made up 'satan'
Servants of God vs equals to God. One God many variegated servants vs if all are equally God but that is not manifest in this world, it is my duty to make all equal.
Who's to say that ending class struggle is even realistically possible, or that it wouldn't just open up a greater pandora's box? Trying to end it already created some of the greatest catastrophes of human history via the 20th century. There is class struggle because there is consistent interaction between a melting pot of different people that have fundamentally different abilities. I don't think one could create a situation where people have biologically the same abilities, or even a society that demands absolutely equal abilities or social roles, and so communism or Marxism (where everyone is equally on their knees before a few select tyrants) is absurd on that basis alone but by no means only on that basis.
@@daftsutradesign1318 Yes, a functioning body has different parts like the head, torso, arms, legs. The same with a social body.
@@daftsutradesign1318 and Jesus Himself said we would always have the poor among us. The Founders of the US understood this and wrote about not being able to guarantee equal outcomes, due to both circumstance and ability.
The class is called the bourgeoisie. Bourgeois is the adjective.
I’m really surprised that you didn’t bring up the person whom coined the term, trent schroyer.
You missed the other classes, such as the lumpenproletariat.
Love your self, love your country
I am white and proud to be white
I am English and proud to be English
I love my country, it's culture, Christian values, its green fields, its amazing coastline, its historical buildings!
I love our history, good and bad.
I love its music, art, dance and food (good and bad).
I love my nation, bordered on other nations which defines my Englishness as opposed to their Scottishness, Welshness etc!
I am English, England is my nation.
I AM A NATIONALIST, GET OVER IT!
"Various communist countries coming into power" at around 2:20 basically discredited the explanation. Sorry, but a country isn't communist simply because its party wants to create the conditions required for EVENTUAL communism. The countries that Cooper would point to were all poor, mostly agrarian countries that employed something called "state capitalism," which was to take the place of private capitalism, so that the countries could rapidly build up productivity and join the modern (of their time) world. Their "not all that positive" results make a laughingstock of private capitalism as an economic force. Both Russia and China built up in 50 years what took the United States 150. Living conditions in Russia improved far more rapidly than ever happened in any capitalist country. A good portion of that is because the models and technology were already developed, but both countries were still obscenely poor and agrarian, making rapid industrialization THAT MUCH HARDER.
Yes, it was a very inadequate description of Karl Marx. Also not overly accurate.
You jump from critical theory to postmodernism and then say "That, essentially is, what we know as cultural Marxism." That was a mental leap. You introduced the "idea of cultural Marxism" without ever explaining what it was around half-way through the video. I'm still trying to figure out what you're saying cultural Marxism actually is. Unless you're saying that "cultural Marxism is recognizing that there are oppressors and oppressed groups," in which case why call it "cultural Marxism" except to bend knee to people like Jordan Peterson?
All-in-all, I don't see this as an explanation of cultural Marxism so much as personal biases injected into something that could easily have been compressed into two minutes of "Here's an inadequate/inaccurate description of Marx and Marxism, a vague description of cultural Marxism that boils down to 'oppressor and oppressed classes exist within society,' and I don't like it."
totally agree
Very important to have references. I can't tell when you express opinion and when you cite some literature.
Best explanation on the internet
The end of the video ❤
I think you got It Just right. The main problem is that people use "cultural marxism" as a slogan to point out to someone or something that do not understand. There are people that does not care about inform thenselves, Just repeat what they got somewere.
Congratulations for not having that narrow view!
I think the only ones who don't understand are those who have been brainwashed by Cultural Marxism (and Postmodernism) have surrendered their critical thinking completely, becoming what i call P-borgs. "P" for Postmodernist and "borgs" referring to the fictional characters of the series Start Trek, defined as: “the fictional civilization of Borgs is based on a hive or group mind known as the Collective. Each Borg is linked to the collective by a network that ensures each member is given constant supervision and guidance. The collective consciousness ensures that they share the same thoughts”. Does it sound familiar? As perhaps... you?
This guy missed the point by a half mile and tried to make it about race and the defense of a Christian identity, clearly equating Marxist philosophy with its secular manifestations. When really Marxism is simply a critique of capitalism which foretold the conflicts between labor and capital, when the means of production in a society are vested in private interests.
Whites aren’t the borgeois, we are all proles. The capitalists are the inconceivably wealthy elites who own our government and are exploiting the resources of the planet, as well as the old money heirs who live off the capital gains of their inheritance and have never worked a day in their life who push the economy further and further each day into the junk economics of financialization.
The postmodernist mainstream left is nothing more than a tool being used to distract everyone from their true enemy. Making religious whites feel defensive and disenfranchised minorities feel angry baiting them with retributive fantasies of “social justice”.
This video is not woke. Keep looking people.
For something less juvenile look up Marxism 101, how capitalism is destroying itself.
Still, even so, always leave everyone's opinions open to consideration. You do not have to believe it, but leaving opinions open as a possibility, you are never wrong as long as you never fully jump on the bandwagon, but leave it open as a possibility that might or might not be true.
WHAT AN MORONIC CONCLUSION. DID YOU EVER LISTEN TO RABBI FINKESHTEIN AND HOW THEY EATING AND KILLING CHILDREN? WELL, THAT PEOPLE FOR THOUSANDS YEARS INVENTING DIFFERENT PHILOSOPHIES IN ORDER TO HIDE THEIR CRIMES. THE PEOPLE JUST SWALLOWING THEIR INVENTIONS MARXISM SOCIALISM FEMINISM CULTURE MARXISM GENDER SHIT MIGRATION SHIT NAZISM FASCISM ETC
Well explained...thanks!
How much can we sell the horse for?
Morality existed outside of Christianity and before Christianity, much of christianity is simultaneously built off of Judaism and alternative belief structures at the time. The basis of your thesis is refutable, but the analysis in the beginning on cultural Marxism historically,though short and simplistic, was objective and fair.
Pecu Alex I would also disagree with this as well. Class consciousness and community orientation, though nice to liken towards the things Christianity did contribute ideologically, was a long held belief by many non violent cultures of the time and beforehand.
I don't think the bible invented the idea of unfair societies.
Which book by Marx do I need to read to learn this?
Some of his works include The Communist Manifesto and Das Capital.
This vid needs a billion viewed
Your premise that caring for the oppressed is based on christian ideals is completely off base. China has a number of programs provided by the government, such as healthcare, employment, retirement pensions, housing, and education. As does India. And many other non-christian nations.
Well in America it has been a Christian ideal
He didn't say it to sound like Christianity is more virtuous ....Or that non Christian nations don't care about their poor
i think the difference is that state sponsored humanitarian programmes are intrinsically linked to the benefits they bring to the system whereas Christian ideals are ( or should be ) motivated purely by love and altruism.
Many Chinese communist were educated in Europe, France I believe, and thus western thought permeated China through their cultural revolution.
Does everyone repeat Jordan Peterson or does anyone think for themselves?
Very informative video. Thanks
10:08 "But in reality we know that the world is not necessarily getting better"
That's quite the assertion, claiming "we know". I'm not saying that the world is rosy, but at what point was is better, and which parameters are we looking at in trying to make this general assessment?
IMO, with the word "necessarily", it's not even a very controversial claim. All it requires is that it's not inevitable that the world always gets better.
@@HaecceitasQuidditas Yeah, it's almost a non statement. Although, If I'm gonna be fussy I would say that we still can't claim knowledge. Perhaps the world by necessity gets better (whatever that means) as an inevitable consequence of its governing laws. How would we know?
It's the Relativism sickness... maybe the most dear lie of the Father of Lies.
Not bad for a rogh overview but your own speech shows signs of being infected with cultural Marxism. When did "Problematic" enter into your vocabulary ? what happened to "Wrong" ?
10:38 "although we must confess that equality is a good"
What do you mean by equality ? How can you reconcile that with scripture ?
Could you make a video discussing the differences between capitalism and mercantilism?
Excellent.
You're leaving out the history of the term, why its used and the link to cultuur bolsiavisme. Look up Shaun or 3 arrows for a more complete view on this.
@Puck Shack bit inconvenient when people find out you're literally regurgitating Nazi propaganda though eh. Dagnabit!
Check out 'Yuri Besmenov' everything will make sense
It’s spelled Bezmenov, but you’re right in suggesting that he should be listened to. He warned the west of what is to come.
Or what already happened
Thank you, i found this very edifying.
What’s this thing surrounding a single word with many brackets? Can I do it with bollocks?
What Cooper refers to as 'Cultural Marxism' is more accurately depicted as post-modern thought. Marxism and the Frankfurt School are inherently critical of post-modern thought.
In any society Communist or Capitalist there will always be the 1%ers who have all the power, wealth and control.( Putin's Russia, XI Jinping's China, Trump's USA etc,)
It is not politics, it is human nature - has always been that way and always will be.Some people are smarter and more devious than others.
RememberNineEleven - And some people are simply more competent and/or harder working. This is and should be rewarded.
@@chrisdittmer7777 Yes and they manage to be in the top percentile ... maybe not in the 1%ers but at the top levels.
RememberNineEleven - Totally agree. If you work hard in America you will be successful. You may not be in the 1% but if you can afford to support your family and raise your children to understand the value of of honest hard work, you will find happiness and meaning.
Chris Dittmer RememberNineEleven The point has been missed. Of course it’s human nature that some will always be richer than most. But what’s not human nature is when the numbers are disproportionately spread across a population. As a human, no matter what, quality food is a right, health is a right.While I agree everyone should work hard, it’s not that simple. It is a proven fact that throughout history groups of people whether race, religion, gender, have been and continue to be marginalized. No matter how hard you work. The problem is groups of people believing privilege doesn’t exist and doesn’t play a role in society
Chance Henry - I understand what you’re saying. I agree that some people have horrible disadvantages and start out at level zero hence cannot compete. These people do need help getting access to equal opportunity. I don’t think people are being marginalized just because of their race or gender (and definitely not because of religion in the USA). Poverty doesn’t care what color or gender you are. I believe that investing in communities where poverty is rampant - be it big cities or small towns - will do more help in the long term. It seems that whatever we’re doing now isn’t working too well. Again, I totally agree that we always need to work on helping those in need. But if we’re going to succeed in this mission we need remember that we’re all on the same side and have to same goals regardless of immutable characteristics like race, gender, sexual preference etc. We can’t work together if we’re divided from the start✌️
Another great video!