After the NAZI National Socialist ideology came to a natural halt after World War II, leading socialist intellectuals in Germany noteworthy did not change their Marxist ideology. They rather pushed for its continuation, with only small amendments.
Germany left National Socialism, but leading European nations began pushing for a Regional Socialism as found in today’s EU. The socialist push for group tyranny, lack of free speech for conservatives, the hatred against classical Western, Christian values continued.
Socialist Statism never seceded – the political push to transfer power from the individual in a free society to the socialist state political leaders, adding massive tax burdens, using the media as a propaganda tool and eroding individual freedoms.
Labelling themselves neo-Marxist, the pre-war intellectuals continued their work towards the elimination of Western classical values, hoping to replace these with the Marxist, atheist world view, writes historian of comparative religions and bestselling author, Hanne Nabintu Herland.
Free speech: Post-war, philosophers such as Theodore W. Adorno, Herbert Marcuse and Max Horkheimer launched the neo-Marxist critical theory, implying that science should not just “describe, but also change” oppressive conditions in social structures.
Especially within the social sciences the politicization continued, according to the very same Marxist playbook found in the socialist tyranny of National Socialism. This became yet another tool to control the way Western culture developed post-war.
It would later evolve into the full blown social revolutions of the 1960s student revolts, based precisely on the very same Marxist ideology and socialist application that fueled the Marxist philosophers’ thinking ever since Karl Marx wrote his Communist Manifesto.
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The “oppression” they sought to change were the conservative values in the West. The ideals they wished to quench were the classical, Western values that once made the West such a world leading civilization.
After World War II, the post-war philosophers from the Marxist Frankfurt School lived in the aftermath of the bureaucratic and institutionalized society that caused Nazism to function so well in Germany. They watched how the National Socialist NAZI system had been able to completely shut down freedom of expression and intellectual debate.
In democratic Germany, it was precisely the excellent organization within the institutions, the state-controlled bureaucracy and the propaganda push in the media that made the National Socialist government so successful in controlling the population. Population control through fear of what would happen if they voiced opposition against the government, silenced all public discourse apart from the government narrative.
The “oppression” they sought to change was the conservative values of Europe and America. The ideals they wished to quench were the classical, Western values that once made the West such a world leading civilization.
The revolt against the traditional, Western values founded in Christianity became more and more evident. A “modern” outlook on life slowly came to mean “an atheist outlook”. Traditional, historical values increasingly was looked upon with scorn.
This was a fine way of saying what Herbert Marcuse later pointed out: The need to discriminate and repress the majority, Christian views in society in order to implement an ideology that did not respect traditional, Western values.
Marcuse was the father of the 1960s student revolution, and he openly spoke about the need to repress those who did not agree with the New Left thinking. A new authoritarianism was on its way.
The idea was that if the critical theory were applied, the bourgeoisie misuse of power would be avoided. They defined who represented the “oppressive force in society” and who represented “freedom”.
Adorno and Marcuse became the intellectual founding fathers of the student rebellions of 1968, the New Left in America. This became the early days of free sex, abortion and the revolt against traditional religion.
Adornos “point de depart” asserted that the process of modernity had failed to free people from the bondage of the past and instead further enslaved them. By feeding on the discontentment of the age, the idea became that by tearing down classical, Western values, the West would become a much better place. What was sown into the minds of young university students, was that traditional morality enslaved the invididual. The family enslaved women, it was burdening to have children, marriage should be abolished and so on.
These types of anti-Western, Marxist ideals began permeating the American university structures. And slowly, the American youth were enslaved by yet another ideology: The New Left hatred of traditionalism and religious faith in God.
Free speech: Critical theory wished to expose “the offender,” and fight for those who were victimized. What later became apparent, was the cunning use of words in order to silence those who opposed the New Left.
The Frankfurt School movement ended up fundamentally changing the whole historical Western value systems. It became a tool to silence diversity of opinion and quench the voices that still supported the traditionalist world views.
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Kirsten Powers points out in The Silencing. How the Left is Killing Free Speech that the increasingly illiberal Left’s silencing campaign is a form of “repressive tolerance,” arguing that Herbert Marcuse openly spoke of the need to curb freedom of speech in pursuit of left-wing ideological goals.
Marcuse wanted to change “oppressive conditions”, – defined as the ideas of the bourgeoisie, the Christians, the Conservatives. These groups became the enemy. To fight them became the goal.
Marcuse’s words reveal the hidden authoritarian pursuit in this kind of thinking, stating that repressing other worldviews is both necessary and defensible.
The lack of respect for different opinions and the democratic process becomes apparent. Suppression of “regressive” policies – defined as those with traditionalist opinions – was the prerequisite for the strengthening of “progressive” ideas.
The prevalent force by which these philosophers tended to demand uniformity and consensus, is quite shocking. Whilst speaking about the need for “free speech”, the underlying push was to crush the very same principle.
Marcuse’s words on the need for suppression illustrates the blatant lack of respect for free thinking rooted within the New Left, a tendency that later was to bloom into what we today experience as a remarkably illiberal media elite.
As we see, the very foundation of the New Left was stained by authoritarian views and a repressive agenda. Diversity was to be suppressed through limiting tolerance towards the “unwanted” groups in society.
The New Left’s campaign for conformity was coupled with strategies of demonizing and defaming its opponents, hoping that this would silence all opposition. Kirsten Powers argues that to this day delegitimization through demonizing and intimidation remains the Left’s most successful tactic against political and ideological opponents. So, it seems that “Fake News” is a term that will continue to be stamped on those who embrace diversity. We shall soon find out where this will lead us.
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