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In 1926, an Italian communist named Antonio Gramsci ended up in Mussolini’s prison after a return from Russia. While there, he wrote his “prison notebooks” and they laid out a plan for destroying Western faith and culture. His plans included ways to undermine and discourage Westerners through the intentional collapse of the existing social structure from within.
Gramsci advocated not only Marxist class warfare, which was economically focused, but also social and cultural warfare at the same time. His theories and the “slow march through the culture” (or institutions) which he
Originally posted by twisteddawg
“Gramsci hated marriage and the family, the very founding blocks of a civilized society. To him, marriage was a plot, a conspiracy... to perpetuate an evil system that oppressed women and children. It was a dangerous institution, characterized by violence and exploitation, the forerunner of fascism and tyranny. Patriarchy served as the main target of the cultural Marxists. They strove to feminize the family with legions of single and homosexual mothers and ‘fathers’ who would serve to weaken the structure of civilized society.”
Originally posted by Ismail
I'm fed up with people from america throwing around complex ideas like socialism and marxism, and somehow failing to understand them so much that they actually believe to be living in such systems.
Please define "marxism" in your own words.
Originally posted by Ismail
reply to post by Thirty_Foot_Smurf
Now, now, I asked first...
Please, indulge me. What makes you believe that you are living in a marxist society ?
And please don't say "the health care reform"... That would be eliminatory.
[edit on 21-4-2010 by Ismail]
Originally posted by drwizardphd
reply to post by ghostsoldier
These people simply aren't capable of making up their own minds about things. Their reactionary attitudes towards the words 'Socialism', 'Communism' and 'Marxism' are hammered into their brains from a young age, and they simply never seize the opportunity to discover what they mean for themselves.
Hence why so many people in America think the three terms mean the exact same thing. It's sad, really.
Originally posted by Ismail
reply to post by Longview
The assumption that Obama could possibly be affiliated in any way to the marxist ideology is laughable. I live in europe. You percieve Obama as a leftist individual. From my perspective, he is more right wing than most of our right wing politicians.
Originally posted by Ismail
reply to post by Longview
Here's a bonus. I am not a marxist. But I do freely admit that marxism as such has never existed as a state policy anywhere on this planet, ever. Russia, China, Cuba... all those were "State Capitalist" systems. And due to there very nature, they had nothing to do with marxism. Check it out.
[edit on 22-4-2010 by Ismail]