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{Gerard Casey
@Casey5122dark | 22 November 2023}
The
Guardian published a critical, some might even say hostile, article [21 November 2023] on Javier Milei, the victor in Argentina’s Presidential election. What a shock! You can read it for yourself in the link below.
I just want to discuss one point made in this article. Its author, Uki Goņi writes, “The generals had studied the works of Italian Marxist thinker Antonio Gramsci, who argued that the revolutionary left would need to obtain cultural hegemony to achieve its ends. From this seed, the generals developed a conspiracy theory, not unlike the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, that Marxists had infiltrated universities, Hollywood and the Catholic church, to undermine “our western and Christian way of life”. The 'cultural Marxism’ conspiracy theory can be heard in the US and the UK today. During an interview with Tucker Carlson in September, Milei channelled the 1970s killer generals almost verbatim. Communists 'have no problem with getting inside the state and employing Gramsci’s techniques', Milei told Carlson.”
Let’s put to one side the crude ‘guilt by association’ technique of mentioning
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion and the reference to ‘killer generals' and isolate the main point of this passage. According to Goņi, the Generals and Milei share a belief in the existence of a Gramscianesque conspiracy theory that the revolutionary left seek to achieve cultural hegemony as a means to its goal, the destruction of our Western and Christian way of life, by infiltrating our major social institutions, including the universities, Hollywood and the Catholic Church.
The essence of a conspiracy, one might think, is that its existence and its effects should be hidden from the gaze of the vulgar. But there is nothing whatsoever secret about the woke/leftist takeover of academia, its dominance in Hollywood, and its increasingly obvious presence in the Catholic Church, [the latter] due in no small part to the activities of another Argentinian. Nor is woke/leftist dominance in the mainstream media, the legal profession, the civil service and most political parties a matter of secrecy but rather something that is plainly evident.
Whether ‘cultural Marxism’ is the best or even an accurate term for this woke/leftism is an issue that can be left to the deliberation and judgement of scholars. What is beyond dispute it that, whatever it may be called, what we have here is a socio-political strategy, a very successful socio-political strategy, but one that is not now a conspiracy, if indeed it ever was.
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[Link:]
https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...s-javier-milei
Originally Posted by larryklein
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