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Satan’s Secret Agents: The Frankfurt School and their Evil Agenda
Based on an original article (see here) by Timothy Matthews. Abbreviated and adapted with additional material by Lasha Darkmoon.  “GOD
IS DEAD! . . . BEHOLD, I GIVE YOU THE SUPERMAN!” — Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra Let’s begin by considering the corrosive work of the Frankfurt
School: a group of German-American scholars, mostly Jewish, who developed highly
provocative and original perspectives on contemporary society and culture, drawing
on Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, and Weber. Their idea of a “cultural revolution”
was not particularly new. Joseph, Comte de Maistre (1753-1821), who for fifteen
years had been a Freemason, had this to say: “Until now, nations were killed
by conquest, that is by invasion. But here an important question arises: can
a nation not die on its own soil, without resettlement or invasion, by allowing the flies of decomposition to corrupt to the very core those original and constituent principles which make it what it is?”
What was the Frankfurt School? Well, in the days following the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, it
was believed that a Workers’ Revolution would sweep into Europe and, eventually,
into the United States. It failed to do so. Towards the end of 1922, the Communist
International (Comintern) began to conside r the reasons for this failure. On Lenin’s
initiative, a meeting was organized at the Marx-Engels Institute in Moscow. The
aim of the meeting was to throw light on the meaning of Marx’s Cultural
Revolution. What did “cultural revolution” entail? What was it all about? First, among those present, was Georg
Lukács, a Jewish Hungarian aristocrat and son of a banker. He had become
a Communist during World War I. A good Marxist theoretician, he had developed
the idea of “Revolution and Eros” — sexual instinct used as an instrument of destruction.
Then there was Willi Münzenberg, another revolutionary Jew whose proposed solution
to the problems besetting society was “to organize the
intellectuals and use them to make Western civilization stink. Only then, after
they have corrupted all its values and made life impossible, can we impose the
dictatorship of the proletariat.” “It was”, said Ralph de Toledano (1916-2007), the conservative author and co-founder
of the National Review, “a meeting more harmful to Western civilization
than the Bolshevik Revolution itself.” Lenin died in 1924, but by that time
Stalin had risen to power and was beginning to look on Willi Munzenberg, George
Lukács and other Jewish revolutionaries (like Trotsky) as dangerous Marxist
“revisionists”, introducing concepts into Marxism that were alien to
Marxism and which served only a Jewish agenda.
In June 1940, on Stalin’s orders, Münzenberg was hunted down to the south of France by a NKVD assassination squad and hanged from a tree. In the summer of 1924, after being
attacked for his writings by the Fifth Comintern Congress, Lukács moved
to Germany. Here he chaired the first meeting of a group of Communist oriented
sociologists. This gathering was to lead to the foundation of the Frankfurt School. This “School”,
designed to put flesh on their revolutionary program, was started at the University
of Frankfurt in the Institut für Sozialforschung. To begin with, school and institute were indistinguishable. In 1923, the Institute had been officially established, and funded by Felix Weil (1898-1975). Weil, born in Argentina into a wealthy Jewish family, was sent to attend school in Germany at the age of nine. He attended the universities in Tübingen and Frankfurt, where he graduated with a doctoral degree in political science. While at these universities he became increasingly interested in socialism and Marxism. Carl Grünberg, the Institute’s
Jewish director from 1923-1929, was an avowed Marxist, although the Institute
did not have any official party affiliations. But in 1930 Max Horkheimer (also
Jewish) assumed control. He believed that Marx’s theory should be the basis of
the Institute’s research. When Hitler came to power, the Institute was closed and its members, by various routes, fled to the United States and ended up as academics at major US universities: Columbia,
Princeton, Brandeis, and California at Berkeley.
LD: The fact that they spoke very poor English
was no disqualification. They were
Jewish, and so they managed to obtain prestigious academic appointments through Jewish influence, i.e., through networking — a system that
works exceptionally well even today
and which accounts for the huge and unfair preponderance
of Jews in academia. The School included among its members the 1960s guru of the New Left
Herbert Marcuse — denounced by Pope Paul VI for his theory of liberation
which “opens the way for [sexual] licence cloaked as liberty” —
Max Horkheimer, Theodor Adorno, the popular writer Erich Fromm, Leo Lowenthal,
and Jurgen Habermas. All these individuals except Habermas were of Jewish origin. Basically, the
Frankfurt School believed that as long as an individual had the belief —
or even the hope of belief — that his divine gift of reason could solve the problems facing society, then that society would never reach the state of hopelessness and alienation that they considered necessary to provoke a socialist revolution. Their task, therefore, was as swiftly
as possible to undermine the “Judaeo-Christian legacy.” LD: “Judeo-Christian” is an oxymoron, a contradiction in terms, given that Judaism and Christianity are at opposite ends of the religious
spectrum. Since most Jews are
actively hostile to Christianity, and since Talmudic Jews actually take pleasure in the thought of Christ being boiled in excrement in hell, to speak of the “Judeo-Christian legacy” is clearly nonsensical. To undermine Western civilization, the Frankfurt School Jews called for the most negative and destructive criticism possible of every sphere of life. To de-stabilize society and bring it to its knees, to engineer collapse, to produce crisis and catastrophe — this became
the aim of these maladjusted and mentally sick Jewish revolutionaries masquerading
as high-powered intellectuals. Their policies, they hoped, would spread like a virus — “continuing
the work of the Western Marxists by other means”, as one of their members
noted. To
further the advance of their “quiet” cultural revolution, the Frankfurt School made the following twelve recommendations — all of them calculated to undermine the foundations of society and create the dystopia we now see all around us: 1. The creation of racism
offences and hate speech laws.
2. Continual change to create confusion (e,g., in school curricula).
3. Masturbation propaganda in schools, combined
with the homosexualization of children
and their corruption by exposing
them to child porn in the classroom.
4. The systematic undermining of parental and teachers’ authority.
5. Huge immigration to destroy national identity
and foment future race wars.
6. The systematic promotion of excessive drinking and recreational drugs.
7. The systematic promotion of sexual deviance in society.
8. An unreliable legal system with bias against the victims of
crime.
9. Dependency on state benefits.
10. Control and dumbing down of media. (Six Jewish
companies now control 96 percent of the world’s media. LD). 11. Encouraging the breakdown
of the family.
12. All all-out attack on Christianity and the emptying of churches.
LD: In the Soviet Union, under Stalin and his Communist Jews, the emptying of churches was accomplished by the simple expedient of burning the churches down—thousands of them.
(See here, here, here, here and here for more details on the systematic destruction of Christian churches and the persecution of Russian
Christians under the Jewish leaders of the Russian Revolution. See also extended endnote.) Coincidentally, most of the 12 aims and objectives mentioned above were set out prominently in the pages of that alleged “forgery”, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. The Jewish philosophers of the Frankfurt School, it seems, had
been heavily influenced by the Protocols. They were clearly impressed
by what they read there and decided to implement its recommendations in their
own sinister agenda. One of the main ideas of the Frankfurt School was to exploit Freud’s idea of “pansexualism”: the search for indiscriminate sexual pleasure, the promotion of “unisex”, the blurring of distinctions between the sexes, the overthrowing of traditional relationships between men and women, and, finally, the undermining of heterosexuality at the expense of homosexuality — as, for example, in the idea of “same-sex marriage” and the adoption of children by homosexual couples. Willi Münzenberg
summed up the Frankfurt School’s long-term operation thus: “We
will make the West so corrupt that it stinks.” WILLI
MUNZENBERG, JEWISH REVOLUTIONARY OF THE FRANKFURT SCHOOL “We must organise the intellectuals
and use them TO MAKE WESTERN CIVILIZATION STINK! Only then, after they have CORRUPTED ALL ITS VALUES
AND MADE LIFE IMPOSSIBLE, can we impose the dictatorship of the proletariat.” (Emphasis
added) LD: According to Sean McMeekin’s The Red Millionaire: A political biography
of Willi Münzenberg,
Münzenberg was “the perpetrator of some of the most colossal lies of the modern age…. He helped unleash a plague of moral blindness upon the world from which we have still not recovered.” The Frankfurt School believed there were two types of revolution: (a) Political revolution and (b) Cultural revolution. They were more concerned with cultural revolution, the demolition of the established order from within. “Modern forms of subjection are marked
by mildness”, they taught. So-called “reforms” were to be made
so slowly and subtly that these changes for the worse were barely perceptible.
The School saw the undermining of the social order as a long-term project. LD: The systematic erosion of Christian moral values and the promotion of sexual perversion is known as cultural Marxism. Today, thanks to the efforts of organized Jewry which controls 96 percent of the world’s media, cultural Marxism has largely triumphed and Christianity lies in ruins. To many dispassionate observers, society has now reached its rockbottom moral nadir — as Jewish Marxists such as Willi Munzenberg (see quote above) would have been only
too happy to witness — had he been around today. These iconoclasts kept their sights firmly fixed on the family, education, media,
sex and popular culture. Each of these would be their target. If things did
not go from bad to worse, year after year, they were not succeeding. To these
revolutionary Jewish thinkers, bad was good — and worse was better. The Destruction
of the Family and the Promotion of Feminism The School’s Critical Theory preached that the “authoritarian personality” was a product of the patriarchal family — an idea directly linked to Engels’ Origins of the Family, Private Property and the State, which promoted matriarchy. Already Karl Marx had written, in the Communist Manifesto
(1848), about the radical notion of a “community of women”. In The
German Ideology (1845), he had written disparagingly about the idea of the
family as the basic unit of society. This was one of the basic tenets of the
Critical Theory: the need to break down the family unit. LD: All families were essentially
evil, these thinkers believed — even happy families — so they
had to be destroyed. It was better if children had no parents, or did not know
who their parents were. Or if they were orphans of the state. It was better
if romantic love between the sexes, leading to stable long-term marriages,
were destroyed in favor of short-term, unstable, promiscuous relationships.
After all, the former might lead to happiness for all concerned, and that was clearly
impermissible — for the whole point of the Cultural Revolution was “to
create a culture of pessimism” (Lukács) and “to make life impossible for
everyone.” (Münzenberg). 
Georg Lukács (1885–1971): “I want a culture of pessimism … a world abandoned
by God” The Institute scholars
therefore preached that “Even a partial breakdown of parental authority
in the family might tend to increase the readiness of a coming generation to accept social change.” LD:
These neo-Freudian Marxist philosophers of the Frankfurt School were clearly
out to create trouble: to drive a wedge between parent and child and sow division
in the family. Whatever was good in human relationships simply had to be destroyed.
If people didn’t have problems, then problems would have to be manufactured
“to make life impossible.” (Munzenberg).
All this prepared the way for the warfare against the masculine gender promoted by
Marcuse under the guise of “Women’s liberation” and by the
New Left movement in the 1960s. They proposed transforming our culture into a
female-dominated one. LD: The idea that women should run society and wear
the trousers, telling men what to do, had an enormous appeal to certain bossy
types of women with a surplus of testosterone, particularly to butch lesbians
and man-hating matriarchs. Many of these misguided females were to become evangelists
for radical Feminism, some even proposing to cut themselves off from
the male sex completely and live in communes of their own.
Curiously enough, the numberof Jewish feminists is huge—out of all proportion to their percentage in the population.
In 1933, Wilhelm Reich, an honored and adulated
member of the Frankfurt School, wrote in The Mass Psychology of Fascism
that matriarchy was the only genuine family type of “natural society.”
He was, as such, to be an inspiration to the feminists. LD: Reich, incidentally,
a compulsive masturbator and sexual pervert, had entertained incestuous longings
for his own mother and practiced bestiality with horses while still a child.
(See here). This versatile
sexual deviant, now a cult figure on the left, along with the equally sex-obsessed
Herbert Marcuse—popularizer of the slogan MAKE LOVE, NOT WAR—were
to be godfathers of the Sexual Revolution of the 1960s as well as the patron
saints of the Feminist movement. The Indoctrination of Children through Education Bertrand Russell was to join the Frankfurt School in their efforts at mass social engineering.
He spilled the beans in his 1951 book, The Impact of Science on Society.
He wrote: “The social psychologists of the future will have a number of classes of school children on whom they will try different methods of producing an unshakable conviction that snow is black. Various results will soon be arrived at. First,
that the influence of home is obstructive. Second,
that not much can be done unless indoctrination begins before
the age of ten. Third, that verses set to music and repeatedly intoned are very effective. Fourth, that the opinion that snow is white must be held to show a morbid taste for eccentricity.
But I anticipate. It is for future scientists to make these maxims
precise and discover exactly how much it costs per
head to make children believe that snow is black, and how
much less it would cost to make them believe it is dark gray.
When the technique has been perfected, every government that
has been in charge of education for a generation will
be able to control its subjects securely without the need
of armies or policemen.” LD: The irony is unmistakable,
but that is beside the point. Russell was all for turning the
world upside down and ushering in Brave New World: atheism, feminism, and “sexual liberation” i.e., the green light to promiscuity, perversion, and abortion on demand.
The devaluation of values so sought after by the luminaries of the Frankfurt School has now largely been achieved through sex education and media propaganda: in particular, by the promotion of masturbation, pornography, and the systematic high pressure salesmanship of
homosexuality in schools. 
POSTER
ON A CLASSROOM WALL LD: This, then, is the secret agenda of organized
Jewry as represented by the Cultural Marxists of the Frankfurt
School: the destruction of traditional values, the destruction
of the moral order, the destruction of the family unit, the destruction of
religion, the destruction of meaning and purpose, and, finally, the destruction of happiness itself.
These are the people who now rule over us. They
are in control. They create new wars with the same rapidity
that a stage magician pulls rabbits from a hat. And they make
sure that the people they rule over, their subject populations, are either demoralized debt slaves in insecure jobs or unemployed bums living on state benefits and a diet of junk food and sleazy junk entertainment laid on by the Jews. Satan’s Secret Agents have been only too successful in creating a New World Order that bears a remarkable resemblance to hell. *
* * Endnote by Lasha Darkmoon American historian Edwin Schoonmaker
writes:
Fifteen years after the Bolshevist Revolution was launched to carry out the Marxist program, the editor of the American Hebrew could write: “According to such information that the writer could secure while
in Russia a few weeks ago, not one
Jewish synagogue has been torn down, as have hundreds—perhaps
thousands of the Greek Catholic Churches… In Moscow and other large cities one can see Christian churches in the process of destruction… the Government needs the location for a large building,” (American Hebrew, Nov. 18,
1932, p. 12) Apostate Jews, leading
a revolution that was to destroy religion as the “opiate of the people” had somehow spared the synagogues of Russia.” (“Democracy and World Dominion,” 1939, p.211). Wikipedia tells us that the Communist state after the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution was “committed to the destruction of religion”, and
destroyed churches, mosques and temples — no mention of synagogues
being destroyed — and that it “ridiculed, harassed and
executed [Christian] religious leaders, flood[ing] the schools and media with atheistic propaganda.” Since the Russian Revolution was essentially
a Jewish revolution, with an overwhelmingly high percentage of its leaders
being Jewish, one can understand why synagogues were NOT destroyed. The
animosity of the Jewish leadership was directed almost exclusively toward the
Christian clergy and their churches. Monks, nuns and priests were put to death in large numbers, often after being cruelly tortured in the process, their eyes gouged out and in some instances being boiled alive. (For graphic details of the systematic torture of Christians under the Bolsheviks, see here and section 7, “Fiendish tortures devised by the Jewish cheka”, here). According to the Atlantic, September 1991, p.14, “In 1919, three-quarters of the Cheka staff in Kiev were Jews, who were careful to spare fellow Jews. (See footnote 21, here) For more on the specifically Jewish character of the Russian Revolution, see here and here. Russian-born Jewish writer Sonya Margolina goes so far as to call the Jewish role in supporting the Bolshevik regime the “historic sin of the Jews.” She points, for example, to the prominent role of Jews as commandants of Soviet Gulag concentration and labor camps, and the role of Jewish Communists in the systematic destruction of Russian churches. Moreover, she goes on, “The Jews of the entire world
supported Soviet power, and remained silent in the face of any criticism from
the opposition.” In light of this record, Margolina offers a grim prediction: “The
exaggeratedly enthusiastic participation of the Jewish Bolsheviks in the subjugation and destruction of Russia is a sin that will be avenged. Soviet power will be equated with Jewish power, and the furious hatred against the Bolsheviks will become hatred against Jews.”
(Cited here) _______________________________________________________________
________________________________ The Frankfurt School and “Critical
Theory”
Index to the biographies and writings of members of the “Frankfurt School”, or Institute for Social Research, set up by a group of Marxist intellectuals in Germany in 1923, affiliated to the University of Frankfurt and independently of the Communist
Party, which has been influential in the development of Marxist
theory ever since. The founding of the Institut marked the beginning
of a current of “Marxism” divorced from the organised
working class and Communist Parties, which over the decades
merged with bourgeois ideology in academia.
The Institut
für Sozialforschung (Institut) was the creation of Felix Weil, who was able to use money from his father's grain business to finance the Institut. Weil was a
young Marxist who had written his PhD on the practical problems of
implementing socialism and was published by Karl Korsch. With the hope of bringing different trends of Marxism together,
Weil organised a week-long symposium (the Erste Marxistische Arbeitswoche)
in 1922 attended by Georg Lukacs, Karl Korsch, Karl August Wittfogel,
Friedrich Pollock and others. The event was so successful that Weil
set about erecting a building and funding salaries for a permanent
institute. Weil negotiated with the Ministry of Education that the
Director of the Institut would be a
full professor from the state system, so that the Institut would have the
status of a University. Weil himself was an orthodox Marxist, who saw Marxism as scientific;
the role of the Institut would be social and historical research mainly on the
workers' movement. Indeed, in its early years, the Institut did fairly orthodox
historical research. However, one of Weil's central objectives was also cross-disciplinary
research, something which the German University system made impossible. Although Georg Lukacs and Karl Korsch both attended the Arbeitswoche which had included a study of Korsch's
Marxism and Philosophy, both were too committed to political activity
and Party membership to join the Institut, although Korsch participated in publishing
ventures for a number of years.
The way Lukacs was obliged to repudiate his History and Class Consciousness, published in 1923 and probably a major inspiration for the work of the Frankfurt School, was an indicator for others that independence from the Communist Party was necessary for genuine theoretical work. Friedrich Pollock was one of those who had been involved with the Institut from the beginning, and took over the role of Director on the death of Carl Grünberg. Pollock was content to concern himself with administrative matters, but he was also a life-long friend and associate
of Max Horkheimer, who is probably the figure most identified as
the leading representative of the Frankfurt School. Max Horkheimer [Archive] later himself became Director of the Institut, and it was Horkheimer
who guided the Institut into its innovative exploration of cultural
aspects of the development of capitalism. See Horkheimer’s opening address on becoming Director.
Karl August Wittfogel was a participant from the beginning, but was a Party member and
had a more orthodox, “scientific” view of Marxism. It is Wittfogel who established the classic Marxist analysis of “Asiatic Despotism.” Richard Sorge worked at the Instiut, but as it turned out was only there in his role as a Soviet spy. David Ryazanov [Archive] was assigned to Germany to compile the writings of Marx and Engels a nd
publish the Marx-Engels Gesamtausgabe, and worked closely with the Institut. In
1931/32 a number of psychoanalysts from the Frankfurt Institute of Psychoanalysis and others who were acquainted with members of the Institut began to work systematically with the Institut. These included Franz Borkenau, Erich Fromm, Wilhelm Reich , Karl Landauer and Heinrich Meng. In joining what was predominantly a “Hegelian-materialist”
current of Marxists, these psychologists gave the development of
Marxist theory an entirely new direction, which has left its imprint
on social theory ever since. Erich Fromm [Archive] dealt with psychological aspects of social control, delusion and
conformity and became one of the founders of “socialist humanism”. Wilhelm Reich developed his own doctrine of sexual liberalism as an antidote to
political conformism and social psychosis. Other young German Communist intellectuals who were associated
with the Institut, but after the Nazi takeover, wound up in the United
States, were Kurt Lewin and Adolph Löwe. They all went on to make significant contributions to social theory,
though only distantly related to their initial Communist inspirations.
Kurt Lewin for instance contributed to the emergence of group-dynamics
and social action theory as specialised disciplines. Adolph Lowe
made important contributions to the development of political economy. Raymond Aron was a French journalist and sociologist. Leo Lowenthal [Archive] was one of the early workers at the Institut whose principal interest
was in the sociology of literature. Later he was joined by the Hegelian philosopher Herbert Marcuse [Archive] who was probably the only member of the Institut who achieved wide influence among political activists, in the 1960s. When Hitler came to power, the Institut was closed down, and by
various routes, most of the participants in the Institut regrouped
themselves in New York, with a new Institute affiliated to Columbia
University. They continued to publish in German, even though very
few people would have been reading their work in that language. However,
after the War, the Institut returned to Frankfurt. Perhaps two of the most famous figures who were in the central
core of the Institut were Theodor Adorno [Archive] and Walter Benjamin, both renowned for their studies of literature and mass culture which would become so influential from the 1960s on. After the Institut re-established itself in Germany after the
War, the main figure of the younger generation was Jürgen Habermas [Archive] who continued to develop the “critical theory” in the
Hegelian tradition of Adorno and Marcuse. Habermas was instrumental
in the 1960s in developing the theory of “networks,”
but in later years Habermas has focussed on communicative ethics
in the tradition of Immanuel Kant, and departed not only from the
Marxist, but even the Hegelian tradition. Currently Axel Honneth represents the third generation,
continuing the work of Jürgen Habermas, but with a partial return
to Hegel, still quite remote from any reading of Karl Marx. After the isolation and Stalinisation of the Soviet Union, and
the consequent decline of the Communist Parties in the “West,”
the possibilities for the fruitful development of Marxism as a revolutionary-critical
theory in close connection with the practical-critical activity of the workers movement, became extremely restricted. The current generation of Critical Theorists, unlike previous
generations, is led by women, such as Nancy Fraser,
Seyla Benhabib and Agnes Heller: 
The intellectuals who founded the Frankfurt Institut deliberatively cut out a space for the development of Marxist theory, inside the “academy” and independently of all kinds of political party. The result was a process in which Marxism merged with bourgeois ideology. A parallel process took place in post-World War Two France, also involving a merging with Freudian ideas. One of the results was undoubtedly an enrichment of bourgeois ideology. In this connection
Paul Mattick's Marcuse: One Dimensional Man In Class Society ( 1972) is worth reading. But also, despite everything, the Frankfurt
School makes an important critique of orthodox Marxism, and their
work should be taken seriously. ___________________
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This
is the long overdue study of the Frankfurt School and Cultural
Marxist philosophy which now controls Western intellectualism,
politics, and culture. It was by design; it was created
by an internationalist intelligentsia to eradicate Western
values, social systems, and European racial groups in a
pre-emptive attempt to spark global, communist (think liberal)
revolution. Andrew Breitbart's historical notes are taken
into the narrative.
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_______________ The Birth Of Cultural Marxism: How
The "Frankfurt School" Changed America
The 1950s were a simple, romantic, and golden time in America. California beaches,
suburbia, and style. Atlas Shrugged was published, NASA was
formed, and Elvis rocked the nation. Every year from 1950–1959 saw over
4 million babies born. The nation stood atop the world in every field. It was
an era of great economic prosperity in The Land of the Free. 
So, what happened to the American traits of
confidence, pride, and accountability?
The roots of Western cultural decay are very deep, having first sprouted a century
ago. It began with a loose clan of ideologues inside Europe’s communist
movement. Today, it is known as the Frankfurt School,
and its ideals have perverted American society. When Outcomes Fail, Just Change the Theory Before WWI, Marxist theory held
that if war broke out in Europe, the working classes would rise
up against the bourgeoisie and create a communist revolution. Well, as is the case with much of Marxist theory, things didn’t
go too well. When war broke out in 1914, instead of starting a revolution, the
proletariat put on their uniforms and went off to war. After the war ended, Marxist
theorists were left to ask, “What went wrong?” Two very prominent Marxists thinkers of the day were Antonio Gramsci
and Georg Lukács. Each man, on his own, concluded that the working class
of Europe had been blinded by the success of Western democracy and capitalism.
They reasoned that until both had been destroyed, a communist revolution was
not possible. Gramsci and Lukács were both active in the Communist party, but
their lives took very different paths. Gramsci was jailed by Mussolini in Italy where he died in 1937 due to poor health. In 1918, Lukács
became minister of culture in Bolshevik Hungary. During this time, Lukács realized
that if the family unit and sexual morals were eroded, society could be broken down. Lukács implemented a policy he titled “cultural terrorism,”
which focused on these two objectives. A major part of the policy was to target
children’s minds through lectures that encouraged them to deride and reject
Christian ethics. In these lectures, graphic sexual matter was presented to children, and
they were taught about loose sexual conduct.
Here again, a Marxist theory had failed to take hold in the real world. The
people were outraged at Lukács’ program, and he fled Hungary when
Romania invaded in 1919. The Birth of Cultural Marxism All was quiet on the Marxist front until 1923 when the cultural terrorist turned up for a “Marxist study week” in Frankfurt, Germany. There, Lukács met a young, wealthy Marxist named Felix Weil. Until Lukács showed up, classical
Marxist theory was based solely on the economic changes needed to overthrow class
conflict. Weil was enthused by Lukács’ cultural angle on Marxism. Weil’s interest led him to fund a new Marxist think tank—the
Institute for Social Research. It would later come to be known as simply The
Frankfurt School. In 1930, the school changed course under new director Max Horkheimer. The team began mixing the ideas of Sigmund Freud with those of Marx, and cultural Marxism was born. In classical Marxism,
the workers of the world were oppressed by the ruling classes. The new theory
was that everyone in society was psychologically oppressed by the institutions
of Western culture. The school concluded that this new focus would need new vanguards
to spur the change. The workers were not able to rise up on their own. As fate would have it, the National Socialists came to
power in Germany in 1933. It was a bad time and place
to be a Jewish Marxist, as most of the school’s faculty
was. So, the school moved to New York City, the bastion of Western culture at the time. Coming to America In 1934, the school was reborn
at Columbia University. Its members began to exert their ideas
on American culture. It was at Columbia University that the school honed the tool it would
use to destroy Western culture: the printed word.
The school published a lot of popular material. The first of these was Critical Theory. Critical Theory is a play on semantics. The
theory was simple: criticize every pillar of Western
culture—family, democracy, common law, freedom of speech, and others.
The hope was that these pillars would crumble under the pressure. Next was a book Theodor Adorno co-authored, The Authoritarian
Personality. It redefined traditional American views on gender roles
and sexual mores as “prejudice.” Adorno compared them to the traditions
that led to the rise of fascism in Europe.
Is it just a coincidence that the go-to slur for the politically correct today is “fascist”? The school pushed
its shift away from economics and toward Freud by publishing works on psychological
repression. Their works split society into two main groups: the oppressors and the victims. They argued that history and reality were shaped by those groups who controlled traditional institutions. At the time, that was code for males of European descent. From there, they
argued that the social roles of men and women were due to gender differences
defined by the “oppressors.” In other words, gender did not exist
in reality but was merely a “social construct.” A Coalition of Victims Adorno and Horkheimer returned to Germany when WWII ended. Herbert
Marcuse, another member of the school, stayed in America. In 1955, he published Eros
and Civilization. In the book, Marcuse argued that Western culture was inherently repressive because it gave up happiness for social progress. The book called for “polymorphous perversity,”
a concept crafted by Freud. It posed the idea of sexual pleasure
outside the traditional norms. Eros and Civilization would
become very influential in shaping the sexual revolution of the 1960s. Marcuse would be the one to answer Horkheimer’s question from
the 1930s: Who would replace the working class as the new vanguards of the Marxist
revolution? Marcuse believed that it would be a victim coalition of minorities—blacks,
women, and homosexuals. The social movements of the 1960s—black power, feminism, gay rights, sexual liberation—gave Marcuse a unique vehicle to release cultural Marxist ideas into
the mainstream. Railing against all things “establishment,”
The Frankfurt School’s ideals caught on like wildfire
across American universities. Marcuse then published Repressive Tolerance in 1965 as the various social
movements in America were in full swing. In it, he argued that tolerance of all
values and ideas meant the repression of “correct” ideas. It was here that
Marcuse coined the term “liberating tolerance.” It called for tolerance of
any ideas coming from the left but intolerance of those from the right. One of the overarching themes of the Frankfurt School was total intolerance for any viewpoint but
its own. That is also a basic trait of today’s political-correctness believers. To quote Max Horkheimer, “Logic is not independent
of content.” Recalling the Words of Winston (Not That One) The Frankfurt School’s work has had a deep impact on
American culture. It has recast the homogenous America of the
1950s into today’s divided, animosity-filled nation. In turn, this has contributed to the undeniable breakdown of the family
unit, as well as identity politics, radical feminism, and racial polarization
in America. It’s hard to decide if today’s culture is more like Orwell’s 1984 or Huxley’s Brave New World. Never one
to buck a populist trend, the political establishment in America has fully
embraced the ideas of the Frankfurt School and has pushed them
on American society through public miseducation. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, the beacons of progressivism,
are both disciples of Saul Alinsky, a devoted cultural
Marxist. And so we now live in a hyper-sensitive society in which social memes and feelings have overtaken biological and objective reality as the main determinants of right and wrong. Political correctness is
a war on logic and reason. To quote Winston, the protagonist in Orwell’s dystopia, Freedom is the freedom to say that 2+2=4.” Today, America is not free. ___________________________
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which is almost without precedent in the history of Western civilization. Most of us have
become so inured, that the death of millions from starvation and disease
draws from us no more than a sigh, or a murmur of protest. Our own city
streets, home to legions of the homeless, are ruled by Dope, Inc., the
largest industry in the world, and on those streets Americans now murder each other at a rate not seen since the Dark Ages. At the same time, a thousand smaller horrors are so commonplace
as to go unnoticed. Our children spend as much time sitting in front of television sets as they do in school, watching with
glee, scenes of torture and death which might have shocked an audience in the Roman Coliseum. Music is everywhere, almost
unavoidable—but it does not uplift, nor even tranquilize—it claws at the ears, sometimes spitting out an obscenity.
Our plastic arts are ugly, our architecture is ugly, our clothes are ugly. There have certainly been periods in history
where mankind has lived through similar kinds of brutishness, but our time is crucially different. Our post-World War II
era is the first in history in which these horrors are completely avoidable. Our time is the first to have the technology
and resources to feed, house, educate, and humanely employ every person on earth, no matter what the growth of population.
Yet, when shown the ideas and proven technologies that can solve the most horrendous problems, most people retreat into
implacable passivity. We have become not only ugly, but impotent. Nonetheless, there is no reason why our current moral-cultural situation had to lawfully
or naturally turn out as it has; and there is no reason why this tyranny of ugliness should continue one instant longer. Consider the situation just one hundred years ago, in the early
1890's. In music, Claude Debussy was completing his Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun, and Arnold Schönberg
was beginning to experiment with atonalism; at the same time, Dvorak was working on his Ninth Symphony, while Brahms and
Verdi still lived. Edvard Munch was showing The Scream, and Paul Gauguin his Self-Portrait with Halo, but
in America, Thomas Eakins was still painting and teaching. Mechanists like Helmholtz and Mach held major university chairs
of science, alongside the students of Riemann and Cantor. Pope Leo XIII's De Rerum Novarum was being promulgated,
even as sections of the Socialist Second International were turning terrorist, and preparing for class war. The optimistic belief that one could compose music like Beethoven,
paint like Rembrandt, study the universe like Plato and Nicolaus of Cusa, and change world society without violence, was
alive in the 1890's—admittedly, it was weak, and under siege, but it was hardly dead. Yet, within twenty short years,
these Classical traditions of human civilization had been all but swept away, and the West had committed itself to a series
of wars of inconceivable carnage. What
started about a hundred years ago, was what might be called a counter-Renaissance. The Renaissance of the fifteenth and
sixteenth centuries was a religious celebration of the human soul and mankind's potential for growth. Beauty in art could
not be conceived of as anything less than the expression of the most-advanced scientific principles, as demonstrated by
the geometry upon which Leonardo's perspective and Brunelleschi's great Dome of Florence Cathedral are based. The finest
minds of the day turned their thoughts to the heavens and the mighty waters, and mapped the solar system and the route to
the New World, planning great projects to turn the course of rivers for the betterment of mankind. About a hundred years
ago, it was as though a long checklist had been drawn up, with all of the wonderful achievements of the Renaissance itemized—each
to be reversed. As part of this "New Age" movement, as it was then called, the concept of the human soul was undermined
by the most vociferous intellectual campaign in history; art was forcibly separated from science, and science itself was
made the object of deep suspicion. Art was made ugly because, it was said, life had become ugly. The cultural shift away from the Renaissance ideas that built
the modern world, was due to a kind of freemasonry of ugliness. In the beginning, it was a formal political conspiracy to
popularize theories that were specifically designed to weaken the soul of Judeo-Christian civilization in such a way as to
make people believe that creativity was not possible, that adherence to universal truth was evidence of authoritarianism,
and that reason itself was suspect. This conspiracy was decisive in planning and developing, as means of social manipulation,
the vast new sister industries of radio, television, film, recorded music, advertising, and public opinion polling. The
pervasive psychological hold of the media was purposely fostered to create the passivity and pessimism which afflict our
populations today. So successful was this conspiracy, that it has become embedded in our culture; it no longer needs to be
a "conspiracy," for it has taken on a life of its own. Its successes are not debatable—you need only turn
on the radio or television. Even the nomination of a Supreme Court Justice is deformed into an erotic soap opera, with the
audience rooting from the sidelines for their favorite character. Our universities, the cradle of our technological and intellectual future, have become overwhelmed
by Comintern-style New Age "Political Correctness." With the collapse of the Soviet Union, our campuses now represent
the largest concentration of Marxist dogma in the world. The irrational adolescent outbursts of the 1960's have become institutionalized
into a "permanent revolution." Our professors glance over their shoulders, hoping the current mode will blow over
before a student's denunciation obliterates a life's work; some audio-tape their lectures, fearing accusations of "insensitivity"
by some enraged "Red Guard." Students at the University of Virginia recently petitioned successfully to drop the
requirement to read Homer, Chaucer, and other DEMS ("Dead European Males") because such writings are considered
ethnocentric, phallocentric, and generally inferior to the "more relevant" Third World, female, or homosexual authors. This is not the academy of a republic; this is Hitler's Gestapo
and Stalin's NKVD rooting out "deviationists," and banning books—the only thing missing is the public bonfire. We will have to face the fact that the ugliness we see around
us has been consciously fostered and organized in such a way, that a majority of the population is losing the cognitive
ability to transmit to the next generation, the ideas and methods upon which our civilization was built. The loss of that
ability is the primary indicator of a Dark Age. And, a new Dark Age is exactly what we are in. In such situations, the record
of history is unequivocal: either we create a Renaissance—a rebirth of the fundamental principles upon which civilization
originated—or, our civilization dies. I. The Frankfurt School: Bolshevik Intelligentsia
The single, most important organizational
component of this conspiracy was a Communist thinktank called the Institute for Social Research (I.S.R.), but popularly known
as the Frankfurt School. In the
heady days immediately after the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, it was widely believed that proletarian revolution would
momentarily sweep out of the Urals into Europe and, ultimately, North America. It did not; the only two attempts at workers'
government in the West— in Munich and Budapest—lasted only months. The Communist International (Comintern) therefore
began several operations to determine why this was so. One such was headed by Georg Lukacs, a Hungarian
aristocrat, son of one of the Hapsburg Empire's leading bankers. Trained in Germany and already an important literary theorist,
Lukacs became a Communist during World War I, writing as he joined the party, "Who will save us from Western civilization?"
Lukacs was well-suited to the Comintern task: he had been one of the Commissars of Culture during the short-lived Hungarian
Soviet in Budapest in 1919; in fact, modern historians link the shortness of the Budapest experiment to Lukacs' orders mandating
sex education in the schools, easy access to contraception, and the loosening of divorce laws—all of which revulsed
Hungary's Roman Catholic population. Fleeing
to the Soviet Union after the counter-revolution, Lukacs was secreted into Germany in 1922, where he chaired a meeting of
Communist-oriented sociologists and intellectuals. This meeting founded the Institute for Social Research. Over the next
decade, the Institute worked out what was to become the Comintern's most successful psychological warfare operation against
the capitalist West. Lukacs identified
that any political movement capable of bringing Bolshevism to the West would have to be, in his words, "demonic";
it would have to "possess the religious power which is capable of filling the entire soul; a power that characterized
primitive Christianity." However, Lukacs suggested, such a "messianic" political movement could only succeed
when the individual believes that his or her actions are determined by "not a personal destiny, but the destiny of
the community" in a world "that has been abandoned by God [emphasis added-MJM]." Bolshevism worked
in Russia because that nation was dominated by a peculiar gnostic form of Christianty typified by the writings of Fyodor
Dostoyevsky. "The model for the new man is Alyosha Karamazov," said Lukacs, referring to the Dostoyevsky character
who willingly gave over his personal identity to a holy man, and thus ceased to be "unique, pure, and therefore abstract." This abandonment of the soul's uniqueness also solves the
problem of "the diabolic forces lurking in all violence" which must be unleashed in order to create a revolution.
In this context, Lukacs cited the Grand Inquisitor section of Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov, noting that
the Inquisitor who is interrogating Jesus, has resolved the issue of good and evil: once man has understood his alienation
from God, then any act in the service of the "destiny of the community" is justified; such an act can be "neither
crime nor madness.... For crime and madness are objectifications of transcendental homelessness." According to an eyewitness, during meetings of the Hungarian
Soviet leadership in 1919 to draw up lists for the firing squad, Lukacs would often quote the Grand Inquisitor: "And
we who, for their happiness, have taken their sins upon ourselves, we stand before you and say, 'Judge us if you can and
if you dare.' " What differentiated the West from Russia, Lukacs identified, was a Judeo-Christian cultural matrix which
emphasized exactly the uniqueness and sacredness of the individual which Lukacs abjured. At its core, the dominant Western
ideology maintained that the individual, through the exercise of his or her reason, could discern the Divine Will in an
unmediated relationship. What was worse, from Lukacs' standpoint: this reasonable relationship necessarily implied that
the individual could and should change the physical universe in pursuit of the Good; that Man should have dominion over
Nature, as stated in the Biblical injunction in Genesis. The problem was, that as long as the individual had the belief—or
even the hope of the belief—that his or her divine spark of reason could solve the problems facing society, then that
society would never reach the state of hopelessness and alienation which Lukacs recognized as the necessary prerequisite
for socialist revolution. The
task of the Frankfurt School, then, was first, to undermine the Judeo-Christian legacy through an "abolition of culture"
(Aufhebung der Kultur in Lukacs' German); and, second, to determine new cultural forms which would increase the
alienation of the population, thus creating a "new barbarism." To this task, there gathered in and around
the Frankfurt School an incredible assortment of not only Communists, but also non-party socialists, radical phenomenologists,
Zionists, renegade Freudians, and at least a few members of a self-identified "cult of Astarte." The variegated
membership reflected, to a certain extent, the sponsorship: although the Institute for Social Research started with Comintern
support, over the next three decades its sources of funds included various German and American universities, the Rockefeller
Foundation, Columbia Broadcasting System, the American Jewish Committee, several American intelligence services, the Office
of the U.S. High Commissioner for Germany, the International Labour Organization, and the Hacker Institute, a posh psychiatric
clinic in Beverly Hills. Similarly,
the Institute's political allegiances: although top personnel maintained what might be called a sentimental relationship
to the Soviet Union (and there is evidence that some of them worked for Soviet intelligence into the 1960's), the Institute
saw its goals as higher than that of Russian foreign policy. Stalin, who was horrified at the undisciplined, "cosmopolitan"
operation set up by his predecessors, cut the Institute off in the late 1920's, forcing Lukacs into "self-criticism,"
and briefly jailing him as a German sympathizer during World War II. Lukacs survived to briefly take up his old post as Minister of Culture during the anti-Stalinist
Imre Nagy regime in Hungary. Of the other top Institute figures, the political perambulations of Herbert Marcuse
are typical. He started as a Communist; became a protégé of philosopher Martin Heidegger even as the latter
was joining the Nazi Party; coming to America, he worked for the World War II Office of Strategic Services (OSS), and later
became the U.S. State Department's top analyst of Soviet policy during the height of the McCarthy period; in the 1960's,
he turned again, to become the most important guru of the New Left; and he ended his days helping to found the environmentalist
extremist Green Party in West Germany. In all this seeming incoherence of shifting positions and contradictory funding, there is no ideological conflict.
The invariant is the desire of all parties to answer Lukacs' original question: "Who will save us from Western civilization?" Theodor Adorno and Walter
Benjamin Perhaps
the most important, if least-known, of the Frankfurt School's successes was the shaping of the electronic media of radio
and television into the powerful instruments of social control which they represent today. This grew out of the work originally
done by two men who came to the Institute in the late 1920's, Theodor Adorno and Walter Benjamin. After completing studies at the University of Frankfurt, Walter
Benjamin planned to emigrate to Palestine in 1924 with his friend Gershom Scholem (who later became one
of Israel's most famous philosophers, as well as Judaism's leading gnostic), but was prevented by a love affair with Asja
Lacis, a Latvian actress and Comintern stringer. Lacis whisked him off to the Italian island of Capri, a cult center
from the time of the Emperor Tiberius, then used as a Comintern training base; the heretofore apolitical Benjamin wrote
Scholem from Capri, that he had found "an existential liberation and an intensive insight into the actuality of radical
communism." Lacis later took
Benjamin to Moscow for further indoctrination, where he met playwright Bertolt Brecht, with whom he would
begin a long collaboration; soon thereafter, while working on the first German translation of the drug-enthusiast French
poet Baudelaire, Benjamin began serious experimentation with hallucinogens. In 1927, he was in Berlin as part of a group
led by Adorno, studying the works of Lukacs; other members of the study group included Brecht and his composer-partner Kurt
Weill; Hans Eisler, another composer who would later become a Hollywood film score composer and
co-author with Adorno of the textbook Composition for the Film; the avant-garde photographer Imre Moholy-Nagy;
and the conductor Otto Klemperer. From 1928 to 1932, Adorno and Benjamin had an intensive collaboration, at the end of which they began
publishing articles in the Institute's journal, the Zeitschrift fär Sozialforschung. Benjamin was kept on the
margins of the Institute, largely due to Adorno, who would later appropriate much of his work. As Hitler came to power,
the Institute's staff fled, but, whereas most were quickly spirited away to new deployments in the U.S. and England, there
were no job offers for Benjamin, probably due to the animus of Adorno. He went to France, and, after the German invasion,
fled to the Spanish border; expecting momentary arrest by the Gestapo, he despaired and died in a dingy hotel room of self-administered
drug overdose. Benjamin's work
remained almost completely unknown until 1955, when Scholem and Adorno published an edition of his material in Germany.
The full revival occurred in 1968, when Hannah Arendt, Heidegger's former mistress and a collaborator of
the Institute in America, published a major article on Benjamin in the New Yorker magazine, followed in the same
year by the first English translations of his work. Today, every university bookstore in the country boasts a full shelf
devoted to translations of every scrap Benjamin wrote, plus exegesis, all with 1980's copyright dates. Adorno was younger than Benjamin, and as aggressive as the
older man was passive. Born Teodoro Wiesengrund-Adorno to a Corsican family, he was taught the piano at an early age by
an aunt who lived with the family and had been the concert accompanist to the international opera star Adelina Patti. It
was generally thought that Theodor would become a professional musician, and he studied with Bernard Sekles, Paul Hindemith's
teacher. However, in 1918, while still a gymnasium student, Adorno met Siegfried Kracauer. Kracauer
was part of a Kantian-Zionist salon which met at the house of Rabbi Nehemiah Nobel in Frankfurt; other members
of the Nobel circle included philosopher Martin Buber, writer Franz Rosenzweig, and two
students, Leo Lowenthal and Erich Fromm. Kracauer, Lowenthal, and Fromm would join the
I.S.R. two decades later. Adorno engaged Kracauer to tutor him in the philosophy of Kant; Kracauer also introduced him to
the writings of Lukacs and to Walter Benjamin, who was around the Nobel clique. In 1924, Adorno moved to Vienna, to study with the atonalist composers Alban
Berg and Arnold Schönberg, and became connected to the avant-garde and occult circle around
the old Marxist Karl Kraus. Here, he not only met his future collaborator, Hans Eisler, but also came into
contact with the theories of Freudian extremist Otto Gross. Gross, a long-time cocaine addict, had died
in a Berlin gutter in 1920, while on his way to help the revolution in Budapest; he had developed the theory that mental
health could only be achieved through the revival of the ancient cult of Astarte, which would sweep away monotheism and
the "bourgeois family." Saving Marxist Aesthetics
By 1928, Adorno and Benjamin had satisfied their intellectual wanderlust,
and settled down at the I.S.R. in Germany to do some work. As subject, they chose an aspect of the problem posed by Lukacs:
how to give aesthetics a firmly materialistic basis. It was a question of some importance, at the time. Official Soviet
discussions of art and culture, with their wild gyrations into "socialist realism" and "proletkult,"
were idiotic, and only served to discredit Marxism's claim to philosophy among intellectuals. Karl Marx's own writings on
the subject were sketchy and banal, at best. In essence, Adorno and Benjamin's problem was Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. At the beginning of the eighteenth century,
Leibniz had once again obliterated the centuries-old gnostic dualism dividing mind and body, by demonstrating that matter
does not think. A creative act in art or science apprehends the truth of the physical universe, but it is not determined
by that physical universe. By self-consciously concentrating the past in the present to effect the future, the creative
act, properly defined, is as immortal as the soul which envisions the act. This has fatal philosophical implications for
Marxism, which rests entirely on the hypothesis that mental activity is determined by the social relations excreted by mankind's
production of its physical existence. Marx
sidestepped the problem of Leibniz, as did Adorno and Benjamin, although the latter did it with a lot more panache. It is
wrong, said Benjamin in his first articles on the subject, to start with the reasonable, hypothesizing mind as the basis
of the development of civilization; this is an unfortunate legacy of Socrates. As an alternative, Benjamin posed an Aristotelian
fable in interpretation of Genesis: Assume that Eden were given to Adam as the primordial physical state. The origin of
science and philosophy does not lie in the investigation and mastery of nature, but in the naming of the objects
of nature; in the primordial state, to name a thing was to say all there was to say about that thing. In support of this,
Benjamin cynically recalled the opening lines of the Gospel according to St. John, carefully avoiding the philosophically-broader
Greek, and preferring the Vulgate (so that, in the phrase "In the beginning was the Word," the connotations of
the original Greek word logos—speech, reason, ratiocination, translated as "Word"—are replaced
by the narrower meaning of the Latin word verbum). After the expulsion from Eden and God's requirement that Adam
eat his bread earned by the sweat of his face (Benjamin's Marxist metaphor for the development of economies), and God's
further curse of Babel on Nimrod (that is, the development of nation-states with distinct languages, which Benjamin and
Marx viewed as a negative process away from the "primitive communism" of Eden), humanity became "estranged"
from the physical world. Thus,
Benjamin continued, objects still give off an "aura" of their primordial form, but the truth is now hopelessly
elusive. In fact, speech, written language, art, creativity itself—that by which we master physicality—merely
furthers the estrangement by attempting, in Marxist jargon, to incorporate objects of nature into the social relations determined
by the class structure dominant at that point in history. The creative artist or scientist, therefore, is a vessel, like
Ion the rhapsode as he described himself to Socrates, or like a modern "chaos theory" advocate: the creative act
springs out of the hodgepodge of culture as if by magic. The more that bourgeois man tries to convey what he intends about
an object, the less truthful he becomes; or, in one of Benjamin's most oft-quoted statements, "Truth is the death of
intention." This philosophical
sleight-of-hand allows one to do several destructive things. By making creativity historically-specific, you rob it of both
immortality and morality. One cannot hypothesize universal truth, or natural law, for truth is completely relative to historical
development. By discarding the idea of truth and error, you also may throw out the "obsolete" concept of good
and evil; you are, in the words of Friedrich Nietzsche, "beyond good and evil." Benjamin is able, for instance,
to defend what he calls the "Satanism" of the French Symbolists and their Surrealist successors, for at the core
of this Satanism "one finds the cult of evil as a political device ... to disinfect and isolate against all moralizing
dilettantism" of the bourgeoisie. To condemn the Satanism of Rimbaud as evil, is as incorrect as to extol a Beethoven
quartet or a Schiller poem as good; for both judgments are blind to the historical forces working unconsciously
on the artist. Thus, we are told,
the late Beethoven's chord structure was striving to be atonal, but Beethoven could not bring himself consciously
to break with the structured world of Congress of Vienna Europe (Adorno's thesis); similarly, Schiller really wanted to state
that creativity was the liberation of the erotic, but as a true child of the Enlightenment and Immanuel Kant, he could not
make the requisite renunciation of reason (Marcuse's thesis). Epistemology becomes a poor relation of public opinion, since
the artist does not consciously create works in order to uplift society, but instead unconsciously transmits the ideological
assumptions of the culture into which he was born. The issue is no longer what is universally true, but what can be plausibly
interpreted by the self-appointed guardians of the Zeitgeist. Thus, for the Frankfort School, the goal
of a cultural elite in the modern, "capitalist" era must be to strip away the belief that art derives from the
self-conscious emulation of God the Creator; "religious illumination," says Benjamin, must be shown to "reside
in a profane illumination, a materialistic, anthropological inspiration, to which hashish, opium, or whatever else can give
an introductory lesson." At the same time, new cultural forms must be found to increase the alienation of the population,
in order for it to understand how truly alienated it is to live without socialism. "Do not build on the good old days,
but on the bad new ones," said Benjamin. The proper direction in painting, therefore, is that taken by the late Van Gogh, who began to paint objects
in disintegration, with the equivalent of a hashish-smoker's eye that "loosens and entices things out of their familiar
world." In music, "it is not suggested that one can compose better today" than Mozart or Beethoven, said
Adorno, but one must compose atonally, for atonalism is sick, and "the sickness, dialectically, is at the same time
the cure....The extraordinarily violent reaction protest which such music confronts in the present society ... appears nonetheless
to suggest that the dialectical function of this music can already be felt ... negatively, as 'destruction.' " The purpose of modern art, literature, and music must be to
destroy the uplifting—therefore, bourgeois — potential of art, literature, and music, so that man, bereft
of his connection to the divine, sees his only creative option to be political revolt. "To organize pessimism
means nothing other than to expel the moral metaphor from politics and to discover in political action a sphere reserved
one hundred percent for images." Thus, Benjamin collaborated with Brecht to work these theories into practical form,
and their joint effort culminated in the Verfremdungseffekt ("estrangement effect"), Brecht's attempt
to write his plays so as to make the audience leave the theatre demoralized and aimlessly angry. The Adorno-Benjamin analysis represents almost
the entire theoretical basis of all the politically correct aesthetic trends which now plague our universities. The Poststructuralism
of Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault, and Jacques Derrida, the Semiotics of Umberto
Eco, the Deconstructionism of Paul DeMan, all openly cite Benjamin as the source of their work.
The Italian terrorist Eco's best-selling novel, The Name of the Rose, is little more than a paean to Benjamin; DeMan,
the former Nazi collaborator in Belgium who became a prestigious Yale professor, began his career translating Benjamin;
Barthes' infamous 1968 statement that "[t]he author is dead," is meant as an elaboration of Benjamin's dictum
on intention. Benjamin has actually been called the heir of Leibniz and of Wilhelm von Humboldt, the philologist collaborator
of Schiller whose educational reforms engendered the tremendous development of Germany in the nineteenth century. Even as
recently as September 1991, the Washington Post referred to Benjamin as "the finest German literary theorist
of the century (and many would have left off that qualifying German)." Readers have undoubtedly heard one or another horror story about how an African-American
Studies Department has procured a ban on Othello, because it is "racist," or how a radical feminist professor
lectured a Modern Language Association meeting on the witches as the "true heroines" of Macbeth. These
atrocities occur because the perpetrators are able to plausibly demonstrate, in the tradition of Benjamin and Adorno, that
Shakespeare's intent is irrelevant; what is important, is the racist or phallocentric "subtext" of which Shakespeare
was unconscious when he wrote. When
the local Women's Studies or Third World Studies Department organizes students to abandon classics in favor of modern Black
and feminist authors, the reasons given are pure Benjamin. It is not that these modern writers are better, but they are
somehow more truthful because their alienated prose reflects the modern social problems of which the older authors were ignorant!
Students are being taught that language itself is, as Benjamin said, merely a conglomeration of false "names"
foisted upon society by its oppressors, and are warned against "logocentrism," the bourgeois over-reliance on
words. If these campus antics
appear "retarded" (in the words of Adorno), that is because they are designed to be. The Frankfurt School's most
important breakthrough consists in the realization that their monstrous theories could become dominant in the culture, as
a result of the changes in society brought about by what Benjamin called "the age of mechanical reproduction of art." II. The Establishment
Goes Bolshevik: "Entertainment" Replaces Art Before the twentieth century, the distinction between art and "entertainment" was
much more pronounced. One could be entertained by art, certainly, but the experience was active, not passive. On the first
level, one had to make a conscious choice to go to a concert, to view a certain art exhibit, to buy a book or piece of sheet
music. It was unlikely that any more than an infinitesimal fraction of the population would have the opportunity to see
King Lear or hear Beethoven's Ninth Symphony more than once or twice in a lifetime. Art demanded that one bring
one's full powers of concentration and knowledge of the subject to bear on each experience, or else the experience were
considered wasted. These were the days when memorization of poetry and whole plays, and the gathering of friends and family
for a "parlor concert," were the norm, even in rural households. These were also the days before "music appreciation";
when one studied music, as many did, they learned to play it, not appreciate it. However, the new technologies of radio, film, and recorded music represented, to use the appropriate
Marxist buzz-word, (see box) a dialectical potential. On the one hand, these technologies held out the possibility of bringing the greatest works of
art to millions of people who would otherwise not have access to them. On the other, the fact that the experience was infinitely
reproducible could tend to disengage the audience's mind, making the experience less sacred, thus increasing alienation.
Adorno called this process, "demythologizing." This new passivity, Adorno hypothesized in a crucial article published
in 1938, could fracture a musical composition into the "entertaining" parts which would be "fetishized"
in the memory of the listener, and the difficult parts, which would be forgotten. Adorno continues, The counterpart to the fetishism is a regression
of listening. This does not mean a relapse of the individual listener into an earlier phase of his own development, nor a
decline in the collective general level, since the millions who are reached musically for the first time by today's mass
communications cannot be compared with the audiences of the past. Rather, it is the contemporary listening which has regressed,
arrested at the infantile stage. Not only do the listening subjects lose, along with the freedom of choice and responsibility,
the capacity for the conscious perception of music .... [t]hey fluctuate between comprehensive forgetting and sudden dives
into recognition. They listen atomistically and dissociate what they hear, but precisely in this dissociation they develop
certain capacities which accord less with the traditional concepts of aesthetics than with those of football or motoring.
They are not childlike ... but they are childish; their primitivism is not that of the undeveloped, but that of the forcibly
retarded. [emphasis aded] This conceptual retardation and preconditioning caused by listening, suggested that programming could
determine preference. The very act of putting, say, a Benny Goodman number next to a Mozart sonata on the radio, would tend
to amalgamate both into entertaining "music-on-the-radio" in the mind of the listener. This meant that even new
and unpalatable ideas could become popular by "re-naming" them through the universal homogenizer of the culture
industry. As Benjamin puts it, Mechanical reproduction of art changes the reaction of the masses toward art. The reactionary attitude
toward a Picasso painting changes into a progressive reaction toward a Chaplin movie. The progressive reaction is characterized
by the direct, intimate fusion of visual and emotional enjoyment with the orientation of the expert.... With regard to the
screen, the critical and receptive attitudes of the public coincide. The decisive reason for this is that the individual
reactions are predetermined by the mass audience response they are about to produce, and this is nowhere more pronounced
than in the film. At
the same time, the magic power of the media could be used to re-define previous ideas. "Shakespeare, Rembrandt, Beethoven
will all make films," concluded Benjamin, quoting the French film pioneer Abel Gance, "... all
legends, all mythologies, all myths, all founders of religions, and the very religions themselves ... await their exposed
resurrection." Social Control: The "Radio Project"
Here, then, were some potent theories of social control. The great possibilities
of this Frankfurt School media work were probably the major contributing factor in the support given the I.S.R. by the bastions
of the Establishment, after the Institute transferred its operations to America in 1934.
In 1937, the Rockefeller Foundation began funding research into the
social effects of new forms of mass media, particularly radio. Before World War I, radio had been a hobbyist's toy, with
only 125,000 receiving sets in the entire U.S.; twenty years later, it had become the primary mode of entertainment in the
country; out of 32 million American families in 1937, 27.5 million had radios — a larger percentage than had telephones,
automobiles, plumbing, or electricity! Yet, almost no systematic research had been done up to this point. The Rockefeller
Foundation enlisted several universities, and headquartered this network at the School of Public and International Affairs
at Princeton University. Named the Office of Radio Research, it was popularly known as "the Radio Project." The director of the Project was Paul Lazersfeld,
the foster son of Austrian Marxist economist Rudolph Hilferding, and a long-time collaborator of the I.S.R. from the early
1930's. Under Lazersfeld was Frank Stanton, a recent Ph.D. in industrial psychology from Ohio State, who
had just been made research director of Columbia Broadcasting System—a grand title but a lowly position. After World
War II, Stanton became president of the CBS News Division, and ultimately president of CBS at the height of the TV network's
power; he also became Chairman of the Board of the RAND Corporation, and a member of President Lyndon Johnson's "kitchen
cabinet." Among the Project's researchers were Herta Herzog, who married Lazersfeld and became the
first director of research for the Voice of America; and Hazel Gaudet, who became one of the nation's leading
political pollsters. Theodor Adorno was named chief of the Project's music section.
Despite the official gloss, the activities of the Radio Project make
it clear that its purpose was to test empirically the Adorno-Benjamin thesis that the net effect of the mass media could
be to atomize and increase lability—what people would later call "brainwashing." Soap Operas and the Invasion
from Mars The
first studies were promising. Herta Herzog produced "On Borrowed Experiences," the first comprehensive research
on soap operas. The "serial radio drama" format was first used in 1929, on the inspiration of the old, cliff-hanger
"Perils of Pauline" film serial. Because these little radio plays were highly melodramatic, they became popularly
identified with Italian grand opera; because they were often sponsored by soap manufacturers, they ended up with the generic
name, "soap opera." Until
Herzog's work, it was thought that the immense popularity of this format was largely with women of the lowest socioeconomic
status who, in the restricted circumstances of their lives, needed a helpful escape to exotic places and romantic situations.
A typical article from that period by two University of Chicago psychologists, "The Radio Day-Time Serial: Symbol Analysis"
published in the Genetic Psychology Monographs, solemnly emphasized the positive, claiming that the soaps "function
very much like the folk tale, expressing the hopes and fears of its female audience, and on the whole contribute to the
integration of their lives into the world in which they live." Herzog found that there was, in fact, no correlation to socioeconomic status. What is more,
there was surprisingly little correlation to content. The key factor — as Adorno and Benjamin's theories suggested
it would be — was the form itself of the serial; women were being effectively addicted to the format, not
so much to be entertained or to escape, but to "find out what happens next week." In fact, Herzog found, you could
almost double the listenership of a radio play by dividing it into segments. Modern readers will immediately recognize that this was not a lesson lost on the entertainment
industry. Nowadays, the serial format has spread to children's programming and high-budget prime time shows. The most widely
watched shows in the history of television, remain the "Who Killed JR?" installment of Dallas, and the
final episode of M*A*S*H, both of which were premised on a "what happens next?" format. Even feature films,
like the Star Wars and Back to the Future trilogies, are now produced as serials, in order to lock in a
viewership for the later installments. The humble daytime soap also retains its addictive qualities in the current age: 70%
of all American women over eighteen now watch at least two of these shows each day, and there is a fast-growing viewership
among men and college students of both sexes. The Radio Project's next major study was an investigation into the effects of Orson Welles'
Halloween 1938 radioplay based on H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds. Six million people heard the broadcast realistically
describing a Martian invasion force landing in rural New Jersey. Despite repeated and clear statements that the show was
fictional, approximately 25% of the listeners thought it was real, some panicking outright. The Radio Project researchers
found that a majority of the people who panicked did not think that men from Mars had invaded; they actually thought that
the Germans had invaded. It
happened this way. The listeners had been psychologically pre-conditioned by radio reports from the Munich crisis earlier
that year. During that crisis, CBS's man in Europe, Edward R. Murrow, hit upon the idea of breaking into
regular programming to present short news bulletins. For the first time in broadcasting, news was presented not in longer
analytical pieces, but in short clips—what we now call "audio bites." At the height of the crisis, these
flashes got so numerous, that, in the words of Murrow's producer Fred Friendly, "news bulletins were
interrupting news bulletins." As the listeners thought that the world was moving to the brink of war, CBS ratings rose
dramatically. When Welles did his fictional broadcast later, after the crisis had receded, he used this news bulletin technique
to give things verisimilitude: he started the broadcast by faking a standard dance-music program, which kept getting interrupted
by increasingly terrifying "on the scene reports" from New Jersey. Listeners who panicked, reacted not to content,
but to format; they heard "We interrupt this program for an emergency bulletin," and "invasion," and
immediately concluded that Hitler had invaded. The soap opera technique, transposed to the news, had worked on a vast and
unexpected scale. Little Annie and the "Wagnerian Dream" of TV In 1939, one of the numbers of the quarterly Journal of
Applied Psychology was handed over to Adorno and the Radio Project to publish some of their findings. Their conclusion
was that Americans had, over the last twenty years, become "radio-minded," and that their listening had become
so fragmented that repetition of format was the key to popularity. The play list determined the "hits"—a
truth well known to organized crime, both then and now—and repetition could make any form of music or any performer,
even a classical music performer, a "star." As long as a familiar form or context was retained, almost any content
would become acceptable. "Not only are hit songs, stars, and soap operas cyclically recurrent and rigidly invariable
types," said Adorno, summarizing this material a few years later, "but the specific content of the entertainment
itself is derived from them and only appears to change. The details are interchangeable." The crowning achievement of the Radio Project was "Little
Annie," officially titled the Stanton-Lazersfeld Program Analyzer. Radio Project research had shown that all previous
methods of preview polling were ineffectual. Up to that point, a preview audience listened to a show or watched a film, and
then was asked general questions: did you like the show? what did you think of so-and-so's performance? The Radio Project
realized that this method did not take into account the test audience's atomized perception of the subject, and demanded
that they make a rational analysis of what was intended to be an irrational experience. So, the Project created a device
in which each test audience member was supplied with a type of rheostat on which he could register the intensity of his likes
or dislikes on a moment-to-moment basis. By comparing the individual graphs produced by the device, the operators could
determine, not if the audience liked the whole show — which was irrelevant—but, which situations or characters
produced a positive, if momentary, feeling state. Little Annie transformed radio, film, and ultimately television programming. CBS still maintains program
analyzer facilities in Hollywood and New York; it is said that results correlate 85% to ratings. Other networks and film
studios have similar operations. This kind of analysis is responsible for the uncanny feeling you get when, seeing a new
film or TV show, you think you have seen it all before. You have, many times. If a program analyzer indicates that, for
instance, audiences were particularly titilated by a short scene in a World War II drama showing a certain type of actor
kissing a certain type of actress, then that scene format will be worked into dozens of screenplays—transposed to
the Middle Ages, to outer space, etc., etc. The Radio Project also realized that television had the potential to intensify all of the effects that they had
studied. TV technology had been around for some years, and had been exhibited at the 1936 World's Fair in New York, but the
only person to attempt serious utilization of the medium had been Adolf Hitler. The Nazis broadcast events from the 1936
Olympic Games "live" to communal viewing rooms around Germany; they were trying to expand on their great success
in using radio to Nazify all aspects of German culture. Further plans for German TV development were sidetracked by war preparations. Adorno understood this potential perfectly, writing in 1944: Television aims at the synthesis of radio
and film, and is held up only because the interested parties have not yet reached agreement, but its consequences will be
quite enormous and promise to intensify the impoverishment of aesthetic matter so drastically, that by tomorrow the thinly
veiled identity of all industrial culture products can come triumphantly out in the open, derisively fulfilling the Wagnerian
dream of the Gesamtkunstwerk—the fusion of all the arts in one work. The obvious point is this: the profoundly irrational forms
of modern entertainment—the stupid and eroticized content of most TV and films, the fact that your local Classical
music radio station programs Stravinsky next to Mozart—don't have to be that way. They were designed to be that way.
The design was so successful, that today, no one even questions the reasons or the origins. III. Creating "Public
Opinion": The "Authoritarian Personality" Bogeyman and the OSS
The efforts of the Radio Project conspirators to manipulate the population,
spawned the modern pseudoscience of public opinion polling, in order to gain greater control over the methods they were
developing. Today, public opinion
polls, like the television news, have been completely integrated into our society. A "scientific survey" of what
people are said to think about an issue can be produced in less than twenty-four hours. Some campaigns for high political
office are completely shaped by polls; in fact, many politicians try to create issues which are themselves meaningless, but
which they know will look good in the polls, purely for the purpose of enhancing their image as "popular." Important
policy decisions are made, even before the actual vote of the citizenry or the legislature, by poll results. Newspapers
will occasionally write pious editorials calling on people to think for themselves, even as the newspaper's business agent
sends a check to the local polling organization. The idea of "public opinion" is not new, of course. Plato spoke against it in his Republic
over two millenia ago; Alexis de Tocqueville wrote at length of its influence over America in the early nineteenth century.
But, nobody thought to measure public opinion before the twentieth century, and nobody before the 1930's thought
to use those measurements for decision-making. It is useful to pause and reflect on the whole concept. The belief that public opinion can be a determinant
of truth is philosophically insane. It precludes the idea of the rational individual mind. Every individual mind contains
the divine spark of reason, and is thus capable of scientific discovery, and understanding the discoveries of others. The
individual mind is one of the few things that cannot, therefore, be "averaged." Consider: at the moment of creative
discovery, it is possible, if not probable, that the scientist making the discovery is the only person to hold that
opinion about nature, whereas everyone else has a different opinion, or no opinion. One can only imagine what a "scientifically-conducted
survey" on Kepler's model of the solar system would have been, shortly after he published the Harmony of the World:
2% for, 48% against, 50% no opinion. These
psychoanalytic survey techniques became standard, not only for the Frankfurt School, but also throughout American social
science departments, particularly after the I.S.R. arrived in the United States. The methodology was the basis of the research
piece for which the Frankfurt School is most well known, the "authoritarian personality" project. In 1942, I.S.R.
director Max Horkheimer made contact with the American Jewish Committee, which asked him to set up a Department
of Scientific Research within its organization. The American Jewish Committee also provided a large grant to study anti-Semitism
in the American population. "Our aim," wrote Horkheimer in the introduction to the study, "is not merely to
describe prejudice, but to explain it in order to help in its eradication.... Eradication means reeducation scientifically
planned on the basis of understanding scientifically arrived at." Ultimately, five volumes were produced for this study over the course
of the late 1940's; the most important was the last, The Authoritarian Personality, by Adorno, with the help of three
Berkeley, California social psychologists. In the 1930's Erich Fromm had devised a questionnaire to be used to analyze German workers pychoanalytically as
"authoritarian," "revolutionary" or "ambivalent." The heart of Adorno's study was, once again,
Fromm's psychoanalytic scale, but with the positive end changed from a "revolutionary personality," to a "democratic
personality," in order to make things more palatable for a postwar audience.
Nine personality traits were tested and measured, including: - conventionalism—rigid adherence
to conventional, middle-class values
- authoritarian aggression—the
tendency to be on the look-out for, to condemn, reject and punish, people who violate conventional values
- projectivity—the
disposition to believethat wild and dangerous things go on in the world
- sex—exaggerated
concern with sexual goings-on.
From these measurements were constructed
several scales: the E Scale (ethnocentrism), the PEC Scale (poltical and economic conservatism), the A-S Scale (anti-Semitism),
and the F Scale (fascism). Using Rensis Lickerts's methodology of weighting results, the authors were able to tease together
an empirical definition of what Adorno called "a new anthropological type," the authoritarian personality. The
legerdemain here, as in all psychoanalytic survey work, is the assumption of a Weberian "type." Once the type
has been statistically determined, all behavior can be explained; if an anti-Semitic personality does not act in an anti-Semitic
way, then he or she has an ulterior motive for the act, or is being discontinuous. The idea that a human mind is capable
of transformation, is ignored. The
results of this very study can be interpreted in diametrically different ways. One could say that the study proved that
the population of the U.S. was generally conservative, did not want to abandon a capitalist economy, believed in a strong
family and that sexual promiscuity should be punished, thought that the postwar world was a dangerous place, and was still
suspicious of Jews (and Blacks, Roman Catholics, Orientals, etc. — unfortunately true, but correctable in a social
context of economic growth and cultural optimism). On the other hand, one could take the same results and prove that anti-Jewish
pogroms and Nuremburg rallies were simmering just under the surface, waiting for a new Hitler to ignite them. Which of the
two interpretations you accept is a political, not a scientific, decision. Horkheimer and Adorno firmly believed that all
religions, Judaism included, were "the opiate of the masses." Their goal was not the protection of Jews from prejudice,
but the creation of a definition of authoritarianism and anti-Semitism which could be exploited to force the "scientifically
planned reeducation" of Americans and Europeans away from the principles of Judeo-Christian civilization, which the
Frankfurt School despised. In their theoretical writings of this period, Horkheimer and Adorno pushed the thesis to its
most paranoid: just as capitalism was inherently fascistic, the philosophy of Christianity itself is the source of anti-Semitism.
As Horkheimer and Adorno jointly wrote in their 1947 "Elements of Anti-Semitism": Christ, the spirit become flesh, is the deified sorcerer. Man's self-reflection in the absolute, the
humanization of God by Christ, is the proton pseudos [original falsehood]. Progress beyond Judaism is coupled with
the assumption that the man Jesus has become God. The reflective aspect of Christianity, the intellectualization of magic,
is the root of evil. At the same time, Horkheimer could write in a more-popularized article titled "Anti-Semitism: A Social Disease,"
that "at present, the only country where there does not seem to be any kind of anti-Semitism is Russia"[!]. This self-serving attempt to maximize paranoia was further
aided by Hannah Arendt, who popularized the authoritarian personality research in her widely-read Origins of Totalitarianism.
Arendt also added the famous rhetorical flourish about the "banality of evil" in her later Eichmann in Jerusalem:
even a simple, shopkeeper-type like Eichmann can turn into a Nazi beast under the right psychological circumstances—every
Gentile is suspect, psychoanalytically. It is Arendt's extreme version of the authoritarian personality thesis which is the operant philosophy of today's
Cult Awareness Network (CAN), a group which works with the U.S. Justice Department and the Anti-Defamation League of the
B'nai B'rith, among others. Using standard Frankfurt School method, CAN identifies political and religious groups which
are its political enemies, then re-labels them as a "cult," in order to justify operations against them. The Public Opinion Explosion
Despite its unprovable central thesis of
"psychoanalytic types," the interpretive survey methodology of the Frankfurt School became dominant in the social
sciences, and essentially remains so today. In fact, the adoption of these new, supposedly scientific techniques in the
1930's brought about an explosion in public-opinion survey use, much of it funded by Madison Avenue. The major pollsters
of today—A.C. Neilsen, George Gallup, Elmo Roper—started in the mid-1930's, and began using
the I.S.R. methods, especially given the success of the Stanton-Lazersfeld Program Analyzer. By 1936, polling activity had
become sufficiently widespread to justify a trade association, the American Academy of Public Opinion Research at Princeton,
headed by Lazersfeld; at the same time, the University of Chicago created the National Opinion Research Center. In 1940,
the Office of Radio Research was turned into the Bureau of Applied Social Research, a division of Columbia University, with
the indefatigable Lazersfeld as director. After World War II, Lazersfeld especially pioneered the use of surveys to psychoanalyze American voting behavior,
and by the 1952 Presidential election, Madison Avenue advertising agencies were firmly in control of Dwight Eisenhower's
campaign, utilizing Lazersfeld's work. Nineteen fifty-two was also the first election under the influence of television,
which, as Adorno had predicted eight years earlier, had grown to incredible influence in a very short time. Batten, Barton,
Durstine & Osborne — the fabled "BBD&O" ad agency—designed Ike's campaign appearances entirely
for the TV cameras, and as carefully as Hitler's Nuremberg rallies; one-minute "spot" advertisements were pioneered
to cater to the survey-determined needs of the voters. This snowball has not stopped rolling since. The entire development of television and advertising in
the 1950's and 1960's was pioneered by men and women who were trained in the Frankfurt School's techniques of mass alienation.
Frank Stanton went directly from the Radio Project to become the single most-important leader of modern television. Stanton's
chief rival in the formative period of TV was NBC's Sylvester "Pat" Weaver; after a Ph.D. in
"listening behavior," Weaver worked with the Program Analyzer in the late 1930's, before becoming a Young &
Rubicam vice-president, then NBC's director of programming, and ultimately the network's president. Stanton and Weaver's
stories are typical. Today, the
men and women who run the networks, the ad agencies, and the polling organizations, even if they have never heard of Theodor
Adorno, firmly believe in Adorno's theory that the media can, and should, turn all they touch into "football."
Coverage of the 1991 Gulf War should make that clear. The technique of mass media and advertising developed by the Frankfurt School now effectively controls
American political campaigning. Campaigns are no longer based on political programs, but actually on alienation. Petty gripes
and irrational fears are identified by psychoanalytic survey, to be transmogrified into "issues" to be catered
to; the "Willy Horton" ads of the 1988 Presidential campaign, and the "flag-burning amendment," are
but two recent examples. Issues that will determine the future of our civilization, are scrupulously reduced to photo opportunities
and audio bites—like Ed Murrow's original 1930's radio reports—where the dramatic effect is maximized, and the
idea content is zero. Part of the influence of the authoritarian personality hoax in our own day also derives from
the fact that, incredibly, the Frankfurt School and its theories were officially accepted by the U.S. government during
World War II, and these Cominternists were responsible for determining who were America's wartime, and postwar,
enemies. In 1942, the Office of Strategic Services, America's hastily-constructed espionage and covert operations unit,
asked former Harvard president James Baxter to form a Research and Analysis (R&A) Branch under the group's Intelligence
Division. By 1944, the R&A Branch had collected such a large and prestigeous group of emigré scholars that H.
Stuart Hughes, then a young Ph.D., said that working for it was "a second graduate education" at government expense.
The Central European Section was headed by historian Carl Schorske; under him, in the all-important Germany/Austria
Section, was Franz Neumann, as section chief, with Herbert Marcuse, Paul Baran, and Otto
Kirchheimer, all I.S.R. veterans. Leo Lowenthal headed the German-language section of the Office
of War Information; Sophie Marcuse, Marcuse's wife, worked at the Office of Naval Intelligence. Also at the
R&A Branch were: Siegfried Kracauer, Adorno's old Kant instructor, now a film theorist; Norman
O. Brown, who would become famous in the 1960's by combining Marcuse's hedonism theory with Wilhelm Reich's
orgone therapy to popularize "polymorphous perversity"; Barrington Moore, Jr., later a philosophy
professor who would co-author a book with Marcuse; Gregory Bateson, the husband of anthropologist Margaret
Mead (who wrote for the Frankfurt School's journal), and Arthur Schlesinger, the historian who
joined the Kennedy Administration. Marcuse's first assignment was to head a team to identify both those who would be tried
as war criminals after the war, and also those who were potential leaders of postwar Germany. In 1944, Marcuse, Neumann,
and Kirchheimer wrote the Denazification Guide, which was later issued to officers of the U.S. Armed Forces occupying
Germany, to help them identify and suppress pro-Nazi behaviors. After the armistice, the R&A Branch sent representatives
to work as intelligence liaisons with the various occupying powers; Marcuse was assigned the U.S. Zone, Kirchheimer the
French, and Barrington Moore the Soviet. In the summer of 1945, Neumann left to become chief of research for the Nuremburg
Tribunal. Marcuse remained in and around U.S. intelligence into the early 1950's, rising to the chief of the Central European
Branch of the State Department's Office of Intelligence Research, an office formally charged with "planning and implementing
a program of positive-intelligence research ... to meet the intelligence requirements of the Central Intelligence Agency
and other authorized agencies." During his tenure as a U.S. government official, Marcuse supported the division of
Germany into East and West, noting that this would prevent an alliance between the newly liberated left-wing parties and
the old, conservative industrial and business layers. In 1949, he produced a 532-page report, "The Potentials of World
Communism" (declassified only in 1978), which suggested that the Marshall Plan economic stabilization of Europe would
limit the recruitment potential of Western Europe's Communist Parties to acceptable levels, causing a period of hostile
co-existence with the Soviet Union, marked by confrontation only in faraway places like Latin America and Indochina—in
all, a surprisingly accurate forecast. Marcuse left the State Department with a Rockefeller Foundation grant to work with
the various Soviet Studies departments which were set up at many of America's top universities after the war, largely by
R&A Branch veterans. At the
same time, Max Horkheimer was doing even greater damage. As part of the denazification of Germany suggested by the R&A
Branch, U.S. High Commissioner for Germany John J. McCloy, using personal discretionary funds, brought Horkheimer back to
Germany to reform the German university system. In fact, McCloy asked President Truman and Congress to pass a bill granting
Horkheimer, who had become a naturalized American, dual citizenship; thus, for a brief period, Horkheimer was the only person
in the world to hold both German and U.S. citizenship. In Germany, Horkheimer began the spadework for the full-blown revival
of the Frankfurt School in that nation in the late 1950's, including the training of a whole new generation of anti-Western
civilization scholars like Hans-Georg Gadamer and Jürgen Habermas, who would have
such destructive influence in 1960's Germany. In a period of American history when some individuals were being hounded into
unemployment and suicide for the faintest aroma of leftism, Frankfurt School veterans—all with superb Comintern credentials
— led what can only be called charmed lives. America had, to an incredible extent, handed the determination of who
were the nation's enemies, over to the nation's own worst enemies. IV. The Aristotelian Eros: Marcuse
and the CIA's Drug Counterculture In 1989, Hans-Georg Gadamer, a protégé of Martin Heidegger and the last of the original Frankfurt
School generation, was asked to provide an appreciation of his own work for the German newspaper, Frankfurter Allgemeine
Zeitung. He wrote, One has to conceive of Aristotle's ethics as a true fulfillment of the Socratic challenge, which Plato had placed
at the center of his dialogues on the Socratic question of the good.... Plato described the idea of the good ... as the ultimate
and highest idea, which is supposedly the highest principle of being for the universe, the state, and the human soul. Against
this Aristotle opposed a decisive critique, under the famous formula, "Plato is my friend, but the truth is my friend
even more." He denied that one could consider the idea of the good as a universal principle of being, which is supposed
to hold in the same way for theoretical knowledge as for practical knowledge and human activity.
This statement not only succinctly
states the underlying philosophy of the Frankfurt School, it also suggests an inflection point around which we can order
much of the philosophical combat of the last two millenia. In the simplest terms, the Aristotelian correction of Plato sunders
physics from metaphysics, relegating the Good to a mere object of speculation about which "our knowledge remains only
a hypothesis," in the words of Wilhelm Dilthey, the Frankfurt School's favorite philosopher. Our knowledge of the "real
world," as Dilthey, Nietzsche, and other precursors of the Frankfurt School were wont to emphasize, becomes erotic,
in the broadest sense of that term, as object fixation. The universe becomes a collection of things which each operate on
the basis of their own natures (that is, genetically), and through interaction between themselves (that is, mechanistically).
Science becomes the deduction of the appropriate categories of these natures and interactions. Since the human mind is merely
a sensorium, waiting for the Newtonian apple to jar it into deduction, humanity's relationship to the world (and vice versa)
becomes an erotic attachment to objects. The comprehension of the universal—the mind's seeking to be the living image
of the living God—is therefore illusory. That universal either does not exist, or it exists incomprehensibly as a
deus ex machina; that is, the Divine exists as a superaddition to the physical universe — God is really Zeus,
flinging thunderbolts into the world from some outside location. (Or, perhaps more appropriately: God is really Cupid, letting
loose golden arrows to make objects attract, and leaden arrows to make objects repel.) The key to the entire Frankfurt School
program, from originator Lukacs on, is the "liberation" of Aristotelian eros, to make individual feeling
states psychologically primary. When the I.S.R. leaders arrived in the United States in the mid-1930's, they exulted that
here was a place which had no adequate philosophical defenses against their brand of Kulturpessimismus [cultural
pessimism]. However, although the Frankfurt School made major inroads in American intellectual life before World War II,
that influence was largely confined to academia and to radio; and radio, although important, did not yet have the overwhelming
influence on social life that it would acquire during the war. Furthermore, America's mobilization for the war, and the
victory against fascism, sidetracked the Frankfurt School schedule; America in 1945 was almost sublimely optimistic, with
a population firmly convinced that a mobilized republic, backed by science and technology, could do just about anything.
The fifteen years after the war, however, saw the domination of family life by the radio and television shaped by the Frankfurt
School, in a period of political erosion in which the great positive potential of America degenerated to a purely negative
posture against the real and, oftentimes manipulated, threat of the Soviet Union. At the same time, hundreds of thousands
of the young generation—the so-called baby boomers—were entering college and being exposed to the Frankfurt
School's poison, either directly or indirectly. It is illustrative, that by 1960, sociology had become the most popular
course of study in American universities. Indeed, when one looks at the first stirrings of the student rebellion at the beginning
of the 1960's, like the speeches of the Berkeley Free Speech Movement or the Port Huron Statement which founded the Students
for a Democratic Society, one is struck with how devoid of actual content these discussions were. There is much anxiety
about being made to conform to the system—"I am a human being; do not fold, spindle, or mutilate" went an
early Berkeley slogan—but it is clear that the "problems" cited derive much more from required sociology
textbooks, than from the real needs of the society.
The CIA's Psychedelic Revolution The simmering unrest on campus in 1960 might well too have
passed or had a positive outcome, were it not for the traumatic decapitation of the nation through the Kennedy assassination,
plus the simultaneous introduction of widespread drug use. Drugs had always been an "analytical tool" of the nineteenth
century Romantics, like the French Symbolists, and were popular among the European and American Bohemian fringe well into
the post-World War II period. But, in the second half of the 1950's, the CIA and allied intelligence services began extensive
experimentation with the hallucinogen LSD to investigate its potential for social control. It has now been documented that
millions of doses of the chemical were produced and disseminated under the aegis of the CIA's Operation MK-Ultra. LSD became
the drug of choice within the agency itself, and was passed out freely to friends of the family, including a substantial
number of OSS veterans. For instance, it was OSS Research and Analysis Branch veteran Gregory Bateson who "turned on"
the Beat poet Allen Ginsberg to a U.S. Navy LSD experiment in Palo Alto, California. Not only Ginsberg, but
novelist Ken Kesey and the original members of the Grateful Dead rock group opened the doors of perception
courtesy of the Navy. The guru of the "psychedelic revolution," Timothy Leary, first heard about
hallucinogens in 1957 from Life magazine (whose publisher, Henry Luce, was often given government
acid, like many other opinion shapers), and began his career as a CIA contract employee; at a 1977 "reunion" of
acid pioneers, Leary openly admitted, "everything I am, I owe to the foresight of the CIA." Hallucinogens have
the singular effect of making the victim asocial, totally self-centered, and concerned with objects. Even the most banal
objects take on the "aura" which Benjamin had talked about, and become timeless and delusionarily profound. In
other words, hallucinogens instantaneously achieve a state of mind identical to that prescribed by the Frankfurt School
theories. And, the popularization of these chemicals created a vast psychological lability for bringing those theories into
practice. Thus, the situation at the beginning of the 1960's represented a brilliant re-entry point for the Frankfurt School,
and it was fully exploited. One of the crowning ironies of the "Now Generation" of 1964 on, is that, for all its
protestations of utter modernity, none of its ideas or artifacts was less than thirty years old. The political theory came
completely from the Frankfurt School; Lucien Goldmann, a French radical who was a visiting professor at
Columbia in 1968, was absolutely correct when he said of Herbert Marcuse in 1969 that "the student movements ... found
in his works and ultimately in his works alone the theoretical formulation of their problems and aspirations [emphasis
in original]." The long hair and sandals, the free love communes, the macrobiotic food, the liberated lifestyles, had
been designed at the turn of the century, and thoroughly field-tested by various, Frankfurt School-connected New Age social
experiments like the Ascona commune before 1920. (See box.) Even Tom Hayden's defiant "Never trust anyone over thirty,"
was merely a less-urbane version of Rupert Brooke's 1905, "Nobody over thirty is worth talking to." The social
planners who shaped the 1960's simply relied on already-available materials. The founding document of the 1960's counterculture,
and that which brought the Frankfurt School's "revolutionary messianism" of the 1920's into the 1960's, was Marcuse's
Eros and Civilization, originally published in 1955 and funded by the Rockefeller Foundation. The document masterfully
sums up the Frankfurt School ideology of Kulturpessimismus in the concept of "dimensionality." In one
of the most bizarre perversions of philosophy, Marcuse claims to derive this concept from Friedrich Schiller. Schiller,
whom Marcuse purposefully misidentifies as the heir of Immanuel Kant, discerned two dimensions in humanity: a sensuous instinct
and an impulse toward form. Schiller advocated the harmonization of these two instincts in man in the form of a creative
play instinct. For Marcuse, on the other hand, the only hope to escape the one-dimensionality of modern industrial society
was to liberate the erotic side of man, the sensuous instinct, in rebellion against "technological rationality."
As Marcuse would say later (1964) in his One-Dimensional Man, "A comfortable, smooth, reasonable, democratic
unfreedom prevails in advanced industrial civilization, a token of technical progress." This erotic liberation he misidentifies
with Schiller's "play instinct," which, rather than being erotic, is an expression of charity, the higher concept
of love associated with true creativity. Marcuse's contrary theory of erotic liberation is something implicit in Sigmund
Freud, but not explicitly emphasized, except for some Freudian renegades like Wilhelm Reich and,
to a certain extent, Carl Jung. Every aspect of culture in the West, including reason itself, says Marcuse,
acts to repress this: "The totalitarian universe of technological rationality is the latest transmutation of the idea
of reason." Or: "Auschwitz continues to haunt, not the memory but the accomplishments of man—the space flights,
the rockets and missiles, the pretty electronics plants...." This erotic liberation should take the form of the "Great Refusal," a total rejection
of the "capitalist" monster and all his works, including "technological" reason, and "ritual-authoritarian
language." As part of the Great Refusal, mankind should develop an "aesthetic ethos," turning life into an
aesthetic ritual, a "life-style" (a nonsense phrase which came into the language in the 1960's under Marcuse's
influence). With Marcuse representing the point of the wedge, the 1960's were filled with obtuse intellectual justifications
of contentless adolescent sexual rebellion. Eros and Civilization was reissued as an inexpensive paperback in 1961,
and ran through several editions; in the preface to the 1966 edition, Marcuse added that the new slogan, "Make Love,
Not War," was exactly what he was talking about: "The fight for eros is a political fight [emphasis
in original]." In 1969, he noted that even the New Left's obsessive use of obscenities in its manifestoes was part
of the Great Refusal, calling it "a systematic linguistic rebellion, which smashes the ideological context in which
the words are employed and defined." Marcuse was aided by psychoanalyst Norman O. Brown, his OSS protege, who contributed
Life Against Death in 1959, and Love's Body in 1966—calling for man to shed his reasonable, "armored"
ego, and replace it with a "Dionysian body ego," that would embrace the instinctual reality of polymorphous perversity,
and bring man back into "union with nature." The books of Reich, who had claimed that Nazism was caused by monogamy,
were re-issued. Reich had died in an American prison, jailed for taking money on the claim that cancer could be cured by
rechanneling "orgone energy." Primary education became dominated by Reich's leading follower, A.S. Neill,
a Theosophical cult member of the 1930's and militant atheist, whose educational theories demanded that students be taught
to rebel against teachers who are, by nature, authoritarian. Neill's book Summerhill sold 24,000 copies in 1960,
rising to 100,000 in 1968, and 2 million in 1970; by 1970, it was required reading in 600 university courses, making it one
of the most influential education texts of the period, and still a benchmark for recent writers on the subject. Marcuse
led the way for the complete revival of the rest of the Frankfurt School theorists, re-introducing the long-forgotten Lukacs
to America. Marcuse himself became the lightning rod for attacks on the counterculture, and was regularly attacked by such
sources as the Soviet daily Pravda, and then-California Governor Ronald Reagan. The only critique of any merit
at the time, however, was one by Pope Paul VI, who in 1969 named Marcuse (an extraordinary step, as the Vatican usually refrains
from formal denunciations of living individuals), along with Freud, for their justification of "disgusting and unbridled
expressions of eroticism"; and called Marcuse's theory of liberation, "the theory which opens the way for license
cloaked as liberty ... an aberration of instinct." The eroticism of the counterculture meant much more than free love
and a violent attack on the nuclear family. It also meant the legitimization of philosophical eros. People were
trained to see themselves as objects, determined by their "natures." The importance of the individual as a person
gifted with the divine spark of creativity, and capable of acting upon all human civilization, was replaced by the idea that
the person is important because he or she is black, or a woman, or feels homosexual impulses. This explains the deformation
of the civil rights movement into a "black power" movement, and the transformation of the legitimate issue of
civil rights for women into feminism. Discussion of women's civil rights was forced into being just another "liberation
cult," complete with bra-burning and other, sometimes openly Astarte-style, rituals; a review of Kate Millet's
Sexual Politics (1970) and Germaine Greer's The Female Eunuch (1971), demonstrates their
complete reliance on Marcuse, Fromm, Reich, and other Freudian extremists. This popularization of life
as an erotic, pessimistic ritual did not abate, but in fact deepened over the twenty years leading to today; it is the basis
of the horror we see around us. The heirs of Marcuse and Adorno completely dominate the universities, teaching their own
students to replace reason with "Politically Correct" ritual exercises. There are very few theoretical books on
arts, letters, or language published today in the United States or Europe which do not openly acknowledge their debt to the
Frankfort School. The witchhunt
on today's campuses is merely the implementation of Marcuse's concept of "repressive toleration"—"tolerance
for movements from the left, but intolerance for movements from the right"—enforced by the students of the Frankfurt
School, now become the professors of women's studies and Afro-American studies. The most erudite spokesman for Afro-American
studies, for instance, Professor Cornell West of Princeton, publicly states that his theories are derived
from Georg Lukacs. At the same time, the ugliness so carefully nurtured by the Frankfurt School pessimists, has corrupted
our highest cultural endeavors. One can hardly find a performance of a Mozart opera, which has not been utterly deformed
by a director who, following Benjamin and the I.S.R., wants to "liberate the erotic subtext." You cannot ask an
orchestra to perform Schönberg and Beethoven on the same program, and maintain its integrity for the latter. And, when
our highest culture becomes impotent, popular culture becomes openly bestial. One final image: American and European children
daily watch films like Nightmare on Elm Street and Total Recall, or television shows comparable to them.
A typical scene in one of these will have a figure emerge from a television set; the skin of his face will realistically
peel away to reveal a hideously deformed man with razor-blade fingers, fingers which start growing to several feet in length,
and—suddenly—the victim is slashed to bloody ribbons. This is not entertainment. This is the deeply paranoid
hallucination of the LSD acid head. The worst of what happened in the 1960's is now daily fare. Owing to the Frankfurt School
and its co-conspirators, the West is on a "bad trip" from which it is not being allowed to come down. The principles through which Western Judeo-Christian civilization
was built, are now no longer dominant in our society; they exist only as a kind of underground resistance movement. If that
resistance is ultimately submerged, then the civilization will not survive—and, in our era of incurable pandemic disease
and nuclear weapons, the collapse of Western civilization will very likely take the rest of the world with it to Hell. The way out is to create a Renaissance. If that sounds grandiose,
it is nonetheless what is needed. A renaissance means, to start again; to discard the evil, and inhuman, and just plain
stupid, and to go back, hundreds or thousands of years, to the ideas which allow humanity to grow in freedom and goodness.
Once we have identified those core beliefs, we can start to rebuild civilization.
Ultimately, a new Renaissance will rely on scientists, artists, and
composers, but in the first moment, it depends on seemingly ordinary people who will defend the divine spark of reason in
themselves, and tolerate no less in others. Given the successes of the Frankfurt School and its New Dark Age sponsors, these
ordinary individuals, with their belief in reason and the difference between right and wrong, will be "unpopular."
But, no really good idea was ever popular, in the beginning.
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Nazi-Communist Hippies of the 1920’s An overwhelming amount of the philosophy and artifacts
of the American counterculture of the 1960's, plus the New Age nonsense of today, derives from a large-scale social experiment
sited in Ascona, Switzerland from about 1910 to 1935. Originally
a resort area for members of Helena Blavatsky's Theosophy cult, the little Swiss village became the haven
for every occult, leftist and racialist sect of the original New Age movement of the early twentieth century. By the end
of World War I, Ascona was indistinguishable from what Haight-Ashbury would later become, filled with health food shops,
occult book stores hawking the I Ching, and Naturmenschen, "Mr. Naturals" who would walk about
in long hair, beads, sandals, and robes in order to "get back to nature." The dominant influence in the area came
from Dr. Otto Gross, a student of Freud and friend of Carl Jung, who had been part of Max Weber's circle when Frankfurt School
founder Lukacs was also a member. Gross took Bachofen to its logical extremes, and, in the words of a biographer, "is
said to have adopted Babylon as his civilization, in opposition to that of Judeo-Christian Europe.... if Jezebel had not
been defeated by Elijah, world history would have been different and better. Jezebel was Babylon, love religion, Astarte,
Ashtoreth; by killing her, Jewish monotheistic moralism drove pleasure from the world." Gross's solution was to recreate
the cult of Astarte in order to start a sexual revolution and destroy the bourgeois, patriarchal family. Among the members
of his cult were: Frieda and D.H. Lawrence; Franz Kafka; Franz Werfel,
the novelist who later came to Hollywood and wrote The Song of Bernadette; philosopher Martin Buber;
Alma Mahler, the wife of composer Gustave Mahler, and later the liaison of Walter Gropius, Oskar Kokoschka,
and Franz Werfel; among others. The Ordo Templis Orientalis (OTO), the occult fraternity set up by Satanist Aleister
Crowley, had its only female lodge at Ascona. It is sobering to realize the number of intellectuals now worshipped
as cultural heroes who were influenced by the New Age madness in Ascona—including almost all the authors who enjoyed
a major revival in America in the 1960's and 1970's. The place and its philosophy figures highly in the works of not only
Lawrence, Kafka and Werfel, but also Nobel Prize winners Gerhardt Hauptmann and Hermann Hesse, H.G.
Wells, Max Brod, Stefan George, and the poets Rainer Maria Rilke and Gustav Landauer.
In 1935 Ascona became the headquarters for Carl Jung's annual Eranos Conference to popularize gnosticism. Ascona was also
the place of creation for most of what we now call modern dance. It was headquarters to Rudolf von Laban,
inventor of the most popular form of dance notation, and Mary Wigman. Isadora Duncan was a frequent visitor.
Laban and Wigman, like Duncan, sought to replace the formal geometries of classical ballet with re-creations of cult dances
which would be capable of ritualistically dredging up the primordial racial memories of the audience. When the Nazis came
to power, Laban became the highest dance official in the Reich, and he and Wigman created the ritual dance program for the
1936 Olympic Games in Berlin—which was filmed by Hitler's personal director Leni Reifenstahl, a former
student of Wigman. The peculiar occult psychoanalysis popular in Ascona was also decisive in the development of much of modern
art. The Dada movement originated in nearby Zurich, but all its early figures were Asconans in mind or body, especially
Guillaume Apollinaire, who was a particular fan of Otto Gross. When "Berlin Dada" announced its
creation in 1920, its opening manifesto was published in a magazine founded by Gross. The primary document of Surrealism
also came from Ascona. Dr. Hans Prinzhorn, a Heidelberg psychiatrist, commuted to Ascona, where he was
the lover of Mary Wigman. In 1922, he published a book, "The Artwork of the Mentally Ill," based on paintings by
his psychotic patients, accompanied by an analysis claiming that the creative process shown in this art was actually more
liberated than that of the Old Masters. Prinzhorn's book was widely read by the modern artists of the time, and a recent
historian has called it, "the Bible of the Surrealists."
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| The New Age Paradigm Shift The Frankfurt School's original 1930's survey work, including
the "authoritarian personality," was based on psychoanalytic categories developed by Erich Fromm. Fromm derived
these categories from the theories of J.J. Bachofen, a collaborator of Nietzsche and Richard Wagner, who claimed that human
civilization was originally "matriarchal." This primoridial period of "gynocratic democracy" and dominance
of the Magna Mater (Great Mother) cult, said Bachofen, was submerged by the development of rational, authoritarian "patriarchism,"
including monotheistic religion. Later, Fromm utilized this theory to claim that support for the nuclear family was evidence
of authoritarian tendencies. In 1970, forty
years after he first proclaimed the importance of Bachofen's theory, the Frankfurt School's Erich Fromm surveyed how far
things had developed. He listed seven "social-psychological changes" which indicated the advance of matriarchism
over patriarchism: - "The women's
revolution;"
- "Children's
and adolescents' revolution," based on the work of Benjamin Spock and others, allowing children new, and more-adequate
ways to express rebellion;
- The
rise of the radical youth movement, which fully embraces Bachofen, in its emphasis on group sex, loose family structure,
and unisex clothing and behaviors;
- The
increasing use of Bachofen by professionals to correct Freud's overly-sexual analysis of the mother-son relationship—this
would make Freudianism less threatening and more palatable to the general population;
- "The vision of the consumer paradise.... In this vision,
technique assumes the characteristics of the Great Mother, a technical instead of a natural one, who nurses her children
and pacifies them with a never-ceasing lullaby (in the form of radio and television). In the process, man becomes emotionally
an infant, feeling secure in the hope that mother's breasts will always supply abundant milk, and that decisions need no
longer be made by the individual."
| | The Theory of the Authoritarian Personality
The Frankfurt School devised the "authoritarian
personality" profile as a weapon to be used against its political enemies. The fraud rests on the assumption that a
person's actions are not important; rather, the issue is the psychological attitude of the actor—as determined by
social scientists like those of the Frankfurt School. The concept is diametrically opposed to the idea of natural law and
to the republican legal principles upon which the U.S. was founded; it is, in fact, fascistic, and identical to the idea
of "thought crime," as described by George Orwell in his 1984, and to the theory of "volitional crime"
developed by Nazi judge Roland Freisler in the early 1930's. When the Frankfurt School was in its openly pro-Bolshevik phase, its authoritarian personality work was
designed to identify people who were not sufficiently revolutionary, so that these people could be "re-educated."
When the Frankfurt School expanded its research after World War II at the behest of the American Jewish Committee and the
Rockefeller Foundation, its purpose was not to identify anti-Semitism; that was merely a cover story. Its goal was to measure
adherence to the core beliefs of Western Judeo-Christian civilization, so that these beliefs could be characterized as "authoritarian,"
and discredited. For the Frankfurt School
conspirators, the worst crime was the belief that each individual was gifted with sovereign reason, which could enable him
to determine what is right and wrong for the whole society; thus, to tell people that you have a reasonable idea to which
they should conform, is authoritarian, paternalistic extremism. By these standards, the judges of Socrates and Jesus were correct in condemning these two individuals
(as, for example, I.F. Stone asserts in one case in his "Trial of Socrates.") It is the measure of our own cultural
collapse, that this definition of authoritarianism is acceptable to most citizens, and is freely used by political operations
like the Anti-Defamation League and the Cult Awareness Network to "demonize" their political enemies. When Lyndon LaRouche and six of his colleagues faced trial
on trumped-up charges in 1988, LaRouche identified that the prosecution would rely on the Frankfurt School's authoritarian
personality fraud, to claim that the defendants' intentions were inherently criminal. During the trial, LaRouche's
defense attorney attempted to demonstrate the Frankfurt School roots of the prosecution's conspiracy theory, but he was
overruled by Judge Albert Bryan, Jr., who said, "I'm not going back into the early 1930's in opening statements or
in the testimony of witnesses." |
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ AND THEN THERE IS TAVISTOCK
 Kurt Lewin (1890 – 1947) was a Jewish psychologist, who pioneered
the Tavistock Institute, the Illuminati’s center
for mass brainwashing. He advocated the use of terror to induce a passive state in the public. (from April 21, 2006) By Henry Makow Ph.D. It is more effective to manage society by mind control than
by physical coercion. The events of 9-11 and the “war on terror” mostly are
exercises in mass brainwashing. German psychiatrist Kurt Lewin developed the thinking behind 9-11. In
the book “Mind Control World Control” (1997) Jim Keith writes: “Lewin is credited with much of the original Tavistock research into mass brainwashing
applying the results of repeated trauma and torture [of individuals] in mind control to society
at large.” “If
terror can be induced on a widespread basis into a society, Lewin has stated, then society reverts to a tabula rasa, a blank slate, a situation where control can easily be instituted
from an external point.” “Put
another way: By the creation of controlled chaos, the populace can be brought to the point where it willingly submits to greater control. Lewin maintained that society must be driven into a
state equivalent to an ‘early childhood situation.’
He termed this societal chaos ‘fluidity.'” (Page 44) Elite planners designed Sept. 11 for its shock value. In the aftermath, they were
able to impose a security crackdown, a costly military
build-up and a war in Afghanistan and Iraq on a stunned population. Keith cites a Tavistock researcher Dr. William Sargent author of “Battle
for the Mind: A Physiology of Conversion and Brain-Washing” (1957): “Various types of beliefs can be implanted after brain function has been sufficiently disturbed
by …deliberately induced fear, anger or excitement.” (48)
This blueprint was laid out long before Sept. 11, 2001. The official story of that tragedy doesn’t bear scrutiny. There was no wreckage at the Pentagon. All three buildings were demolished by explosives. Our “leaders” are accomplices to the murder of over 3000 Americans and the destruction of an American icon. The plan is to fold the US into a “world government” controlled by London-based central bankers. Our cultural, economic and political elite is complicit in the ongoing cover-up. FUTURE SHOCK Most political and cultural events are contrived by the elite for their psychological
effect. JFK could have been disposed of in more humane ways. (He had many health problems.) Instead, for its shock value, they shot him down, in Mort Sahls’ words, “like a dog in the street.” Jim Keith: “The Kennedy assassination was a British Intelligence, i.e. Tavistock
hit, and its purpose was to shock the American consciousness into a near-comatose
state for reprogramming, the standard Tavistock modus operandi.” (p.143) The same can be said for the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy.
It all climaxed with the beatings of demonstrators at the 1968 Chicago Democratic convention.
After that, my generation turned inward as we were programmed to do. “Turn on,
Tune in, Drop Out” said CIA funded pied piper Timothy Leary. [“I mean who was I supposed to work for, the KGB?” Leary quipped. (Keith p.99) Leary didn’t realize that there wasn’t a big difference.]
Many young people became “dead heads” after Jerry Garcia’s Grateful
Dead. Keith writes: “An FBI internal memo from
1968 mentions the employment of the Grateful Dead as an avenue ‘to channel youth dissent
and rebellion into more benign and non-threatening directions.’ [They] performed a vital
service in distracting many young persons into drugs and mysticism, rather than politics.”
(179) Keith goes on to document CIA connections to the creation
of mind control cults used to create “controlled chaos.” These include the Symbionese
Liberation Army, Jim Jones, Charles Manson, Scientology, the Unification Church, Son of Sam
and Heaven’s Gate. The John Lennon assassination also ties in. (183) To bring the picture up to date, (circa 2006) add the murder of Princess Diana, Columbine, the blowing of the levees in New Orleans, the burning of Black churches, and the bird flu
scare. (After 2006, Sandy Hook, Nice, Paris, London, Toronto…the instances of false flag
terror are too numerous to mention.) What we have is an ongoing secret war by the central bankers
against society, a drumbeat of psychological torture designed to keep society
off balance or zoned out. THE BITTER TRUTH The most significant thing about our life is that we are victims of elite mind control.
We have been trained to be apathetic, trivia-minded and self -absorbed. Apart from the
political shocks, we are hardly aware of the vicious attack on our natural heterosexuality by
a psy-op known as “feminism” and homosexuality masquerading as “women’s
and gay rights.” Pretty soon men will be punished for even looking at a woman. We get our values, identity, meaning, and love from our family roles. Women were
brainwashed to abandon the female role and compete for the male role. A woman
who dedicated herself to husband, home and children were stigmatized. This is part of the long-term elite program to eliminate the institutions of marriage and family. Tavistock Institute has developed such power in the USA, that no one achieves prominence in any fieldunless he has been trained in behavioral science at Tavistock, or one of its subsidiaries. Tavistock directs hundreds of elite think tanks and corporations in the United States. The degree of elite coordination is breathtaking.
For example, Century 21 has a new ad where a real estate agent is greeting a
middle-class Chinese couple arriving to settle in America. The voice-over says something
like: “This is the shape of the future. We are agents of change.” Obviously, this ad will not appeal to Americans looking for a realtor. Rather,
it conditions them to embrace immigration. Central banker dupes and lackeys have used the term “change agents” to describe themselves for decades.
Mankind is in the grip of a satanic force and is sinking into a coma. Our “leaders”
work for an occult cabal of super-rich perverts and criminals who secretly plot the end of Western Civilization and world tyranny. They see us as animals to be trained or culled. The good news is that the animals “owe” them a lot of money for their fiat
currency. So if we can tune out their madness, we can relax. The chaos is controlled. Wars are
all orchestrated and they love money too much to destroy us, at least not yet.
_________________________________________________________________________________________ THE SEXUAL DECADENCE
OF WEIMAR GERMANY “The decay of moral values in all areas of life—the period of deepest German degradation—coincided
exactly with the height of Jewish power in Germany.” — Dr Friederich Karl Wiehe, Germany
and the Jewish Question. [1] Otto
Dix, Metropolis (1928). Berlin in the heyday of the Weimar Republic: a hedonistic hellpit of sexual depravity.
No account of the Jewish Question in Germany can be complete without some mention of the tidal wave of sexual immorality that was to engulf the country during the
period of the Weimar Republic (1919-1933) following World War One. This also
happened to be the apogee of Jewish power in Germany. Every single sphere of major influence had now fallen under Jewish control. 1. THE CULTURAL TAKEOVER OF
GERMANY BY THE JEWS
Dr Karl Wiehe, in his Germany and the Jewish Question, is painstaking in the details he provides: Well before 1933 the
Jews had taken possession of the film industry even more thoroughly
than of the theater. That was understandable, because the earnings
in the film industry overshadow the earnings of any other artistic activity…. The biggest step in the direction
of the decline of the German cultural life [however] was taken in the field
of the light entertainment genre. Here—in the genre of musical
comedy and above all in revue and burlesque—frivolity and lasciviousness were to
rear their ugly heads. So much so that during these years Berlin was
quite correctly considered the most immoral city in the world.
It was Jews who introduced this pornographic “art form”
to Germany, a debased genre completely unknown before the Great
War, and so it is the Jews who can be held responsible for the general
decline in morals. The
Jewish sexologists Ivan Bloch and Magnus Hirschfeld became the representatives
of “sex research” camouflaged as science—a bogus science that was
merely an excuse for pornography and propaganda designed to destroy the institute
of marriage and the sanctity of the family. [2] Wiehe provides the following useful facts and statistics: In 1931, over 60 percent of German films were produced
by Jews and 82 percent of the film scripts were written by Jewish writers,
though Jews made up less than 1 percent of the German population (0.9o%). A
quick look at the names of directors, producers, stage managers, actors,
script writers and critics, “revealed everywhere an overwhelming
preponderance of Jews.” Alexander
Szekely, German brothel in Ghent A cursory survey of the film titles, Wiehe tells
us, shows us that the Jews had only one thing on the brain: sex. Here are some
typical titles: “Moral und Sinnlichkeit” (Morals and Sensuality); “Was kostet Liebe?” (What is the Price of Love); “Wenn ein Weib den Weg verliert”
(When a Woman loses her Way); “Prostitution” (Prostitution);
“Sündige Mutter” (Sinful Mama); “Das
Buch des Lasters” (The Book of Vices). “The sensational titles correspond to the sleazy contents,”
Wiehe complains. “All wallow in filth and display with cynical frankness
the vilest scenes of sexual perversion.” [3] Light entertainment (revue/burlesque) was a Jewish innovation.
The revue theaters, all concentrated within great cities such as Berlin,
were owned and run almost exclusively by Jews. Shows consisted of little more
than excuses for sexual titillation involving the display of the female
form in lascivious dances that were to degenerate later into striptease and scenes of public masturbation. “In these revues,” Wiehe notes indignantly, “the uninhibited
sex drive surrendered itself to disgusting orgies. All life was reduced to
a common denominator of lust and its satisfaction. Chastity and self-discipline
were mocked as old-fashioned prejudices.”
The Jews had managed, in the space of a mere fourteen years, to bring about
a major “transvaluation of values” [4] in Weimar Germany. The
vices of the past were now its virtues. The only vice that remained
was chastity. A
glance at the revue titles is again sufficient: “Zieh dich aus” (Get Undressed);
“Tausend nackte Frauen” (One Thousand Naked Women);
“Die Sünden der Welt” (The Sins of the
World); “Häuser der Liebe” (The Houses of Love); “Streng Verboten!” (Strictly Forbidden!); “Sündig und Süss” (Sweet
and Sinful). [5] Finally, there was the rich field of sexology: a new science consisting largely of dubious “case histories” purporting to reveal the depraved sexual habits of various anonymous patients. In order to give an air of academic respectability and erudition to these masturbatory fantasies—thrilling adventure stories involving necrophilia,
bestiality and handkerchief fetishism—the more exciting details were often
given in vulgar Latin “in order to exclude the lay reader.”
[6] However, it was not long before the Latin was diligently translated
into the vernacular for the benefit of the unlatined lay reader, thus defeating
the purpose of the prim “schoolmaster’s Latin”. Wiehe reels off a long list of Jewish sexologists who he claims were in
the forefront of writing such salacious treatises that were no more
than pornography masquerading as science. Drs Magnus Hirschfeld [7] and Ivan
Bloch [8] were the star writers in this field, their books still read
avidly today by a gullible public hungry for details of the bizarre, the
kinky and the perverse. Drs Ludwig Lewy-Lenz, Leo Schidrowitz, Franz Rabinowitsch,
Georg Cohen, and Albert Eulenburg are some of the names Wiehe mentions. Otto
Dix, The Salon, 1921 Berlin prostitutes awaiting the pleasures
of the evening Here are some of their depressing titles: “Sittengeschichte des Lasters”
(The History of Perversions); “Sittengeschichte des
Schamlosigkeit” (The History of Shamelessness); “Bilderlexikon
der Erotic” (Picture Lexicon of Eroticism); “Sittengischichte des Geheime und Verbotene” (The History of the Secret and the Forbidden). And here are some of the titles published by Dr Magnus Hirschfeld’s Institute of Sexual Science in
Berlin [9]: Aphrodisiacs, Prostitution, Sexual Catastrophes, Sexual Pathology,
The Perverted. Wiehe describes all these books as “the
filthy publications of these pseudo-scientists”, all of them written
by Jewish authors and published by Jewish publishers. He continues in the same
acerbic vein: These books were allegedly supposed to be scientific treatises,
their ostensible purpose being to “educate” the broad masses
about the dangers of sexual excesses. Under the guise of science,
however, they speculated in the lust and lower instincts of their audience.
Criminals, prostitutes and homosexuals took center stage in their
repertoire. One looks in vain for any known non-Jewish “sexual scientist”! [10] Wiehe points out that masturbation,
hitherto a hole-in-corner vice, began to be shamelessly promoted for the first
time in Weimar Germany by Jewish-run organizations. He mentions Dr
Max Hodan, Jewish medical officer for Berlin, and ticks him off for circulating a booklet recommending regular masturbation for the working classes. It
was in Weimar Germany, long before Hannibal Lecter, that the serial killer was to become an iconic figure — a source of secret fantasies
and frissons. It is worth noting that one of
the world’s worst serial killers, Peter Kürten, committed all his
crimes in Germany during the 1925-1930 period. This was of course the heyday of the Weimar Republic when
the German people lay completely under Jewish domination and when the
first dress rehearsal for the later Sexual Revolution of the 1960s was arguably
being run. Significantly,
when asked what his primary motive for murder was, Kürten replied:
“to strike back at an oppressive society.” [11] This was a society in which the serial killer was to become a
popular icon, enough to create a whole genre of sensational sex crime
literature. (See book title on left). [12] 2. THE DESCENT INTO SEXUAL
DEPRAVITY British historian Sir Arthur Bryant describes throngs of child prostitutes outside the
doors of the great Berlin hotels and restaurants. He adds: “Most
of them—the night clubs and vice resorts—were owned and managed by
Jews. And it was the Jews among the promoters of this trade who were
remembered in after years.” [13] Arriving in Berlin during the hyperinflation crisis (1923), Klaus Mann—son of
the great German novelist Thomas Mann—remembered walking past a group of
dominatrices: Some of them looked like fierce Amazons,
strutting in high boots made of green,
glossy leather. One of them brandished a supple cane and leered at me as I passed by. ‘Good evening, madam,’ I said. She whispered in my
ear, ‘Want to be my slave?
Costs only six billions and a cigarette.’ [14]
Georg Grosz, Before Sunrise. Prostitutes
and their clients in the red-light district… this is how they actually dressed and paraded themselves in the garish, lamp-lit streets. 10-year-old children
turned tricks in the railway stations. A group of 14-year-old Russian girls,
refugees from the Red Terror in Stalin’s Communist slaughter house, managed to make a lucrative living in Berlin as dominatrices. Little girls were freely available for sex not only in child brothels and pharmacies but could be ordered by telephone and delivered
to clients by taxi, like takeaway meals. Particularly bizarre were mother-and-daughter
teams offering their services to the same client simultaneously. Mel
Gordon writes: “One French journalist, Jean Galtier-Boissière,
described, in sickly pornographic detail, the creeping horror of feeling
a nine-year-old girl’s tiny, but proficient, fingers stroking his upper thigh while the broken-toothed mother covered his face with hot sucking kisses.” [15] In Mel Gordon’s Voluptuous Panic: The Erotic World of Weimar Berlin, we enter a depressingly sordid milieu akin to the subterranean world
of the sewer rat: a world which owed its existence in large part
to German Jewry. Without Jewish money and influence, such a world would never
have come into being. Nor was there anything the Germans could do to
extricate themselves from this artificially created hothouse of erotomania
and sexual deviance in which they now found themselves ensnared. There were no fewer than 17 different
prostitute types in this Jew-created brothel city: eight outdoor types and nine indoor ones, each with their specialities and slang terminology. Outdoor prostitutes:
(1) Kontroll Girls: legal prostitutes checked for venereal disease. (2) Half-Silks: part-time amateurs with day jobs as office
workers, secretaries and shopgirls; evening
and weekend workers. (3) Grasshoppers: lowly streetwalkers who gave handjobs and standup sex in dark alleys. (4) Nuttes: Boyish teenage girls
who worked for “pocket money”
after school without their parents’ knowledge. (5) Boot-girls: dominas (or dominatrices) in shiny patent leather boots who offered to stamp
all over their clients. (6) Tauentzien girls: Chic mother-and-daughter teams, fashionably dressed, who offered their services to men who wanted threesomes. (7) Münzis: Heavily pregnant
women who waited under lampposts (very expensive,
since they offered an erotic speciality). (8) Gravelstones: hideous hags with missing limbs, hunchbacks, midgets, and women with various deformities.
“The most common German word for
them was Kies. In other accounts, they were referred to as Steinhuren.” [16] Otto
Dix, Three Wenches. These
prostitutes were willing to work individually or in a team. Indoor prostitutes:
(1) Chontes: Low-grade Jewish prostitutes, mostly Polish, who picked up their clients in railway stations. (2) Fohses (French argot for “vaginas”):
Elegant females who discreetly advertised in magazines and newspapers as private
masseuses and manicurists. (3) Demi-castors (or “half-beavers”):
Young women from good families who worked in high-class houses in the
late afternoons and early evenings. (4) Table-ladies: Ravishingly
beautiful escorts of exotic appearance who came with the reserved table in an exclusive nightclub. Clients had to be fabulously rich in order to afford the cultured conversation of
these high-class call girls who accompanied the caviar and champagne and
who later unveiled their charms in a sumptuously furnished chamber of
delights. (5) Dominas: Leather-clad women, athletic and Amazonian,
who specialized in whipping and erotic humiliation. They were often found in
lesbian nightclubs which also catered for kinky males. (6) Minettes (French for “female cats”): Exclusive call girls who offered S&M fantasy scenes, foot worship, bondage,
and enforced transvestism. They worked in top class hotels. (7)
Race-horses: Masochistic prostitutes who let themselves be whipped
in “schoolrooms” or “dungeons” liberally supplied with instruments of torture. Clients were carefully screened to make sure they didn’t go too far. (8) ‘Medicine’: Child prostitutes (age 12-16), so called because they
were prescribed as “medicine” in pharmacies. All the
client needed to do was tell the pharmacist how many years he had suffered
from his ailment (e.g., 12), without mentioning what ailment it was, and
request the color of the pill he preferred (e.g., red). He was then escorted to a cubicle where his “medicine” awaited him: a 12-year-old redhead. (9) Telephone-girls (often
billed as “virgins”): expensive child prostitutes (ages 12-17) ordered
by telephone like a takeaway meal; the nymphettes were delivered by
limousine or taxi. [17] Luigi Barzini, in his social memoir The Europeans, describes the saturnalian scene in the Tingel-Tangels or sleazy bordellos of sex-crazed Berlin in the 1920s, the Golden Age of the
Jews: I saw pimps offering anything to anybody: little boys, little girls, robust young men, libidinous women, animals. The story went the rounds that a male goose
whose neck you cut at just the right ecstatic moment would
give you the most delicious frisson of all—as
it allowed you to enjoy sodomy, bestiality, homosexuality, necrophilia
and sadism at one stroke. Gastronomy too, as one could eat the goose afterwards. [18] In October
1923, when one US dollar could buy 4.2 billion marks and six wheelbarrows of banknotes could barely buy a loaf of bread, it was said that “the most exquisite blow job to be had in Berlin never cost an American
tourist more than 30 cents.” [19] WEIMAR
BERLIN BROTHEL SCENE. Erich Schütz, Raiding the Nacktlokal,
1923 “Berlin nightlife, my
word, the world hasn’t seen anything like it!” Klaus Mann, son of the great German author Thomas Mann, enthused sardonically. “We used to have a first-class army. Now we have first class perversions.”
[20] German author Erich Kästner, writing of Weimar Berlin, was to reflect on the
topography of the soul sickness that had now taken possession of the
once proud city: “In the east there is crime; in the center the con men
hold sway; in the north resides misery, in the west lechery; and everywhere—the
decline.” [21] German Jewish author Stephan Zweig has much to say about homosexuality, pointing out that even in Ancient Rome—where fourteen of the first fifteen Roman emperors were homosexual—the degree of drunken depravity and public shamelessness was far
less shocking than in Weimar Berlin: Bars, amusement parks, honky-tonks
sprang up like mushrooms. Along the entire Kurfürstendamm
powdered and rouged men sauntered and they were not all professionals;
every high school boy wanted to earn some money and in the dimly
lit bars one might see government officials and men of the world of finance tenderly courting drunken sailors without any shame. Even the Rome of Suetonius had never known such orgies as the pervert balls of Berlin, where hundreds of men costumed as women and hundreds of women as men danced under the benevolent
eyes of the police. In the collapse of all values a kind
of madness gained hold. Young girls bragged proudly of their
perversion; to be sixteen and still under suspicion of virginity
would have been a disgrace.” [22] THE
CITY OF DREADFUL JOY Weimar Berlin, 1928 3. CONCLUSION: WEIMAR GERMANY AS A DRESS REHEARSAL FOR THE SUBSEQUENT SEXUAL REVOLUTION OF THE 1960s My own impression, though I could well be mistaken here, is that Weimar
Germany can be seen as a trial run or dress rehearsal for the Sexual
Revolution of the 1960s, a revolution in attitudes and behavior that was to
convulse America and then spread like a moral virus to Europe and the
rest of the world. Recollect that it was in Germany during the Weimar period—in 1923 to be exact—that the Institut für Sozialforschung was set up at the University of Frankfurt. Financed
by the Argentian Jew Felix Weil, this was later to become the infamous
Frankfurt School. [23] It is my own hypothesis that the Germans were to be the initial guinea pigs of these
Cultural Marxists [24], all of them initially Jewish apart
from Habermas. These were revolutionaries intent on complete social
control by the imposition of their Marxist worldview on the rest of society.
It is self-evident that there is no other way to get control of a society with
strong moral values than to weaken those values. The formula is simple: destroy the belief system on which that society is founded, especially its religion and its traditional codes of honor and decency. Promote godlessness and a philosophy of despair. To put it in even plainer language: reduce men to beasts if you wish to control them. It was George
Lukács [25], one of the founding fathers of the Frankfurt School, who had called
for “a culture of pessimism and a world abandoned by God.” [26] And it was one
of their most fanatical ideologues, Willi Munzenberg [27], who had said
he wanted to turn the world upside down and make life a hell on earth. His exact
words: We must organize the intellectuals and use them TO MAKE WESTERN CIVILIZATION STINK! Only then, after they have CORRUPTED ALL ITS VALUES AND MADE LIFE IMPOSSIBLE, can we impose the dictatorship of the proletariat. [28, emphasis added] With Jewish intellectuals
like this at the helm, doing their utmost to promote moral anarchy and
create an Orwellian dystopia, is it any wonder that the Germans went helter-skelter
down the slippery slope and ended up where they did? In America the Cultural Marxists were to apply a variation of their Weimar
techniques, but refined and honed to a high degree. This time, they
would use multiculturalism as a weapon of mass destruction in addition to moral
corruption. They would flood the country with immigrants, legal as well
as illegal. They would turn race against race (engineered ethnic conflict),
parent against child (attack on authority), and man against woman (radical feminism).
Above all, they would teach the non-White races to regard the White race as
the ultimate evil: “the cancer of human history”, to quote Jewish feminist Susan Sontag. [29] The above
comments are admittedly controversial and will elicit anger in many quarters. For
this I apologize. My purpose is simply to give voice to an urgent and widespread perception. Not to be able to say what many people increasingly believe is clearly undesirable. What did the
cultural Marxists learn from Weimar Germany? They learned that the Sexual Revolution, in order to succeed, had to be a slow and gradual
process. “Modern forms of subjection,” the Frankfurt School
had learned, “are marked by mildness.” [30] Weimar had failed
because the pace had been too frenetic. People were aware they
were being corrupted. That was fatal. To corrupt a nation effectively one must
make sure that the descent into degradation is an infinitely slow and imperceptible process, one miniscule step at a time—just
as those who wish to cook frogs alive in a saucepan,
reducing them to a state of comatose
stupor, are advised to place them in cold water and boil them to death as slowly as possible. [31] Lest I be accused of antisemitism by this portrayal of the systematic sexual corruption of the German people at the hands of their Jewish masters—a classic instance of social
engineering practiced on an entire population—let me allow a
well-known and respected Jewish authority on the Weimar era to have the final
word. He is Dr Manfred Reifer, and he is writing in a prestigious Jewish
publication: Whilst large sections of the German nation were struggling for the preservation of their race, we Jews filled the streets of Germany with our vociferations.
We supplied the press with articles on the subject of
its Christmas and Easter and administered to its religious
beliefs in the manner we considered suitable. We ridiculed the highest ideals of the German nation and profaned the matters which it holds sacred.” — Dr Manfred Reifer, in the German Jewish magazine
Czernowitzer Allegemeine Zeitung, September
1933 In the
same month those words were written, September 1933, Adolf Hitler removed every single Jew from positions of influence in the mass media: from the fields of literature, art, music, journalism, the cinema, and popular entertainment in general [32]. The influence that the Jews had exerted on the German psyche was to be regarded henceforth, rightly
or wrongly, as pernicious. And Kulturbolschewismus, or “Bolshevik
culture”, a derogatory term for Jewish culture itself, became
synonymous with moral anarchy and sexual decadence.
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* * ENDNOTES [1] Dr Friedrich Karl Wiehe, Germany and the Jewish Question. Published in 1938 in Berlin by the Institute
for Studies of the Jewish Question, this eight-part booklet runs to approximately 23,500
words in the English translation. As I have quoted this important work extensively both here
and in my forthcoming 4-part essay How the Jews Rose to World Power, I
felt it would be advisable to paraphrase/translate the defective Germanic English of the English version
completely, quoting the original translation only when the English was free from grammatical
and orthographical errors. Readers who know German are invited to consult the original
German essay here: Deutschland und die Judenfrage. [7] Magnus Hirschfeld (1868-1935). The first advocate for homosexual and transgender rights and himself
a homosexual, Hirschfeld figured out that there were 64 different types of male, ranging from the extremely masculine
heterosexual male to the extremely feminine homosexual male. Whether there are also 64 different types of females,
ranging from the extremely feminine heterosexual female to the extremely masculine butch lesbian, is not clear.
Described as the “the Einstein of Sex”, Hirschfeld thought abortion was a good thing and approved
of miscegenation and the mongrelization of the White race. [8] Ivan Bloch (1872-1922). Like Hirschfeld, Bloch was a Jewish homosexual whose main interest in
life was sexual perversion. Author of the 3-volume Handbuch der gesamten Sexualwissenschaft in Einzeldarstellungen
(“Handbook of Sexology in its Entirety Presented in Separate Studies”), Bloch was an expert on sadism
and helped to popularize the work of the Marquis de Sade. He apparently discovered the manuscript of de Sade’s
The 120 Days of Sodom and published it under a pseudonym in 1904, presumably pocketing the royalties. [9] The Institute for Sexual Science (Institut für Sexualwissenschaft). Founded in 1919
in Berlin, the Institute was housed in a villa purchased by Hirschfeld not far from the Reichstag building. It
housed his immense library of sex books, most of them pornographic, and offered the public advice on their sex
problems (“medical consultations”). People from around Europe visited the Institute, including
the homosexual duo Auden and Isherwood, “to gain a clearer understanding of their sexuality.”
(Wikipedia). The Institute, which encouraged “educational” visits from school children, included
a Museum of Sex full of pornographic pictures, dildos, “masturbation machines”, and other curiosities
of a similar nature. In May 1933, after the Nazis had come to power, the Institute was attacked and thousands of
its pornographic books and erotic artifacts destroyed in a “bonfire of the vanities” — this
event later being portrayed by Jewish interests as a tragic loss to civilization, comparable only to the burning
of the Great Library at Alexandria in 645 AD. [16] Mel Gordon,
in an email to this author (1 March 2013). [19] Stephen Lemons, Ibid. If 30 cents for a blowjob was considered a bargain for the American tourist in Weimar Germany, it is of interest
to note that the blowjob rate for sex tourists in Moldova today is considerably lower—only 20 cents
a pop. We learn this from a book originally published in Hebrew in Israel (In Foreign Parts: Trafficking in
Women in Israel, by Ilana Hammerman. Am Oved. 199pp). “The local rate for sex services at the Chisinau
train station,” we are told, “is about NIS 0.70 for a blowjob.” (Quoted in “Land of Filth and Honey”, by Eli Shai, Jerusalem Post, November 5, 2004). 0.70 New Israeli shekels works out to 20 cents.
Moldova, the poorest country in Europe, where the average income is US $300 per month and 20 percent of the population
live in abject poverty on $3 per day, is a favorite destination for European and Israeli sex tourists, especially
for pedophiles. Chisinau is the capital of Moldova, and it is at its railway station that gaunt, hollow-eyed children—some
of them as young as 7—line up to offer their services to the incoming sex tourists. (See here). [24]
Readers who wish to know more about the philosophical milieu of modernity—i.e., the cultural swamp
of sexual bolshevism in which the benighted masses are forced to flounder today—are advised to make a careful
study of the following eight core articles: [27] Willi Munzenberg, Wikipedia. See also Sean McMeekin’s The Red Millionaire: A political biography of Willi Münzenberg,
where Münzenberg is described as “the perpetrator of some of the most colossal lies of the modern
age…. He helped to unleash a plague of moral blindness upon the world from which we have still not recovered.” [29] “The truth
is that Mozart, Pascal, Boolean Algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, the emancipation
of women, Kant, Marx, and Ballanchine ballets don’t redeem what this particular civilization has wrought
upon the world. The white race is the cancer of human history.” — Susan Sontag, Partisan
Review, Winter 1967, p. 57. This infamous quote, once cited in the Wikipedia article on Sontag,
has recently been removed.
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