The Opposition of Marxism To Any Absolute Truth or Morality
This is another way of looking at the problem of most Americans not knowing what Marxism is although Transformational Marxism began having some influence from and upon the major universities since the publication of The Authoritarian Personality in 1950 by Theodore W. Adorno, who was then a professor at Berkeley. Adorno was what is called a Frankfurter, an original member of the Frankfurt School of Marxism who were run out of Germany when Hitler came to power. A second Frankfurter who had an influence from within the elite American universities was Herbert Marcuse, who wrote Eros and Civilization, published in 1955. Eros and Civilization had a more direct influence upon young people during the Counterculture. Finally, by the seventies, Transformational Marxism had found its mass of followers, which was not the working class, but the professors and students in the universities. The earlier Counterculture during the sixties came in part out of movements different from the Marxism of the New Left - the LSD and Oriental Religion movement and the Beat Poet and Art Bohemian movements were not necessarily Marxist, though these non-Marxist movements challenged the American culture of the fifties.
Marxism Fundamentally Opposes the Gospel of Christ and Morality
Many people now who are under some influence from the Political Left, which is now the Democratic Party, do not understand what Marxism is.
Christian faith is based upon a belief that Truth as stated in the New Testament Scriptures is absolute. If the belief that scripture is absolute in its Truth can be weakened and done away with, then christian faith is destroyed.
Marxism starts from its own brand of Epistemology. Epistemology is a branch of philosophy which focuses upon the origin, and nature of knowledge. Scripture is the revelation of knowledge from God, which is absolute in nature. Marxism opposes scripture and faith and says no knowledge is absolute and enduring for all time.
The basis for the American doctrine that each individual has rights which cannot be taken away easily is from scripture, specifically from Isaiah 10: 1-2, as well as Lamentations 3: 33-36, and Malachi 3: 5.
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,"
"Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed;
2. To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!" Isaiah 10: 1-2
But Marxism is atheistic and teaches that no doctrine or idea should be enduring and valid for all times.
"In the eyes of the dialectical philosophy, nothing is established for all time, nothing is absolute or sacred." Karl Marx
Benjamin Bloom, who wrote the two volume book on the Taxonomy of Educational Goal Objectives, by which all teachers must be certified, said "“We recognize the point of view that
truth and knowledge are only relative and that there are no hard and fast truths which exist for all time and places.” (Benjamin Bloom, et al., Taxonomy of Educational Objectives, Book 1, Cognitive Domain). In other words,Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Goal Objectives is basically Marxist.
Dean Gotcher found a footnote in Bloom's Affective Domain book, on
page 166, where Bloom acknowledges the influence of Theodore W. Adorno
and Eric Fromm on the psychological theory, philosophy or ideology
contained in his two volumes, Educational Goal taxonomies. Book II
Affective Domain p. 166.
“1. Cf. Erich Fromm, 1941; T. W. Adorno et al., 1950” Benjamin Bloom,
Book II Affective Domain p. 166. This is Bloom's footnote
acknowledging the influence on his thinking from Erich Fromm and
Theodore W. Adorno. Adorno was an original Frankfurter Marxist who
posed as a personality and social psychologist in writing his 1950
book, The Authoritarian Personality, in which he claimed that the
authoritarian personality and fascism are caused by the family and
Christianity. Erich Fromm was a Transformational Marxist psychologist
and close associate of the Frankfurters.
The Frankfurt School while still in Germany mixed Marx with Freud. Some time after Theodore W. Adorno, Herbert Marcuse, and a few others moved to the United States, the Frankfurters became interested in American personality and social psychology. Adorno's 1950 book, The Authoritarian Personality, reflects that interest in American Social and Personality psychology. The Group Dynamics Movement, under Kurt Lewin in the fifties and then the Encounter Group Movement of the sixties and seventies contributed to the development of a new American collectivism. One of the leaders of the Encounter Group Movement in the sixties and seventies was psychologist Carl Rogers who was a Small Group Facilitator in the Movement. Rogers was not a social psychologst like most in the earlier Group Dynamics Movement. Rogers had been a Clinical Psychologist and psychotherapist.
“The individual accepts the new system of values and beliefs by
accepting belongingness to the group.” Kurt Lewin in Kenneth Benne
Human Relations in Curriculum Change
Transformational Marxism had to get rid of that Christian - and family based - culture which made the individual outstanding, and replace it by a collectivist group oriented culture. Marxism - Transformational Marxism - had to reduce the spiritual power of the Christian Gospel in order to bring in a collectivist group-centered culture.
See https://mises.org/l…/marx-and-left-r...ry-hegelianism
The Marxist epistemology and system is based upon Karl Marx's atheism.
Hegel's dialectic was not necessarily atheistic. But Marx "stood Hegel on his head" by atheizing the dialectic, and resting it upon philosophical materialism - or a form of Nihilism that rejects morality, especially Christian Morality.
And so Marxists tend to be without common morality.
"Although Marx found Feuerbach indispensable for adopting a thoroughgoing atheist and materialist positions, Marx soon found that Feuerbach had not gone nearly far enough. Even though Feuerbach was a philosophical communist, he basically believed that if man forswore religion, then his alienation from his self would be over. To Marx, religion was only one of the problems. The entire world of man (the Menschenwelt) was alienating, and had to be radically overthrown, root and branch. Only apocalyptic destruction of this world of man would permit true human nature to be realized. Only then would the existing "un-man" (Unmensch) truly become man (Mensch). As Marx thundered in the fourth of his "theses on Feuerbach," "one must proceed to destroy [the] "earthly family" [as it is] "both in theory and in practice."
Marxism arrived partly out of the French Revolution. One influence upon Marx was from Hegel, with his dialectics, and another influence was from the Jacobins, who were the most radical and murderous faction to come out of the French Revolution.
In 1793, during the French Revolution the Jacobin leaders began the Reign of Terror. Under Robespierre, who took over the Revolution. The Jacobins used the Terror of the guillotine not only against counterrevolutionaries, but also against former Jacobins, and Jacobins themselves, Finally, Robespierre was overthrown in 1794, but the spirit of the Jacobins lived on in Marxism.
Marx first got into politics as a young radical intellectual in the movement called the Left Hegelians or Young Hegelians. Remember that Hegel had brought the Greek philosophy of the διαλεκτική, or dialectic, before the time of Christ, into modern philosophy.
What is now called Identity Politics came down from the Political Correctness doctrine which grew out of the Frankfurt School's interest in anti-semitism, and then expanded into the study of the traits of the Authoritarian Personality which Theodore Adorno claimed cause fascism. Adorno said that Biblical Christianity and the family cause fascism and both must be done away with.
One of the founders of the Frankfurt School of Transformational Marxism, Georg Lukacs, talked about "Abolishment of Culture." Lukacs knew that Christianity had created a dominant culture in the West which made the individual important and that culture saw each individual as being unique, to be honored as such.
Marxism had to get rid of that Christian - and family based - culture which made the individual outstanding, and replace it by a collectivist group oriented culture. Marxism - Transformational Marxism - had to reduce the spiritual power of the Christian Gospel in order to bring in a collectivist group-centered culture.
“The individual accepts the new system of values and beliefs by
accepting belongingness to the group.” Kurt Lewin in Kenneth Benne
Human Relations in Curriculum Change
Here is a quote that is more specific about the ideas of Transformational Marxist Georg Lukács (1885-1971): http://www.schillerinstitute.org/fid...frankfurt.html
"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."
They go on to say that "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."
Lukacs was aware of protestant individualism and its affirmation of an individual's
personal relationship with God, as Jesus Christ the Son. The West had
affirmed the individual and his spiritual rise above the mere flesh of
man through Christ and the Holy Spirit. But Marxism affirms the
collective, the group. and hence the phrase "It takes a village to
raise a child" of Hillary and other Marxists."
This is another way of looking at the problem of most Americans not knowing what Marxism is although Transformational Marxism began having some influence from and upon the major universities since the publication of The Authoritarian Personality in 1950 by Theodore W. Adorno, who was then a professor at Berkeley. Adorno was what is called a Frankfurter, an original member of the Frankfurt School of Marxism who were run out of Germany when Hitler came to power. A second Frankfurter who had an influence from within the elite American universities was Herbert Marcuse, who wrote Eros and Civilization, published in 1955. Eros and Civilization had a more direct influence upon young people during the Counterculture. Finally, by the seventies, Transformational Marxism had found its mass of followers, which was not the working class, but the professors and students in the universities. The earlier Counterculture during the sixties came in part out of movements different from the Marxism of the New Left - the LSD and Oriental Religion movement and the Beat Poet and Art Bohemian movements were not necessarily Marxist, though these non-Marxist movements challenged the American culture of the fifties.
Marxism Fundamentally Opposes the Gospel of Christ and Morality
Many people now who are under some influence from the Political Left, which is now the Democratic Party, do not understand what Marxism is.
Christian faith is based upon a belief that Truth as stated in the New Testament Scriptures is absolute. If the belief that scripture is absolute in its Truth can be weakened and done away with, then christian faith is destroyed.
Marxism starts from its own brand of Epistemology. Epistemology is a branch of philosophy which focuses upon the origin, and nature of knowledge. Scripture is the revelation of knowledge from God, which is absolute in nature. Marxism opposes scripture and faith and says no knowledge is absolute and enduring for all time.
The basis for the American doctrine that each individual has rights which cannot be taken away easily is from scripture, specifically from Isaiah 10: 1-2, as well as Lamentations 3: 33-36, and Malachi 3: 5.
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,"
"Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed;
2. To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!" Isaiah 10: 1-2
But Marxism is atheistic and teaches that no doctrine or idea should be enduring and valid for all times.
"In the eyes of the dialectical philosophy, nothing is established for all time, nothing is absolute or sacred." Karl Marx
Benjamin Bloom, who wrote the two volume book on the Taxonomy of Educational Goal Objectives, by which all teachers must be certified, said "“We recognize the point of view that
truth and knowledge are only relative and that there are no hard and fast truths which exist for all time and places.” (Benjamin Bloom, et al., Taxonomy of Educational Objectives, Book 1, Cognitive Domain). In other words,Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Goal Objectives is basically Marxist.
Dean Gotcher found a footnote in Bloom's Affective Domain book, on
page 166, where Bloom acknowledges the influence of Theodore W. Adorno
and Eric Fromm on the psychological theory, philosophy or ideology
contained in his two volumes, Educational Goal taxonomies. Book II
Affective Domain p. 166.
“1. Cf. Erich Fromm, 1941; T. W. Adorno et al., 1950” Benjamin Bloom,
Book II Affective Domain p. 166. This is Bloom's footnote
acknowledging the influence on his thinking from Erich Fromm and
Theodore W. Adorno. Adorno was an original Frankfurter Marxist who
posed as a personality and social psychologist in writing his 1950
book, The Authoritarian Personality, in which he claimed that the
authoritarian personality and fascism are caused by the family and
Christianity. Erich Fromm was a Transformational Marxist psychologist
and close associate of the Frankfurters.
The Frankfurt School while still in Germany mixed Marx with Freud. Some time after Theodore W. Adorno, Herbert Marcuse, and a few others moved to the United States, the Frankfurters became interested in American personality and social psychology. Adorno's 1950 book, The Authoritarian Personality, reflects that interest in American Social and Personality psychology. The Group Dynamics Movement, under Kurt Lewin in the fifties and then the Encounter Group Movement of the sixties and seventies contributed to the development of a new American collectivism. One of the leaders of the Encounter Group Movement in the sixties and seventies was psychologist Carl Rogers who was a Small Group Facilitator in the Movement. Rogers was not a social psychologst like most in the earlier Group Dynamics Movement. Rogers had been a Clinical Psychologist and psychotherapist.
“The individual accepts the new system of values and beliefs by
accepting belongingness to the group.” Kurt Lewin in Kenneth Benne
Human Relations in Curriculum Change
Transformational Marxism had to get rid of that Christian - and family based - culture which made the individual outstanding, and replace it by a collectivist group oriented culture. Marxism - Transformational Marxism - had to reduce the spiritual power of the Christian Gospel in order to bring in a collectivist group-centered culture.
See https://mises.org/l…/marx-and-left-r...ry-hegelianism
The Marxist epistemology and system is based upon Karl Marx's atheism.
Hegel's dialectic was not necessarily atheistic. But Marx "stood Hegel on his head" by atheizing the dialectic, and resting it upon philosophical materialism - or a form of Nihilism that rejects morality, especially Christian Morality.
And so Marxists tend to be without common morality.
"Although Marx found Feuerbach indispensable for adopting a thoroughgoing atheist and materialist positions, Marx soon found that Feuerbach had not gone nearly far enough. Even though Feuerbach was a philosophical communist, he basically believed that if man forswore religion, then his alienation from his self would be over. To Marx, religion was only one of the problems. The entire world of man (the Menschenwelt) was alienating, and had to be radically overthrown, root and branch. Only apocalyptic destruction of this world of man would permit true human nature to be realized. Only then would the existing "un-man" (Unmensch) truly become man (Mensch). As Marx thundered in the fourth of his "theses on Feuerbach," "one must proceed to destroy [the] "earthly family" [as it is] "both in theory and in practice."
Marxism arrived partly out of the French Revolution. One influence upon Marx was from Hegel, with his dialectics, and another influence was from the Jacobins, who were the most radical and murderous faction to come out of the French Revolution.
In 1793, during the French Revolution the Jacobin leaders began the Reign of Terror. Under Robespierre, who took over the Revolution. The Jacobins used the Terror of the guillotine not only against counterrevolutionaries, but also against former Jacobins, and Jacobins themselves, Finally, Robespierre was overthrown in 1794, but the spirit of the Jacobins lived on in Marxism.
Marx first got into politics as a young radical intellectual in the movement called the Left Hegelians or Young Hegelians. Remember that Hegel had brought the Greek philosophy of the διαλεκτική, or dialectic, before the time of Christ, into modern philosophy.
What is now called Identity Politics came down from the Political Correctness doctrine which grew out of the Frankfurt School's interest in anti-semitism, and then expanded into the study of the traits of the Authoritarian Personality which Theodore Adorno claimed cause fascism. Adorno said that Biblical Christianity and the family cause fascism and both must be done away with.
One of the founders of the Frankfurt School of Transformational Marxism, Georg Lukacs, talked about "Abolishment of Culture." Lukacs knew that Christianity had created a dominant culture in the West which made the individual important and that culture saw each individual as being unique, to be honored as such.
Marxism had to get rid of that Christian - and family based - culture which made the individual outstanding, and replace it by a collectivist group oriented culture. Marxism - Transformational Marxism - had to reduce the spiritual power of the Christian Gospel in order to bring in a collectivist group-centered culture.
“The individual accepts the new system of values and beliefs by
accepting belongingness to the group.” Kurt Lewin in Kenneth Benne
Human Relations in Curriculum Change
Here is a quote that is more specific about the ideas of Transformational Marxist Georg Lukács (1885-1971): http://www.schillerinstitute.org/fid...frankfurt.html
"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."
They go on to say that "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."
Lukacs was aware of protestant individualism and its affirmation of an individual's
personal relationship with God, as Jesus Christ the Son. The West had
affirmed the individual and his spiritual rise above the mere flesh of
man through Christ and the Holy Spirit. But Marxism affirms the
collective, the group. and hence the phrase "It takes a village to
raise a child" of Hillary and other Marxists."
