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If humanities faculties are really geared to brainwashing students into accepting the postulates of far-left ideology, the composition of western parliaments and presidencies and the roaring success of corporate capitalism suggests theyвЂ™re doing an astoundingly bad job. I promise you: this is what they really think. And this, apparently, is where political correctness came from.

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There, the conspiracy says, they promoted and even enforced ideas which were intended to destroy traditional Christian values and overthrow free enterprise: feminism, multiculturalism, gay rights and atheism. The vogue for the ideas of theorists like Herbert Marcuse and Theodor Adorno in the 1960s counterculture culminated with their acolytesвЂ™ occupation of the commanding heights of the most important cultural institutions, from universities to Hollywood studios. Then, when Nazism forced the (mostly Jewish) members of the Frankfurt School to move to America, they had, the story goes, a chance to undermine the culture and values that had sustained the worldвЂ™s most powerful capitalist nation. The conspiracy theorists claim that these вЂњcultural MarxistsвЂќ began to use insidious forms of psychological manipulation to upend the west. The problem was not only capitalism as an economic system, but the family, gender hierarchies, normal sexuality вЂ“ in short, the whole suite of traditional western values. Their answer was that culture and religion blunted the proletariatвЂ™s desire to revolt, and the solution was that Marxists should carry out a вЂњlong march through the institutionsвЂќ вЂ“ universities and schools, government bureaucracies and the media вЂ“ so that cultural values could be progressively changed from above.ДЄdapting this, later thinkers of the Frankfurt School decided that the key to destroying capitalism was to mix up Marx with a bit of Freud, since workers were not only economically oppressed, but made orderly by sexual repression and other social conventions. When the socialist revolution failed to materialise beyond the Soviet Union, Marxist thinkers like Antonio Gramsci and Georg Lukacs tried to explain why. It depends on a crazy-mirror history, which glancingly reflects things that really happened, only to distort them in the most bizarre ways.

What are they talking about? The tale varies in the telling, but the theory of cultural Marxism is integral to the fantasy life of the contemporary right.

W hat do the AustralianвЂ™s columnist Nick Cater, video game hate group # Gamergate, Norwegian mass shooter Anders Breivik and random blokes on YouTube have in common? Apart from anything else, they have all invoked the spectre of вЂњcultural MarxismвЂќ to account for things they disapprove of вЂ“ things like Islamic immigrant communities, feminism and, er, opposition leader Bill Shorten.

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