Who Would Have Believed The Singularity Would Be So Stupid?: The Forgotten Author of Wokeness: Marxist Herbert Marcuse

Tuesday, November 19, 2024

The Forgotten Author of Wokeness: Marxist Herbert Marcuse

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For the most part, Marcuse has been long forgotten. But he was one of the key authors of “critical theory” that forms the foundational basis of today’s wokeness and the cultivation of an elite class to advance it. He promoted his theories as a prolific writer of radical politics and held positions at Brandeis, Columbia, Harvard and the University of California at San Diego.

One of Marcuse’s most virulent and dangerous legacies was his ardent advocacy for censorship in America, which I describe in detail below. His dark sentiments regrettably influenced a whole generation of progressives who today largely lead our mainstream media, our movie studios, publishing houses, ad agencies and our educational institutions. We now can see Marcuse’s ugly theories and handiwork in real time in America.

Marcuse claimed that one of the first steps toward revolutionary change was that advocates and radicals needed to be intolerant of conservative voices. And they need to get all Americans to view conservative views as illegitimate.

Sound familiar?

I know a bit about Marcuse because I was a New Left activist and was exposed to Marxist ideas as the roommate with the late Rennie Davis, one of the Chicago 8 defendants. I became friends with such radicals as Jerry Rubin, Tom Hayden and Abbie Hoffman.

In the 1970’s, I also participated in a number Marxist-Leninist study groups in Washington, D.C. In fact, I once was in a Marxist-Leninist-Mao Tse Tung study group. Yes, they existed!

Thankfully, today I’m much more conservative, but I wish to go back in time so we can understand the blueprint that guides many of today’s movements – movements that to the public probably have appeared to have arisen out of nowhere.

This movement had clear origins and a strategy that’s been percolating for more than 60 years. It’s vital we understand these origins because it gives us clarity about their goals, objectives and strategy.

Today’s woke movement didn’t begin with Black Lives Matter, Bud Light’s Dylan Mulvaney, Harvard’s professoriate, or Congress’s “Squad.” No. It began in the early 1920’s among a group of revolutionary-minded German Marxist intellectuals who tried to devise radical theories and strategies under the rubric of something called the “Frankfurt School.”

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