Kevin Duffy on the 1960s roots of cultural Marxism

The current radical shift left has its roots in the social activism of the 1960s.  Marxism was intellectually dead after a series of failed experiments with nothing but poverty and stacks of dead bodies to show for it.  The Left needed a new marketing campaign.  Influenced by people like Antonio Gramsci and Herbert Marcuse, socialists gave up on violent overthrow of the existing order (which wouldn’t work in America anyway) to focus on changing the culture and pitting groups against each other (oppressors vs. victims).  This was to be a long, slow process, like boiling a frog.

~ Kevin Duffy, The Coffee Can Portfolio, August 11, 2020

Anonymous YouTube comment on the influence of Antonia Gramsci in Brazil

I know Gramsci's work very well. I'm from Brazil, and here the education system was entirely dominated by the Gramscists. The process of cultural subversion started in the middle of 60's, after the Military Dictatorship took power. Frustrated for not being their proletarian dictatorship, they saw no other alternative than change their focus to the culture. Decades later, the people educated by this system would self-perpetuate the socialist ideas, because the students of that time would become the professors, journalists, lawyers, judges, and artists of the future ahead. Of course, they did not anticipate that there would be a strong reaction, and the internet helped a lot with that. In Mises words: "Ideas and only Ideas can light the darkness."

~ Anonymous YouTube comment, July 20, 2020

Daniel Ajamian on Antonio Gramsci and cultural Marxism

Gramsci is, perhaps, the foundational theorist for what we now call Cultural Marxism.

~ Daniel Ajamian, "The Greatest Political Strategist in History," talk delivered at the 2020 Mises University