SkipCaptcha
6
edits
Changes
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Line 1:
Line 1: − + Line 59:
Line 59: + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + − +
Lukacs never came to America, was never a member of the Frankfurt School, and did not engage in cultural terrorism
[[Image:Hedonism-ii entertainment.jpg|right]]
[[Image:Hedonism-ii entertainment.jpg|right]]
The '''sexual revolution''' of the 1950s and 1960s was based on the ideas of three [[Atheism|atheist]] men: [[Sigmund Freud]], [[Alfred Kinsey]],<ref>Judith A. Reisman, [http://www.rsvpamerica.org/chapter%202.pdf ''Kinsey: Crimes and Consequences the Red Queen and the Grand Scheme'']</ref> and [[Hugh Hefner]], although the doctrines of the sexual revolution ... had their roots in the "free love" movement of [[Marxism]] in the 1840s and in [[Margaret Sanger]]'s writings in the early 20th century.<ref>
The '''sexual revolution''' of the 1950s and 1960s was based on the ideas of three [[Atheism|atheist]] men: [[Sigmund Freud]], [[Alfred Kinsey]],<ref>Judith A. Reisman, [http://www.rsvpamerica.org/chapter%202.pdf ''Kinsey: Crimes and Consequences the Red Queen and the Grand Scheme'']</ref> and [[Hugh Hefner]], although the doctrines of the sexual revolution ... had their roots in the "free love" movement of both English and German [[Romanticism]] from the 1790s to the 1840s (Novalis, Friedrich von Schlegel, [[William Blake]] and [[George Gordon, Lord Byron|Lord Byron]]) and in [[Margaret Sanger]]'s writings in the early 20th century.<ref>
*"Kinsey was also shown to be an atheist who loathed religion and its constraints on sex." [https://www.washingtontimes.com/culture/20040907-113843-7598r.htm 'Kinsey' critics ready], Cheryl Wetzstein, The Washington Times.
*"Kinsey was also shown to be an atheist who loathed religion and its constraints on sex." [https://www.washingtontimes.com/culture/20040907-113843-7598r.htm 'Kinsey' critics ready], Cheryl Wetzstein, The Washington Times.
*[https://www.salon.com/2013/02/23/10_celebs_you_didnt_know_were_atheists_partner/ 10 celebs you didn't know were atheists], ''Salon'' 2-23-2010
*[https://www.salon.com/2013/02/23/10_celebs_you_didnt_know_were_atheists_partner/ 10 celebs you didn't know were atheists], ''Salon'' 2-23-2010
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IAlQTo4H4F4C&dq=inauthor:"Oskar+Skarsaune"&hl=en&sa=X&ei=6GvzVObxF8uNaL_igUg&ved=0CDcQ6AEwBA
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IAlQTo4H4F4C&dq=inauthor:"Oskar+Skarsaune"&hl=en&sa=X&ei=6GvzVObxF8uNaL_igUg&ved=0CDcQ6AEwBA
}}</ref>
}}</ref>
==German and English Romanticism==
Perhaps the artistic and philosophical movement most supportive of sexual libertinism was late 18th and early 19th century [[Romanticism]] in England and Germany. The famous magazine of the Schlegel brothers, the "Athenaeum", is that leading organ of this stage of development of Romanticism. Here Romantic individualism rages on the most limitless. Particularly significant is the demand for absolute freedom of the erotic-sexual life and the self-dissolution of art forms through the sovereign unrestrained freedom of creative subjectivity. In Schlegel's novel "Lucinde" free love and erotic libertinism is glorified. The German playwright and poet Peter Hacks (1928-2003) wrote: "Schlegel's Lucinde brought to life a giant egg. The egg contained two yolks, they both burst. Out of the one came [[Friedrich Nietzsche]], out of the other [[Richard Wagner]]."<ref>https://translate.google.gr/translate?hl=el&sl=auto&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fathens.indymedia.org%2Fpost%2F1467916%2F</ref>
Notable among proponents of polygamy and free love were also the English Romantics [[William Blake]] and [[George Gordon, Lord Byron]]. Blake explicitly compared the sexual oppression of marriage to slavery in works such as Visions of the Daughters of Albion (1793). Blake was critical of the marriage laws of his day, and generally railed against traditional Christian notions of chastity as a virtue. He and his openly [[bisexual]] contemporary poet Lord Byron are considered pioneers of the sexual counter-culture.<ref>https://diginole.lib.fsu.edu/islandora/object/fsu:175666/datastream/PDF/view</ref>
==Is Lukacs rightly or wrongly criticized?==
The [[Hungary|Hungarian]] [[Marxism|Marxist]] philosopher and art critic [[Georg Lukacs]] is sometimes falsely accused of being a proponent or even a founder of "cultural terrorism" or of introducing [[pornography]] in schools. During his two months (March-May 1919) as People's Commissar for Education and Culture Lukacs did indeed change the school curriculum (he also famously socialized classical theaters): He replaced Catholic religious education with sociology and introduced sex education in Hungarian schools for the first time. There are two sources describing in more detail what form that took: Historian Werner Jung's work on Lukács published in 1989 and sociologists Michael Löwy's George Lukács - from romanticism to Bolshevism. published in 1979.
What they described as the content of the sex education classes introduced by Lukács is fairly tame by [[Europe|European]] standard of modern sex ed, which is rather unsurprising given that we are talking about the early 20th century here. Instead of pornography, it consisted of explaining human reproductive organs, introducing students to safe sex and talking about sex outside of the structure of human reproduction as something that people do for pleasure. Which is a far cry from pornography, "denouncing the [[family]]" and such things.
The claim of Lukács "evil sex ed" was popularized in the English-speaking world by Hungarian emigre and professor of political science at Maryland University, Victor Zitta, who in one of his works about Lukács and his biography relied almost exclusively on official histories of the Hungarian post-war period by the Horthy regime – a regime known for its anti-Semitic and fascist policies and for its collaboration with Nazi Germany. Zitta's book is known for its many inaccuracies: for example, it claims that "on the day of the proclamation of the Commune, Lukacs took the poet Endre Ady from his deathbed and brought him to the central [[Budapest]] square to declare him a saint of the Commune". In fact, Endre Ady had died two months before the day of the proclamation of the Commune.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/bz7haw/did_gyorgy_lukacs_engage_in_cultural_terrorism/</ref>
Lukacs' views on such issues as libertinism and homosexuality were, in fact, much more "[[conservative]]" than his Zitta-inspired critics made them to be. For example, in his work "Die Romantik als Wendung in der deutschen Literatur" he strongly opposes the Romantics' sexual libertinism as a sign of moral decadence, while in his 1934 piece "Hölderlin's Hyperion" he refers to homosexuality as one of the negative traits of the poet Stefan George ("Hölderlin’s Hellenic and republican cult of friendship, for which his models were the [would be] tyrannicides, Harmodius and Aristogiton, is transformed into a prefigurement of the aestheticist, decadent, homosexual George circle.").<ref>https://www.marxists.org/archive/lukacs/works/1934/holderlin.htm</ref>
Lukacs even went on to become the Culture Minister in the government of the [[Hungarian Revolution]] in 1956, a historical event usually celebrated by American conservatives.
==Influence of Cultural Marxism==
==Influence of Cultural Marxism==
[[Cultural Marxism|Cultural marxists]] including [[György Lukács]], representant of the [[Frankfurt School]], promoted to America what later became known as '''cultural terrorism''': radical sex education in public schools, covering such subjects as free love, outdatedness of monogamy, irrelevance of religion and the archaic nature of middle-class family. Women were called upon to rebel against sexual mores of the day, such being the core values to [[Christianity]] and [[Western culture]]. His ideas later became the basis for the sexual revolution embraced by a generation of drug-challenged [[Baby boom|baby-boomers]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Original Intent: How the Democratic and Republican Parties Are Destroying the American Dream |author=James Jaeger |publisher=James Jaeger Film |pages=16min:50sec |url=http://www.originalintent.us/html/ |accessdate=30 Jan 2016}}</ref>
[[Cultural Marxism|Cultural marxists]] including Wilhelm Reich, representant of the [[Frankfurt School]] and author of Die Sexualität im Kulturkampf ("sexuality in the culture war"), 1936 (published later in English as The Sexual Revolution), promoted to America what later became known as '''cultural terrorism''': radical sex education in public schools, covering such subjects as free love, outdatedness of monogamy, irrelevance of religion and the archaic nature of middle-class family. Women were called upon to rebel against sexual mores of the day, such being the core values to [[Christianity]] and [[Western culture]]. His ideas later became the basis for the sexual revolution embraced by a generation of drug-challenged [[Baby boom|baby-boomers]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Original Intent: How the Democratic and Republican Parties Are Destroying the American Dream |author=James Jaeger |publisher=James Jaeger Film |pages=16min:50sec |url=http://www.originalintent.us/html/ |accessdate=30 Jan 2016}}</ref>
== See also ==
== See also ==