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Cultural Marxism

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[[File:Gramsci.png|thumb|200px|Antonio Gramsci]]
'''Cultural Marxism''' is a branch of [[Marxist]] ideology formulated by the ''[[Frankfurt School]]'', which had its origins the early part of the twentieth century. Cultural Marxism comprises much of the foundation of [[political correctness]]. It emerged as a response of [[Europe]]an Marxist intellectuals disillusioned by the early political failures of conventional economic Marxist ideology.<ref>cf. External source: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIdBuK7_g3M Cultural Marxism: The Corruption of America] is a James Jaeger Film with ambition to show how ''a love affair with collectivist ideologies has lead to ever bigger government and the welfare-warfare state. Lead by a Marxist splinter group called the "[[Frankfurt School]]" -- "[[the long march through the institutions]]" has infiltrated every corner of [[Western culture]] to corrupt traditional Christian values with "[[political correctness]]," another name for "cultural Marxism."''</ref>

The central idea of Cultural Marxism is to soften up and prepare [[Western Civilization]] for [[economic]] Marxism after a gradual, relentless, sustained attack on every institution of Western culture,<ref>Ludwig, E. Jeffrey (October 23, 2019). [https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/communist-influences-are-destroying-the-us-faster-and-faster Communist influences are destroying the US, faster and faster]. ''LifeSiteNews''. Retrieved October 23, 2019.</ref> including schools,<ref>Svab, Petr (November 25, 2019). [https://www.theepochtimes.com/school-programs-mixed-with-social-marxism-spread-through-america_3152761.html School Programs Mixed With Social Marxism Spread Through America]. ''The Epoch Times''. Retrieved November 25, 2019.</ref> literature, art, film, the [[Judeo-Christian]] worldview tradition, [[marriage]] and the [[Destroying the family|family]],<ref>Solway, David (August 23, 2018). [https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/karl-marx-hated-marriage-and-marxism-is-marriages-enemy Karl Marx hated marriage, and Marxism is marriage’s enemy]. ''LifeSiteNews'' (from the ''American Thinker''). Retrieved August 28, 2018.</ref> sexual mores, [[War on Sovereignty|national sovereignty]], etc.<ref>cf. The tendency of dictatorial ideologies to influence public institutions etc. so that these would serve their agendas is termed as [[Gleichschaltung]]. 
See also:
*Warner, Gerald (February 4, 2015). [https://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/02/04/for-the-first-time-in-history-conservatives-are-at-the-forefront-of-the-cultural-revolution/ For the First Time in History, ‘Conservatives’ Are at the Forefront of the Cultural Revolution]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved December 25, 2017.
:"By the post-War era the Cultural Marxist programme had a wide-reaching agenda of destruction. It aimed to destroy the family, denying the specific roles of the father and mother, and advocated the teaching of sex and homosexuality to children; mobilisation of women as revolutionaries against men, through aggressive feminism; large-scale immigration to abolish national identity; dependency on the state and state benefits; control and infantilisation of the media."</ref> The attacks are usually framed in Marxist terms as a class struggle between oppressors and oppressed; the members of the latter class allegedly include women, minorities, homosexuals, and adherents of non-Western ideologies such as Islam. Cultural Marxism has been described as "the cultural branch of [[globalism]]."<ref>[https://www.westernmastery.com/2017/03/23/cultural-marxism-is-the-1-enemy-of-western-civilization/ Cultural Marxism is the #1 Enemy of Western Civilization]. ''Western Mastery''. March 23, 2017. Retrieved December 25, 2017.</ref>

While Marx's ''[[Communist Manifesto]]'' focused on the alleged class struggle between bourgeois (owners of the means of production) and proletariat (workers), Marx did address culture, which he intimated would change after his economic vision was implemented. [[Patrick Buchanan]] argues that Cultural Marxism succeeded where Marx failed.<ref>[http://cnsnews.com/blog/grant-m-dahl/buchanan-cultural-marxism-has-succeeded-where-marx-and-lenin-failed Buchanan: ‘Cultural Marxism’ Has Succeeded Where Marx and Lenin Failed], [[CNSNews]]</ref> Marxism has permeated the American Left.<ref>Kirk, Charlie (September 27, 2020). [https://humanevents.com/2020/09/26/far-from-being-dead-true-marxism-is-very-much-alive/ Far From Being “Dead,” True Marxism Is Very Much Alive.] ''Human Events''. Retrieved September 27, 2020.</ref>

Among cultural Marxists, the book ''[[Dialectic of Enlightenment]]'' is considered to be a central text.<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/apr/08/frankfurt-school-dialectic-of-enlightenment The Frankfurt school, part 3: Dialectic of Enlightenment ]</ref><ref>''Dialectic of Enlightenment'' was written in 1944 by Theodor W. Adorno and Max Horkheimer</ref>

An effective way for cultural Marxists to influence the culture is to infiltrate schools and indoctrinate students, which the [[Democratic Socialists of America]] explicitly endorsed in 2018.<ref>Newman, Alex (August 29, 2018). [https://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/education/item/29907-socialists-urge-infiltration-of-government-schools Socialists Urge Infiltration of Government Schools]. ''The New American''. Retrieved August 29, 2018. See also:
*Newman, Alex (February 6, 2019). [https://www.thenewamerican.com/print-magazine/item/31250-education-s-future-globalization-of-indoctrination Education’s Future: Globalization of Indoctrination]. ''The New American''. Retrieved February 6, 2019.</ref>

==History==

===Marx, Engels and Lenin on culture===
The cultural views of [[Karl Marx]] and [[Friedrich Engels]] were, in general, different from those of the 20th century Cultural Marxists. Marx and Engels were proponents of [[Realism]] in the arts and culture. They maintained that any honest artist who longs for truth and is guided by sincere ethics, would end up portraying the grueling realities of [[capitalism]] realistically without having to be a [[socialism|socialist]]. They give the example of their contemporary French writer [[Honoré de Balzac]], who, despite being a staunch [[monarchy|monarchist]], his realist literary works laid bare the immorality of 19th century capitalist relations of production and thus Balzac's work is of great value to progressives even though his personal ideology was conservative. Engels called this the "Triumph of Realism" (Sieg des Realismus), explaining that Balzac's sincere ethics and the fact that his heart longed for truth and objectivity inevitably made him a realist critic of capitalist exploitation in his literature, although his personal political alignment always remained [[conservatism|conservative]]. According to Engels: <blockquote>Balzac boldly exposed the contradiction of nascent capitalist society and hence his observation of reality constantly clashed with his political prejudices. But as an honest artist he always depicted only what he himself saw, learned and underwent, concerning himself not at all whether his-true-to-life description of the things he saw contradicted his pet ideas.<ref>https://www.academia.edu/28848230/Two_Balzacs_Two_Gogols_Two_Tolstoys</ref></blockquote>

Engels declared that Balzac was his favorite writer. Marx's Das Kapital also makes some references to the works of Balzac.

[[Vladimir Lenin]] was also a proponent of Realism and stressed its superiority over [[Modernism]]. He considered [[Leo Tolstoy]] to be the most effective depicter of the everyday life of Russian peasants, even though Tolstoy was a nobleman. Lenin once wrote to [[Maxim Gorky]]: "Until this Count, we had no real peasant in our literature."<ref>https://www.marxists.org/archive/gorky-maxim/1924/lenin-the_man.html</ref> Here too, the personal merit of Tolstoy as an author, to Lenin, is not the superlative genius of Tolstoy that enabled him to represent both the Russian [[Kulak|Kulaks]] as well as the Russian Muzhiks so effectively. Ultimately it was the compulsion for truthful representation that made Tolstoy do so.<ref>https://www.academia.edu/28848230/Two_Balzacs_Two_Gogols_Two_Tolstoys</ref>

Both the thesis of Marx-Engels on Balzac and that of Lenin on Tolstoy hold that it is the conditions of the class struggle which determine those of the cultural struggle, not vice versa (for it was the advent of French capitalism in Balzac's case and the fight of Russian peasants for emancipation in Tolstoy's case that "woke up" the two authors and oriented them towards social realism), and thus the cultural struggle must be subordinate to the class struggle.

In short, all three of Marx, Engels and Lenin considered culture to be part of the "superstructure" rather than the "base", and thus maintained that it is the change in the [[economy]] that leads to the change in a society's culture, and ran contrary to the thesis of the Cultural Marxists that a [[Cultural Revolution|cultural revolution]] can be possible before the socio-politico-economic [[proletariat|proletarian]] revolution.

===Soviet Marxism against Cultural Marxism: Lukacs against the Frankfurt School===

Knowing the above, one can more easily understand the nature of the cultural debates between [[Marxism|Marxist]] intellectuals in the 1920s. The Soviet "orthodox" Marxists, such as [[Grigory Zinoviev]], Nikolai Bukharin and Karl Radek, maintained that the revolution in capitalist countries will come only through the [[class warfare|class struggle]] of the workers against the [[bourgeoisie]] and that culture plays a secondary role in this struggle. They also maintained that Marxist art should adhere to a simple, realistic and popularly understandable depiction of the evils of capitalism.

In a 1924 [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union|Soviet Communist Party]] congress, many Cultural Marxist and Modernist authors were harshly criticized by Soviet officials as "heretics". In his speech entitled The Struggle Against the Ultra-Lefts and Theoretical Revisionism, Zinoviev fiercely attacked [[Georg Lukacs]]' book History and Class Consciousness, declaring: ‘If we get more of these professors spinning out their Marxist theories, we shall be lost. We cannot tolerate theoretical revisionism of this kind in our Communist International.’ Nikolai Bukharin, soon to replace Zinoviev as [[Joseph Stalin]]’s chief ally in the [[Comintern]], told Karl Korsch, author of one of the most influential Cultural Marxist texts: ‘We can’t put every piece of garbage up for discussion.’<ref>https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/revhist/backiss/vol8/no1/smith.html</ref> Karl Radek also formulated the superiority of classical [[European]] Realism over Modernism, saying "If I were to write novels, I would learn how to write them from Tolstoy and Balzac, not from [[James Joyce]]."<ref>https://www.marxists.org/archive/radek/1934/sovietwritercongress.htm</ref> This year, which coincides with Stalin's takeover of the Party, marks the moment in which the [[Soviet Union]] closed its door to Cultural Marxism. Soon, the USSR made illegal such evils as [[homosexuality]] and [[abortion]].<ref>https://www.marxist.com/from-emancipation-to-criminalisation-stalinist-persecution-of-homosexuals-from-1934.htm</ref><ref>http://soviethistory.msu.edu/1936-2/abolition-of-legal-abortion/</ref>. From now on, Cultural Marxists considered the USSR as the "betrayer of the revolution". The advent of the [[Hitler]] dictatorship in [[Germany]] also meant the Frankfurt School was closed, and from 1933 Cultural Marxists started emigrating to America.

Karl Korsch, [[Georg Lukacs]] (only in his early philosophical period) and [[Antonio Gramsci]] (see below) were the original founders of Cultural Marxism. Their thought influenced that of the members of the [[Frankfurt School]] of [[Critical Theory]] ([[Theodor Adorno]], [[Max Horkheimer]], Walter Benjamin, [[Herbert Marcuse]], [[Erich Fromm]] etc.) who mingled Marxism with the theories of [[Sigmund Freud]], [[Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel]] and [[Immanuel Kant]], something unacceptable for Soviet Marxists. For the Cultural Marxists, the world of ideas is equally important to the material one, and they maintained that it is possible for a revolution in the world of ideas to lead to a revolution in the material world. They also abandoned the defense of realism and instead championed [[modernism]] and [[abstract art]], labelled as "degenerate" by both Nazis and Soviets. In response, they equated [[Nazism]] and [[Stalinism]], being some of the first proponents of the theory of [[totalitarianism]]. The Frankfurt School's theories, akin to neo-Hegelian dialectical idealism and "Freudo-Marxism" focusing on "[[sexual revolution|sexual liberation]]", are what forms the crux of Cultural Marxism.

Lukacs, however, soon repudiated these theories and returned to a much more orthodox Marxist stance, coming at odds with his former Frankfurt comrades, whose theories he now labelled "Café Marxism". He chose to live in the Soviet Union and his native [[Hungary]] and became the Culture Minister of the 1956 [[Hungarian Revolution]] under [[Imre Nagy]]. He fiercely criticized those Frankfurt School intellectuals who instead went to live in the comforts of the [[United States]] and [[West Germany]]. In 1962 Lukacs wrote: <blockquote>A considerable part of the leading German intelligentsia, including [[Theodor Adorno|Adorno]], have taken up residence in the "Grand Hotel Abyss" which I described […] as "a beautiful hotel, equipped with every comfort, on the edge of an abyss, of nothingness, of absurdity. And the daily contemplation of the abyss between excellent meals or artistic entertainments, can only heighten the enjoyment of the subtle comforts offered.<ref>https://www.marxists.org/archive/lukacs/works/theory-novel/preface.htm</ref>.</blockquote>

In the world of Marxist thinkers, what Lukacs said here is the equivalent of flashing a red cloth around at an angry bull. Lukacs said that the Frankfurt School thinkers started to become bourgeois idealists who didn't care about having an active hand in the fight against political exploitation and oppression. Now that they were famous and kind of moneyed, they were sitting at their cozy desks at the luxurious Grand Hotel writing about Marxism, but they were becoming increasingly detached from its political cause. He pretty much accused them of hypocrisy—of living like fat-cat capitalists and losing focus.<ref>https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literary-critics/gyorgy-lukacs/quotes</ref>

[[Image:Breitbart1.jpg|thumb|160px|right|Andrew Breitbart]]
[[Andrew Breitbart]] gives a great if not brief crash course discussion about ''Cultural Marxism'' with Peter Robinson of the [[Hoover Institute]] for ''Uncommon Knowledge'', and, in part, this is what he said:
<blockquote>Think about this: These guys left, THESE GUYS LEFT NAZI GERMANY and Mussolini's Italy to come to California in the 1940's and they lived by the beach, and they were depressed by the relentless cheery-ness - the productivity; and the capitalism that they witnessed around them. And they came up with, at the end of the day; We can call it Cultural Marxism, but at the end of the day, we experience it on a day to day basis, by that I mean a minute by minute, second by second basis. It’s political correctness and it’s multiculturalism.<ref>[https://youtu.be/b8CpON8VrRU?t=22m38s Andrew Breitbart - Media War]</ref></blockquote>

In the video, Breitbart discusses the ''Frankfurt School'', ''[[Critical Theory]]'', [[Herbert Marcuse]], [[Antonio Gramsci]], [[Max Horkheimer]], [[Theodor Adorno]], [[Bertolt Brecht]], and others of the German School, many which emigrated to America. He further wrote about ''Cultural Marxism'' more in-depth in his book ''Righteous Indignation''.

===Gramsci===

[[Antonio Gramsci]] was a lieutenant of [[Joseph Stalin]] who headed the [[Italian]] branch of the International Communist movement ([[Comintern]]). After several failed assassination attempts on Mussolini, Gramsci was imprisoned in 1926 until his death in 1937. While in prison Gramsci wrote his ''Prison Notebooks'', speculating on the failure of [[violent]] [[revolution]] to materialize in [[Western Europe]] as [[Karl Marx]] had predicted. Gramsci's works are considered by [[Socialists]] to be foundational to modern [[public education]] and Cultural Marxism.<ref>https://www.jstor.org/stable/23768314?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents</ref><ref>https://www.marxists.org/archive/gramsci/prison_notebooks/problems/education.htm</ref><ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdTTr4iYT0M</ref>

Gramsci's theory of "cultural hegemony" states that the ruling capitalist "oppressor" class uses cultural institutions, such as "traditional marriage," to maintain power. The "oppressors" develop a "hegemonic culture" using [[ideology]] unlike Socialists who use [[violence]], economic force, and coercion. "Hegemonic culture" propagates its own values and norms so that they become "[[common sense]]" values and thus maintain the [[status quo]]. According to [[Wikipedia]], this "Hegemonic power is therefore used to maintain consent to the capitalist order, rather than coercive power using force" as Marxism does "to maintain order. This cultural hegemony is produced and reproduced" by the dominant Christian oppressor class "through the institutions that form the superstructure."

Joseph A. Buttigieg, [[Pete Buttigieg]]'s father, was a founding member of the International Gramsci Society and served as the executive secretary.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20100616163619/http://english.nd.edu/faculty/profiles/joseph-a-buttigieg/</ref>

===Dutschke===
:{{See also|Long march through the institutions}}
The Long march through the institutions is a [[Marxist]] concept formulated in 1967 by the [[West German]] student movement leader Rudi Dutschke. Dutschke reformulated [[Antonio Gramsci]]'s philosophy of cultural Marxism with the phrase ''the long march through the institutions'' (German: ''Marsch durch die Institutionen'') to identify the political war of position or incrementalism, an [[allusion]] to the [[Long March]] (1934–35) of the [[Communist Party of China|Communist Chinese]] [[People's Liberation Army]], by means of which, the [[working class]] or "oppressed" would produce their own intellectuals, civil servants, and culture (dominant ideology) to replace those imposed by the [[bourgeoisie]] or "oppressor class."<ref>{{Citation | url = http://english.nd.edu/faculty/profiles/joseph-a-buttigieg/ | editor1-first = Joseph A | editor1-last = Buttigieg | edition = English critical | last = Gramsci | title = Prison Notebooks | at = p 50 footnote 21 | quote = Long March Through the Institutions21 | deadurl = yes | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20100616163619/http://english.nd.edu/faculty/profiles/joseph-a-buttigieg/ | archivedate = 2010-06-16 | df = }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal| doi = 10.1215/01903659-32-1-33| issn = 0190-3659| volume = 32| issue = 1| pages = 33–52| last = Buttigieg| first = Joseph A.| title = The Contemporary Discourse on Civil Society: A Gramscian Critique| journal = Boundary 2| year = 2005}}</ref><ref name= "davidson">{{Citation | format = web log | url = http://carldavidson.blogspot.com/2006/04/strategy-hegemony-long-march.html | title = Strategy, Hegemony & 'The Long March': Gramsci's Lessons for the Antiwar Movement | first = Carl | last = Davidson | date = 6 April 2006}}.</ref><ref>See also [[Carl Davidson]]</ref><ref>Marsch durch die Institutionen|Marsch durch die Institutionen at German Wikipedia.</ref><ref>[[wikiquote:Antonio Gramsci#Misattributed|Antonio Gramsci: Misattributed]] at English Wikiquote for the origin of “The Long March Through the Institutions” quotation.</ref>

[[Karl Marx]] spoke of a sudden [[revolution]], where everything changes in a moment. Gramsci, the head of the [[Italian]] Communist party, was thrown in prison by [[Benito Mussolini]], where he speculated on the failure of Marxist revolution in his ''Prison Notebooks'', and attributed the failure to the cultural hegemony of the bourgeois oppressor class. Dutschke built on Gramsci's writings by proposing a long march through the cultural institutions of society - the church, entertainment, civil service, educational faculties, family institutions and marriage - to replace the dominant culture and replace it with revolutionary godless cultural Marxism.

Dutschke said, {{Quotebox|"Revolution is not a short act when something happens once and then everything is different. Revolution is a long, complicated process, where one [der Mensch] must become different...the process goes along this way, which I have once named ‘The Long March through the Established Institutions’, in which [institutions], through clarification [Aufklärung], systematic clarification and [[direct action]]s, awareness is brought [Bewusstwerdung] to further minorities in and outside the university, in schools, in trade schools, in engineer schools, also technical universities and finally in factories, where workers are currently worrying about their jobs. The process has begun, and that is a long story, which right now has been set on its course by us."<ref>http://crisiscritique.org/nov2018/boris.pdf</ref><ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_r_XahzELY</ref>}}

Gramsci theorized that if Communism achieved "mastery of human consciousness," then [[concentration camp]]s and [[mass murder]] would be unnecessary. Mastery over the consciousness of the great mass of people could be attained if Communists or their sympathizers gained control of the organs of culture — [[church]]es, [[education]], [[newspaper]]s, magazines, the electronic media, [[literature]], [[music]], the visual arts, and so on. By winning "cultural hegemony," Communism would control the deepest wellsprings of human thought and imagination. One need not control all information itself if one can gain control over the [[mind]]s that assimilate that information. Under such conditions, opposition would disappear since men are no longer capable of grasping the arguments of Marxism's opponents.<ref>https://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/history/item/15545-gramscis-grand-plan</ref>

==Criticism==

The entire left-wing denies that Cultural Marxism exists, dismissing it as a far right ‘conspiracy theory’ and calling the entire topic a ‘myth’ or ‘hoax’. <ref>[https://attackthesystem.com/2014/05/18/on-the-myth-of-cultural-marxism/ On the Myth of "Cultural Marxism"]</ref> [[Wikipedia]] once provided a more honest [https://archive.md/YzkIS article] discussing the topic, before its irreversible slide into progressive bias compelled it to also write it off as a myth. Wikipedia has an entire section titled ''Cultural Marxism conspiracy theory'' within its page for the ''Frankfurt School''.<ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt_School#Cultural_Marxism_conspiracy_theory Frankfurt School - Cultural Marxism conspiracy theory]</ref> As of September 2020, Wikipedia has added an article titled "Cultural Marxism conspiracy theory," using the image of convicted terrorist and self-identified Nazi fascist Anders Behring Breivik to discredit its existence via guilt by association. <ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Marxism_conspiracy_theory</ref> Virtually every single source trying to prove it’s a myth are [[Conflict of interest|blatantly biased towards the left or even come from fellow Marxists. Most egregiously, at least one widely cited source comes from the Frankfurt School itself]].

Perhaps the most common method of ‘rebuttal’ is to accuse those who acknowledge Cultural Marxism’s existence of being anti-semetic. This arises from the tendency of a small minority on the far right to highlight the fact that many of the Frankfurt School’s members were Jewish. The issue with the Frankfurt School is that they are [[Marxists]]; their race, religion, or ethnicity is irrelevant. The overwhelming majority of those who know Cultural Marxism exists share this view, and furthermore don’t rely on finding out if the people responsible for creating and spreading it were Jews either. Indeed, Cultural Marxism’s existence doesn’t rely on any connection to Jewish conspiracy theories.

Other common ‘rebuttals’ include downplaying the impact of the Frankfurt Schools’ ideology on the world, in spite of the fact that [[LGBT|its]] [[BLM|modern-day]] [[Biden regime|adherents]] have unprecedented power and the ideology can be found in the West’s most powerful institutions. There’s also accusations of equating the push for equality and civil rights with a ‘nefarious plot’. Communists have always sought to subvert and co-opt civil rights movements for their own ends, but the fact remains that civil rights and communism are inherently anathema. MLK, the leader of the civil rights movement in the ‘60s, also denounced communism. Cultural Marxism has never truly advocated for civil rights and equality beyond equal outcomes (which they call ‘equity’), the acquisition of which involves severe civil rights violations.

==See also==
*[[Liberal values]]
*[[Anthropological Revolution]]
*[[Critical theory]]
*[[Equity literacy]]
*[[Destroying the family]]
*[[Biden/Harris War on Parents]]
*[[Dialectical unity of self-contradictions]]
*[[Cultural Revolution]]
*[[Frankfurt School]]
*[[Nimrodian aspirations]]
*[[Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel]]

== References ==
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==External links==
* [https://mises.org/blog/cultural-marxism-explained-7-minutes Cultural Marxism Explained in 7 Minutes], by Joseph T. Salerno at the Mises Institute
* [https://www.gotquestions.org/cultural-Marxism.html What is cultural Marxism?], at [[GotQuestions]]
* [http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=552 Political Correctness / Cultural Marxism], [[Discover the Networks]]
* [https://www.theamericanconservative.com/2009/11/19/the-roots-of-political-correctness/ The Roots of Political Correctness], by William S. Lind
* [https://dailycaller.com/2016/09/29/cultural-marxism-is-destroying-america/ Cultural Marxism Is Destroying America], by Moses Apostaticus, September 29, 2016, ''The Daily Caller''
* [https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/11/19/cultural-marxism-enemy-review-michael-walshs-book-devils-pleasure-palace/ Cultural Marxism Is the Enemy: Review of Michael Walsh’s Book ‘The Devil’s Pleasure Palace’], by Austin Ruse, Breitbart News, November 19, 2015.
*[https://topdocumentaryfilms.com/cultural-marxism-corruption-america/ Cultural Marxism: The Corruption of America], 99 min. documentary film.
*[https://www.theepochtimes.com/c-how-the-specter-of-communism-is-ruling-our-world How the Specter of Communism Is Ruling Our World]. ''The Epoch Times''.
*[https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/sacred-mission-to-destroy-normality-weimar-america/ The Sacred Mission To Destroy Normality], by Rod Dreher
*Duke, Selwyn (July 18, 2019). [https://www.thenewamerican.com/reviews/opinion/item/32884-the-left-is-following-communism-s-playbook-for-revolution The Left Is Following Communism’s Playbook for Revolution]. ''The New American''.
*[https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/item/33182-behind-the-deep-state-alex-newman-fake-fall-of-communism The Fake Fall of Communism - Behind the Deep State], ''The New American''.
*[https://youtu.be/PPRjsumWt7w Antonio Gramsci & Cultural Marxism], [[John Birch Society]], Feb 1, 2021. youtube

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==Dec 2021==

I've been trying to figure out how to work this one in, combining the Rittenhouse verdict and [[Fredogate]] with the subject of self-defense: [https://www.bizpacreview.com/2021/11/27/says-the-guy-who-threatens-to-beat-people-up-a-lot-chris-cuomo-is-unhappy-with-self-defense-definition-1168453/ ‘Says the guy who threatens to beat people up;]. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 18:53, December 1, 2021 (EST)
:Will look into it. I have to say that Cuomo wasn't that far lefty before 2016.| Good morning. Please caution on first image, not on an empty stomach.
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::Real "victims" Smollet & Brooks LOL-
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:Looks like a developing, long-running storyline and narrative. Brooks apparently is the next Michael Brown of Ferguson fame. Brooks apparently was trying to surrender to the police (who were incompetently protecting minority citizens from a neighboring city) while fleeing a knife fight when his car accidentally lost control and killed six people. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 20:32, December 2, 2021 (EST)
::Is woke-ism till in the "works" in "improving" this theory? [[User:Telling|Telling]] ([[User talk:Telling|talk]])
:::Oh yes, definitely. These poor oppressed individuals Smollett & Brooks, in their desperate actions to fight for social justice, now face the white man's justice. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 21:13, December 2, 2021 (EST)

::::2 recent...[https://b7net.co.il/dyncontent/2021/11/29/ba4ffd78-e16a-4150-bb28-bd7ddf8e2a5b.jpeg Nov-29-21] |[https://ynet-images1.yit.co.il/picserver5/crop_images/2021/11/29/BJgxmexfFK/BJgxmexfFK_258_173_717_404_0_large.jpg Nov-28-21][[User:Telling|Telling]] ([[User talk:Telling|talk]])
:::::[https://conservapedia.com/Special:Log/upload Done]. Sorry for the delay. I'm up to my ears in research on [[Faucism]] right now. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 22:26, December 4, 2021 (EST)
:::::I got the lynching one, too. Also, my Skype account crashed and I haven't reloaded it yet, so I'm back on Slack for instant messaging. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 23:28, December 4, 2021 (EST)

::::::I'm on there only once in a while. I hope you succeed with Skype etc.. This 2019 is classic, as both messages are on packages... Jihad and swastika...[https://www.0404.co.il/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/חבילות-חשד-למטען-כביש-חוצה-יהודה1-e1564340789639.jpg July/2019, Islamic Jihad w/ swastika in Judea][[User:Telling|Telling]] ([[User talk:Telling|talk]]) 00:26, December 5, 2021 (EST)

:::::::[https://conservapedia.com/File:Jihad_and_swastika.jpg Got it]. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 00:35, December 5, 2021 (EST)
::::::::Seen latest on Chris Cuomo?[[User:Telling|Telling]] ([[User talk:Telling|talk]])
:::::::::It'll be interesting to see where he lands. Maybe as Antfa's press spokesman. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 15:24, December 5, 2021 (EST)
::::::::::This [https://t.co/uGLJtHvlfg Chris Cuomo’s entire career was worth it for this one moment ] is epic.|Another topic, look at this woke Dem useful idiot fooled [https://nypost.com/2021/12/04/woke-new-jersey-dem-fooled-by-fake-rabbis-parody-twitter-account/] the joke of the year.[[User:Telling|Telling]] ([[User talk:Telling|talk]])
:::::::::::Dunno whether to laugh or cry. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 10:11, December 7, 2021 (EST)

===Image===
[https://images1.ynet.co.il/PicServer5/2017/03/30/7685990/76859850100082640360no.jpg Himmler to Mufti 1 (1943)]|[https://images1.ynet.co.il//PicServer5/2017/03/30/7685998/76859870100079640360no.jpg Himmler to Mufti 2 (1943)]|[https://images.jpost.com/image/upload/f_auto,fl_lossy/t_JM_ArticleMainImageFaceDetect/469952 Mufti's Muslim-SS Handschar]|[https://64.media.tumblr.com/6db777f1acef5f25b9aae589731ea5b9/tumblr_pridnjoCTJ1r29p1do1_1280.jpg lying Rashida1]|[https://i.imgur.com/pcM7XRJ.png L.R.2], when you get a chance.[[User:Telling|Telling]] ([[User talk:Telling|talk]])
:[https://conservapedia.com/Special:Log/upload All caught up now.] [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 10:29, December 7, 2021 (EST)
::Thanks. Appreciated, especially that you're so busy. Can you grab a screenshot of this [https://books.google.com/books?id=X74zAQAAIAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=Shukairy+%22Our+common+target%22]?[[User:Telling|Telling]] ([[User talk:Telling|talk]])
:::[https://conservapedia.com/File:Survey_of_China_Mainland_Press,_Issues_3406-3428,_1965,_p_35.PNG Done]. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 14:20, December 8, 2021 (EST)
::::HI. I couldn't stop laughing. This is awesome https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1473079182980788226 [[User:Telling|Telling]] ([[User talk:Telling|talk]]) 21:03, December 20, 2021 (EST)
:::::It's like Andrew Klavan said, we have to laugh our way through the fall of the republic. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 21:13, December 20, 2021 (EST)
::::::Yup. For now. Till with the Grace of God it will all be improved.~~•
:::::::And God acts through people. This we have to realize and keep in mind. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 22:51, December 20, 2021 (EST)
::::::::Sure. Stay safe this holiday season. G'night.[[User:Telling|Telling]] ([[User talk:Telling|talk]])

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Hi. This one is shameful...[https://mobile.twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1473435061768929281/photo/1 Kimberlynn]
Happy New Year![[User:Telling|Telling]] ([[User talk:Telling|talk]]) 00:18, December 27, 2021 (EST)
:Yah, I saw this story, and it was so unbelievable, I wasn't sure which article it could be included in. This looks almost like cult behavior. [ https://conservapedia.com/File:Kimberlynn_Jurkowski.PNG] [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 01:05, December 27, 2021 (EST)
::You're right. Can you grab a screenshot where her name appears at WATKINS section? [https://www.capitolhillclusterschool.org/lsat][[User:Telling|Telling]] ([[User talk:Telling|talk]])
:::[https://conservapedia.com/File:Kimberlynn_Jurkowski_LSAT.PNG How's this?] I can crop it down to just the bottom half, if you want. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 20:13, December 27, 2021 (EST)
::::As always, you're doing great. | I made the distinction between WW2 era and today at ''antifa''. I hope it's clear. As today it's a clear '''oxymoron'''. They always hide their twisted ideas under perceived nice "benign" titles.[[User:Telling|Telling]] ([[User talk:Telling|talk]])
:::::Yah, that Antifa article is pretty good as is, but it could use some reorganization, clarity, and updating. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 23:04, December 27, 2021 (EST)
:::::Basically, it's too cramped. It needs some expansion. The original authors wrote it as if it was the final word on the subject, but much information and interest has developed since then. Perhaps dividing into eras, like pre-WWII, East German, evolution and change, late 20th century, Trump era, Biden era, etc.

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Hi. When you get a chance:
[https://www.brooklynpaper.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/00E83409-D7DC-4478-9033-E9C36ED9AB0A-1200x675.png June 27, 2021. Little Palestine, Bay Ridge]| [https://2nqf1a2pxrmv1i0jyy3lbz8e-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/ScreenShot2020-12-22at4_55_07PM_644fad5187eac0ced9a0031c5b9a2d60_2000-298x300.jpg Swastika on Park Slope school, Dec 13, 2020]| [https://newyork.cbslocal.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/14578484/2021/12/3523-21-68-Pct.-HCTF-12-26-21-Photo-1.jpg?w=1068 Hate crime, little Palestine, Bay Ridge, Dec 28, 2021]. Regards.[[User:Telling|Telling]] ([[User talk:Telling|talk]])

==Lie of the year==
Can someone create a graphic per this:

[https://freebeacon.com/?p=1551060 LIE OF THE THE YEAR: ‘I Will Shut Down The Virus’]
<blockquote>
Biden's COVID-19 death count passes 400K

Andrew Stiles • December 23, 2021

More than 400,000 Americans have died from COVID-19 since President Joe Biden took office.
Biden achieved the grim milestone despite repeatedly telling the American people that electing him president was the only way to "shut down the virus." That turned out to be an egregious lie.

The Washington Free Beacon projects that Biden's COVID-19 death toll will exceed that of his predecessor (408,450) by the end of the year, and will reach approximately 420,069 by the time he delivers his first State of the Union address.</blockquote>
Thanks.[[User:Telling|Telling]] ([[User talk:Telling|talk]])
:I've been on the lookout for a graphic, too. Maybe I can ask LT to do something with it.
:Anther thing I've been looking for, which according to public and private agencies that keep such records and are often delayed months and years, is the number of illegal immigrant deaths, both in custody and out. Since it's been a record year of illegal immigration, it naturally follows that it must also have been a record year of illegal immigrant deaths, whether in custody, crossing the border, or trying to cross the border. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 18:17, December 23, 2021 (EST)
:Since Biden invited illegals in, if a mother and child died of thirst in the Sonora desert 100 miles south of the border, or were murdered by cayotes for not paying a fee, those deaths can also be laid on Biden's doorstep. That's what Democrats call "compassion." [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]]

::What an interesting and such an important subject. You're so right. I'm sure there are so many unknown cases. 2,800 died between 2009-2019 [https://www.animalpolitico.com/2019/03/mexicanos-murieron-frontera-eu/]. Yet:<blockquote>650 deaths on the US border.- Mexico EN 2021, according to organization 1:18 (CNN) - At least 650 people died when trying to cross the border between Mexico and the United States this year, more than any other year since an international body began documenting</blockquote>
[https://cnnespanol.cnn.com/2021/12/09/muertes-migrantes-frontera-mexico-estados-unidos-trax/][[User:Telling|Telling]] ([[User talk:Telling|talk]])
:::I've been studying this question for much of this year now, and it's hard to back up numbers with good sources, but I'd say 650 on the U.S side sounds very realistic (up from a 280 average over the past 10 years). And it cannot be conclusive, cause we have little or no idea what happens on the Mexican side, which has all the same qualifying factor to account. And the numbers of those forced into human trafficing and sexual slavery could be 10 times as high as what happens to an illegal once they reach the U.S. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 18:39, December 23, 2021 (EST)

==R.T.==
Seen [https://www.wnd.com/2021/11/notorious-dem-rashida-tlaib-grins-talks-dream-release-every-con-federal-prison/ this]?[[User:Telling|Telling]] ([[User talk:Telling|talk]])
:Yah, this deserves follow up and adding to her bio. Dems are splitting between the "Normal Democrats" and Defunders right now, but Tlaib seems intent on keeping the Defund Police/End Bail/Abolish the Prison Industrial Complex movement alive upto the 2022 elections. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 20:38, November 27, 2021 (EST)

==Qatar==
Qatari hypocrisy - cartoon in Chatlie Hebdo [https://mobile.twitter.com/oritperlov/status/1429773962871984130/photo/1]. Thanks.[[User:Telling|Telling]] ([[User talk:Telling|talk]])

==New section==
Hi.
Good [https://twitter.com/Forbes/status/1488617503853060101 answer] by McConnell. Regards. Thanks.[[User:Telling|Telling]] ([[User talk:Telling|talk]])

==AOC image==
Hi Rob. [https://mobile.twitter.com/GPrime85/status/1441136342637944832/photo/1 img] Caption -
"You mean all those poor rockets won't even get a chance to land?" [https://twitter.com/gprime85/status/1441136342637944832 source][[User:Telling|Telling]] ([[User talk:Telling|talk]])

==Racism images==
Hi Rob. This one relates to the image you uploaded days ago of Time100. The elkurd twins.
[https://i2.wp.com/www.israellycool.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/muna-hitler.png?ssl=1 img]
[https://algulf.net/2021/07/04/palestinian-arab-poster-boy-mohammed-el-kurds-jew-hate-emerges/ source] | This one is about Arab Oakestinisbs" putting up nazi flags near their mosque in Beit Ummar in 2014. [https://www.srugim.co.il/i/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/TAZ1__w200h200q80.jpg img] [https://mobile.srugim.co.il/article/45694 source] | This nazi flag was put up today by Arabs Palestinians in Beit Ummar and was removed by the IDF.
[https://twitter.com/Saher95755738/status/1441784045021671428?s=20 img] [https://m.jpost.com/breaking-news/nazi-flag-taken-down-by-idf-soldiers-in-hebron-680311/amp info][[User:Telling|Telling]] ([[User talk:Telling|talk]]) 19:55, September 25, 2021 (EDT)
:Ok, sorry, i forgot. You want the AOC image, too, right. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]] 20:59, September 25, 2021 (EDT)

::OK, got'em all. [https://conservapedia.com/Special:Log/upload] [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]] 21:12, September 25, 2021 (EDT)

== [[MediaWiki:Sidebar]] ==

Want to make "New Pages" lowercase as "New pages" (just to be consistent with the capitalization of the other common noun words in the sidebar list)? [[User:Patriotic Gamer|Patriotic Gamer]] ([[User talk:Patriotic Gamer|talk]]) 13:41, August 9, 2021 (EDT)
:Yah. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]] 02:42, August 10, 2021 (EDT)
::I haven't seen changes take effect yet. [[User:Patriotic Gamer|Patriotic Gamer]] ([[User talk:Patriotic Gamer|talk]]) 08:37, August 10, 2021 (EDT)

== [[Kirby's Dream Land 2]] ==
Is it ok if you undelete this video game article too? I forgot to request it -- thank you [[User:Patriotic Gamer|Patriotic Gamer]] ([[User talk:Patriotic Gamer|talk]]) 08:37, August 10, 2021 (EDT)

== Files for deletion ==

Mind deleting:

*[[:File:Flag of Colombia.jpg]] (duplicate of [[:File:Flag of Colombia.png|this file]])
*[[:File:Flag of the Comoros.jpg]] (duplicate of [[:File:Flag of the Comoros.png|this file]])
*[[:File:Flag of Hungary.gif]] (duplicate of [[:File:Flag of Hungary.png|this file]])
*[[:File:Flag of Luxembourg.gif]] (duplicate of [[:File:Flag of Luxembourg.png|this file]])
*[[:File:Flag of Monaco.gif]] (duplicate of [[:File:Flag of Monaco.png|this file]])
*[[:File:Medal Law.jpg]] and [[:File:Medal Music.jpg]] (MS Paint-like pictures that probably don't have a practical use)
*[[:File:Maine State Flag.gif]] (duplicate of [[:File:Flag of Maine.png|this file]])
*[[:File:Georgia State Flag.gif]] (duplicate of [[:File:Flag of State of Georgia.png|this file]])
*[[:File:Arizona State Flag.gif]] (duplicate of [[:File:Flag of Arizona.png|this file]])
*[[:File:Pennsylvania State Flag.gif]] (duplicate of [[:File:Flag of Pennsylvania.png|this file]])
*[[:File:South Carolina State Flag.gif]] (duplicate of [[:File:Flag of South Carolina.png|this file]])
*[[:File:North Carolina State Flag.gif]] (duplicate of [[:File:Flag of North Carolina.png|this file]])
*[[:File:New Jersey State Flag.gif]] (duplicate of [[:File:Flag of New Jersey.png|this file]])
*[[:File:11121.gif]] (duplicate of [[:File:Flag of Virginia.png|this file]])
*[[:File:Rhode Island State Flag.gif]] (duplicate of [[:File:Flag of Rhode Island.png|this file]])
[[User:Patriotic Gamer|Patriotic Gamer]] ([[User talk:Patriotic Gamer|talk]]) 13:16, August 10, 2021 (EDT)

:Hey, thanks. What a mess, huh? [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]] 16:28, August 10, 2021 (EDT)

::Yeah I've noticed quite a bit of things needing cleanup around the wiki, including duplicate/low quality unused files. There's more state flags that I haven't listed yet. you forgot to delete [[:File:Medal Music.jpg]] btw [[User:Patriotic Gamer|Patriotic Gamer]] ([[User talk:Patriotic Gamer|talk]]) 16:42, August 10, 2021 (EDT)

:::Thanks for your help, it's much appreciated. That Categorization scheme is all screwed up, so it's difficult to even round up what needs to be deleted. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]] 16:46, August 10, 2021 (EDT)

::::Yeah, and I have to ask administrators about some of these because some are admin-protected so therefore cannot be tagged. I'll try and see if I can find more [[User:Patriotic Gamer|Patriotic Gamer]] ([[User talk:Patriotic Gamer|talk]]) 16:49, August 10, 2021 (EDT)

::::My guess is 11k of 22k Files are uncategorized. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]] 16:51, August 10, 2021 (EDT)

Here's some more:

*[[:File:DC flag.jpg]] (duplicate of [[:File:DC flag.GIF|this file]])
*[[:File:2628589070 30f1d23517.jpg]] (doesn't appear to serve any practical purpose)
*[[:File:Capital.jpg]] (file redirect with no links to it)
*[[:File:Vermont State Flag.gif]] (duplicate of [[:File:Flag of Vermont.png|this file]])
*[[:File:Wyoming State Flag.gif]] (duplicate of [[:File:Flag of Wyoming.png|this file]])
*[[:File:Tennessee State Flag.gif]] (duplicate of [[:File:Flag of Tennessee.png|this file]])

[[User:Patriotic Gamer|Patriotic Gamer]] ([[User talk:Patriotic Gamer|talk]]) 17:06, August 10, 2021 (EDT)
:A couple of those still link to pages. 18:41, August 10, 2021 (EDT)
::The DC flag one no longer does. [[User:Patriotic Gamer|Patriotic Gamer]] ([[User talk:Patriotic Gamer|talk]]) 11:11, August 11, 2021 (EDT)

== Deleting short articles ==

Personally, I don't see any harm in short stubs: CP could work at least as a kind of dictionary. But I suppose it is a matter of taste.
Just a request: could you check "what links here" before deleting a page? Thanks! --[[User:AugustO|AugustO]] ([[User talk:AugustO|talk]]) 09:24, August 11, 2021 (EDT)
:Yah, that's what I've been doing, but a few might have slipped past. The problem right now is, much of these pages someone studiously compiled in [[:Category:Dictionary]] are all orphans. And no one has bothered to de-orphan in 10 years. This is an object lesson for all editors: when you create a page, make sure you integrate the page into the whole wiki with a reverse link from at least one other page. Otherwise, it might eventually get deleted. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]] 09:42, August 11, 2021 (EDT)

== Administrators ==

A couple of days ago, I looked up the [https://conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Special:ListUsers&group=sysop list of administrators] (to find someone to convince Andy on a mathematical subject): most of them have stopped contributing before 2012. Do you intend to delete all of their talk-pages and user-pages? Or is there a reason that you singled out User:Joaquin Martinez? It leaves lots of red links behind.... --[[User:AugustO|AugustO]] ([[User talk:AugustO|talk]]) 02:57, August 12, 2021 (EDT)
:That was done on user request, I beleive. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]] 03:09, August 12, 2021 (EDT)

== More files for deletion ==

*[[:File:Nevada State Flag.gif]] (duplicate of [[:File:Flag of Nevada.png|this file]])
*[[:File:Texas State Flag.gif]] (duplicate of [[:File:Flag of Texas.png|this file]])
*[[:File:Arkansas State Flag.gif]] (duplicate of [[:File:Flag of Arkansas.png|this file]])
*[[:File:California State Flag.gif]] (duplicate of [[:File:Flag of California.png|this file]])
*[[:File:Colorado State Flag.gif]] (duplicate of [[:File:Flag of Colorado.png|this file]])
*[[:File:Connecticut State Flag.gif]] (duplicate of [[:File:Flag of Connecticut.png|this file]])
*[[:File:Delaware State Flag.gif]] (duplicate of [[:File:Flag of Delaware.png|this file]])
*[[:File:Florida State Flag.gif]] (duplicate of [[:File:Flag of Florida.png|this file]])
*[[:File:Hawaii State Flag.gif]] (duplicate of [[:File:Flag of Hawaii.png|this file]])
*[[:File:Idaho State Flag.gif]] (duplicate of [[:File:Flag of Idaho.png|this file]])
*[[:File:Indiana State Flag.gif]] (duplicate of [[:File:Flag of Indiana.png|this file]])
*[[:File:Iowa State Flag.gif]] (duplicate of [[:File:Flag of Iowa.png|this file]])
*[[:File:Kansas State Flag.gif]] (duplicate of [[:File:Flag of Kansas.png|this file]])
*[[:File:Kentucky State Flag.gif]] (duplicate of [[:File:Flag of Kentucky.png|this file]])
*[[:File:Louisiana State Flag.gif]] (duplicate of [[:File:Flag of Louisiana.png|this file]])
*[[:File:Maryland State Flag.gif]] (duplicate of [[:File:Flag of Maryland.png|this file]])
*[[:File:Massachusetts State Flag.gif]] (duplicate of [[:File:Flag of Massachusetts.png|this file]], although the GIF needs to be replaced with the PNG duplicate on two admin-protected articles)
*[[:File:Michigan State Flag.gif]] (duplicate of [[:File:Flag of Michigan.png|this file]])
*[[:File:Mississippi State Flag.gif]] (duplicate of [[:File:Flag of Mississippi.png|this file]])
*[[:File:Missouri State Flag.gif]] (duplicate of [[:File:Flag of Missouri.png|this file]])
*[[:File:Montana State Flag.gif]] (duplicate of [[:File:Flag of Montana.png|this file]])
*[[:File:Nebraska State Flag.gif]] (duplicate of [[:File:Flag of Nebraska.png|this file]])
*[[:File:New Hampshire State Flag.gif]] (duplicate of [[:File:Flag of New Hampshire.png|this file]])
*[[:File:New Mexico State Flag.gif]] (duplicate of [[:File:Flag of New Mexico.png|this file]])
*[[:File:Newyorkflag.gif]] (duplicate of [[:File:Flag of New York.png|this file]])
*[[:File:North Dakota State Flag.gif]] (duplicate of [[:File:Flag of North Dakota.png|this file]])
*[[:File:Ohio State Flag.gif]] (duplicate of [[:File:Flag of Ohio.png|this file]])
*[[:File:Oklahoma State Flag.gif]] (duplicate of [[:File:Flag of Oklahoma.png|this file]])
*[[:File:Oregon State Flag (Front).gif]] (duplicate of [[:File:Flag of Oregon.png|this file]])
*[[:File:Oregon State Flag (Back).gif]] (duplicate of [[:File:Flag of Oregon reverse.png|this file]])
*[[:File:South Dakota State Flag.gif]] (duplicate of [[:File:Flag of South Dakota.png|this file]])
*[[:File:Utah State Flag.gif]] (duplicate of [[:File:Flag of Utah.png|this file]])
*[[:File:Washington State Flag.gif]] (duplicate of [[:File:Flag of Washington.png|this file]])
*[[:File:Flag of Wisconsin.png]] (duplicate of [[:File:Wisconsin state flag.png|this file]])
*[[:File:Flag of the Northern Mariana Islands.png]] (duplicate of [[:File:Flag of the Northern Mariana Islands.svg.png|this file]])
*[[:File:Flag of the United States Virgin Islands.png]] (duplicate of [[:File:Flag of the United States Virgin Islands.svg.png|this file]])
*[[:File:Flag of Guam.png]] (duplicate of [[:File:Flag of Guam.svg.png|this file]])
*[[:File:DC flag.GIF]] (duplicate of [[:File:Flag of Washington, D.C..png|this file]])

[[User:Patriotic Gamer|Patriotic Gamer]] ([[User talk:Patriotic Gamer|talk]]) 15:27, August 12, 2021 (EDT)
:Thanks! I'll get on it with the next batch. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]] 15:49, August 12, 2021 (EDT)
::Connecticut's one hasn't been deleted yet (oversight?) and i provided a note for the Massachusetts flag. [[User:Patriotic Gamer|Patriotic Gamer]] ([[User talk:Patriotic Gamer|talk]]) 20:47, August 14, 2021 (EDT)
:::Yah it's on hold for now. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]] 04:36, August 15, 2021 (EDT)

== In the News ==

::Please add to the Conservapedia headlines how Twitter has suspended Amrullah Saleh but not the Taliban[[https://www.republicworld.com/technology-news/social-media-news/afghanistan-twitter-suspends-accounts-of-amrullah-salehs-office-taliban-still-active.html]].[[User:Bytemsbu|Bytemsbu]] ([[User talk:Bytemsbu|talk]]) 12:10, August 19, 2021 (EDT)
:::I dunno; what is the significnce? Big Tech and Twitter have been working against America and for the Taliban for years now already. 12:18, August 19, 2021 (EDT)
:::Don't you think Biden [[colluding]] with Russia is a bigger story? [https://tass.com/world/1326699] [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]] 12:25, August 19, 2021 (EDT)

::Well I think it is important given how Amrullah Saleh is the leader of Afghanistan.[[User:Bytemsbu|Bytemsbu]] ([[User talk:Bytemsbu|talk]]) 12:57, August 19, 2021 (EDT)
:::(a) never heard of him (b) is there a single leader? (c) I thought it was [[Mullah Baradar]]. You're not falling for CCP/Big Tech/MSM agitprop to confuse people and take the focus off real issues, are you? [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]] 13:18, August 19, 2021 (EDT)

:::Baradar is the head of the Taliban not the legitimate Afghan government. But if you feel there are issues more important than this then you don't need to put it. [[User:Bytemsbu|Bytemsbu]] ([[User talk:Bytemsbu|talk]]) 13:31, August 19, 2021 (EDT)

::"legitimate government?" Wow. Wow. And again I say wow. Talk about putting the barndoor before the horse.... [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]] 13:48, August 19, 2021 (EDT)

::Did I hear you right? Are you referring to a group that shoots women in the street for not wearing burqas, as "legitimate"? Maybe in Twitter world, Anthony Blinken, Joe Biden, a host of Democrats and MSM, but not in the real universe that I personally was born into, or the real universe that God created. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]] 14:05, August 19, 2021 (EDT)

::My sources say, "[https://uncoverdc.com/2021/08/16/bidens-disastrous-exit-from-afghanistan/ Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani has already relinquished power to an interim government led by Taliban commander Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar."] What is significant here is, we don't have articles on either Amrullah Saleh or Mullah Baradar, before we go off half-cocked on MSM/Democrat/Biden junta/CCP [[fake news]]. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]] 15:38, August 19, 2021 (EDT)

==You're a liberal==
Deletion of climate LIBRAL
:Sticks and stones may break my bones, but idiots never hurt me. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]] 20:12, August 21, 2021 (EDT)

== A request ==

I don't think Conservapedia has in it's manual of style page info on not creating orphan pages.

Since orphan pages are not a good thing and you have mentioned how irritating they are to you, please update our manual of style page. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 00:56, August 23, 2021 (EDT)

:Ok, will do. it kinda goes hand in hand with categorizing, too. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]] 01:11, August 23, 2021 (EDT)
== Request ==

For [[:File:Guy L. Moser bioguide picture.jpg]], I made the mistake of downloading the direct history.house.gov version to upload rather than Wikimedia Common's improved version. However, if I upload a new cropped version with even a slightly different aspect ratio, everything will likely get messed up. Can you go to the file page and see if you can delete the current file version without deleting the page entirely? Correct me if I'm wrong, but there should be a way to do that in the timestamp table under "File history." Thanks! —[[User:Liberaltears|<code>'''LT'''</code>]]'''''[[User talk:Liberaltears|May D.C., his mother, and I.S. be all well!]]''''' Saturday, 16:19, September 25, 2021 (EDT)
:I see you deleted the file, which still works because I was able to upload a better version in its place successfully; however, was it impossible to only delete the file version without deleting the entire page, even though there was only one file revision? —[[User:Liberaltears|<code>'''LT'''</code>]]'''''[[User talk:Liberaltears|May D.C., his mother, and I.S. be all well!]]''''' Saturday, 16:31, September 25, 2021 (EDT)
:(ec) I dunno if that fixed it. You may have to re-upload as File:Guy L. Moser bioguide picture2 or something. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]] 16:32, September 25, 2021 (EDT)
::Whoops, pardon my quick reply here which caused an edit conflict. So to clarify, my request was to avoid having to re-upload the file separately under another title. —[[User:Liberaltears|<code>'''LT'''</code>]]'''''[[User talk:Liberaltears|May D.C., his mother, and I.S. be all well!]]''''' Saturday, 16:34, September 25, 2021 (EDT)
== Vaccine mandates and a quote from a Clint Eastwood movie ==

[[Image:Hitler.jpg|thumb|300px|center|[[Adolf Hitler]] was against vaccine mandates!<ref>[https://jacobinmag.com/2021/09/vaccine-mandates-covid-pandemic-german-nazi-inoculation-policy You Know Who Else Opposed Vaccine Mandates? Hitler.]</ref> ]]
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[[File:Washington-deleware.jpg|thumbnail|600px|center|General [[George Washington]] ordered [[smallpox]] inoculations for all troops.<ref>[https://health.mil/News/Articles/2021/08/16/Gen-George-Washington-Ordered-Smallpox-Inoculations-for-All-Troops General George Washington Ordered [[Smallpox]] Inoculations for All Troops]</ref>
 
 
"I have right to a lawYEEER!" - the killer Scorpio in the 1971 movie ''Dirty Harry'' which featured [[Clint Eastwood]].<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066999/characters/nm0000142 Dirty Harry (1971)]</ref>
 
 
Apparently, George Washington's troops didn't have ready access to legal counsel concerning their innoculations or they thought they had weak cases. Or consider this radical thought: His troops thought their responsibility to get vaccinated against smallpox trumped any potential right they had to not get vaccinated.]]
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[[File:Donald Trump and Jesus is King sign.jpg|center|thumbnail|400px|A quick note to [[conservative]], Republican [[Donald Trump]] supporters who are against Covid-19 vaccines: Donald J. Trump launched [[Operation Warp Speed]] which helped cause Covid-19 vaccines be developed in a speedy fashion. Put that in your anti Covid-19 vaccine pipes and smoke it!
 
 
Donald Trump and [[Melania Trump]] were both vaccinated with a Covid-19 vaccine with no apparent catastrophic effects!<ref>[https://www.deseret.com/2021/4/23/22399234/former-president-donald-trump-americans-coronavirus-vaccine-obama-bush-clinton-carter Former President Donald Trump tells Americans to get the coronavirus vaccine, calls it a ‘true miracle’]</ref>
 
 
Serious side effects that could cause a long-term health problem are extremely unlikely following any vaccination, including COVID-19 vaccination. Vaccine monitoring has historically shown that side effects generally happen within six weeks of receiving a vaccine dose.<ref>[https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/safety/safety-of-vaccines.html#:~:text=Serious%20side%20effects%20that%20could,receiving%20a%20vaccine%20dose. Safety of COVID-19 Vaccines]</ref> See also: [https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/coronavirus/in-depth/coronavirus-long-term-effects/art-20490351 Long haul Covid-19 - Mayo Clinic]
 
 
For more information, please see: [https://conservapedia.com/User:Conservative/Sports,_exercise_and_diet#Coronavirus_prevention.2C_info_and_treatments Coronavirus prevention, Covid-19 vaccines, treatments and general information] ]]
:Yah, Hitler was against smoking, too. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]] 04:10, September 30, 2021 (EDT)
:(A) Donald Trump ordered a vaccine, not a genetic experiment. (B) mRNA experiments are not a vaccine. (C) The CDC changed the definition of vaccine in August 2021. (D) Dr. Anthony Fauci did not inform President Trump that [[SARS-CoV-2]] was not a naturally occurring virus and was created in a laboratory at the time of President Trump's approval of Warp Speed. (E) We still await the arrival of a vaccine, and the results of the illegal genetic experiments. However, the science has become so politicized, it's impossible to put a timeframe on expectations. Simply because Trump was deceived by the CCP, WHO, and Dr. Fauci is your weakest argument to have confidence in genetic experiments carrying the misnomer of a vaccine. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]] 04:48, September 30, 2021 (EDT)
:(E) And your use of MSM & govt propaganda regarding George Washington is flawed. That was [https://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/smallpox/sp_variolation.html variolation], not vaccination. Variolation is taking material {scabs} directly from an infected person and infecting another person. Your cited source uses the word inoculation; the alleged covid vaccines fail to inoculate, witness [[breakthrough case]]s. A vaccine is the actual virus itself, measured out in doses to fit a person's age and body weight. The mRNA spiked protein is invented in a laboratory and is not a synthetic reproduction of the SARS CoV-19 virus. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]] 07:19, September 30, 2021 (EDT)
::I think we should largely agree to disagree.

::I do know that you are incorrect about some basic facts.

::For example, vaccines commonly are not 100% effective and thus have some breakthrough cases. "Even the measles vaccine, which is incredibly effective, fails to protect about 3 percent of vaccinated individuals who are exposed to the virus. Jonas Salk's polio vaccine—hailed a medical miracle—was 80 percent to 90 percent effective at preventing paralysis caused by the polio virus. Breakthrough infections of flu are even more common. While the exact effectiveness of the flu vaccine fluctuates year-to-year, it ranges between 40 percent and 60 percent."[https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/six-important-things-know-about-breakthrough-infections-180978408/]

::In addition, even in the case of breakthrough cases of coronavirus, a person's morbidity rate will be lower than if they were not inoculated against the disease.[[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 12:31, September 30, 2021 (EDT)

:::Well, we can resolve much of this by understanding what a vaccine is. Vaccines are measured doses of the virus itself to induce an immunological reaction. It should be obvious by now that covid so-called "vaccines" do no such thing. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]] 14:33, September 30, 2021 (EDT)
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=== Notes ===
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== Uighur Genocide Article ==

:How do you propose that we start the article?[[User:Bytemsbu|Bytemsbu]] ([[User talk:Bytemsbu|talk]]) 20:26, October 3, 2021 (EDT)

::[https://conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&profile=advanced&search=%22Uyghur+genocide%22&fulltext=Search&ns0=1&ns1=1&ns2=1&ns3=1&ns4=1&ns5=1&ns6=1&ns7=1&ns8=1&ns9=1&ns10=1&ns11=1&ns12=1&ns13=1&ns14=1&ns15=1&ns120=1&ns121=1&ns122=1&ns123=1&ns124=1&ns125=1&ns126=1&ns127=1&profile=advanced Here's all the pages that use the term.] In the China article, we have three different subsections that touch on it, [[China#East_Turkestan_.28Xinjiang.29]], [[China#Uyghurs_and_Muslims]], and [[China#Uyghur_genocide]]. I suggest we begin with the cite in [https://conservapedia.com/China#cite_note-183 footnote 183] from the Uyghur genocide subsection for the Intro, and consolidate information from the other two subsections to eliminate redundancy.

::Also, after laying out the case for genocide in the main body, then include a second section on Forced labor and re-education, which technically may be considered a separate issue from [[genocide]], and eventually can be made into a single article as well, with information collected in a Uyghur genocide page. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]] 20:51, October 3, 2021 (EDT)

::I named the article as East Turkestani genocide due to it including not just Uighurs but all Turkic peoples.[[User:Bytemsbu|Bytemsbu]] ([[User talk:Bytemsbu|talk]]) 21:16, October 3, 2021 (EDT)

== Category move request ==

Hi RobSmith, can you please move Category:Old Guard (The South) to "Category:Old Republicans (The South)" without leaving a redirect? When I created the category, it had been a while since I read a hard cover of ''The End of Southern Exceptionalism'', and now realizing that I can just access it via Google Books and even [https://books.google.com/books?id=tiNYRu5rvVgC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q=old&f=false search for key terms], I likely confused the term used in the book with something else.

Thanks! —[[User:Liberaltears|<code>'''LT'''</code>]]'''''[[User talk:Liberaltears|May D.C., his mother, and I.S. be all well!]]''''' Saturday, 22:43, October 29, 2021 (EDT)

== YOU ARE A RADICAL ABORTIONIST ==

YOU DISGUST ME!!! YOU THINK ABORTION ISNT MURDER. GET A LIFE AND GO BACK TO LIBERAL WIKIPEDIA!! IM REFERING TO WHEN YOU REMOVED MY EDITS FROM PRAMILLA JAYAPAL!!! SHE MURDERED HUMAN AND YOU SUPPORT THAT DISGUSTING {{unsigned|Superbanana}}

== Conservative Of The Year 2021 ==

Hello,

It starting to get close towards the end of the year. Should Conservapedia create the Conservative Of The Year, 2021 page? Also, I think it might be interesting if Conservapedia created a RINO Of The Year.--[[User:TheNewRight|TheNewRight]] ([[User talk:TheNewRight|talk]]) 14:22, November 4, 2021 (EDT)
:I think there is a page already started, but I don't have a link yet. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]] 01:44, November 5, 2021 (EDT)
::The Conservative Of The Year, 2021 page does not appear to have been made yet. Could I be given permission to make the page?--[[User:TheNewRight|TheNewRight]] ([[User talk:TheNewRight|talk]]) 18:35, November 17, 2021 (EST)
:::Sure. Please pattern it after the previous year's pages with the appropriate catgorization, etc. If another already exists and found later, we can merge it. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]] 18:38, November 17, 2021 (EST)
::::Could you give me the power to create new pages? I cannot create new pages.--[[User:TheNewRight|TheNewRight]] ([[User talk:TheNewRight|talk]]) 18:36, November 18, 2021 (EST)
:::::Do you have SkipCapthca? [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]] 19:09, November 18, 2021 (EST)
::::::I do not think I do.--[[User:TheNewRight|TheNewRight]] ([[User talk:TheNewRight|talk]]) 21:52, November 18, 2021 (EST)
:::::::Never mind I do have SkipCaptcha. How would I go about crating a page. I cannot figure out how to create one.--[[User:TheNewRight|TheNewRight]] ([[User talk:TheNewRight|talk]]) 21:54, November 18, 2021 (EST)
::::::::Do you know how to activate your user page? [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]] 21:56, November 18, 2021 (EST)
::::::::According to your contribs, [https://conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Talk:List_of_Former_Tea_Party_Supporters_Who_Have_Become_RINOs_or_Never_Trumpers&diff=1685562&oldid=1683587 you created this page right here.] [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]] 22:00, November 18, 2021 (EST)
:::::::::I was able to create the page! Thank you for your help!--[[User:TheNewRight|TheNewRight]] ([[User talk:TheNewRight|talk]]) 23:24, November 18, 2021 (EST)

== Conservative is doxxing others ==

In [[Essay:_A_reply_to_some_desperate_secular_liberals/leftists_who_pulled_out_the_race_card_and_unsuccessfully_tried_to_compare_me_to_Klansmen#10_point_to_do_list_and_considerations_concerning_potential_defamation_lawsuit_or_lawsuits_2|this recent essay of his]], the fifth point in that particular subsection is publicly revealing private information about others. Can you delete the essay, since I don't have deletion powers? Thanks. —[[User:Liberaltears|<code>'''LT'''</code>]]'''''[[User talk:Liberaltears|May D.C., his mother, and I.S. be all well!]]''''' Sunday, 13:37, November 7, 2021 (EST)
::Yah I saw. I initiated a private discussion. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]] 15:04, November 7, 2021 (EST)
:::Shouldn't those types of inappropriate postings simply be nuked on the spot? It doesn't matter who inserts such information, as they should not be allowed to remain on the site, period. —[[User:Liberaltears|<code>'''LT'''</code>]]'''''[[User talk:Liberaltears|May D.C., his mother, and I.S. be all well!]]''''' Sunday, 15:07, November 7, 2021 (EST)
:::Also, thanks for removing the link to the essay from MPR. —[[User:Liberaltears|<code>'''LT'''</code>]]'''''[[User talk:Liberaltears|May D.C., his mother, and I.S. be all well!]]''''' Sunday, 15:08, November 7, 2021 (EST)
:::::(ec) Yes, for registered users, but an Admin should be given the opportunity to correct the error. I did remove the link from MPR to the doxxing page. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]] 15:10, November 7, 2021 (EST)
:::::This reminds much of another unnamed former Admin: he just likes pressing buttons to nuke his enemies because he can and doesn't think before hand. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]] 15:13, November 7, 2021 (EST)
::::::Conservative has demonstrated himself to continuously make inappropriate postings and often times stubbornly refuse to admit he's wrong. He's been given enough chances. —[[User:Liberaltears|<code>'''LT'''</code>]]'''''[[User talk:Liberaltears|May D.C., his mother, and I.S. be all well!]]''''' Sunday, 15:13, November 7, 2021 (EST)
:::::::They think being an Admin is just a game of Space Invaders and they can nuke their opponents by pressing a button. This is why I advocated for bureaucrat powers to teach them the proper role of an Admin. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]] 15:15, November 7, 2021 (EST

== Trevor Noah ==

I think [[Trevor Noah]] is very famous liberal comedian. in article I showed his double standards for his views on police brutality in USA and South Africa. I wish you to show the article again, and thank you --[[User:Alex Kosh|Alex Kosh]] ([[User talk:Alex Kosh|talk]]) 16:33, November 7, 2021 (EST)
:I recreated the page. It needs to be brought up to encyclopedic standards. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]] 19:22, November 7, 2021 (EST)

== Please delete the two revisions left by a recent vandal ==

[[Special:Contributions/PerterKabangsLT|Please hide the content, username and edit summaries for those diffs ASAP.]] Thanks. —[[User:Liberaltears|<code>'''LT'''</code>]]'''''[[User talk:Liberaltears|(TALK PAGE]] | [[Special:Contributions/Liberaltears|CONTRIBUTIONS)]]''''' Friday, 21:59, November 18, 2021 (EST)
:User:Conservative is more skilled at deleting whole talk pages like that than I am. I might leave it for him. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]] 22:04, November 18, 2021 (EST)
::I believe you've deleted revisions before. Don't administrator duties include the deletion of diffs left by inappropriate edits? —[[User:Liberaltears|<code>'''LT'''</code>]]'''''[[User talk:Liberaltears|(TALK PAGE]] | [[Special:Contributions/Liberaltears|CONTRIBUTIONS)]]''''' Friday, 22:08, November 18, 2021 (EST)
:::I don't want to make the wrong deletion, and I believe he's more skilled at it. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]] 22:12, November 18, 2021 (EST)
::::In case you haven't yet noticed, Conservative frivolously deletes perfectly fine diffs while declining to delete inappropriate revisions most of the time. Do you actually expect him to carry out administrator duties after all the times he's abused them? —[[User:Liberaltears|<code>'''LT'''</code>]]'''''[[User talk:Liberaltears|(TALK PAGE]] | [[Special:Contributions/Liberaltears|CONTRIBUTIONS)]]''''' Friday, 22:15, November 18, 2021 (EST)
:::::Someday we'll make you boss, and you can handle all these weighty decisions. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]] 23:30, November 18, 2021 (EST)

== Quick Question ==

Hey, Rob. Hope you’re doing well. I was wondering if you could tell me if I have the ability to apply files, such as pictures and such, to articles on here? I have tried a few times to add pictures to the pages I’ve already created. Also, how do you think I’m doing with making pages and editing? Thanks in advance and have a great [[Thanksgiving]]! -[[User:SteKelBry|SteKelBry]] ([[User talk:SteKelBry|talk]]) 14:45, November 23, 2021 (EST)

:Place image upload requests here: [[Conservapedia:Image upload requests]]. As to editing, it looks pretty good, with the exception of uncited editorial comments such as these [https://conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Derek_Chauvin&diff=prev&oldid=1762732][https://conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Derek_Chauvin&diff=prev&oldid=1773759], which make you look like a subversive Democrat trying to play the [[race card]]. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 15:28, November 23, 2021 (EST)

::Thanks, and my apologies for that. I’ve since learned that I shouldn’t submit personal opinions such as those. I hope I can put that mishap behind me so I can further contribute to Conservapedia. God Bless and Happy Thanksgiving! -[[User:SteKelBry|SteKelBry]] ([[User talk:SteKelBry|talk]]) 15:48, November 23, 2021 (EST)

:::Well, that's good to hear. Cuz even if you are or were a subversive Democrat, that tired old stale stuff gets pretty insulting after a while, as if we're too stupid to see it or notice it. You need to become more sophisticated in your use of dogwhistles and subversion. Good luck. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 16:05, November 23, 2021 (EST)

== Another category move request ==

Hi RobSmith, can you please move [[:Category:Half-Breeds]] to [[:Category:Half-Breeds (Republican Party)]]? Thanks! —[[User:Liberaltears|<code>'''LT'''</code>]] '''''[[User talk:Liberaltears|(The Old Right was right!)]]''''' Friday, 14:55, November 26, 2021 (EST)

== Please don't plagiarize my work ==

Pertaining to most of the block of text you added [[Mask_mandate#Laws_for_thee_but_not_for_me|here]], it appears you outright copy/pasted it from my [[Salongate]] article. —[[User:Liberaltears|<code>'''LT'''</code>]] '''''[[User talk:Liberaltears|(The Old Right was right!)]]''''' Sunday, 16:56, November 28, 2021 (EST)
:[https://conservapedia.com/Conservapedia:Copyright By contributing information to Conservapedia, you irrevocably consent to the display, copying, reuse or editing of your information, edits and entries, with or without attribution. You agree to waive and indemnify this and all affiliated sponsors, editors, users, or sites from claims for liability resulting from use, by you, of the content contained herein. This is a binding legal document. By using this site you agree to be bound by it.]
:[[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 17:01, November 28, 2021 (EST)
::Even if CP allows it, plagiarizing is not a good practice. I don't think readers want to see the exact same block of text in multiple articles. Can you at least re-write it in your own words? —[[User:Liberaltears|<code>'''LT'''</code>]] '''''[[User talk:Liberaltears|(The Old Right was right!)]]''''' Sunday, 17:04, November 28, 2021 (EST)
:::Well, edit it then. As an Admin, you need to know these things.
:::Granted, the phrase "your information" may need to be amended, being that it may now have an ambiguous or diferent meaning (related to doxxing) that was not commonly or popularly known at the time that version of the policy was written. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 17:07, November 28, 2021 (EST)
:::And your understanding or use of the term "plagiarizing" is incorrect, given the copyright policy, which you have agreed to, nullifies making any such claim. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 17:11, November 28, 2021 (EST)
:::WP:OWN, or [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Ownership_of_content Ownership of content] may be helpful before you employ such language as "my Salongate article." [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 17:17, November 28, 2021 (EST)

:::As I've said 10,000 times, being an Admin isn't about pressing buttons to nuke your enemies. It's about educating and helping users and Admins become better editors and Admins. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 17:21, November 28, 2021 (EST)

:::Let's take [https://conservapedia.com/File:McGowan_Harris_Clinton_Giuffre.PNG this tweet, for example, copypasted from Wikipedia] and tweeted to Kamala Harris by [[Rose McGowan]]. I wrote most of that text (which now has minor edits), but have no claim of plagiarism or ownership of it. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 17:32, November 28, 2021 (EST)

== Please check your email ==

Thanks. —[[User:Liberaltears|<code>'''LT'''</code>]] '''''[[User talk:Liberaltears|(The Old Right was right!)]]''''' Monday, 23:23, November 28, 2021 (EST)

== I made some improvements to Conservapedia's blocking policy page ==

Rob, I made some improvements to Conservapedia's blocking policy page

You can see the changes at: [[Conservapedia:Blocking policy]]

Also, I made some minor improvements to this page: [[Conservapedia:Guidelines]] at the [https://conservapedia.com/Conservapedia:Guidelines#Conservapedia.27s_blocking_policy_for_editors_of_the_wiki Conservapedia's blocking policy for editors of the wiki] section.

Generally speaking, given human nature (see: [[Fall of man]]), wikis are more prone to heavy-handed blocking than to too lenient blocking. The Bible refers to the authoritarian aspect of human nature once people have power. For example, "But Jesus called them to Himself and said, 'You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and those who are great exercise authority over them. Yet it shall not be so among you; but whoever desires to become great among you, let him be your servant.'" (Matthew 20:25-26). [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 06:57, November 29, 2021 (EST)

== Main page right ==

As your request, I removed the main page right item. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 02:06, December 2, 2021 (EST)

== quick note ==

Do you reinstall Skype? [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 07:22, December 12, 2021 (EST)
:yah, give it a try. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 07:24, December 12, 2021 (EST)
::It says you are not online. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 07:26, December 12, 2021 (EST)
:::Sign into Skype. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 07:26, December 12, 2021 (EST)
::::Are you signed into Skype? [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 07:28, December 12, 2021 (EST)
:::::I'm in as HJ. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 07:29, December 12, 2021 (EST)
Then call me. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 07:31, December 12, 2021 (EST)
:It says PM is not online. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 07:33, December 12, 2021 (EST)

== Another Quick Question ==

Hi, Rob. Hope you’re doing well. Based on my contributions these past few months, do you think I have the qualities to be an Administrator on here one day? Hopefully soon, I can earn access to photo upload privileges so I won’t have to bug you about adding photos to the pages I create, haha. Thanks in advance and have a great Christmas. -[[User:SteKelBry|SteKelBry]] ([[User talk:SteKelBry|talk]]) 19:00, December 17, 2021 (EST)
:Sorry, I have no say in that at all. Those decisions are made by the boss. It's probably been 10 years or more since a new Admin was created. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 19:07, December 17, 2021 (EST)

== Kathy Hochul ==

Why do you add Satanists category to [[Kathy Hochul]]? --[[User:Alex Kosh|Alex Kosh]] ([[User talk:Alex Kosh|talk]]) 17:34, December 23, 2021 (EST)
:I think the answer is in the two sentence text: "Hochul claims the coronavirus vaccine is from God and that people aren’t listening to God, so she needs them to be her ‘apostles’ to go out and spread the vaccine." (It's obvious this racist scumbag is speaking to what the atheist left consider superstitious God-fearing and God-believing African Americans in the traditional Marxist and Satanic [[sociopath]]ic manipulation of Black voters). But you have a point; perhaps the Category should not have been created or perhaps the Category needs some discussion to keep it.

:I would argue however, if the decision is to keep the Category, this crossing-the-line of [[separation of church and state]] by an elected official to manipulate vulnerable and oppressed people certainly qualifies as Satanic. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 17:45, December 23, 2021 (EST)

:And we know for a fact the coronavirus is not from God, it came from God-hating Satanists and idolators like Anthony Fauci and the Chinese Communist Party. If that's not proof of another Satanic lie from the pit of hell by a white Democrat, what is? [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 17:55, December 23, 2021 (EST)

::''people aren’t listening to God, so she needs them to be her ‘apostles’ ''
::Is Hochel, like Anthony Fauci, claiming to be God? or the Way, the Truth, and the Life? [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 18:01, December 23, 2021 (EST)
:::Attaboy. Let it all out. [[User:ConwayIII|ConwayIII]] ([[User talk:ConwayIII|talk]]) 18:31, December 23, 2021 (EST)
::::Let's not lose focus, the question is over creating and keeping certain categories. On a more philosophical plane however, an agnostic certainly would have a measure of deniability for engaging in Satanic activities, whereas atheists, their cohorts and supporters are more less indefensible. Go ahead, please, try justifying an atheist and Satanic position to a God-fearing African American. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 18:53, December 23, 2021 (EST)
::::Hochel, in her own words, is belittling and mocking African Americas for believing in God and not accepting the gospel of [[Faucism]]. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 19:54, December 23, 2021 (EST)
::::We have the same phenomena in the UK, where the Archbishop of Canterbury said [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yzva0Wrs8Os 'Jesus would take the vaccine'.] [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 20:01, December 23, 2021 (EST)
:::::Defeating parodists by making them redundant is quite the flex, man. You wouldn't believe the amount of money Soros recently offered to try & get the band back together, but it was agreed round the table that your stuff just couldn't be topped. [[User:ConwayIII|ConwayIII]] ([[User talk:ConwayIII|talk]]) 20:19, December 23, 2021 (EST)
::::::Truth is like the coronavirus, its spread cannot be stopped despite the best efforts of men. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 20:38, December 23, 2021 (EST)
:::::::Dang. [https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2021/12/23/trump-appeals-supreme-court-dispute-over-jan-6-documents/8892937002/ God loves a trier, though, right?] [[User:ConwayIII|ConwayIII]] ([[User talk:ConwayIII|talk]]) 21:29, December 23, 2021 (EST)
::::::::Too bad the [[J6 panel]] is illegal. The House Resolution that created it requires 13 members and 6 appoint by Kevin McCarthy, which never happened. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 21:35, December 23, 2021 (EST)

:: I dont agree with her vaccine policy, but sorry that doesnt make her a Satanist or even Atheist. I would like to see reliable sources instead of personal conclusions to prove that she is Satanist. --[[User:Alex Kosh|Alex Kosh]] ([[User talk:Alex Kosh|talk]]) 22:20, December 23, 2021 (EST)
:::It's her own words. If she's not claiming to be God herself, she engaged in some sickening racist pandering. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 23:21, December 23, 2021 (EST)

:::Wait wait wait. Is the argument now, "Sure, racism is bad, but it's not as bad as being a Satanist?" [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 23:23, December 23, 2021 (EST)

:::: No I want to see reliable source prove that she is satanist. Blasphemy doesnt make her Satanist --[[User:Alex Kosh|Alex Kosh]] ([[User talk:Alex Kosh|talk]]) 23:41, December 23, 2021 (EST)

:::::Blasphemy makes her a child of God? Racism makes here a child of God? (Blacks certainly would be interested in hearing that).

:::::Unfortunately, God doesn't really provide neutral space for agnostics. That's purely a human construct. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 23:46, December 23, 2021 (EST)

:::::[https://healthimpactnews.com/2021/n-y-governor-kathy-hochuls-god-is-satan-preaches-at-nyc-church-and-proudly-displays-the-mark-of-the-beast/ N.Y. Governor Kathy Hochul’s “God” is Satan – Preaches at NYC Church and Proudly Displays the “Mark of the Beast”]
:::::Let's not leave it at that - let's dissect her words a little further....
{{quotebox|"I prayed a lot to God during this time.

And you know what? God did answer our prayers. '''He made the smartest men and women, the scientists, the doctors, the researchers, he made them come up with a vaccine.'''

That is from God to us. And we must say, “Thank you, God. Thank you.”

And I wear my vaccinated necklace all the time to to say “I’m vaccinated.”

All of you. Yes, I know '''you’re vaccinated. You’re the smart ones."'''}}
:And how does God answer all this?
:*''Pride goeth before destruction''
:*''He catcheth the crafty in their own craftiness
:*''God has chosen the foolish things of this world to confound the wise
::I could go on... [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 00:03, December 24, 2021 (EST)
:*''I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.
:*[https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/topics/Flattery 34 Bible Verses about Flattery]
:Maybe flattery works on liberals and Satanists, but to a child of God it's a red flag. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 00:09, December 24, 2021 (EST)
:Then we have to consider the fact that she spoke these words in the midst of the congregation.... [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 00:09, December 24, 2021 (EST)
:Her pitch sounds a bit more like Pharoah calling upon Jannes and Jambres. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 00:13, December 24, 2021 (EST)

:Please, don't take my judgement on the matter. Let's look at some of the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXaP76musWM 2,000+ comments on her words in Youtube] (I know, I know, Youtube just hasn't gotten around to blocking them yet).
:*"God told me not to listen to false prophets. - 793 Likes
:*“Now let me tell you how God loves abortion.” Gov. Hochul. - 798 Likes
:None of this is surprising, Democrat officials have mouthing this kinda Satanic BS for decades.
:*"It's so cringe worthy when self serving politicians invoke the name of god. - 790 Likes
::*Rob's comment: No, Donald Trump is not self serving. You miss the qualifier.
:*"This is what a cult leader sounds like. - 797 Likes
:*"Unbelievable level of evil. To stand in "church" and commit blasphemy. To promote a shot that is killing people worldwide. The audacity of these people is astounding. They WILL answer to God for their sins.
:Yah, does she really listen to the voters? [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 00:45, December 24, 2021 (EST)
:Personally, when I hear someone like this talk, I can only scratch my head and say, "What the hell is wrong with people in New York to elect someone like this?" [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 00:48, December 24, 2021 (EST)
:What a way to burst onto the national scene. Does she, or any professional media consultant, think she can ever rescind this level of stupidity, ignorance, and outright insulting comments? Ever?
:Maybe this crap flies in New York, but name one, just one, New York politician between FDR & Trump who made it on the national scene? And the reason for that is, New Yorkers consider people like Hochel, AOC, Schumer, Nadler, Gillibrand, Cuomo, De Blasio etc etc etc as "leaders" and representatives of themselves. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 03:01, December 24, 2021 (EST)

:: I checked the link that you share but is also its personal conclusion not reliable source. What she said speaks her foolishness lower IQ, and she made big mistake for using religion to convince people to take the vaccine. but again that doesnt make her necessarily a Satanist. a Satanist mean worshiper of Satan, is there any proof that she worship Satan, I didnt see that. --[[User:Alex Kosh|Alex Kosh]] ([[User talk:Alex Kosh|talk]]) 22:21, December 24, 2021 (EST)-
:::No, you are dead wrong. Most servants of Satan are so deceived by the father of lies, they do not know they are serving Satan. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 23:35, December 24, 2021 (EST)
:::There are numerous examples, both from the bible and in everyday life to verify this. For example, what could be more Satanic than an atheist, many of whom deny that the spirit world and Satan exists? That proves the level of so-called "self-deception", which really is Satanic deception. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 23:38, December 24, 2021 (EST)

: The Encyclopedias should rely on reliable sources, not personal conclusions. does the other administrators agree with that? --[[User:Alex Kosh|Alex Kosh]] ([[User talk:Alex Kosh|talk]]) 00:33, December 25, 2021 (EST)
::Ask em. Personally, I can't think of a one that would defend a Satanist. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 02:41, December 25, 2021 (EST)
::She supports abortion, doesn't she? I doubt anyone here in CP management thinks a child of God supports abortion (I could be wrong). And I doubt anyone thinks there's a grey area where one can be both. But I don't know. Anyways, it's a debate I wouldn't hesitate to engage in. You can always create a debate page on that subject, either Hochul individually or [[Debate:Can an abortion supporter also be a child of God?]] [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 02:46, December 25, 2021 (EST)

::What you need to realize here is, Hochul stepped into one big pile of doggie-doodoo with her stupid, off the cuff, Satanic remarks inside a church during a church service. And there is no way out for her other than repentance and baptism. And if it takes New York Democrats to wish Andrew Cuomo was back, so be it. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 02:55, December 25, 2021 (EST)

:: For Abortion we can add [[:Category:Abortion Advocates]] instead of [[:Category:Satanists]]. and also if she support Abortion that doesnt make her Satanist. Satanist is big insult, We can't accuse anyone we don't like of being Satanic. and do you really think abortion supporter is Satanist?, maybe you dont many figures support abortion including the conservative ones like [[Tomi Lahren]], [[Rudy Giuliani]] and [[Margaret Thatcher]]. president Trump formerly was supporter of abortion, is he former Satanist?. --[[User:Alex Kosh|Alex Kosh]] ([[User talk:Alex Kosh|talk]]) 19:29, December 25, 2021 (EST)
:::Satanism is an insult? I've never met the Satanist yet who wasn't proud of being in rebellion against God. Children of God are not afraid of the devil, they have been set free. Only sinners cower before the devil. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 23:06, December 25, 2021 (EST)
:::: OK so does Hochul ever stated she is Satanist? --[[User:Alex Kosh|Alex Kosh]] ([[User talk:Alex Kosh|talk]]) 23:39, December 25, 2021 (EST)
:::::*''They speak lies to one another; They speak with flattering lips and a double heart.'' Ps. 12:2
:::::*''with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips: Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness: Their feet are swift to shed blood: Destruction and misery are in their ways: And the way of peace have they not known: There is no fear of God before their eyes.'' Rm. 3:13-15
::::::I think it's obvious which side she's on. She spoke her words in church. She should have saved it for Don Lemon or NBC. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 23:59, December 25, 2021 (EST)
::::::Now, we can break it down (for example, '' Their feet are swift to shed blood'' can be laid at the doorstep of her predecessor Andrew Cuomo and the nursing home crisis, and I don't know her involvement, but what is she doing to bring Cuomo and other conspirators to justice?) ''Their is no fear of God before their eyes'' - why did she speak such blasphemies before a the congregation in church? What interests me most is ''Whose mouth is full of cursing'' because this is a twofer related to ''flattery''; she flatters her followers with ''you are the smart ones'', while cursing the stupid unvaccinated. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 00:09, December 26, 2021 (EST)

:: I need reliable source to prove that she is Satanist, this is simple. if there are no source, so you should delete category from article --[[User:Alex Kosh|Alex Kosh]] ([[User talk:Alex Kosh|talk]]) 19:31, December 25, 2021 (EST)
:::Her sources are her own mouth. It's no different than Fauci claiming to be God ("I am Truth"). [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 23:06, December 25, 2021 (EST)

:::: I didnt saw any sources, I am only saw personal conclusions. --[[User:Alex Kosh|Alex Kosh]] ([[User talk:Alex Kosh|talk]]) 23:42, December 25, 2021 (EST)
:::::In sending out her 'apostles', she implies the unvaccinated are in rebellion against God, i.e. Satanists. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 00:27, December 26, 2021 (EST)

: In order to prove what you are saying, you either have to bring a source that admits that she is a Satanist from her mouth, or another source that proves that she is performing Satanic rituals
:Other than this, your words are nothing but personal conclusions and conspiracy theory and may harm the reputation of this encyclopedia. --[[User:Alex Kosh|Alex Kosh]] ([[User talk:Alex Kosh|talk]]) 01:05, December 27, 2021 (EST)
::It's no big deal. Anyone in rebellion against God is a Satanist, which is the vast majority of people on planet earth. Only those in rebellion against God fear Satan, or think it's a big insult. It's not. Satan is who their boss is and who they serve. It is not even a case of outing a Satanist in the closet - by their works ye shall know them. Was Christ a liar when he said that? [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 02:47, December 27, 2021 (EST)
{{quotebox|"there’s people out there who aren’t listening to God and what God wants."}}
::Now, there's people out there who aren't listening to Anthony Fauci, who claims to be God ("to attack me is to attack Truth"), and what Fauci wants. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 05:07, December 27, 2021 (EST)

:: I dont think Jesus asked you to add Satanist Category to Kathy Hochul article. again you are going too far by this stubbornness by bringing Bible verse. Bible didnt prove she is Satanist. also I dont think Jesus would like us to make assumptions to other people without reliable source even if they are our enemy. I dont like anyone to make assumption to me, I am also dont make any assumption to other people without reliable source. Assumption is a characteristic of liberals against their enemies (read [[Meena Harris]] story), but we must be better than them. --[[User:Alex Kosh|Alex Kosh]] ([[User talk:Alex Kosh|talk]]) 18:41, December 27, 2021 (EST)

:::I'm going too far? She's the one claiming the unvaccinated don't listen to her god, Dr. Fauci. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 18:44, December 27, 2021 (EST)

:::Before It's News: [https://beforeitsnews.com/new-world-order/2021/10/new-york-governor-kathy-hochul-is-an-evil-satanic-witch-who-claims-to-speak-for-god-and-says-vaccines-are-a-gift-from-god-no-not-unless-it-is-the-faslse-god-lucifer-pure-blashemy-truly-dispicabl-10443.html New York Governor Kathy Hochul is an Evil Satanic Witch, Who Claims to Speak For GOD and Says Vaccines Are a Gift From GOD. No, Not Unless it is the Faslse god Lucifer. Pure Blashemy- Truly Dispicable]. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 18:46, December 27, 2021 (EST)

== Russia is a place where one can have a good life, but they are still overcoming their past ==

Everyone once in a while, I watch a documentary. I watched this documentary: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxpEsBqliEQ Love in Russia].

Russian society is traditional in some ways, but I am sure that 70+ years of godless communism has had its effect on society.

But people with Christian values are having kids and the irreligious/nonreligious are not, so things can gradually get better. Time will tell. I think in the next 12 years or so, there will be a global recession, so that will cause a lot of problems. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 01:14, December 24, 2021 (EST)
:I let a homeless lady from Russia stay at my place for about 2 weeks. I learned more about Russia.

:The USA should try to have better relations with Russia. Trump tried to do this.

:By the way, I bailed out of the documentary at the 30 minute point. It dealt with the 3% of Russian society that are freaks. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 01:25, December 24, 2021 (EST)
::So I watched the documentary all the way thru. These kids these days, wudayagonnado? [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 06:48, December 24, 2021 (EST)
::I don't know if you're familiar with [[Pelageya]], probably one of the greatest vocalists alive today. She's sings Cossack (or Kazakh) warrior songs. This is nothing new, Russia has longtime (even in Czarist times) been a nation of widows and orphans, cause it is a warrior culture, having so many borders to defend, or absorbing so many smaller nations and tribes into it. Even Pelageya has no idea who her father is. So what the DW documentary reports really has not emerged since the collapse of USSR. The aftermath of WWII was just another time when Russia again was a nation of widows. And many of the songs Pelageya sings are about the warrior dying on the battlefield and thinking about his wife. Once you grasp these songs go back hundreds of years, you can get a great insight into Russian culture. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 07:04, December 24, 2021 (EST)

=== This is what I was referring to above ===

[[File:04656 market in Sanok.JPG|thumbnail|200px|center|[[Alcoholism]] was a serious social problem in the former atheistic [[Soviet Union]].[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18245818] Between 1940 and 1980, this [[atheist state]] had the largest increase of the amount of alcohol usage in the developed world.[http://isw.sagepub.com/content/35/4/441.extract] ]]
{{clear}}
It's too bad that Russia chose atheistic communism for so many decades. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 01:32, December 24, 2021 (EST)
:I have to admit, my appreciation and love of Russian society and culture has come a long way in the past 25-30 years. What went unreported in the West, it was the Church more than anything that caused the demise of Soviet Communism.
:Despite what Soviet communism did to Russian culture - and you are absolutely correct the damage was serious and longlasting - IMO a typical Russian of average intelligence, education, and maybe even with fetal alcohol syndrome, is more objective and levelheaded in their understanding of culture, society, history the issues affecting the contemporary world than 90% of our "best educated" professors in the United States.
:Bear in mind, nearly 40% of the Russian federation are Muslims - [[secular]] Muslims - and they wouldn't have it any other way. They supported Soviet Communism then, and Russian Democracy now, cause they don't want to live under [[Shariah]] law. And they have a higher birth rate than ethnic Russians. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 01:52, December 24, 2021 (EST)
:Watch [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Bnt3CIqGhk this 3 1/2 minute video.] You don't need any translation or English subtitles to understand what is going on. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 01:56, December 24, 2021 (EST)
::a white boy is abusing his girlfriend on the streets of Moscow, and nobody reacts. The same couple do it again, only this time she wears a [[hijab]] {Islamic headscarf}, and Muslim men step up to protect her. It's not a religious thing, it's a culture phenomena in a multicultural society. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 02:01, December 24, 2021 (EST)
:::Putin does not drink and he works out two hours a day so that is good.[https://www.businessinsider.com/vladimir-putin-daily-routine-2017-6#his-work-schedule-tends-to-be-more-flexible-over-the-weekend-to-accommodate-putins-english-language-classes-on-sunday-he-sometimes-prays-and-makes-confession-23] But he is a former KGB agent and Business Insider reports: "On Sunday, he sometimes prays and makes confession... Nonetheless, Russian officials close to the president stress that "his life is not that of a Christian," according to Newsweek."[https://www.businessinsider.com/vladimir-putin-daily-routine-2017-6#his-work-schedule-tends-to-be-more-flexible-over-the-weekend-to-accommodate-putins-english-language-classes-on-sunday-he-sometimes-prays-and-makes-confession-23]

:::As long as the corrupt Putin is in office, Russia will stagnate. Leadership is by example. Russia has to overcome its demographic death spiral. And the heavy drinking and Russian men cheating on their wives is causing family problems. Apparently, Putin cheated on his wife. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 03:15, December 24, 2021 (EST)

::::This debate has raged forever - I recall my teacher [https://books.google.com/books?id=RniDlAP7ulkC&pg=PT4&lpg=PT4&dq=prof+william+renzi&source=bl&ots=TZH9Xyh_Oz&sig=ACfU3U1w12_iNy0BaGTV9umVsry_zEQrXw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiO1pP8l_z0AhVZG80KHbrFAPQQ6AF6BAgCEAM#v=onepage&q=prof%20william%20renzi&f=false Bill Renzi] saying many people believe Russia has to be governed by autocrats to keep it together, be it the Czars, Lenin, Stalin, or Brezhnev. It's too big and too diverse (Stalin's own son didn't speak Russian). Russia is not a single ethnicity, culture, religion or language. It is a "Union of Peoples" and has been since Czarist times.
:::::Technically, no nation has been one ethnicity/culture at all short of Balkanization, so please don't use that as a reason to justify a communist stooge like Putin (especially when even the JBS-backed New American made clear he was still communist). Even France has had multiple ethnicities in there (Alsace was a germanophone-speaking region [in fact, one of the reasons why the Jacobins planned a genocide of that region before the guillotine was used on Robespierre is precisely BECAUSE of its german-speaking population], and there's hints at Napoleon and Robespierre being ethnically Sicilian and Irish, respectively). And Great Britain is composed of four ethnicities/cultures (Irish, Scottish, Welsh, and English). And don't get me started on America which is multicultural even WITHOUT the current diversity crap being forced unto us by leftists. Germany was similar, originally being composed of multiple different countries (Bavaria, Poland, Austria, Deutsch, among others). In fact, the entire POINT of being a nation is in fact a "Union of Peoples", so it's not exclusive to Russia. And for the record, while it might be true the Tsars were autocratic, at least they believed in God and NOT Socialism or anything like that, unlike Lenin, Stalin, Brezhnev, or, yes, even Putin. I appreciate Russian society pre-Lenin. Post-Lenin, it is garbage, even under Putin, who refuses to go back to the Tsar. [[User:Pokeria1|Pokeria1]] ([[User talk:Pokeria1|talk]]) 12:02, December 24, 2021 (EST)
::::::The 'captive nations' have been set free. The rest remain part of the federation because they want to, given the alternative of being swallowed up by Islamic or Sinic culture, or other hostile neighbors. Russia has played a role in history similar to that of the British Empire, raising up peoples all over the planet to a level above what used to be call 'barbarism'. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 15:37, December 24, 2021 (EST)
:::::::If that's the case, please explain why Putin's gunning to go to war and annex various nations? If I were him and I truly thought they should remain free, I wouldn't even bother trying to prep an invasion of them. Besides, don't you think the fact that actual right-wing/conservative sources like JBS/New American and outono claiming Putin's a communist should give you pause? It's not like I'm citing Time Magazine or any left-wing rags. And for the record, if he truly cared about getting rid of Communism, he'd make sure ALL of it is destroyed, make sure the populace has nothing but disgust, regarding of ethnicity and culture, make sure to fire all the KGB priests and if necessary even line them up to a wall and shoot them, and certainly tear down Marx's statue and Lenin's tomb. That's what I would have done as an anti-Communist, make sure Communism is extinct. [[User:Pokeria1|Pokeria1]] ([[User talk:Pokeria1|talk]]) 15:57, December 24, 2021 (EST)
::::::::NATO provocation. You read too much CIA agitprop. NATO is supplying lethal weapons to Ukraine in the Donbass region, hence Putin and Russia are reacting. Whatever idiots in the Pentagon and CIA drum up this senseless bs need to be chastised forthwith. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 16:13, December 24, 2021 (EST)
:::::::::Ah, first of all, JBS has been [https://thenewamerican.com/fire-brennan-or-abolish-the-cia/ highly critical] [https://thenewamerican.com/is-it-time-to-shut-down-the-cia/ of the CIA], so it's not like they'd be pushing for the CIA's propaganda anyhow. Second of all, Putin was also funding the very same groups that George Soros is funding going by [https://www.outono.net/elentir/2017/11/22/neither-with-soros-nor-with-putin-the-russian-interference-in-catalonia-and-the-spanish-right/ this article] here as well as [https://www.outono.net/elentir/2020/03/05/the-george-soros-of-moscow-vladimir-putin-and-his-support-to-the-radical-left-of-the-west/ this article] (and it's very obvious that they're not CIA either. Actually, while commentating on the state of other countries, they are primarily concerned with Spain first, and they spare no criticism of socialism in their own country, being as merciless in their criticisms of Spanish Socialists as they are of Putin, of Cuba, and of any socialist/Communist nation. And just as an FYI, they've been VERY critical of the EU as well, especially it's soft treatment of socialists. If anything, outono's been far more consistent in being anti-socialist than Putin EVER was.). Third of all, Putin as of now is ALLYING with China, meaning they're not even enemies at all, or rivals. You're making the same mistake that people in the 1930s did with Stalin and Hitler before their Molotov-Ribbentropp act. [[User:Pokeria1|Pokeria1]] ([[User talk:Pokeria1|talk]]) 17:10, December 24, 2021 (EST)
::::::::::I haven't read any of the JBS stuff on Putin, and if it's anything like how you characterize it, they are wrong, assuming you are characterizing is correctly. Russia harbors no aggressive intentions against anybody outside its borders. Russia, as always, is preoccupied with defending its immense borders (and possible hostile actors within its borders). As to Ukraine, if it thinks it's going to convert Sevastopol into a NATO naval base, think again. As Dana Carvey would say, ''Naga doit''. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 18:06, December 24, 2021 (EST)
:::::::::::It's EXACTLY what they're saying. And BTW, it's not just JBS, it's plenty of other conservative sources as well. And BTW, did you know that Putin literally FUNNELED the Steele Dossier as well, aka the whole Russian Collusion thing? Don't take it from me, read it from Daniel Greenfield on Front Page Magazine: https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/12/schumer-who-accused-trump-russian-collusion-daniel-greenfield/ And don't forget outono, they're critical of Putin, the EU, all the socialist actors around the world. Actually, with the information FPM provided among others, if you support Putin, you support the Russian Dossier. [[User:Pokeria1|Pokeria1]] ([[User talk:Pokeria1|talk]]) 18:19, December 24, 2021 (EST)
::::::::::::Putin handed the Steele dossier to [[Peter Strzok]] and said, "Here, do something with it"? No, don't think so. That was the Hillary-Brennan-Comey-McCabe pipeline. Now, if you wanna discuss who handed it to the NYT, WaPo, ''etal'', you're not going to find Putin there, either. The pipeline goes Hillary-[[Jake Sullivan]]-[[Isikoff]] etal. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 18:26, December 24, 2021 (EST)
:::::::::::::He used a cutout. Of course Putin wouldn't directly order for or hand over those things, he's not stupid. Even Lenin avoided directly signing the death warrants that the Chekha carried out despite obviously encouraging it behind the scenes. Heck, if anything, Putin PAID those guys to spread that disinformation via Vincent Roberti and [https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2021/05/lobbying-push-russian-pipeline/ Putin's] Gazprom lobbying group. Me? I'd fight against China AND Russia, heck, fight against any Communist country, even risk rendering the world to cinders just to ensure Communism's dead and God's iron fist is controlling the world alongside his son Jesus Christ. [[User:Pokeria1|Pokeria1]] ([[User talk:Pokeria1|talk]]) 18:33, December 24, 2021 (EST)
::::::::::::::I gitit I gitit. Hillary was just a stooge as was the whole corrupt Democrat machine and MSM. There were victimized by one of Putin's evil plots to take over the world. That, of course is why we have to put back these idiots and maintain them in power, to defend against the evil Putin. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 19:13, December 24, 2021 (EST)
:::::::::::::::I never said the Democrats or Hillary were victims of Putin. Actually, if anything, I'd argue they're ALLIES, aka, collaborators with Putin, not victims of any sort. And for the record, I don't support the Democrats, at all. Especially not the ones who pushed the dossier. If anything, the fact that the same guys who pushed the Russia Collusion narrative to oust Trump are getting paid by Putin proves that, no, if anything, THEY'RE the ones colluding with Putin. If ANYONE was a victim of Putin, it's Trump. And quite frankly, you're acting more like Lyn Wood when he ordered for people to not vote during the period between the election and Biden's "inauguration", which apparently resulted in those crypto-commies Jon Ossoff and Warnock being elected into office (that, and voter fraud). And for the record, Obama was allied with Putin even back then, as you can see [https://thenewamerican.com/putin-bombs-obama-s-syrian-rebels-obama-joins-putin-alliance/ here]. [[User:Pokeria1|Pokeria1]] ([[User talk:Pokeria1|talk]]) 19:29, December 24, 2021 (EST)
::::::::::::::::Congrats. It's only December 2021, and you figured out the Trump-Russia hoax is a hoax. I had it figured by December 2016, and provided the corroborating evidence by March 2017, two months before Comey got fired and Mueller was called in to coverup the scandal. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 19:34, December 24, 2021 (EST)
:::::::::::::::::I already figured it out even earlier, like during March 2016. I knew Trump would never have colluded with Russia at all, that it was a hoax. Heck, despite my being autistic/aspergers with humor not being one of my strongest suits, even I could figure out Trump was joking when he said he could have the Russians investigate the hack to the DNC office. And the reason I knew that, is because Putin made no secret to wanting to restore Communism in Russia (I've already seen photos years back of Putin giving speeches in front of Soviet paraphanelia on Breitbart, BEFORE the 2016 election I should add, and posts on freerepublic making clear that he was pushing for a revitalization of Stalin). My mom also recognized that Trump couldn't have colluded with Putin either, even pointing out that Putin would have known what he was going to get regarding a good deal via Hillary Clinton and her Uranium deal. The only difference between you and me regarding the Trump-Russia Hoax is that I was firmly aware of Russia under Putin STILL being communist, while you are naively believing that they've given up on Communism despite even KGB defectors making it clear that they still hold on to Communism. And BTW, I pegged Russia as still being Communist as early as 2012 when I briefly saw in ''Dreams of my Father'' Karl Marx's statue being in Moscow, something that, had they genuinely given up on it, they would have torn it down like they did various Lenin and Stalin statues. [[User:Pokeria1|Pokeria1]] ([[User talk:Pokeria1|talk]]) 19:40, December 24, 2021 (EST)
::::::::::::::::::You're betraying yourself with the above posting. Let me count the ways. (a) "Trump was joking when he said he could have the Russians investigate the hack to the DNC office." Trump never said or implied any such thing. You are repeating Democrat commie agitprop (meaning you do not understand anything about the issue). (b) Putin had no involvement in any way, shape, or form in the origins of the dossier. (c) The Trump-Russia hoax at no point ever was a foreign policy issue. It was purely, from origin and inception, domestic politic corruption. (d) You continue to imply that Vladimir Putin, and/or Communism, has something, anything, to do with Trump-Russia You are in fact mouthing DNC talking points at this point. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 19:51, December 24, 2021 (EST)
::::::::::::::::::At this point, based on your posting above, I don't think you know or understand anything about what the scandal or crime was in the Trump-Russia hoax. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 19:53, December 24, 2021 (EST)
::::::::::::::::::Trump-Russia has absolutely nothing to do with Russia. It was a hoax. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 19:56, December 24, 2021 (EST)
::::::::::::::::The origins of Trump-Russia can be traced back to (a) the long delays in investigating Hillary's emails; (b) the fact that James Comey, and not Loretta Lynch, held a press conference clearing Hillary. This should have raised eyebrows everywhere. (c) The Bill Clinton/Loretta Lynch tarmac meeting. These were all the clues in open source MSM that something was seriously wrong with the Obama [[DOJ]]. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 20:02, December 24, 2021 (EST)
::::::::::::::::::::That's actually what I was referring to. The DNC servers got hacked and their emails disappeared. [https://www.theblaze.com/news/2016/07/25/trump-taunts-claims-that-russia-hacked-dnc-emails-for-him-the-new-joke-in-town Trump, jokingly, stated that he could get Putin to help investigate the emails for them] (and the Blaze, the source of that, was on Trump's side, not the dossier's side. Same goes for [https://www.newsmax.com/Politics/donald-trump-russian-network-vladimir-putin/2016/09/08/id/747391/ Newsmax], which the democrat agitprop hates as well.). My dad watched the broadcast, BTW, and he recognized it as a joke. As far as the Trump-Russia collusion Hoax, let me remind you that Daniel Greenfield, in the link I provided to you above, specifically pointed out that ALL of the Democrats who claimed Trump engaged in collusion, ended up paid by Putin and his shell corporation, meaning they if ANYTHING were the ones colluding with Putin, and more importantly, that Putin was pushing the collusion hoax as well. And yes, ultimately, it DOES have to do with Russia as well. And BTW, if I were you, I'd dedicate full hatred to both China AND Russia, not to mention Cuba, Vietnam, Venezuela, and the like, any and all Communist countries, dedicate every waking hour to wiping out Communism across the globe, and replacing it with the governments they had prior to Communism's take over, bare minimum (in Russia's case, reinstitute the Tsar). I would NEVER side with a Communist, period. I'd fight ALL of them, even down to the last breath if I must, as God demands that I and others do, fight to the bitter end, not care if it results in our extinction as a result. God wants Communism dead above all else, to ensure his rule is NEVER challenged at all. [[User:Pokeria1|Pokeria1]] ([[User talk:Pokeria1|talk]]) 20:20, December 24, 2021 (EST)
:::::::::::::::::::::It was an inside job or "hack" in May 2016. In August, Trump jokingly invited Russia to clear their name from the false accusations that "Russia hacked the DNC", or that "WikiLeaks is a KGB front." (You still seem to think Russia had something to do with the "DNC hack". I suppose you think Julian Assange is a KGB agent, too).
:::::::::::::::::::::[[Michael Sussmann]], who was just indicted by John Durham, is the guy who initiated the DNC hack hoax. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 20:32, December 24, 2021 (EST)

:::::::::::::::::::::Let's clarify the misleading narrative you began here: Trump's comments to "Russia" had nothing to do with '''[https://conservapedia.com/CrowdStrike#DNC_hack_hoax Sussmann's DNC hack hoax]''' - Trump was talking about recovering Hillary's emails, which Comey, McCabe, Strzok, and Lynch never prosecuted for destruction of U.S. government documents and mishandling of national security information. Be careful where you are going with DNC BS. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 20:37, December 24, 2021 (EST)
::::::::::::::::::::::I never said anything about Russia having anything to do with the DNC hack at all. If anything, I specifically indicated that Donald Trump was joking on that front, in other words, that he trolled the MSM and Russia WASN'T responsible for the hack. But Russia DEFINTIELY had something to do with the Dossier, especially when all the principal actors of that dossier, from Pelosi to Schumer, conveniently got paid by one of Putin's shell corporations around the time of the pipeline thing, as Daniel Greenfield pointed out in that article. Also, Wikileaks is obviously not a KGB front (the KGB died with the Soviet Union), and aside from that, Julian Assange isn't even on the Russian payroll, but he is definitely a Marxist-Leninist. I WILL admit I probably mixed up the two events. My mistake on that front. But Putin being Communist has been backed up by Conservative/right wing sources who also have spent quite a few times condemning various communist deep state groups as well, including Ion Mihai Pacepa. [[User:Pokeria1|Pokeria1]] ([[User talk:Pokeria1|talk]]) 21:09, December 24, 2021 (EST)

:::::::::::::::::::::::*''I could figure out Trump was joking when he said he could have the Russians investigate the hack to the DNC office.''
:::::::::::::::::::::::*''The DNC servers got hacked and their emails disappeared. Trump, jokingly, stated that he could get Putin to help investigate the emails for them
:::::::::::::::::::::::Do you even pay attention to what you post, or do you just like trolling me? [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 23:47, December 24, 2021 (EST)

::::And they certainly have [https://youtu.be/cMFIWBQB1kE a better national anthem than then we do - including the lyrics (click CC).] [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 05:22, December 24, 2021 (EST)
:::::I think it is mostly due to Eastern Orthodox Christianity being more hierarchal than Protestant Christianity. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 06:46, December 24, 2021 (EST)
::::::Except for the 70 year captivity in the Soviet era, Russia never had a separation of church and state in its 1,000 year history. And still doesn't. Even in Soviet times the people (''narodny'') never accepted separation of church and state. What is odd, how Muslims are content to live under the Russian Orthodox rather than under Shariah theocracy. The Jews OTOH, have had big problems with it. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 07:53, December 24, 2021 (EST)

===Greenfield article===
While the [https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/12/schumer-who-accused-trump-russian-collusion-daniel-greenfield/ Greenfield article certainly is interesting] and worthy of coverage in its own right, it adds nothing to our knowledge of the internal conspirators and law breakers involved in the [[Russia collusion hoax]]. These all are merely Democrat elected officials who spewed ''[[WaPo]]'' bullcrap. And the point of the article is, that while they were lying and deceiving the American electorate, they were also taking money from Russians. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 00:04, December 25, 2021 (EST)

== Watch this video. It is very informative ==

Watch this video: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTf4JYfMuoI Bad News: How Woke Media Undermines Democracy]

It is very informative. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 06:48, December 24, 2021 (EST)
:Watched most of it last night. Will finish up today or tomorrow. How did they hold a symposium on this at Berkley without leftist Stormtroopers not burning the building down? Is it possible in 2021 for scholarship, discussion, and debate to still occur at leftist institutions? Makes me somewhat suspicious. She says, 'eight million people who voted for Obama also voted for Trump, so the idea Trump supporters are all racists is bs.' Better late than never. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 15:54, December 24, 2021 (EST)
::Here is another excellent video on the book with multiple people giving their perspectives: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKD7e5WoF_8 How woke media undermines democracy: A book event with Batya Ungar-Sargon].

::The videos confirmed what I thought all along which is the "golden rule". Namely, he who holds the gold rules. The left-leaning media caters to wealthy people on the left side of the spectrum because that maximizes advertising revenue. And the right-leaning media caters the wealthy right leaning wealthy people because that maximizes their advertising revenue. In addition, it is engagement that drives up revenue online so news stories are crafted to push people's buttons (like cause moral outrage). [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 17:04, December 24, 2021 (EST)
:::If it bleeds, it leads, as they say in the newspaper industry. People don't want stories about a newborn liter of puppies on the front page. In sales we say 'fear sells'. In fact, that is the secret of sales - the message is always negative. The two motivating factors to get people to part with their money is fear and greed. Fear that you may miss out on a deal or that your house will burn down with everybody in it ''if you don't buy'', and greed - 'wouldn't you like to be the first one on your block to have one?'
:::So that's how you capture people's attention - fear and greed. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 17:14, December 24, 2021 (EST)
:::This explains the incessant [[race card]], Dems have to scare the daylights out Blacks to keep them motivated to keep them voting. "The Klan is going to burn a cross on your yard!" Repubs have to recognize how powerful and effective this latent internal fear in Blacks is. So "racism", "white supremacy", "white privilege", "systemic racism" become buzzwords and phrases tossed around to great effect. Ignoring the impact it has, and why these are used, is not helpful, and can even fuel more of it. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 18:13, December 24, 2021 (EST)
::::The point of the book/video is that white, liberal elites care more about racism than blacks/Latinos and have hyper concern about racism because it makes them feel morally superior. And that hyper anti-racism causes radical policies like defund the police which actually hurts blacks/Latinos. And that this hyper anti-racism is partly fueled by the media whose journalists/interns come from Ivy League schools where hyper, anti-racism is also fueled.

::::Meanwhile, these white, liberal elites want open borders which drive down wages for Anerican Blacks/Latinos and working class whites. And they fight school choice (which blacks/Latinos want) which would give Black/Latinos and working class whites better educations. And these same white, liberal elites pushed policies that shipped blue-collar jobs overseas which hurt working class Black/Latinos and working class whites. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 00:06, December 25, 2021 (EST)

:::::It's a ''[[quid pro quo]]:'' white liberals in politics and media spread alarm and fear among Blacks with, "boogeyman is gonna getcha," for which they hope to be rewarded with votes.
:::::In 2020, the Democrats already knew the "cry wolf" effect is diminishing: and [https://conservapedia.com/images/e/e6/Support_for_Democratic_Candidates%2C_2012-2020.PNG in fact provides us with evidence of voter fraud.] While the percentage of Blacks voting Democrat continues to slip, all the fraud and ballot box stuffing occurred predominantly in black precincts. It's pathological: Democrats would have to cheat in black precincts with or without covid and mail-in ballots, if they hoped to win with declining numbers of blacks voting Democrat. Fortunately for them, they had enough of experienced ballot box stuffing teams in place already, and even were able to train new participants in how to do it in such a massive effort. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 00:23, December 25, 2021 (EST)

== Alexa.com ending on May 1, 2022 ==

Alexa.com ending on May 1, 2022.[https://support.alexa.com/hc/en-us/articles/4410503838999]

Compete.com was retired previously.

It looks like Similarweb.com will be the only free major ranking of a website's traffic.

Similarweb.com is more reliable than Alexa, but it is updated less frequently. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 00:52, December 25, 2021 (EST)

:This means two things: (a) Amazon (and Bezos), which owns Alexa, will move it resources into another area to attack and try to destroy conservative websites: and (b) numerous startups (both black hat and white hat) will step up to try to fill the gap left by Alexa. So we'll have to go through a period of screening new startups beginning now. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 01:04, December 25, 2021 (EST)

::In January/February, I will have access to a SEMRush.com subscription which ranks websites by web traffic. The public can see the rankings for the top 100 websites ranked by SEMRush.[https://www.semrush.com/blog/most-visited-websites/] [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 01:24, December 25, 2021 (EST)
:::Actually, the fact that Compete.com and Alexa.com disappeared/disappearing means there is not a lot of money in providing free rankings so the gap might not be filled. But there is not a gap since SimilarWeb.com still exists. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 01:26, December 25, 2021 (EST)
::::Alexa's pretty big; they have to wait til March to fill out contracts for service that exist. They likely will take many of their clients with them into a new subscription service (under whatever name). Similarweb and SEMRush will pick up a lot. But the global market is sooo big, there will be a rush by small startups. It will not be unlike all the smaller competitors Twitter and YouTube have. And they'll offer free service to attract new customers. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 01:37, December 25, 2021 (EST)
::::Alexa is so big, it feels it has gathered enough knowledge about how the business works (and have gathered the best customers) they can squash any competitors and starts ups. But one or two small startups will survive in the long run.
::::Also, Alexa feels the market has reached a saturation point to where the prospects for future growth do not require them to offer free service. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 01:42, December 25, 2021 (EST)
::::Anyways, this explains why their free ranking service has gone haywire over the past 9 months - they didn't want any new customers. It would only require them to hire more expert help to take on piddly-squat customers. Now they can concentrate their best employees on their best customers. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 01:52, December 25, 2021 (EST)
Actually, Alexa.com had a free service plus with a subscription, you could get more data. Both are disappearing in 2022.

Anyways, I have access to multiple tools that show a website's relative strength compared to other websites.

For example, here is some information from Ahrefs.com about Conservapedia:

[[File:Conservapedia linking websites.JPG|thumbnail|center|700px|Amount of domains linking to Conservapedia according to Ahrefs.com]].
{{Clear}}
The domain strength reflects both the quality/quantity of domains linking to Conservapedia. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 01:56, December 25, 2021 (EST)
:No way is Alexa giving up the money from its subscription service. It is simply changing its name. If that were not true, the market to fill in the gap would be even more wide open. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 02:28, December 25, 2021 (EST)
::"Existing subscriptions will remain active until May 1, 2022 UTC. After that, customers will no longer have access to Alexa.com."[https://support.alexa.com/hc/en-us/articles/4410503838999]

::In May of 2022, Alexa will end as a subscription service. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 03:11, December 25, 2021 (EST)

:::Yes, the name Alexa. It's no different than when the [[NKVD]] changed its name to the [[KGB]], or [[ACORN]] changed its name to dozens of other names in different states. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 03:26, December 25, 2021 (EST)
:::There is no way they will walk away from the revenue stream they built over 25 years. And even if they did, the people they fired will start up a new business and reclaim the lost customers. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 03:28, December 25, 2021 (EST)
::::They will walk away from a revenue if the [[opportunity cost]] warrants it. It comes down to return on investment (ROI). If a higher ROI can be had elsewhere, Alexa's subscribers will be abandoned. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 03:43, December 25, 2021 (EST)
:::::Amazon purchased the company for $250 millilon in 1996; it made $6 million last year. So yah, it looks like a loser. So they shut it down and write off the losses (which go against income of Amazon). But nobody walks away from the $6 million revenue stream they built up, and the knowledge of the industry they created (at such a cost). So it gets reorganized. Some employees get transferred, others go off and create a new company with their knowledge base and existing client list. Now, the relationship of the new company to Amazon is different question; Bezos may be just a stockholder in the new company - apart from Amazon (or other executives buy stock or make loans to their former employees).
:::::Bottomline, if it is not an opportunity for the existing hands-on employees with knowledge and the client list, it is an opportunity for others to gross $6 million a year. The demand from the existing clients will not disappear with Alexa. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 03:56, December 25, 2021 (EST)

== Can you please check your email? ==

Thanks. —[[User:Liberaltears|<code>'''LT'''</code>]] '''''[[User talk:Liberaltears|(The Old Right was right!)]]''''' Monday, 22:20, December 26, 2021 (EST)

== Hi Rob. This is Nishant Xavier ==

Hi Rob. How are you? This is Nishant. I'm back now and am in the process of writing a Book on how we can distribute Crores (10s of Millions) of Bibles to the Masses in India. I want to complete the Conservapedia Bible Project Translation. I like it: https://conservapedia.com/Matthew_1-9_(Translated) But I have a question. Why is "He" and "His" etc not Capitalized when referring to Lord Jesus Christ? It should be imho, as He is King of Kings. [[User:NishantXavier|NishantXavier]][[User talk:NishantXavier|For Christ the King]] 17:07, February 1, 2022 (EST)
:Welcome back. Good to hear from you. I know User:Liberaltears was anxious to talk with you about a few things. As to the CBP, I'm not certain what the answer is cause I've not been involved in the Project. However, my guess would be that some editors deem capitalizing "He" as somewhat archaic, although I can't say for sure. Anyways, welcome back. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 17:17, February 1, 2022 (EST)

== Cultural Marxism Criticism Reverts ==

Uh, do you not want any rebuttals against the arguments used to disprove its existence? - [[User:SmashCulturalMarxism|SmashCulturalMarxism]] 2-8-22
:Huh, what? you mean Marxists claim it doesn't exist? Figures. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 18:03, February 8, 2022 (EST)

Can’t imagine why that would be the case. In any event, it would probably be useful to display the arguments used to claim it’s a conspiracy theory before said arguments are picked apart by the facts. Do you agree? - [[User:SmashCulturalMarxism|SmashCulturalMarxism]] 2-8-22

== Please check your email ==

Please check your email. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 16:43, February 13, 2022 (EST)
:Check your email again. I responded. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 19:12, February 13, 2022 (EST)
::Check your email again. I responded another time. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 19:24, February 13, 2022 (EST)

== Cultural Marxism Criticism Reverts Pt 2 ==

Rob, I thought we had an understanding. What are you doing? [[User:SmashCulturalMarxism|SmashCulturalMarxism]] 2-14-21
:Understanding on what? [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 17:19, February 14, 2022 (EST)
:FYI, if you think you're going to hijack the Cultural Marxism page so proponents of Cultural Marxism can call their critics 'anti-Semites', think again. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 17:21, February 14, 2022 (EST)

What do you mean ‘hijacked’? The criticism section is being expanded so that it can refute accusations of anti-semitism. How on earth do you end up misinterpreting all this? [[User:SmashCulturalMarxism|SmashCulturalMarxism]] 2-14-21

:Where are the accusations coming from? Are they from a reputable or reliable source other than an extremist source? [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 17:39, February 14, 2022 (EST)

The accusations are literally on wikipedia and any other leftist outlet trying to call it a myth. Are you seriously unaware of this? [[User:SmashCulturalMarxism|SmashCulturalMarxism]] 2-14-21

:No, it's to be expected. As Wikipedia says, 'an extremist source can only be used about itself.' [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 18:15, February 14, 2022 (EST)
:The purpose of our Cultural Marxism page is to describe what it is, not rehash debates and talking points among Marxists to being exposed. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 18:18, February 14, 2022 (EST)
:Why would you consider what Marxists say about Cultural Marxism as credible? [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 18:19, February 14, 2022 (EST)
:The situation is no different than Marxist school boards that claim [[Critical Race Theory]] doesn't exist. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 18:28, February 14, 2022 (EST)

If you don’t want the marxist talking points to be shown and debunked then why do you even bother to have a criticism page pointing out why they think it’s fake? And why are you assuming that I think what they say is credible? [[User:SmashCulturalMarxism|SmashCulturalMarxism]] 2-14-21
:(a) good question. It needs proofreading. (b) why do you insist on inserting Marxist propaganda? [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 18:47, February 14, 2022 (EST)

Well while you’re ‘proofreading’ arguments literally made to refute marxist propaganda, do you mind not rushing to assumptions and actually realize that Im trying to help the article? [[User:SmashCulturalMarxism|SmashCulturalMarxism]]

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[[File:Gramsci.png|thumb|200px|Antonio Gramsci]]
'''Cultural Marxism''' is a branch of [[Marxist]] ideology formulated by the ''[[Frankfurt School]]'', which had its origins the early part of the twentieth century. Cultural Marxism comprises much of the foundation of [[political correctness]]. It emerged as a response of [[Europe]]an Marxist intellectuals disillusioned by the early political failures of conventional economic Marxist ideology.<ref>cf. External source: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIdBuK7_g3M Cultural Marxism: The Corruption of America] is a James Jaeger Film with ambition to show how ''a love affair with collectivist ideologies has lead to ever bigger government and the welfare-warfare state. Lead by a Marxist splinter group called the "[[Frankfurt School]]" -- "[[the long march through the institutions]]" has infiltrated every corner of [[Western culture]] to corrupt traditional Christian values with "[[political correctness]]," another name for "cultural Marxism."''</ref>

The central idea of Cultural Marxism is to soften up and prepare [[Western Civilization]] for [[economic]] Marxism after a gradual, relentless, sustained attack on every institution of Western culture,<ref>Ludwig, E. Jeffrey (October 23, 2019). [https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/communist-influences-are-destroying-the-us-faster-and-faster Communist influences are destroying the US, faster and faster]. ''LifeSiteNews''. Retrieved October 23, 2019.</ref> including schools,<ref>Svab, Petr (November 25, 2019). [https://www.theepochtimes.com/school-programs-mixed-with-social-marxism-spread-through-america_3152761.html School Programs Mixed With Social Marxism Spread Through America]. ''The Epoch Times''. Retrieved November 25, 2019.</ref> literature, art, film, the [[Judeo-Christian]] worldview tradition, [[marriage]] and the [[Destroying the family|family]],<ref>Solway, David (August 23, 2018). [https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/karl-marx-hated-marriage-and-marxism-is-marriages-enemy Karl Marx hated marriage, and Marxism is marriage’s enemy]. ''LifeSiteNews'' (from the ''American Thinker''). Retrieved August 28, 2018.</ref> sexual mores, [[War on Sovereignty|national sovereignty]], etc.<ref>cf. The tendency of dictatorial ideologies to influence public institutions etc. so that these would serve their agendas is termed as [[Gleichschaltung]]. 
See also:
*Warner, Gerald (February 4, 2015). [https://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/02/04/for-the-first-time-in-history-conservatives-are-at-the-forefront-of-the-cultural-revolution/ For the First Time in History, ‘Conservatives’ Are at the Forefront of the Cultural Revolution]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved December 25, 2017.
:"By the post-War era the Cultural Marxist programme had a wide-reaching agenda of destruction. It aimed to destroy the family, denying the specific roles of the father and mother, and advocated the teaching of sex and homosexuality to children; mobilisation of women as revolutionaries against men, through aggressive feminism; large-scale immigration to abolish national identity; dependency on the state and state benefits; control and infantilisation of the media."</ref> The attacks are usually framed in Marxist terms as a class struggle between oppressors and oppressed; the members of the latter class allegedly include women, minorities, homosexuals, and adherents of non-Western ideologies such as Islam. Cultural Marxism has been described as "the cultural branch of [[globalism]]."<ref>[https://www.westernmastery.com/2017/03/23/cultural-marxism-is-the-1-enemy-of-western-civilization/ Cultural Marxism is the #1 Enemy of Western Civilization]. ''Western Mastery''. March 23, 2017. Retrieved December 25, 2017.</ref>

While Marx's ''[[Communist Manifesto]]'' focused on the alleged class struggle between bourgeois (owners of the means of production) and proletariat (workers), Marx did address culture, which he intimated would change after his economic vision was implemented. [[Patrick Buchanan]] argues that Cultural Marxism succeeded where Marx failed.<ref>[http://cnsnews.com/blog/grant-m-dahl/buchanan-cultural-marxism-has-succeeded-where-marx-and-lenin-failed Buchanan: ‘Cultural Marxism’ Has Succeeded Where Marx and Lenin Failed], [[CNSNews]]</ref> Marxism has permeated the American Left.<ref>Kirk, Charlie (September 27, 2020). [https://humanevents.com/2020/09/26/far-from-being-dead-true-marxism-is-very-much-alive/ Far From Being “Dead,” True Marxism Is Very Much Alive.] ''Human Events''. Retrieved September 27, 2020.</ref>

Among cultural Marxists, the book ''[[Dialectic of Enlightenment]]'' is considered to be a central text.<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/apr/08/frankfurt-school-dialectic-of-enlightenment The Frankfurt school, part 3: Dialectic of Enlightenment ]</ref><ref>''Dialectic of Enlightenment'' was written in 1944 by Theodor W. Adorno and Max Horkheimer</ref>

An effective way for cultural Marxists to influence the culture is to infiltrate schools and indoctrinate students, which the [[Democratic Socialists of America]] explicitly endorsed in 2018.<ref>Newman, Alex (August 29, 2018). [https://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/education/item/29907-socialists-urge-infiltration-of-government-schools Socialists Urge Infiltration of Government Schools]. ''The New American''. Retrieved August 29, 2018. See also:
*Newman, Alex (February 6, 2019). [https://www.thenewamerican.com/print-magazine/item/31250-education-s-future-globalization-of-indoctrination Education’s Future: Globalization of Indoctrination]. ''The New American''. Retrieved February 6, 2019.</ref>

==History==

===Marx, Engels and Lenin on culture===
The cultural views of [[Karl Marx]] and [[Friedrich Engels]] were, in general, different from those of the 20th century Cultural Marxists. Marx and Engels were proponents of [[Realism]] in the arts and culture. They maintained that any honest artist who longs for truth and is guided by sincere ethics, would end up portraying the grueling realities of [[capitalism]] realistically without having to be a [[socialism|socialist]]. They give the example of their contemporary French writer [[Honoré de Balzac]], who, despite being a staunch [[monarchy|monarchist]], his realist literary works laid bare the immorality of 19th century capitalist relations of production and thus Balzac's work is of great value to progressives even though his personal ideology was conservative. Engels called this the "Triumph of Realism" (Sieg des Realismus), explaining that Balzac's sincere ethics and the fact that his heart longed for truth and objectivity inevitably made him a realist critic of capitalist exploitation in his literature, although his personal political alignment always remained [[conservatism|conservative]]. According to Engels: <blockquote>Balzac boldly exposed the contradiction of nascent capitalist society and hence his observation of reality constantly clashed with his political prejudices. But as an honest artist he always depicted only what he himself saw, learned and underwent, concerning himself not at all whether his-true-to-life description of the things he saw contradicted his pet ideas.<ref>https://www.academia.edu/28848230/Two_Balzacs_Two_Gogols_Two_Tolstoys</ref></blockquote>

Engels declared that Balzac was his favorite writer. Marx's Das Kapital also makes some references to the works of Balzac.

[[Vladimir Lenin]] was also a proponent of Realism and stressed its superiority over [[Modernism]]. He considered [[Leo Tolstoy]] to be the most effective depicter of the everyday life of Russian peasants, even though Tolstoy was a nobleman. Lenin once wrote to [[Maxim Gorky]]: "Until this Count, we had no real peasant in our literature."<ref>https://www.marxists.org/archive/gorky-maxim/1924/lenin-the_man.html</ref> Here too, the personal merit of Tolstoy as an author, to Lenin, is not the superlative genius of Tolstoy that enabled him to represent both the Russian [[Kulak|Kulaks]] as well as the Russian Muzhiks so effectively. Ultimately it was the compulsion for truthful representation that made Tolstoy do so.<ref>https://www.academia.edu/28848230/Two_Balzacs_Two_Gogols_Two_Tolstoys</ref>

Both the thesis of Marx-Engels on Balzac and that of Lenin on Tolstoy hold that it is the conditions of the class struggle which determine those of the cultural struggle, not vice versa (for it was the advent of French capitalism in Balzac's case and the fight of Russian peasants for emancipation in Tolstoy's case that "woke up" the two authors and oriented them towards social realism), and thus the cultural struggle must be subordinate to the class struggle.

In short, all three of Marx, Engels and Lenin considered culture to be part of the "superstructure" rather than the "base", and thus maintained that it is the change in the [[economy]] that leads to the change in a society's culture, and ran contrary to the thesis of the Cultural Marxists that a [[Cultural Revolution|cultural revolution]] can be possible before the socio-politico-economic [[proletariat|proletarian]] revolution.

===Soviet Marxism against Cultural Marxism: Lukacs against the Frankfurt School===

Knowing the above, one can more easily understand the nature of the cultural debates between [[Marxism|Marxist]] intellectuals in the 1920s. The Soviet "orthodox" Marxists, such as [[Grigory Zinoviev]], Nikolai Bukharin and Karl Radek, maintained that the revolution in capitalist countries will come only through the [[class warfare|class struggle]] of the workers against the [[bourgeoisie]] and that culture plays a secondary role in this struggle. They also maintained that Marxist art should adhere to a simple, realistic and popularly understandable depiction of the evils of capitalism.

In a 1924 [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union|Soviet Communist Party]] congress, many Cultural Marxist and Modernist authors were harshly criticized by Soviet officials as "heretics". In his speech entitled The Struggle Against the Ultra-Lefts and Theoretical Revisionism, Zinoviev fiercely attacked [[Georg Lukacs]]' book History and Class Consciousness, declaring: ‘If we get more of these professors spinning out their Marxist theories, we shall be lost. We cannot tolerate theoretical revisionism of this kind in our Communist International.’ Nikolai Bukharin, soon to replace Zinoviev as [[Joseph Stalin]]’s chief ally in the [[Comintern]], told Karl Korsch, author of one of the most influential Cultural Marxist texts: ‘We can’t put every piece of garbage up for discussion.’<ref>https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/revhist/backiss/vol8/no1/smith.html</ref> Karl Radek also formulated the superiority of classical [[European]] Realism over Modernism, saying "If I were to write novels, I would learn how to write them from Tolstoy and Balzac, not from [[James Joyce]]."<ref>https://www.marxists.org/archive/radek/1934/sovietwritercongress.htm</ref> This year, which coincides with Stalin's takeover of the Party, marks the moment in which the [[Soviet Union]] closed its door to Cultural Marxism. Soon, the USSR made illegal such evils as [[homosexuality]] and [[abortion]].<ref>https://www.marxist.com/from-emancipation-to-criminalisation-stalinist-persecution-of-homosexuals-from-1934.htm</ref><ref>http://soviethistory.msu.edu/1936-2/abolition-of-legal-abortion/</ref>. From now on, Cultural Marxists considered the USSR as the "betrayer of the revolution". The advent of the [[Hitler]] dictatorship in [[Germany]] also meant the Frankfurt School was closed, and from 1933 Cultural Marxists started emigrating to America.

Karl Korsch, [[Georg Lukacs]] (only in his early philosophical period) and [[Antonio Gramsci]] (see below) were the original founders of Cultural Marxism. Their thought influenced that of the members of the [[Frankfurt School]] of [[Critical Theory]] ([[Theodor Adorno]], [[Max Horkheimer]], Walter Benjamin, [[Herbert Marcuse]], [[Erich Fromm]] etc.) who mingled Marxism with the theories of [[Sigmund Freud]], [[Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel]] and [[Immanuel Kant]], something unacceptable for Soviet Marxists. For the Cultural Marxists, the world of ideas is equally important to the material one, and they maintained that it is possible for a revolution in the world of ideas to lead to a revolution in the material world. They also abandoned the defense of realism and instead championed [[modernism]] and [[abstract art]], labelled as "degenerate" by both Nazis and Soviets. In response, they equated [[Nazism]] and [[Stalinism]], being some of the first proponents of the theory of [[totalitarianism]]. The Frankfurt School's theories, akin to neo-Hegelian dialectical idealism and "Freudo-Marxism" focusing on "[[sexual revolution|sexual liberation]]", are what forms the crux of Cultural Marxism.

Lukacs, however, soon repudiated these theories and returned to a much more orthodox Marxist stance, coming at odds with his former Frankfurt comrades, whose theories he now labelled "Café Marxism". He chose to live in the Soviet Union and his native [[Hungary]] and became the Culture Minister of the 1956 [[Hungarian Revolution]] under [[Imre Nagy]]. He fiercely criticized those Frankfurt School intellectuals who instead went to live in the comforts of the [[United States]] and [[West Germany]]. In 1962 Lukacs wrote: <blockquote>A considerable part of the leading German intelligentsia, including [[Theodor Adorno|Adorno]], have taken up residence in the "Grand Hotel Abyss" which I described […] as "a beautiful hotel, equipped with every comfort, on the edge of an abyss, of nothingness, of absurdity. And the daily contemplation of the abyss between excellent meals or artistic entertainments, can only heighten the enjoyment of the subtle comforts offered.<ref>https://www.marxists.org/archive/lukacs/works/theory-novel/preface.htm</ref>.</blockquote>

In the world of Marxist thinkers, what Lukacs said here is the equivalent of flashing a red cloth around at an angry bull. Lukacs said that the Frankfurt School thinkers started to become bourgeois idealists who didn't care about having an active hand in the fight against political exploitation and oppression. Now that they were famous and kind of moneyed, they were sitting at their cozy desks at the luxurious Grand Hotel writing about Marxism, but they were becoming increasingly detached from its political cause. He pretty much accused them of hypocrisy—of living like fat-cat capitalists and losing focus.<ref>https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literary-critics/gyorgy-lukacs/quotes</ref>

[[Image:Breitbart1.jpg|thumb|160px|right|Andrew Breitbart]]
[[Andrew Breitbart]] gives a great if not brief crash course discussion about ''Cultural Marxism'' with Peter Robinson of the [[Hoover Institute]] for ''Uncommon Knowledge'', and, in part, this is what he said:
<blockquote>Think about this: These guys left, THESE GUYS LEFT NAZI GERMANY and Mussolini's Italy to come to California in the 1940's and they lived by the beach, and they were depressed by the relentless cheery-ness - the productivity; and the capitalism that they witnessed around them. And they came up with, at the end of the day; We can call it Cultural Marxism, but at the end of the day, we experience it on a day to day basis, by that I mean a minute by minute, second by second basis. It’s political correctness and it’s multiculturalism.<ref>[https://youtu.be/b8CpON8VrRU?t=22m38s Andrew Breitbart - Media War]</ref></blockquote>

In the video, Breitbart discusses the ''Frankfurt School'', ''[[Critical Theory]]'', [[Herbert Marcuse]], [[Antonio Gramsci]], [[Max Horkheimer]], [[Theodor Adorno]], [[Bertolt Brecht]], and others of the German School, many which emigrated to America. He further wrote about ''Cultural Marxism'' more in-depth in his book ''Righteous Indignation''.

===Gramsci===

[[Antonio Gramsci]] was a lieutenant of [[Joseph Stalin]] who headed the [[Italian]] branch of the International Communist movement ([[Comintern]]). After several failed assassination attempts on Mussolini, Gramsci was imprisoned in 1926 until his death in 1937. While in prison Gramsci wrote his ''Prison Notebooks'', speculating on the failure of [[violent]] [[revolution]] to materialize in [[Western Europe]] as [[Karl Marx]] had predicted. Gramsci's works are considered by [[Socialists]] to be foundational to modern [[public education]] and Cultural Marxism.<ref>https://www.jstor.org/stable/23768314?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents</ref><ref>https://www.marxists.org/archive/gramsci/prison_notebooks/problems/education.htm</ref><ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdTTr4iYT0M</ref>

Gramsci's theory of "cultural hegemony" states that the ruling capitalist "oppressor" class uses cultural institutions, such as "traditional marriage," to maintain power. The "oppressors" develop a "hegemonic culture" using [[ideology]] unlike Socialists who use [[violence]], economic force, and coercion. "Hegemonic culture" propagates its own values and norms so that they become "[[common sense]]" values and thus maintain the [[status quo]]. According to [[Wikipedia]], this "Hegemonic power is therefore used to maintain consent to the capitalist order, rather than coercive power using force" as Marxism does "to maintain order. This cultural hegemony is produced and reproduced" by the dominant Christian oppressor class "through the institutions that form the superstructure."

Joseph A. Buttigieg, [[Pete Buttigieg]]'s father, was a founding member of the International Gramsci Society and served as the executive secretary.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20100616163619/http://english.nd.edu/faculty/profiles/joseph-a-buttigieg/</ref>

===Dutschke===
:{{See also|Long march through the institutions}}
The Long march through the institutions is a [[Marxist]] concept formulated in 1967 by the [[West German]] student movement leader Rudi Dutschke. Dutschke reformulated [[Antonio Gramsci]]'s philosophy of cultural Marxism with the phrase ''the long march through the institutions'' (German: ''Marsch durch die Institutionen'') to identify the political war of position or incrementalism, an [[allusion]] to the [[Long March]] (1934–35) of the [[Communist Party of China|Communist Chinese]] [[People's Liberation Army]], by means of which, the [[working class]] or "oppressed" would produce their own intellectuals, civil servants, and culture (dominant ideology) to replace those imposed by the [[bourgeoisie]] or "oppressor class."<ref>{{Citation | url = http://english.nd.edu/faculty/profiles/joseph-a-buttigieg/ | editor1-first = Joseph A | editor1-last = Buttigieg | edition = English critical | last = Gramsci | title = Prison Notebooks | at = p 50 footnote 21 | quote = Long March Through the Institutions21 | deadurl = yes | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20100616163619/http://english.nd.edu/faculty/profiles/joseph-a-buttigieg/ | archivedate = 2010-06-16 | df = }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal| doi = 10.1215/01903659-32-1-33| issn = 0190-3659| volume = 32| issue = 1| pages = 33–52| last = Buttigieg| first = Joseph A.| title = The Contemporary Discourse on Civil Society: A Gramscian Critique| journal = Boundary 2| year = 2005}}</ref><ref name= "davidson">{{Citation | format = web log | url = http://carldavidson.blogspot.com/2006/04/strategy-hegemony-long-march.html | title = Strategy, Hegemony & 'The Long March': Gramsci's Lessons for the Antiwar Movement | first = Carl | last = Davidson | date = 6 April 2006}}.</ref><ref>See also [[Carl Davidson]]</ref><ref>Marsch durch die Institutionen|Marsch durch die Institutionen at German Wikipedia.</ref><ref>[[wikiquote:Antonio Gramsci#Misattributed|Antonio Gramsci: Misattributed]] at English Wikiquote for the origin of “The Long March Through the Institutions” quotation.</ref>

[[Karl Marx]] spoke of a sudden [[revolution]], where everything changes in a moment. Gramsci, the head of the [[Italian]] Communist party, was thrown in prison by [[Benito Mussolini]], where he speculated on the failure of Marxist revolution in his ''Prison Notebooks'', and attributed the failure to the cultural hegemony of the bourgeois oppressor class. Dutschke built on Gramsci's writings by proposing a long march through the cultural institutions of society - the church, entertainment, civil service, educational faculties, family institutions and marriage - to replace the dominant culture and replace it with revolutionary godless cultural Marxism.

Dutschke said, {{Quotebox|"Revolution is not a short act when something happens once and then everything is different. Revolution is a long, complicated process, where one [der Mensch] must become different...the process goes along this way, which I have once named ‘The Long March through the Established Institutions’, in which [institutions], through clarification [Aufklärung], systematic clarification and [[direct action]]s, awareness is brought [Bewusstwerdung] to further minorities in and outside the university, in schools, in trade schools, in engineer schools, also technical universities and finally in factories, where workers are currently worrying about their jobs. The process has begun, and that is a long story, which right now has been set on its course by us."<ref>http://crisiscritique.org/nov2018/boris.pdf</ref><ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_r_XahzELY</ref>}}

Gramsci theorized that if Communism achieved "mastery of human consciousness," then [[concentration camp]]s and [[mass murder]] would be unnecessary. Mastery over the consciousness of the great mass of people could be attained if Communists or their sympathizers gained control of the organs of culture — [[church]]es, [[education]], [[newspaper]]s, magazines, the electronic media, [[literature]], [[music]], the visual arts, and so on. By winning "cultural hegemony," Communism would control the deepest wellsprings of human thought and imagination. One need not control all information itself if one can gain control over the [[mind]]s that assimilate that information. Under such conditions, opposition would disappear since men are no longer capable of grasping the arguments of Marxism's opponents.<ref>https://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/history/item/15545-gramscis-grand-plan</ref>

==Criticism==
According to [[Wikipedia]], cultural Marxism has become a focal topic for many conspiracy theorist websites which seek to cloak their anti-Semitic, anti-Jew messages behind a legitimate topic. It is true that many of the members of the Frankfurt School were Jewish, but their big problem was that they were [[Marxists]]. Trying to debunk cultural Marxism’s existence via accusations of anti-semitism are also fruitless because the existence of it doesn’t rely on finding out if any of its creators were Jews, and most people who acknowledge its existence don’t do this anyway.

Leftists (and cultural marxists by extension) deny that cultural Marxism exists and seek to treat the entire topic as a "conspiracy" itself, by casting Cultural Marxism as a "myth" or a "hoax".<ref>[https://attackthesystem.com/2014/05/18/on-the-myth-of-cultural-marxism/ On the Myth of "Cultural Marxism"]</ref> Wikipedia has an entire section titled ''Cultural Marxism conspiracy theory'' within its page for the ''Frankfurt School''.<ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt_School#Cultural_Marxism_conspiracy_theory Frankfurt School - Cultural Marxism conspiracy theory]</ref> As of September 2020, Wikipedia has added an article titled "Cultural Marxism conspiracy theory," using the image of convicted terrorist and self-identified Nazi fascist Anders Behring Breivik to discredit its existence via guilt by association..<ref> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Marxism_conspiracy_theory</ref> Virtually every single source trying to prove it’s a myth are [[Conflict of interest|blatantly biased towards the left or even come from fellow Marxists. Most egregiously, at least one widely cited source comes from the Frankfurt School itself]].

Other common ‘rebuttals’ include downplaying the impact of the Frankfurt Schools’ ideology on the world, in spite of the fact that [[LGBT|its]] [[BLM|modern-day]] [[Biden regime|adherents]] have unprecedented power and the ideology can be found in the West’s most powerful institutions. There’s also accusations of equating the push for equality and civil rights with a ‘nefarious plot’. Communists have always sought to subvert and co-opt civil rights movements for their own ends, but the fact remains that civil rights and communism are inherently anathema. MLK, the leader of the civil rights movement in the ‘60s, also denounced communism. Cultural Marxism has never truly advocated for civil rights and equality beyond equal outcomes (which they call ‘equity’), the acquisition of which involves severe civil rights violations.

==See also==
*[[Liberal values]]
*[[Anthropological Revolution]]
*[[Critical theory]]
*[[Equity literacy]]
*[[Destroying the family]]
*[[Biden/Harris War on Parents]]
*[[Dialectical unity of self-contradictions]]
*[[Cultural Revolution]]
*[[Frankfurt School]]
*[[Nimrodian aspirations]]
*[[Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel]]

== References ==
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==External links==
* [https://mises.org/blog/cultural-marxism-explained-7-minutes Cultural Marxism Explained in 7 Minutes], by Joseph T. Salerno at the Mises Institute
* [https://www.gotquestions.org/cultural-Marxism.html What is cultural Marxism?], at [[GotQuestions]]
* [http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=552 Political Correctness / Cultural Marxism], [[Discover the Networks]]
* [https://www.theamericanconservative.com/2009/11/19/the-roots-of-political-correctness/ The Roots of Political Correctness], by William S. Lind
* [https://dailycaller.com/2016/09/29/cultural-marxism-is-destroying-america/ Cultural Marxism Is Destroying America], by Moses Apostaticus, September 29, 2016, ''The Daily Caller''
* [https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/11/19/cultural-marxism-enemy-review-michael-walshs-book-devils-pleasure-palace/ Cultural Marxism Is the Enemy: Review of Michael Walsh’s Book ‘The Devil’s Pleasure Palace’], by Austin Ruse, Breitbart News, November 19, 2015.
*[https://topdocumentaryfilms.com/cultural-marxism-corruption-america/ Cultural Marxism: The Corruption of America], 99 min. documentary film.
*[https://www.theepochtimes.com/c-how-the-specter-of-communism-is-ruling-our-world How the Specter of Communism Is Ruling Our World]. ''The Epoch Times''.
*[https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/sacred-mission-to-destroy-normality-weimar-america/ The Sacred Mission To Destroy Normality], by Rod Dreher
*Duke, Selwyn (July 18, 2019). [https://www.thenewamerican.com/reviews/opinion/item/32884-the-left-is-following-communism-s-playbook-for-revolution The Left Is Following Communism’s Playbook for Revolution]. ''The New American''.
*[https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/item/33182-behind-the-deep-state-alex-newman-fake-fall-of-communism The Fake Fall of Communism - Behind the Deep State], ''The New American''.
*[https://youtu.be/PPRjsumWt7w Antonio Gramsci & Cultural Marxism], [[John Birch Society]], Feb 1, 2021. youtube

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[[File:Gramsci.png|thumb|200px|Antonio Gramsci]]
'''Cultural Marxism''' is a branch of [[Marxist]] ideology formulated by the ''[[Frankfurt School]]'', which had its origins the early part of the twentieth century. Cultural Marxism comprises much of the foundation of [[political correctness]]. It emerged as a response of [[Europe]]an Marxist intellectuals disillusioned by the early political failures of conventional economic Marxist ideology.<ref>cf. External source: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIdBuK7_g3M Cultural Marxism: The Corruption of America] is a James Jaeger Film with ambition to show how ''a love affair with collectivist ideologies has lead to ever bigger government and the welfare-warfare state. Lead by a Marxist splinter group called the "[[Frankfurt School]]" -- "[[the long march through the institutions]]" has infiltrated every corner of [[Western culture]] to corrupt traditional Christian values with "[[political correctness]]," another name for "cultural Marxism."''</ref>

The central idea of Cultural Marxism is to soften up and prepare [[Western Civilization]] for [[economic]] Marxism after a gradual, relentless, sustained attack on every institution of Western culture,<ref>Ludwig, E. Jeffrey (October 23, 2019). [https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/communist-influences-are-destroying-the-us-faster-and-faster Communist influences are destroying the US, faster and faster]. ''LifeSiteNews''. Retrieved October 23, 2019.</ref> including schools,<ref>Svab, Petr (November 25, 2019). [https://www.theepochtimes.com/school-programs-mixed-with-social-marxism-spread-through-america_3152761.html School Programs Mixed With Social Marxism Spread Through America]. ''The Epoch Times''. Retrieved November 25, 2019.</ref> literature, art, film, the [[Judeo-Christian]] worldview tradition, [[marriage]] and the [[Destroying the family|family]],<ref>Solway, David (August 23, 2018). [https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/karl-marx-hated-marriage-and-marxism-is-marriages-enemy Karl Marx hated marriage, and Marxism is marriage’s enemy]. ''LifeSiteNews'' (from the ''American Thinker''). Retrieved August 28, 2018.</ref> sexual mores, [[War on Sovereignty|national sovereignty]], etc.<ref>cf. The tendency of dictatorial ideologies to influence public institutions etc. so that these would serve their agendas is termed as [[Gleichschaltung]]. 
See also:
*Warner, Gerald (February 4, 2015). [https://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/02/04/for-the-first-time-in-history-conservatives-are-at-the-forefront-of-the-cultural-revolution/ For the First Time in History, ‘Conservatives’ Are at the Forefront of the Cultural Revolution]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved December 25, 2017.
:"By the post-War era the Cultural Marxist programme had a wide-reaching agenda of destruction. It aimed to destroy the family, denying the specific roles of the father and mother, and advocated the teaching of sex and homosexuality to children; mobilisation of women as revolutionaries against men, through aggressive feminism; large-scale immigration to abolish national identity; dependency on the state and state benefits; control and infantilisation of the media."</ref> The attacks are usually framed in Marxist terms as a class struggle between oppressors and oppressed; the members of the latter class allegedly include women, minorities, homosexuals, and adherents of non-Western ideologies such as Islam. Cultural Marxism has been described as "the cultural branch of [[globalism]]."<ref>[https://www.westernmastery.com/2017/03/23/cultural-marxism-is-the-1-enemy-of-western-civilization/ Cultural Marxism is the #1 Enemy of Western Civilization]. ''Western Mastery''. March 23, 2017. Retrieved December 25, 2017.</ref>

While Marx's ''[[Communist Manifesto]]'' focused on the alleged class struggle between bourgeois (owners of the means of production) and proletariat (workers), Marx did address culture, which he intimated would change after his economic vision was implemented. [[Patrick Buchanan]] argues that Cultural Marxism succeeded where Marx failed.<ref>[http://cnsnews.com/blog/grant-m-dahl/buchanan-cultural-marxism-has-succeeded-where-marx-and-lenin-failed Buchanan: ‘Cultural Marxism’ Has Succeeded Where Marx and Lenin Failed], [[CNSNews]]</ref> Marxism has permeated the American Left.<ref>Kirk, Charlie (September 27, 2020). [https://humanevents.com/2020/09/26/far-from-being-dead-true-marxism-is-very-much-alive/ Far From Being “Dead,” True Marxism Is Very Much Alive.] ''Human Events''. Retrieved September 27, 2020.</ref>

Among cultural Marxists, the book ''[[Dialectic of Enlightenment]]'' is considered to be a central text.<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/apr/08/frankfurt-school-dialectic-of-enlightenment The Frankfurt school, part 3: Dialectic of Enlightenment ]</ref><ref>''Dialectic of Enlightenment'' was written in 1944 by Theodor W. Adorno and Max Horkheimer</ref>

An effective way for cultural Marxists to influence the culture is to infiltrate schools and indoctrinate students, which the [[Democratic Socialists of America]] explicitly endorsed in 2018.<ref>Newman, Alex (August 29, 2018). [https://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/education/item/29907-socialists-urge-infiltration-of-government-schools Socialists Urge Infiltration of Government Schools]. ''The New American''. Retrieved August 29, 2018. See also:
*Newman, Alex (February 6, 2019). [https://www.thenewamerican.com/print-magazine/item/31250-education-s-future-globalization-of-indoctrination Education’s Future: Globalization of Indoctrination]. ''The New American''. Retrieved February 6, 2019.</ref>

==History==

===Marx, Engels and Lenin on culture===
The cultural views of [[Karl Marx]] and [[Friedrich Engels]] were, in general, different from those of the 20th century Cultural Marxists. Marx and Engels were proponents of [[Realism]] in the arts and culture. They maintained that any honest artist who longs for truth and is guided by sincere ethics, would end up portraying the grueling realities of [[capitalism]] realistically without having to be a [[socialism|socialist]]. They give the example of their contemporary French writer [[Honoré de Balzac]], who, despite being a staunch [[monarchy|monarchist]], his realist literary works laid bare the immorality of 19th century capitalist relations of production and thus Balzac's work is of great value to progressives even though his personal ideology was conservative. Engels called this the "Triumph of Realism" (Sieg des Realismus), explaining that Balzac's sincere ethics and the fact that his heart longed for truth and objectivity inevitably made him a realist critic of capitalist exploitation in his literature, although his personal political alignment always remained [[conservatism|conservative]]. According to Engels: <blockquote>Balzac boldly exposed the contradiction of nascent capitalist society and hence his observation of reality constantly clashed with his political prejudices. But as an honest artist he always depicted only what he himself saw, learned and underwent, concerning himself not at all whether his-true-to-life description of the things he saw contradicted his pet ideas.<ref>https://www.academia.edu/28848230/Two_Balzacs_Two_Gogols_Two_Tolstoys</ref></blockquote>

Engels declared that Balzac was his favorite writer. Marx's Das Kapital also makes some references to the works of Balzac.

[[Vladimir Lenin]] was also a proponent of Realism and stressed its superiority over [[Modernism]]. He considered [[Leo Tolstoy]] to be the most effective depicter of the everyday life of Russian peasants, even though Tolstoy was a nobleman. Lenin once wrote to [[Maxim Gorky]]: "Until this Count, we had no real peasant in our literature."<ref>https://www.marxists.org/archive/gorky-maxim/1924/lenin-the_man.html</ref> Here too, the personal merit of Tolstoy as an author, to Lenin, is not the superlative genius of Tolstoy that enabled him to represent both the Russian [[Kulak|Kulaks]] as well as the Russian Muzhiks so effectively. Ultimately it was the compulsion for truthful representation that made Tolstoy do so.<ref>https://www.academia.edu/28848230/Two_Balzacs_Two_Gogols_Two_Tolstoys</ref>

Both the thesis of Marx-Engels on Balzac and that of Lenin on Tolstoy hold that it is the conditions of the class struggle which determine those of the cultural struggle, not vice versa (for it was the advent of French capitalism in Balzac's case and the fight of Russian peasants for emancipation in Tolstoy's case that "woke up" the two authors and oriented them towards social realism), and thus the cultural struggle must be subordinate to the class struggle.

In short, all three of Marx, Engels and Lenin considered culture to be part of the "superstructure" rather than the "base", and thus maintained that it is the change in the [[economy]] that leads to the change in a society's culture, and ran contrary to the thesis of the Cultural Marxists that a [[Cultural Revolution|cultural revolution]] can be possible before the socio-politico-economic [[proletariat|proletarian]] revolution.

===Soviet Marxism against Cultural Marxism: Lukacs against the Frankfurt School===

Knowing the above, one can more easily understand the nature of the cultural debates between [[Marxism|Marxist]] intellectuals in the 1920s. The Soviet "orthodox" Marxists, such as [[Grigory Zinoviev]], Nikolai Bukharin and Karl Radek, maintained that the revolution in capitalist countries will come only through the [[class warfare|class struggle]] of the workers against the [[bourgeoisie]] and that culture plays a secondary role in this struggle. They also maintained that Marxist art should adhere to a simple, realistic and popularly understandable depiction of the evils of capitalism.

In a 1924 [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union|Soviet Communist Party]] congress, many Cultural Marxist and Modernist authors were harshly criticized by Soviet officials as "heretics". In his speech entitled The Struggle Against the Ultra-Lefts and Theoretical Revisionism, Zinoviev fiercely attacked [[Georg Lukacs]]' book History and Class Consciousness, declaring: ‘If we get more of these professors spinning out their Marxist theories, we shall be lost. We cannot tolerate theoretical revisionism of this kind in our Communist International.’ Nikolai Bukharin, soon to replace Zinoviev as [[Joseph Stalin]]’s chief ally in the [[Comintern]], told Karl Korsch, author of one of the most influential Cultural Marxist texts: ‘We can’t put every piece of garbage up for discussion.’<ref>https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/revhist/backiss/vol8/no1/smith.html</ref> Karl Radek also formulated the superiority of classical [[European]] Realism over Modernism, saying "If I were to write novels, I would learn how to write them from Tolstoy and Balzac, not from [[James Joyce]]."<ref>https://www.marxists.org/archive/radek/1934/sovietwritercongress.htm</ref> This year, which coincides with Stalin's takeover of the Party, marks the moment in which the [[Soviet Union]] closed its door to Cultural Marxism. Soon, the USSR made illegal such evils as [[homosexuality]] and [[abortion]].<ref>https://www.marxist.com/from-emancipation-to-criminalisation-stalinist-persecution-of-homosexuals-from-1934.htm</ref><ref>http://soviethistory.msu.edu/1936-2/abolition-of-legal-abortion/</ref>. From now on, Cultural Marxists considered the USSR as the "betrayer of the revolution". The advent of the [[Hitler]] dictatorship in [[Germany]] also meant the Frankfurt School was closed, and from 1933 Cultural Marxists started emigrating to America.

Karl Korsch, [[Georg Lukacs]] (only in his early philosophical period) and [[Antonio Gramsci]] (see below) were the original founders of Cultural Marxism. Their thought influenced that of the members of the [[Frankfurt School]] of [[Critical Theory]] ([[Theodor Adorno]], [[Max Horkheimer]], Walter Benjamin, [[Herbert Marcuse]], [[Erich Fromm]] etc.) who mingled Marxism with the theories of [[Sigmund Freud]], [[Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel]] and [[Immanuel Kant]], something unacceptable for Soviet Marxists. For the Cultural Marxists, the world of ideas is equally important to the material one, and they maintained that it is possible for a revolution in the world of ideas to lead to a revolution in the material world. They also abandoned the defense of realism and instead championed [[modernism]] and [[abstract art]], labelled as "degenerate" by both Nazis and Soviets. In response, they equated [[Nazism]] and [[Stalinism]], being some of the first proponents of the theory of [[totalitarianism]]. The Frankfurt School's theories, akin to neo-Hegelian dialectical idealism and "Freudo-Marxism" focusing on "[[sexual revolution|sexual liberation]]", are what forms the crux of Cultural Marxism.

Lukacs, however, soon repudiated these theories and returned to a much more orthodox Marxist stance, coming at odds with his former Frankfurt comrades, whose theories he now labelled "Café Marxism". He chose to live in the Soviet Union and his native [[Hungary]] and became the Culture Minister of the 1956 [[Hungarian Revolution]] under [[Imre Nagy]]. He fiercely criticized those Frankfurt School intellectuals who instead went to live in the comforts of the [[United States]] and [[West Germany]]. In 1962 Lukacs wrote: <blockquote>A considerable part of the leading German intelligentsia, including [[Theodor Adorno|Adorno]], have taken up residence in the "Grand Hotel Abyss" which I described […] as "a beautiful hotel, equipped with every comfort, on the edge of an abyss, of nothingness, of absurdity. And the daily contemplation of the abyss between excellent meals or artistic entertainments, can only heighten the enjoyment of the subtle comforts offered.<ref>https://www.marxists.org/archive/lukacs/works/theory-novel/preface.htm</ref>.</blockquote>

In the world of Marxist thinkers, what Lukacs said here is the equivalent of flashing a red cloth around at an angry bull. Lukacs said that the Frankfurt School thinkers started to become bourgeois idealists who didn't care about having an active hand in the fight against political exploitation and oppression. Now that they were famous and kind of moneyed, they were sitting at their cozy desks at the luxurious Grand Hotel writing about Marxism, but they were becoming increasingly detached from its political cause. He pretty much accused them of hypocrisy—of living like fat-cat capitalists and losing focus.<ref>https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literary-critics/gyorgy-lukacs/quotes</ref>

[[Image:Breitbart1.jpg|thumb|160px|right|Andrew Breitbart]]
[[Andrew Breitbart]] gives a great if not brief crash course discussion about ''Cultural Marxism'' with Peter Robinson of the [[Hoover Institute]] for ''Uncommon Knowledge'', and, in part, this is what he said:
<blockquote>Think about this: These guys left, THESE GUYS LEFT NAZI GERMANY and Mussolini's Italy to come to California in the 1940's and they lived by the beach, and they were depressed by the relentless cheery-ness - the productivity; and the capitalism that they witnessed around them. And they came up with, at the end of the day; We can call it Cultural Marxism, but at the end of the day, we experience it on a day to day basis, by that I mean a minute by minute, second by second basis. It’s political correctness and it’s multiculturalism.<ref>[https://youtu.be/b8CpON8VrRU?t=22m38s Andrew Breitbart - Media War]</ref></blockquote>

In the video, Breitbart discusses the ''Frankfurt School'', ''[[Critical Theory]]'', [[Herbert Marcuse]], [[Antonio Gramsci]], [[Max Horkheimer]], [[Theodor Adorno]], [[Bertolt Brecht]], and others of the German School, many which emigrated to America. He further wrote about ''Cultural Marxism'' more in-depth in his book ''Righteous Indignation''.

===Gramsci===

[[Antonio Gramsci]] was a lieutenant of [[Joseph Stalin]] who headed the [[Italian]] branch of the International Communist movement ([[Comintern]]). After several failed assassination attempts on Mussolini, Gramsci was imprisoned in 1926 until his death in 1937. While in prison Gramsci wrote his ''Prison Notebooks'', speculating on the failure of [[violent]] [[revolution]] to materialize in [[Western Europe]] as [[Karl Marx]] had predicted. Gramsci's works are considered by [[Socialists]] to be foundational to modern [[public education]] and Cultural Marxism.<ref>https://www.jstor.org/stable/23768314?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents</ref><ref>https://www.marxists.org/archive/gramsci/prison_notebooks/problems/education.htm</ref><ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdTTr4iYT0M</ref>

Gramsci's theory of "cultural hegemony" states that the ruling capitalist "oppressor" class uses cultural institutions, such as "traditional marriage," to maintain power. The "oppressors" develop a "hegemonic culture" using [[ideology]] unlike Socialists who use [[violence]], economic force, and coercion. "Hegemonic culture" propagates its own values and norms so that they become "[[common sense]]" values and thus maintain the [[status quo]]. According to [[Wikipedia]], this "Hegemonic power is therefore used to maintain consent to the capitalist order, rather than coercive power using force" as Marxism does "to maintain order. This cultural hegemony is produced and reproduced" by the dominant Christian oppressor class "through the institutions that form the superstructure."

Joseph A. Buttigieg, [[Pete Buttigieg]]'s father, was a founding member of the International Gramsci Society and served as the executive secretary.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20100616163619/http://english.nd.edu/faculty/profiles/joseph-a-buttigieg/</ref>

===Dutschke===
:{{See also|Long march through the institutions}}
The Long march through the institutions is a [[Marxist]] concept formulated in 1967 by the [[West German]] student movement leader Rudi Dutschke. Dutschke reformulated [[Antonio Gramsci]]'s philosophy of cultural Marxism with the phrase ''the long march through the institutions'' (German: ''Marsch durch die Institutionen'') to identify the political war of position or incrementalism, an [[allusion]] to the [[Long March]] (1934–35) of the [[Communist Party of China|Communist Chinese]] [[People's Liberation Army]], by means of which, the [[working class]] or "oppressed" would produce their own intellectuals, civil servants, and culture (dominant ideology) to replace those imposed by the [[bourgeoisie]] or "oppressor class."<ref>{{Citation | url = http://english.nd.edu/faculty/profiles/joseph-a-buttigieg/ | editor1-first = Joseph A | editor1-last = Buttigieg | edition = English critical | last = Gramsci | title = Prison Notebooks | at = p 50 footnote 21 | quote = Long March Through the Institutions21 | deadurl = yes | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20100616163619/http://english.nd.edu/faculty/profiles/joseph-a-buttigieg/ | archivedate = 2010-06-16 | df = }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal| doi = 10.1215/01903659-32-1-33| issn = 0190-3659| volume = 32| issue = 1| pages = 33–52| last = Buttigieg| first = Joseph A.| title = The Contemporary Discourse on Civil Society: A Gramscian Critique| journal = Boundary 2| year = 2005}}</ref><ref name= "davidson">{{Citation | format = web log | url = http://carldavidson.blogspot.com/2006/04/strategy-hegemony-long-march.html | title = Strategy, Hegemony & 'The Long March': Gramsci's Lessons for the Antiwar Movement | first = Carl | last = Davidson | date = 6 April 2006}}.</ref><ref>See also [[Carl Davidson]]</ref><ref>Marsch durch die Institutionen|Marsch durch die Institutionen at German Wikipedia.</ref><ref>[[wikiquote:Antonio Gramsci#Misattributed|Antonio Gramsci: Misattributed]] at English Wikiquote for the origin of “The Long March Through the Institutions” quotation.</ref>

[[Karl Marx]] spoke of a sudden [[revolution]], where everything changes in a moment. Gramsci, the head of the [[Italian]] Communist party, was thrown in prison by [[Benito Mussolini]], where he speculated on the failure of Marxist revolution in his ''Prison Notebooks'', and attributed the failure to the cultural hegemony of the bourgeois oppressor class. Dutschke built on Gramsci's writings by proposing a long march through the cultural institutions of society - the church, entertainment, civil service, educational faculties, family institutions and marriage - to replace the dominant culture and replace it with revolutionary godless cultural Marxism.

Dutschke said, {{Quotebox|"Revolution is not a short act when something happens once and then everything is different. Revolution is a long, complicated process, where one [der Mensch] must become different...the process goes along this way, which I have once named ‘The Long March through the Established Institutions’, in which [institutions], through clarification [Aufklärung], systematic clarification and [[direct action]]s, awareness is brought [Bewusstwerdung] to further minorities in and outside the university, in schools, in trade schools, in engineer schools, also technical universities and finally in factories, where workers are currently worrying about their jobs. The process has begun, and that is a long story, which right now has been set on its course by us."<ref>http://crisiscritique.org/nov2018/boris.pdf</ref><ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_r_XahzELY</ref>}}

Gramsci theorized that if Communism achieved "mastery of human consciousness," then [[concentration camp]]s and [[mass murder]] would be unnecessary. Mastery over the consciousness of the great mass of people could be attained if Communists or their sympathizers gained control of the organs of culture — [[church]]es, [[education]], [[newspaper]]s, magazines, the electronic media, [[literature]], [[music]], the visual arts, and so on. By winning "cultural hegemony," Communism would control the deepest wellsprings of human thought and imagination. One need not control all information itself if one can gain control over the [[mind]]s that assimilate that information. Under such conditions, opposition would disappear since men are no longer capable of grasping the arguments of Marxism's opponents.<ref>https://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/history/item/15545-gramscis-grand-plan</ref>

==Criticism==
According to [[Wikipedia]], cultural Marxism has become a focal topic for many conspiracy theorist websites which seek to cloak their anti-Semitic, anti-Jew messages behind a legitimate topic. It is true that many of the members of the Frankfurt School were Jewish, but their big problem was that they were [[Marxists]]. Trying to debunk cultural Marxism’s existence via accusations of anti-semitism are also fruitless because the existence of it doesn’t rely on finding out if any of its creators were Jews, and most people who acknowledge its existence don’t do this anyway.

Leftists (and cultural marxists by extension) deny that cultural Marxism exists and seek to treat the entire topic as a "conspiracy" itself, by casting Cultural Marxism as a "myth" or a "hoax".<ref>[https://attackthesystem.com/2014/05/18/on-the-myth-of-cultural-marxism/ On the Myth of "Cultural Marxism"]</ref> Wikipedia has an entire section titled ''Cultural Marxism conspiracy theory'' within its page for the ''Frankfurt School''.<ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt_School#Cultural_Marxism_conspiracy_theory Frankfurt School - Cultural Marxism conspiracy theory]</ref> As of September 2020, Wikipedia has added an article titled "Cultural Marxism conspiracy theory," using the image of convicted terrorist and self-identified Nazi fascist Anders Behring Breivik to discredit its existence via guilt by association..<ref> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Marxism_conspiracy_theory</ref> Virtually every single source trying to prove it’s a myth are [[Conflict of interest|blatantly biased towards the left or even come from fellow Marxists. Most egregiously, at least one widely cited source comes from the Frankfurt School itself]].

Other common rebuttals include downplaying the impact of the Frankfurt Schools’ ideology on the world, in spite of the fact that [[LGBT|its]] [[BLM|modern-day]] [[Biden regime|adherents]] have unprecedented power and the ideology can be found in the West’s most powerful institutions.

==See also==
*[[Liberal values]]
*[[Anthropological Revolution]]
*[[Critical theory]]
*[[Equity literacy]]
*[[Destroying the family]]
*[[Biden/Harris War on Parents]]
*[[Dialectical unity of self-contradictions]]
*[[Cultural Revolution]]
*[[Frankfurt School]]
*[[Nimrodian aspirations]]
*[[Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel]]

== References ==
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==External links==
* [https://mises.org/blog/cultural-marxism-explained-7-minutes Cultural Marxism Explained in 7 Minutes], by Joseph T. Salerno at the Mises Institute
* [https://www.gotquestions.org/cultural-Marxism.html What is cultural Marxism?], at [[GotQuestions]]
* [http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=552 Political Correctness / Cultural Marxism], [[Discover the Networks]]
* [https://www.theamericanconservative.com/2009/11/19/the-roots-of-political-correctness/ The Roots of Political Correctness], by William S. Lind
* [https://dailycaller.com/2016/09/29/cultural-marxism-is-destroying-america/ Cultural Marxism Is Destroying America], by Moses Apostaticus, September 29, 2016, ''The Daily Caller''
* [https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/11/19/cultural-marxism-enemy-review-michael-walshs-book-devils-pleasure-palace/ Cultural Marxism Is the Enemy: Review of Michael Walsh’s Book ‘The Devil’s Pleasure Palace’], by Austin Ruse, Breitbart News, November 19, 2015.
*[https://topdocumentaryfilms.com/cultural-marxism-corruption-america/ Cultural Marxism: The Corruption of America], 99 min. documentary film.
*[https://www.theepochtimes.com/c-how-the-specter-of-communism-is-ruling-our-world How the Specter of Communism Is Ruling Our World]. ''The Epoch Times''.
*[https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/sacred-mission-to-destroy-normality-weimar-america/ The Sacred Mission To Destroy Normality], by Rod Dreher
*Duke, Selwyn (July 18, 2019). [https://www.thenewamerican.com/reviews/opinion/item/32884-the-left-is-following-communism-s-playbook-for-revolution The Left Is Following Communism’s Playbook for Revolution]. ''The New American''.
*[https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/item/33182-behind-the-deep-state-alex-newman-fake-fall-of-communism The Fake Fall of Communism - Behind the Deep State], ''The New American''.
*[https://youtu.be/PPRjsumWt7w Antonio Gramsci & Cultural Marxism], [[John Birch Society]], Feb 1, 2021. youtube

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Cultural Marxism

2022-02-09T03:12:48Z

SmashCulturalMarxism: Rebuttals against accusations that it’s a conspiracy theory

[[File:Gramsci.png|thumb|200px|Antonio Gramsci]]
'''Cultural Marxism''' is a branch of [[Marxist]] ideology formulated by the ''[[Frankfurt School]]'', which had its origins the early part of the twentieth century. Cultural Marxism comprises much of the foundation of [[political correctness]]. It emerged as a response of [[Europe]]an Marxist intellectuals disillusioned by the early political failures of conventional economic Marxist ideology.<ref>cf. External source: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIdBuK7_g3M Cultural Marxism: The Corruption of America] is a James Jaeger Film with ambition to show how ''a love affair with collectivist ideologies has lead to ever bigger government and the welfare-warfare state. Lead by a Marxist splinter group called the "[[Frankfurt School]]" -- "[[the long march through the institutions]]" has infiltrated every corner of [[Western culture]] to corrupt traditional Christian values with "[[political correctness]]," another name for "cultural Marxism."''</ref>

The central idea of Cultural Marxism is to soften up and prepare [[Western Civilization]] for [[economic]] Marxism after a gradual, relentless, sustained attack on every institution of Western culture,<ref>Ludwig, E. Jeffrey (October 23, 2019). [https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/communist-influences-are-destroying-the-us-faster-and-faster Communist influences are destroying the US, faster and faster]. ''LifeSiteNews''. Retrieved October 23, 2019.</ref> including schools,<ref>Svab, Petr (November 25, 2019). [https://www.theepochtimes.com/school-programs-mixed-with-social-marxism-spread-through-america_3152761.html School Programs Mixed With Social Marxism Spread Through America]. ''The Epoch Times''. Retrieved November 25, 2019.</ref> literature, art, film, the [[Judeo-Christian]] worldview tradition, [[marriage]] and the [[Destroying the family|family]],<ref>Solway, David (August 23, 2018). [https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/karl-marx-hated-marriage-and-marxism-is-marriages-enemy Karl Marx hated marriage, and Marxism is marriage’s enemy]. ''LifeSiteNews'' (from the ''American Thinker''). Retrieved August 28, 2018.</ref> sexual mores, [[War on Sovereignty|national sovereignty]], etc.<ref>cf. The tendency of dictatorial ideologies to influence public institutions etc. so that these would serve their agendas is termed as [[Gleichschaltung]]. 
See also:
*Warner, Gerald (February 4, 2015). [https://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/02/04/for-the-first-time-in-history-conservatives-are-at-the-forefront-of-the-cultural-revolution/ For the First Time in History, ‘Conservatives’ Are at the Forefront of the Cultural Revolution]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved December 25, 2017.
:"By the post-War era the Cultural Marxist programme had a wide-reaching agenda of destruction. It aimed to destroy the family, denying the specific roles of the father and mother, and advocated the teaching of sex and homosexuality to children; mobilisation of women as revolutionaries against men, through aggressive feminism; large-scale immigration to abolish national identity; dependency on the state and state benefits; control and infantilisation of the media."</ref> The attacks are usually framed in Marxist terms as a class struggle between oppressors and oppressed; the members of the latter class allegedly include women, minorities, homosexuals, and adherents of non-Western ideologies such as Islam. Cultural Marxism has been described as "the cultural branch of [[globalism]]."<ref>[https://www.westernmastery.com/2017/03/23/cultural-marxism-is-the-1-enemy-of-western-civilization/ Cultural Marxism is the #1 Enemy of Western Civilization]. ''Western Mastery''. March 23, 2017. Retrieved December 25, 2017.</ref>

While Marx's ''[[Communist Manifesto]]'' focused on the alleged class struggle between bourgeois (owners of the means of production) and proletariat (workers), Marx did address culture, which he intimated would change after his economic vision was implemented. [[Patrick Buchanan]] argues that Cultural Marxism succeeded where Marx failed.<ref>[http://cnsnews.com/blog/grant-m-dahl/buchanan-cultural-marxism-has-succeeded-where-marx-and-lenin-failed Buchanan: ‘Cultural Marxism’ Has Succeeded Where Marx and Lenin Failed], [[CNSNews]]</ref> Marxism has permeated the American Left.<ref>Kirk, Charlie (September 27, 2020). [https://humanevents.com/2020/09/26/far-from-being-dead-true-marxism-is-very-much-alive/ Far From Being “Dead,” True Marxism Is Very Much Alive.] ''Human Events''. Retrieved September 27, 2020.</ref>

Among cultural Marxists, the book ''[[Dialectic of Enlightenment]]'' is considered to be a central text.<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/apr/08/frankfurt-school-dialectic-of-enlightenment The Frankfurt school, part 3: Dialectic of Enlightenment ]</ref><ref>''Dialectic of Enlightenment'' was written in 1944 by Theodor W. Adorno and Max Horkheimer</ref>

An effective way for cultural Marxists to influence the culture is to infiltrate schools and indoctrinate students, which the [[Democratic Socialists of America]] explicitly endorsed in 2018.<ref>Newman, Alex (August 29, 2018). [https://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/education/item/29907-socialists-urge-infiltration-of-government-schools Socialists Urge Infiltration of Government Schools]. ''The New American''. Retrieved August 29, 2018. See also:
*Newman, Alex (February 6, 2019). [https://www.thenewamerican.com/print-magazine/item/31250-education-s-future-globalization-of-indoctrination Education’s Future: Globalization of Indoctrination]. ''The New American''. Retrieved February 6, 2019.</ref>

==History==

===Marx, Engels and Lenin on culture===
The cultural views of [[Karl Marx]] and [[Friedrich Engels]] were, in general, different from those of the 20th century Cultural Marxists. Marx and Engels were proponents of [[Realism]] in the arts and culture. They maintained that any honest artist who longs for truth and is guided by sincere ethics, would end up portraying the grueling realities of [[capitalism]] realistically without having to be a [[socialism|socialist]]. They give the example of their contemporary French writer [[Honoré de Balzac]], who, despite being a staunch [[monarchy|monarchist]], his realist literary works laid bare the immorality of 19th century capitalist relations of production and thus Balzac's work is of great value to progressives even though his personal ideology was conservative. Engels called this the "Triumph of Realism" (Sieg des Realismus), explaining that Balzac's sincere ethics and the fact that his heart longed for truth and objectivity inevitably made him a realist critic of capitalist exploitation in his literature, although his personal political alignment always remained [[conservatism|conservative]]. According to Engels: <blockquote>Balzac boldly exposed the contradiction of nascent capitalist society and hence his observation of reality constantly clashed with his political prejudices. But as an honest artist he always depicted only what he himself saw, learned and underwent, concerning himself not at all whether his-true-to-life description of the things he saw contradicted his pet ideas.<ref>https://www.academia.edu/28848230/Two_Balzacs_Two_Gogols_Two_Tolstoys</ref></blockquote>

Engels declared that Balzac was his favorite writer. Marx's Das Kapital also makes some references to the works of Balzac.

[[Vladimir Lenin]] was also a proponent of Realism and stressed its superiority over [[Modernism]]. He considered [[Leo Tolstoy]] to be the most effective depicter of the everyday life of Russian peasants, even though Tolstoy was a nobleman. Lenin once wrote to [[Maxim Gorky]]: "Until this Count, we had no real peasant in our literature."<ref>https://www.marxists.org/archive/gorky-maxim/1924/lenin-the_man.html</ref> Here too, the personal merit of Tolstoy as an author, to Lenin, is not the superlative genius of Tolstoy that enabled him to represent both the Russian [[Kulak|Kulaks]] as well as the Russian Muzhiks so effectively. Ultimately it was the compulsion for truthful representation that made Tolstoy do so.<ref>https://www.academia.edu/28848230/Two_Balzacs_Two_Gogols_Two_Tolstoys</ref>

Both the thesis of Marx-Engels on Balzac and that of Lenin on Tolstoy hold that it is the conditions of the class struggle which determine those of the cultural struggle, not vice versa (for it was the advent of French capitalism in Balzac's case and the fight of Russian peasants for emancipation in Tolstoy's case that "woke up" the two authors and oriented them towards social realism), and thus the cultural struggle must be subordinate to the class struggle.

In short, all three of Marx, Engels and Lenin considered culture to be part of the "superstructure" rather than the "base", and thus maintained that it is the change in the [[economy]] that leads to the change in a society's culture, and ran contrary to the thesis of the Cultural Marxists that a [[Cultural Revolution|cultural revolution]] can be possible before the socio-politico-economic [[proletariat|proletarian]] revolution.

===Soviet Marxism against Cultural Marxism: Lukacs against the Frankfurt School===

Knowing the above, one can more easily understand the nature of the cultural debates between [[Marxism|Marxist]] intellectuals in the 1920s. The Soviet "orthodox" Marxists, such as [[Grigory Zinoviev]], Nikolai Bukharin and Karl Radek, maintained that the revolution in capitalist countries will come only through the [[class warfare|class struggle]] of the workers against the [[bourgeoisie]] and that culture plays a secondary role in this struggle. They also maintained that Marxist art should adhere to a simple, realistic and popularly understandable depiction of the evils of capitalism.

In a 1924 [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union|Soviet Communist Party]] congress, many Cultural Marxist and Modernist authors were harshly criticized by Soviet officials as "heretics". In his speech entitled The Struggle Against the Ultra-Lefts and Theoretical Revisionism, Zinoviev fiercely attacked [[Georg Lukacs]]' book History and Class Consciousness, declaring: ‘If we get more of these professors spinning out their Marxist theories, we shall be lost. We cannot tolerate theoretical revisionism of this kind in our Communist International.’ Nikolai Bukharin, soon to replace Zinoviev as [[Joseph Stalin]]’s chief ally in the [[Comintern]], told Karl Korsch, author of one of the most influential Cultural Marxist texts: ‘We can’t put every piece of garbage up for discussion.’<ref>https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/revhist/backiss/vol8/no1/smith.html</ref> Karl Radek also formulated the superiority of classical [[European]] Realism over Modernism, saying "If I were to write novels, I would learn how to write them from Tolstoy and Balzac, not from [[James Joyce]]."<ref>https://www.marxists.org/archive/radek/1934/sovietwritercongress.htm</ref> This year, which coincides with Stalin's takeover of the Party, marks the moment in which the [[Soviet Union]] closed its door to Cultural Marxism. Soon, the USSR made illegal such evils as [[homosexuality]] and [[abortion]].<ref>https://www.marxist.com/from-emancipation-to-criminalisation-stalinist-persecution-of-homosexuals-from-1934.htm</ref><ref>http://soviethistory.msu.edu/1936-2/abolition-of-legal-abortion/</ref>. From now on, Cultural Marxists considered the USSR as the "betrayer of the revolution". The advent of the [[Hitler]] dictatorship in [[Germany]] also meant the Frankfurt School was closed, and from 1933 Cultural Marxists started emigrating to America.

Karl Korsch, [[Georg Lukacs]] (only in his early philosophical period) and [[Antonio Gramsci]] (see below) were the original founders of Cultural Marxism. Their thought influenced that of the members of the [[Frankfurt School]] of [[Critical Theory]] ([[Theodor Adorno]], [[Max Horkheimer]], Walter Benjamin, [[Herbert Marcuse]], [[Erich Fromm]] etc.) who mingled Marxism with the theories of [[Sigmund Freud]], [[Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel]] and [[Immanuel Kant]], something unacceptable for Soviet Marxists. For the Cultural Marxists, the world of ideas is equally important to the material one, and they maintained that it is possible for a revolution in the world of ideas to lead to a revolution in the material world. They also abandoned the defense of realism and instead championed [[modernism]] and [[abstract art]], labelled as "degenerate" by both Nazis and Soviets. In response, they equated [[Nazism]] and [[Stalinism]], being some of the first proponents of the theory of [[totalitarianism]]. The Frankfurt School's theories, akin to neo-Hegelian dialectical idealism and "Freudo-Marxism" focusing on "[[sexual revolution|sexual liberation]]", are what forms the crux of Cultural Marxism.

Lukacs, however, soon repudiated these theories and returned to a much more orthodox Marxist stance, coming at odds with his former Frankfurt comrades, whose theories he now labelled "Café Marxism". He chose to live in the Soviet Union and his native [[Hungary]] and became the Culture Minister of the 1956 [[Hungarian Revolution]] under [[Imre Nagy]]. He fiercely criticized those Frankfurt School intellectuals who instead went to live in the comforts of the [[United States]] and [[West Germany]]. In 1962 Lukacs wrote: <blockquote>A considerable part of the leading German intelligentsia, including [[Theodor Adorno|Adorno]], have taken up residence in the "Grand Hotel Abyss" which I described […] as "a beautiful hotel, equipped with every comfort, on the edge of an abyss, of nothingness, of absurdity. And the daily contemplation of the abyss between excellent meals or artistic entertainments, can only heighten the enjoyment of the subtle comforts offered.<ref>https://www.marxists.org/archive/lukacs/works/theory-novel/preface.htm</ref>.</blockquote>

In the world of Marxist thinkers, what Lukacs said here is the equivalent of flashing a red cloth around at an angry bull. Lukacs said that the Frankfurt School thinkers started to become bourgeois idealists who didn't care about having an active hand in the fight against political exploitation and oppression. Now that they were famous and kind of moneyed, they were sitting at their cozy desks at the luxurious Grand Hotel writing about Marxism, but they were becoming increasingly detached from its political cause. He pretty much accused them of hypocrisy—of living like fat-cat capitalists and losing focus.<ref>https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literary-critics/gyorgy-lukacs/quotes</ref>

[[Image:Breitbart1.jpg|thumb|160px|right|Andrew Breitbart]]
[[Andrew Breitbart]] gives a great if not brief crash course discussion about ''Cultural Marxism'' with Peter Robinson of the [[Hoover Institute]] for ''Uncommon Knowledge'', and, in part, this is what he said:
<blockquote>Think about this: These guys left, THESE GUYS LEFT NAZI GERMANY and Mussolini's Italy to come to California in the 1940's and they lived by the beach, and they were depressed by the relentless cheery-ness - the productivity; and the capitalism that they witnessed around them. And they came up with, at the end of the day; We can call it Cultural Marxism, but at the end of the day, we experience it on a day to day basis, by that I mean a minute by minute, second by second basis. It’s political correctness and it’s multiculturalism.<ref>[https://youtu.be/b8CpON8VrRU?t=22m38s Andrew Breitbart - Media War]</ref></blockquote>

In the video, Breitbart discusses the ''Frankfurt School'', ''[[Critical Theory]]'', [[Herbert Marcuse]], [[Antonio Gramsci]], [[Max Horkheimer]], [[Theodor Adorno]], [[Bertolt Brecht]], and others of the German School, many which emigrated to America. He further wrote about ''Cultural Marxism'' more in-depth in his book ''Righteous Indignation''.

===Gramsci===

[[Antonio Gramsci]] was a lieutenant of [[Joseph Stalin]] who headed the [[Italian]] branch of the International Communist movement ([[Comintern]]). After several failed assassination attempts on Mussolini, Gramsci was imprisoned in 1926 until his death in 1937. While in prison Gramsci wrote his ''Prison Notebooks'', speculating on the failure of [[violent]] [[revolution]] to materialize in [[Western Europe]] as [[Karl Marx]] had predicted. Gramsci's works are considered by [[Socialists]] to be foundational to modern [[public education]] and Cultural Marxism.<ref>https://www.jstor.org/stable/23768314?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents</ref><ref>https://www.marxists.org/archive/gramsci/prison_notebooks/problems/education.htm</ref><ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdTTr4iYT0M</ref>

Gramsci's theory of "cultural hegemony" states that the ruling capitalist "oppressor" class uses cultural institutions, such as "traditional marriage," to maintain power. The "oppressors" develop a "hegemonic culture" using [[ideology]] unlike Socialists who use [[violence]], economic force, and coercion. "Hegemonic culture" propagates its own values and norms so that they become "[[common sense]]" values and thus maintain the [[status quo]]. According to [[Wikipedia]], this "Hegemonic power is therefore used to maintain consent to the capitalist order, rather than coercive power using force" as Marxism does "to maintain order. This cultural hegemony is produced and reproduced" by the dominant Christian oppressor class "through the institutions that form the superstructure."

Joseph A. Buttigieg, [[Pete Buttigieg]]'s father, was a founding member of the International Gramsci Society and served as the executive secretary.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20100616163619/http://english.nd.edu/faculty/profiles/joseph-a-buttigieg/</ref>

===Dutschke===
:{{See also|Long march through the institutions}}
The Long march through the institutions is a [[Marxist]] concept formulated in 1967 by the [[West German]] student movement leader Rudi Dutschke. Dutschke reformulated [[Antonio Gramsci]]'s philosophy of cultural Marxism with the phrase ''the long march through the institutions'' (German: ''Marsch durch die Institutionen'') to identify the political war of position or incrementalism, an [[allusion]] to the [[Long March]] (1934–35) of the [[Communist Party of China|Communist Chinese]] [[People's Liberation Army]], by means of which, the [[working class]] or "oppressed" would produce their own intellectuals, civil servants, and culture (dominant ideology) to replace those imposed by the [[bourgeoisie]] or "oppressor class."<ref>{{Citation | url = http://english.nd.edu/faculty/profiles/joseph-a-buttigieg/ | editor1-first = Joseph A | editor1-last = Buttigieg | edition = English critical | last = Gramsci | title = Prison Notebooks | at = p 50 footnote 21 | quote = Long March Through the Institutions21 | deadurl = yes | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20100616163619/http://english.nd.edu/faculty/profiles/joseph-a-buttigieg/ | archivedate = 2010-06-16 | df = }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal| doi = 10.1215/01903659-32-1-33| issn = 0190-3659| volume = 32| issue = 1| pages = 33–52| last = Buttigieg| first = Joseph A.| title = The Contemporary Discourse on Civil Society: A Gramscian Critique| journal = Boundary 2| year = 2005}}</ref><ref name= "davidson">{{Citation | format = web log | url = http://carldavidson.blogspot.com/2006/04/strategy-hegemony-long-march.html | title = Strategy, Hegemony & 'The Long March': Gramsci's Lessons for the Antiwar Movement | first = Carl | last = Davidson | date = 6 April 2006}}.</ref><ref>See also [[Carl Davidson]]</ref><ref>Marsch durch die Institutionen|Marsch durch die Institutionen at German Wikipedia.</ref><ref>[[wikiquote:Antonio Gramsci#Misattributed|Antonio Gramsci: Misattributed]] at English Wikiquote for the origin of “The Long March Through the Institutions” quotation.</ref>

[[Karl Marx]] spoke of a sudden [[revolution]], where everything changes in a moment. Gramsci, the head of the [[Italian]] Communist party, was thrown in prison by [[Benito Mussolini]], where he speculated on the failure of Marxist revolution in his ''Prison Notebooks'', and attributed the failure to the cultural hegemony of the bourgeois oppressor class. Dutschke built on Gramsci's writings by proposing a long march through the cultural institutions of society - the church, entertainment, civil service, educational faculties, family institutions and marriage - to replace the dominant culture and replace it with revolutionary godless cultural Marxism.

Dutschke said, {{Quotebox|"Revolution is not a short act when something happens once and then everything is different. Revolution is a long, complicated process, where one [der Mensch] must become different...the process goes along this way, which I have once named ‘The Long March through the Established Institutions’, in which [institutions], through clarification [Aufklärung], systematic clarification and [[direct action]]s, awareness is brought [Bewusstwerdung] to further minorities in and outside the university, in schools, in trade schools, in engineer schools, also technical universities and finally in factories, where workers are currently worrying about their jobs. The process has begun, and that is a long story, which right now has been set on its course by us."<ref>http://crisiscritique.org/nov2018/boris.pdf</ref><ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_r_XahzELY</ref>}}

Gramsci theorized that if Communism achieved "mastery of human consciousness," then [[concentration camp]]s and [[mass murder]] would be unnecessary. Mastery over the consciousness of the great mass of people could be attained if Communists or their sympathizers gained control of the organs of culture — [[church]]es, [[education]], [[newspaper]]s, magazines, the electronic media, [[literature]], [[music]], the visual arts, and so on. By winning "cultural hegemony," Communism would control the deepest wellsprings of human thought and imagination. One need not control all information itself if one can gain control over the [[mind]]s that assimilate that information. Under such conditions, opposition would disappear since men are no longer capable of grasping the arguments of Marxism's opponents.<ref>https://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/history/item/15545-gramscis-grand-plan</ref>

==Criticism==
According to [[Wikipedia]], cultural Marxism has become a focal topic for many conspiracy theorist websites which seek to cloak their anti-Semitic, anti-Jew messages behind a legitimate topic. It is true that many of the members of the Frankfurt School were Jewish, but their big problem was that they were [[Marxists]]. Trying to debunk cultural Marxism’s existence via accusations of anti-semitism are also fruitless because the existence of it doesn’t rely on finding out if any of its creators were Jews, and most people who acknowledge its existence don’t do this anyway.

Leftists (and cultural marxists by extension) deny that cultural Marxism exists and seek to treat the entire topic as a "conspiracy" itself, by casting Cultural Marxism as a "myth" or a "hoax".<ref>[https://attackthesystem.com/2014/05/18/on-the-myth-of-cultural-marxism/ On the Myth of "Cultural Marxism"]</ref> Wikipedia has an entire section titled ''Cultural Marxism conspiracy theory'' within its page for the ''Frankfurt School''.<ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt_School#Cultural_Marxism_conspiracy_theory Frankfurt School - Cultural Marxism conspiracy theory]</ref> As of September 2020, Wikipedia has added an article titled "Cultural Marxism conspiracy theory," using the image of convicted terrorist and self-identified Nazi fascist Anders Behring Breivik to discredit the theory.<ref> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Marxism_conspiracy_theory</ref> Virtually every single source trying to prove it’s a myth are [[Conflict of interest|blatantly biased towards the left or even come from fellow Marxists. Most egregiously, at least one widely cited source comes from the Frankfurt School itself]].

Other common rebuttals include downplaying the impact of the Frankfurt Schools’ ideology on the world, in spite of the fact that [[LGBT|its]] [[BLM|modern-day]] [[Biden regime|adherents]] have unprecedented power and the ideology can be found in the West’s most powerful institutions.

==See also==
*[[Liberal values]]
*[[Anthropological Revolution]]
*[[Critical theory]]
*[[Equity literacy]]
*[[Destroying the family]]
*[[Biden/Harris War on Parents]]
*[[Dialectical unity of self-contradictions]]
*[[Cultural Revolution]]
*[[Frankfurt School]]
*[[Nimrodian aspirations]]
*[[Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel]]

== References ==
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==External links==
* [https://mises.org/blog/cultural-marxism-explained-7-minutes Cultural Marxism Explained in 7 Minutes], by Joseph T. Salerno at the Mises Institute
* [https://www.gotquestions.org/cultural-Marxism.html What is cultural Marxism?], at [[GotQuestions]]
* [http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=552 Political Correctness / Cultural Marxism], [[Discover the Networks]]
* [https://www.theamericanconservative.com/2009/11/19/the-roots-of-political-correctness/ The Roots of Political Correctness], by William S. Lind
* [https://dailycaller.com/2016/09/29/cultural-marxism-is-destroying-america/ Cultural Marxism Is Destroying America], by Moses Apostaticus, September 29, 2016, ''The Daily Caller''
* [https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/11/19/cultural-marxism-enemy-review-michael-walshs-book-devils-pleasure-palace/ Cultural Marxism Is the Enemy: Review of Michael Walsh’s Book ‘The Devil’s Pleasure Palace’], by Austin Ruse, Breitbart News, November 19, 2015.
*[https://topdocumentaryfilms.com/cultural-marxism-corruption-america/ Cultural Marxism: The Corruption of America], 99 min. documentary film.
*[https://www.theepochtimes.com/c-how-the-specter-of-communism-is-ruling-our-world How the Specter of Communism Is Ruling Our World]. ''The Epoch Times''.
*[https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/sacred-mission-to-destroy-normality-weimar-america/ The Sacred Mission To Destroy Normality], by Rod Dreher
*Duke, Selwyn (July 18, 2019). [https://www.thenewamerican.com/reviews/opinion/item/32884-the-left-is-following-communism-s-playbook-for-revolution The Left Is Following Communism’s Playbook for Revolution]. ''The New American''.
*[https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/item/33182-behind-the-deep-state-alex-newman-fake-fall-of-communism The Fake Fall of Communism - Behind the Deep State], ''The New American''.
*[https://youtu.be/PPRjsumWt7w Antonio Gramsci & Cultural Marxism], [[John Birch Society]], Feb 1, 2021. youtube

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==Dec 2021==

I've been trying to figure out how to work this one in, combining the Rittenhouse verdict and [[Fredogate]] with the subject of self-defense: [https://www.bizpacreview.com/2021/11/27/says-the-guy-who-threatens-to-beat-people-up-a-lot-chris-cuomo-is-unhappy-with-self-defense-definition-1168453/ ‘Says the guy who threatens to beat people up;]. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 18:53, December 1, 2021 (EST)
:Will look into it. I have to say that Cuomo wasn't that far lefty before 2016.| Good morning. Please caution on first image, not on an empty stomach.
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:[https://conservapedia.com/Special:Log/upload Done]. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 15:14, December 2, 2021 (EST)
::Real "victims" Smollet & Brooks LOL-
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:Looks like a developing, long-running storyline and narrative. Brooks apparently is the next Michael Brown of Ferguson fame. Brooks apparently was trying to surrender to the police (who were incompetently protecting minority citizens from a neighboring city) while fleeing a knife fight when his car accidentally lost control and killed six people. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 20:32, December 2, 2021 (EST)
::Is woke-ism till in the "works" in "improving" this theory? [[User:Telling|Telling]] ([[User talk:Telling|talk]])
:::Oh yes, definitely. These poor oppressed individuals Smollett & Brooks, in their desperate actions to fight for social justice, now face the white man's justice. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 21:13, December 2, 2021 (EST)

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:::::[https://conservapedia.com/Special:Log/upload Done]. Sorry for the delay. I'm up to my ears in research on [[Faucism]] right now. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 22:26, December 4, 2021 (EST)
:::::I got the lynching one, too. Also, my Skype account crashed and I haven't reloaded it yet, so I'm back on Slack for instant messaging. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 23:28, December 4, 2021 (EST)

::::::I'm on there only once in a while. I hope you succeed with Skype etc.. This 2019 is classic, as both messages are on packages... Jihad and swastika...[https://www.0404.co.il/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/חבילות-חשד-למטען-כביש-חוצה-יהודה1-e1564340789639.jpg July/2019, Islamic Jihad w/ swastika in Judea][[User:Telling|Telling]] ([[User talk:Telling|talk]]) 00:26, December 5, 2021 (EST)

:::::::[https://conservapedia.com/File:Jihad_and_swastika.jpg Got it]. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 00:35, December 5, 2021 (EST)
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:::::::::It'll be interesting to see where he lands. Maybe as Antfa's press spokesman. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 15:24, December 5, 2021 (EST)
::::::::::This [https://t.co/uGLJtHvlfg Chris Cuomo’s entire career was worth it for this one moment ] is epic.|Another topic, look at this woke Dem useful idiot fooled [https://nypost.com/2021/12/04/woke-new-jersey-dem-fooled-by-fake-rabbis-parody-twitter-account/] the joke of the year.[[User:Telling|Telling]] ([[User talk:Telling|talk]])
:::::::::::Dunno whether to laugh or cry. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 10:11, December 7, 2021 (EST)

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[https://images1.ynet.co.il/PicServer5/2017/03/30/7685990/76859850100082640360no.jpg Himmler to Mufti 1 (1943)]|[https://images1.ynet.co.il//PicServer5/2017/03/30/7685998/76859870100079640360no.jpg Himmler to Mufti 2 (1943)]|[https://images.jpost.com/image/upload/f_auto,fl_lossy/t_JM_ArticleMainImageFaceDetect/469952 Mufti's Muslim-SS Handschar]|[https://64.media.tumblr.com/6db777f1acef5f25b9aae589731ea5b9/tumblr_pridnjoCTJ1r29p1do1_1280.jpg lying Rashida1]|[https://i.imgur.com/pcM7XRJ.png L.R.2], when you get a chance.[[User:Telling|Telling]] ([[User talk:Telling|talk]])
:[https://conservapedia.com/Special:Log/upload All caught up now.] [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 10:29, December 7, 2021 (EST)
::Thanks. Appreciated, especially that you're so busy. Can you grab a screenshot of this [https://books.google.com/books?id=X74zAQAAIAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=Shukairy+%22Our+common+target%22]?[[User:Telling|Telling]] ([[User talk:Telling|talk]])
:::[https://conservapedia.com/File:Survey_of_China_Mainland_Press,_Issues_3406-3428,_1965,_p_35.PNG Done]. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 14:20, December 8, 2021 (EST)
::::HI. I couldn't stop laughing. This is awesome https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1473079182980788226 [[User:Telling|Telling]] ([[User talk:Telling|talk]]) 21:03, December 20, 2021 (EST)
:::::It's like Andrew Klavan said, we have to laugh our way through the fall of the republic. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 21:13, December 20, 2021 (EST)
::::::Yup. For now. Till with the Grace of God it will all be improved.~~•
:::::::And God acts through people. This we have to realize and keep in mind. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 22:51, December 20, 2021 (EST)
::::::::Sure. Stay safe this holiday season. G'night.[[User:Telling|Telling]] ([[User talk:Telling|talk]])

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Hi. This one is shameful...[https://mobile.twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1473435061768929281/photo/1 Kimberlynn]
Happy New Year![[User:Telling|Telling]] ([[User talk:Telling|talk]]) 00:18, December 27, 2021 (EST)
:Yah, I saw this story, and it was so unbelievable, I wasn't sure which article it could be included in. This looks almost like cult behavior. [ https://conservapedia.com/File:Kimberlynn_Jurkowski.PNG] [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 01:05, December 27, 2021 (EST)
::You're right. Can you grab a screenshot where her name appears at WATKINS section? [https://www.capitolhillclusterschool.org/lsat][[User:Telling|Telling]] ([[User talk:Telling|talk]])
:::[https://conservapedia.com/File:Kimberlynn_Jurkowski_LSAT.PNG How's this?] I can crop it down to just the bottom half, if you want. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 20:13, December 27, 2021 (EST)
::::As always, you're doing great. | I made the distinction between WW2 era and today at ''antifa''. I hope it's clear. As today it's a clear '''oxymoron'''. They always hide their twisted ideas under perceived nice "benign" titles.[[User:Telling|Telling]] ([[User talk:Telling|talk]])
:::::Yah, that Antifa article is pretty good as is, but it could use some reorganization, clarity, and updating. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 23:04, December 27, 2021 (EST)
:::::Basically, it's too cramped. It needs some expansion. The original authors wrote it as if it was the final word on the subject, but much information and interest has developed since then. Perhaps dividing into eras, like pre-WWII, East German, evolution and change, late 20th century, Trump era, Biden era, etc.

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Hi. When you get a chance:
[https://www.brooklynpaper.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/00E83409-D7DC-4478-9033-E9C36ED9AB0A-1200x675.png June 27, 2021. Little Palestine, Bay Ridge]| [https://2nqf1a2pxrmv1i0jyy3lbz8e-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/ScreenShot2020-12-22at4_55_07PM_644fad5187eac0ced9a0031c5b9a2d60_2000-298x300.jpg Swastika on Park Slope school, Dec 13, 2020]| [https://newyork.cbslocal.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/14578484/2021/12/3523-21-68-Pct.-HCTF-12-26-21-Photo-1.jpg?w=1068 Hate crime, little Palestine, Bay Ridge, Dec 28, 2021]. Regards.[[User:Telling|Telling]] ([[User talk:Telling|talk]])

==Lie of the year==
Can someone create a graphic per this:

[https://freebeacon.com/?p=1551060 LIE OF THE THE YEAR: ‘I Will Shut Down The Virus’]
<blockquote>
Biden's COVID-19 death count passes 400K

Andrew Stiles • December 23, 2021

More than 400,000 Americans have died from COVID-19 since President Joe Biden took office.
Biden achieved the grim milestone despite repeatedly telling the American people that electing him president was the only way to "shut down the virus." That turned out to be an egregious lie.

The Washington Free Beacon projects that Biden's COVID-19 death toll will exceed that of his predecessor (408,450) by the end of the year, and will reach approximately 420,069 by the time he delivers his first State of the Union address.</blockquote>
Thanks.[[User:Telling|Telling]] ([[User talk:Telling|talk]])
:I've been on the lookout for a graphic, too. Maybe I can ask LT to do something with it.
:Anther thing I've been looking for, which according to public and private agencies that keep such records and are often delayed months and years, is the number of illegal immigrant deaths, both in custody and out. Since it's been a record year of illegal immigration, it naturally follows that it must also have been a record year of illegal immigrant deaths, whether in custody, crossing the border, or trying to cross the border. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 18:17, December 23, 2021 (EST)
:Since Biden invited illegals in, if a mother and child died of thirst in the Sonora desert 100 miles south of the border, or were murdered by cayotes for not paying a fee, those deaths can also be laid on Biden's doorstep. That's what Democrats call "compassion." [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]]

::What an interesting and such an important subject. You're so right. I'm sure there are so many unknown cases. 2,800 died between 2009-2019 [https://www.animalpolitico.com/2019/03/mexicanos-murieron-frontera-eu/]. Yet:<blockquote>650 deaths on the US border.- Mexico EN 2021, according to organization 1:18 (CNN) - At least 650 people died when trying to cross the border between Mexico and the United States this year, more than any other year since an international body began documenting</blockquote>
[https://cnnespanol.cnn.com/2021/12/09/muertes-migrantes-frontera-mexico-estados-unidos-trax/][[User:Telling|Telling]] ([[User talk:Telling|talk]])
:::I've been studying this question for much of this year now, and it's hard to back up numbers with good sources, but I'd say 650 on the U.S side sounds very realistic (up from a 280 average over the past 10 years). And it cannot be conclusive, cause we have little or no idea what happens on the Mexican side, which has all the same qualifying factor to account. And the numbers of those forced into human trafficing and sexual slavery could be 10 times as high as what happens to an illegal once they reach the U.S. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 18:39, December 23, 2021 (EST)

==R.T.==
Seen [https://www.wnd.com/2021/11/notorious-dem-rashida-tlaib-grins-talks-dream-release-every-con-federal-prison/ this]?[[User:Telling|Telling]] ([[User talk:Telling|talk]])
:Yah, this deserves follow up and adding to her bio. Dems are splitting between the "Normal Democrats" and Defunders right now, but Tlaib seems intent on keeping the Defund Police/End Bail/Abolish the Prison Industrial Complex movement alive upto the 2022 elections. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 20:38, November 27, 2021 (EST)

==Qatar==
Qatari hypocrisy - cartoon in Chatlie Hebdo [https://mobile.twitter.com/oritperlov/status/1429773962871984130/photo/1]. Thanks.[[User:Telling|Telling]] ([[User talk:Telling|talk]])

==New section==
Hi.
Good [https://twitter.com/Forbes/status/1488617503853060101 answer] by McConnell. Regards. Thanks.[[User:Telling|Telling]] ([[User talk:Telling|talk]])

==AOC image==
Hi Rob. [https://mobile.twitter.com/GPrime85/status/1441136342637944832/photo/1 img] Caption -
"You mean all those poor rockets won't even get a chance to land?" [https://twitter.com/gprime85/status/1441136342637944832 source][[User:Telling|Telling]] ([[User talk:Telling|talk]])

==Racism images==
Hi Rob. This one relates to the image you uploaded days ago of Time100. The elkurd twins.
[https://i2.wp.com/www.israellycool.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/muna-hitler.png?ssl=1 img]
[https://algulf.net/2021/07/04/palestinian-arab-poster-boy-mohammed-el-kurds-jew-hate-emerges/ source] | This one is about Arab Oakestinisbs" putting up nazi flags near their mosque in Beit Ummar in 2014. [https://www.srugim.co.il/i/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/TAZ1__w200h200q80.jpg img] [https://mobile.srugim.co.il/article/45694 source] | This nazi flag was put up today by Arabs Palestinians in Beit Ummar and was removed by the IDF.
[https://twitter.com/Saher95755738/status/1441784045021671428?s=20 img] [https://m.jpost.com/breaking-news/nazi-flag-taken-down-by-idf-soldiers-in-hebron-680311/amp info][[User:Telling|Telling]] ([[User talk:Telling|talk]]) 19:55, September 25, 2021 (EDT)
:Ok, sorry, i forgot. You want the AOC image, too, right. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]] 20:59, September 25, 2021 (EDT)

::OK, got'em all. [https://conservapedia.com/Special:Log/upload] [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]] 21:12, September 25, 2021 (EDT)

== [[MediaWiki:Sidebar]] ==

Want to make "New Pages" lowercase as "New pages" (just to be consistent with the capitalization of the other common noun words in the sidebar list)? [[User:Patriotic Gamer|Patriotic Gamer]] ([[User talk:Patriotic Gamer|talk]]) 13:41, August 9, 2021 (EDT)
:Yah. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]] 02:42, August 10, 2021 (EDT)
::I haven't seen changes take effect yet. [[User:Patriotic Gamer|Patriotic Gamer]] ([[User talk:Patriotic Gamer|talk]]) 08:37, August 10, 2021 (EDT)

== [[Kirby's Dream Land 2]] ==
Is it ok if you undelete this video game article too? I forgot to request it -- thank you [[User:Patriotic Gamer|Patriotic Gamer]] ([[User talk:Patriotic Gamer|talk]]) 08:37, August 10, 2021 (EDT)

== Files for deletion ==

Mind deleting:

*[[:File:Flag of Colombia.jpg]] (duplicate of [[:File:Flag of Colombia.png|this file]])
*[[:File:Flag of the Comoros.jpg]] (duplicate of [[:File:Flag of the Comoros.png|this file]])
*[[:File:Flag of Hungary.gif]] (duplicate of [[:File:Flag of Hungary.png|this file]])
*[[:File:Flag of Luxembourg.gif]] (duplicate of [[:File:Flag of Luxembourg.png|this file]])
*[[:File:Flag of Monaco.gif]] (duplicate of [[:File:Flag of Monaco.png|this file]])
*[[:File:Medal Law.jpg]] and [[:File:Medal Music.jpg]] (MS Paint-like pictures that probably don't have a practical use)
*[[:File:Maine State Flag.gif]] (duplicate of [[:File:Flag of Maine.png|this file]])
*[[:File:Georgia State Flag.gif]] (duplicate of [[:File:Flag of State of Georgia.png|this file]])
*[[:File:Arizona State Flag.gif]] (duplicate of [[:File:Flag of Arizona.png|this file]])
*[[:File:Pennsylvania State Flag.gif]] (duplicate of [[:File:Flag of Pennsylvania.png|this file]])
*[[:File:South Carolina State Flag.gif]] (duplicate of [[:File:Flag of South Carolina.png|this file]])
*[[:File:North Carolina State Flag.gif]] (duplicate of [[:File:Flag of North Carolina.png|this file]])
*[[:File:New Jersey State Flag.gif]] (duplicate of [[:File:Flag of New Jersey.png|this file]])
*[[:File:11121.gif]] (duplicate of [[:File:Flag of Virginia.png|this file]])
*[[:File:Rhode Island State Flag.gif]] (duplicate of [[:File:Flag of Rhode Island.png|this file]])
[[User:Patriotic Gamer|Patriotic Gamer]] ([[User talk:Patriotic Gamer|talk]]) 13:16, August 10, 2021 (EDT)

:Hey, thanks. What a mess, huh? [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]] 16:28, August 10, 2021 (EDT)

::Yeah I've noticed quite a bit of things needing cleanup around the wiki, including duplicate/low quality unused files. There's more state flags that I haven't listed yet. you forgot to delete [[:File:Medal Music.jpg]] btw [[User:Patriotic Gamer|Patriotic Gamer]] ([[User talk:Patriotic Gamer|talk]]) 16:42, August 10, 2021 (EDT)

:::Thanks for your help, it's much appreciated. That Categorization scheme is all screwed up, so it's difficult to even round up what needs to be deleted. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]] 16:46, August 10, 2021 (EDT)

::::Yeah, and I have to ask administrators about some of these because some are admin-protected so therefore cannot be tagged. I'll try and see if I can find more [[User:Patriotic Gamer|Patriotic Gamer]] ([[User talk:Patriotic Gamer|talk]]) 16:49, August 10, 2021 (EDT)

::::My guess is 11k of 22k Files are uncategorized. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]] 16:51, August 10, 2021 (EDT)

Here's some more:

*[[:File:DC flag.jpg]] (duplicate of [[:File:DC flag.GIF|this file]])
*[[:File:2628589070 30f1d23517.jpg]] (doesn't appear to serve any practical purpose)
*[[:File:Capital.jpg]] (file redirect with no links to it)
*[[:File:Vermont State Flag.gif]] (duplicate of [[:File:Flag of Vermont.png|this file]])
*[[:File:Wyoming State Flag.gif]] (duplicate of [[:File:Flag of Wyoming.png|this file]])
*[[:File:Tennessee State Flag.gif]] (duplicate of [[:File:Flag of Tennessee.png|this file]])

[[User:Patriotic Gamer|Patriotic Gamer]] ([[User talk:Patriotic Gamer|talk]]) 17:06, August 10, 2021 (EDT)
:A couple of those still link to pages. 18:41, August 10, 2021 (EDT)
::The DC flag one no longer does. [[User:Patriotic Gamer|Patriotic Gamer]] ([[User talk:Patriotic Gamer|talk]]) 11:11, August 11, 2021 (EDT)

== Deleting short articles ==

Personally, I don't see any harm in short stubs: CP could work at least as a kind of dictionary. But I suppose it is a matter of taste.
Just a request: could you check "what links here" before deleting a page? Thanks! --[[User:AugustO|AugustO]] ([[User talk:AugustO|talk]]) 09:24, August 11, 2021 (EDT)
:Yah, that's what I've been doing, but a few might have slipped past. The problem right now is, much of these pages someone studiously compiled in [[:Category:Dictionary]] are all orphans. And no one has bothered to de-orphan in 10 years. This is an object lesson for all editors: when you create a page, make sure you integrate the page into the whole wiki with a reverse link from at least one other page. Otherwise, it might eventually get deleted. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]] 09:42, August 11, 2021 (EDT)

== Administrators ==

A couple of days ago, I looked up the [https://conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Special:ListUsers&group=sysop list of administrators] (to find someone to convince Andy on a mathematical subject): most of them have stopped contributing before 2012. Do you intend to delete all of their talk-pages and user-pages? Or is there a reason that you singled out User:Joaquin Martinez? It leaves lots of red links behind.... --[[User:AugustO|AugustO]] ([[User talk:AugustO|talk]]) 02:57, August 12, 2021 (EDT)
:That was done on user request, I beleive. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]] 03:09, August 12, 2021 (EDT)

== More files for deletion ==

*[[:File:Nevada State Flag.gif]] (duplicate of [[:File:Flag of Nevada.png|this file]])
*[[:File:Texas State Flag.gif]] (duplicate of [[:File:Flag of Texas.png|this file]])
*[[:File:Arkansas State Flag.gif]] (duplicate of [[:File:Flag of Arkansas.png|this file]])
*[[:File:California State Flag.gif]] (duplicate of [[:File:Flag of California.png|this file]])
*[[:File:Colorado State Flag.gif]] (duplicate of [[:File:Flag of Colorado.png|this file]])
*[[:File:Connecticut State Flag.gif]] (duplicate of [[:File:Flag of Connecticut.png|this file]])
*[[:File:Delaware State Flag.gif]] (duplicate of [[:File:Flag of Delaware.png|this file]])
*[[:File:Florida State Flag.gif]] (duplicate of [[:File:Flag of Florida.png|this file]])
*[[:File:Hawaii State Flag.gif]] (duplicate of [[:File:Flag of Hawaii.png|this file]])
*[[:File:Idaho State Flag.gif]] (duplicate of [[:File:Flag of Idaho.png|this file]])
*[[:File:Indiana State Flag.gif]] (duplicate of [[:File:Flag of Indiana.png|this file]])
*[[:File:Iowa State Flag.gif]] (duplicate of [[:File:Flag of Iowa.png|this file]])
*[[:File:Kansas State Flag.gif]] (duplicate of [[:File:Flag of Kansas.png|this file]])
*[[:File:Kentucky State Flag.gif]] (duplicate of [[:File:Flag of Kentucky.png|this file]])
*[[:File:Louisiana State Flag.gif]] (duplicate of [[:File:Flag of Louisiana.png|this file]])
*[[:File:Maryland State Flag.gif]] (duplicate of [[:File:Flag of Maryland.png|this file]])
*[[:File:Massachusetts State Flag.gif]] (duplicate of [[:File:Flag of Massachusetts.png|this file]], although the GIF needs to be replaced with the PNG duplicate on two admin-protected articles)
*[[:File:Michigan State Flag.gif]] (duplicate of [[:File:Flag of Michigan.png|this file]])
*[[:File:Mississippi State Flag.gif]] (duplicate of [[:File:Flag of Mississippi.png|this file]])
*[[:File:Missouri State Flag.gif]] (duplicate of [[:File:Flag of Missouri.png|this file]])
*[[:File:Montana State Flag.gif]] (duplicate of [[:File:Flag of Montana.png|this file]])
*[[:File:Nebraska State Flag.gif]] (duplicate of [[:File:Flag of Nebraska.png|this file]])
*[[:File:New Hampshire State Flag.gif]] (duplicate of [[:File:Flag of New Hampshire.png|this file]])
*[[:File:New Mexico State Flag.gif]] (duplicate of [[:File:Flag of New Mexico.png|this file]])
*[[:File:Newyorkflag.gif]] (duplicate of [[:File:Flag of New York.png|this file]])
*[[:File:North Dakota State Flag.gif]] (duplicate of [[:File:Flag of North Dakota.png|this file]])
*[[:File:Ohio State Flag.gif]] (duplicate of [[:File:Flag of Ohio.png|this file]])
*[[:File:Oklahoma State Flag.gif]] (duplicate of [[:File:Flag of Oklahoma.png|this file]])
*[[:File:Oregon State Flag (Front).gif]] (duplicate of [[:File:Flag of Oregon.png|this file]])
*[[:File:Oregon State Flag (Back).gif]] (duplicate of [[:File:Flag of Oregon reverse.png|this file]])
*[[:File:South Dakota State Flag.gif]] (duplicate of [[:File:Flag of South Dakota.png|this file]])
*[[:File:Utah State Flag.gif]] (duplicate of [[:File:Flag of Utah.png|this file]])
*[[:File:Washington State Flag.gif]] (duplicate of [[:File:Flag of Washington.png|this file]])
*[[:File:Flag of Wisconsin.png]] (duplicate of [[:File:Wisconsin state flag.png|this file]])
*[[:File:Flag of the Northern Mariana Islands.png]] (duplicate of [[:File:Flag of the Northern Mariana Islands.svg.png|this file]])
*[[:File:Flag of the United States Virgin Islands.png]] (duplicate of [[:File:Flag of the United States Virgin Islands.svg.png|this file]])
*[[:File:Flag of Guam.png]] (duplicate of [[:File:Flag of Guam.svg.png|this file]])
*[[:File:DC flag.GIF]] (duplicate of [[:File:Flag of Washington, D.C..png|this file]])

[[User:Patriotic Gamer|Patriotic Gamer]] ([[User talk:Patriotic Gamer|talk]]) 15:27, August 12, 2021 (EDT)
:Thanks! I'll get on it with the next batch. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]] 15:49, August 12, 2021 (EDT)
::Connecticut's one hasn't been deleted yet (oversight?) and i provided a note for the Massachusetts flag. [[User:Patriotic Gamer|Patriotic Gamer]] ([[User talk:Patriotic Gamer|talk]]) 20:47, August 14, 2021 (EDT)
:::Yah it's on hold for now. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]] 04:36, August 15, 2021 (EDT)

== In the News ==

::Please add to the Conservapedia headlines how Twitter has suspended Amrullah Saleh but not the Taliban[[https://www.republicworld.com/technology-news/social-media-news/afghanistan-twitter-suspends-accounts-of-amrullah-salehs-office-taliban-still-active.html]].[[User:Bytemsbu|Bytemsbu]] ([[User talk:Bytemsbu|talk]]) 12:10, August 19, 2021 (EDT)
:::I dunno; what is the significnce? Big Tech and Twitter have been working against America and for the Taliban for years now already. 12:18, August 19, 2021 (EDT)
:::Don't you think Biden [[colluding]] with Russia is a bigger story? [https://tass.com/world/1326699] [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]] 12:25, August 19, 2021 (EDT)

::Well I think it is important given how Amrullah Saleh is the leader of Afghanistan.[[User:Bytemsbu|Bytemsbu]] ([[User talk:Bytemsbu|talk]]) 12:57, August 19, 2021 (EDT)
:::(a) never heard of him (b) is there a single leader? (c) I thought it was [[Mullah Baradar]]. You're not falling for CCP/Big Tech/MSM agitprop to confuse people and take the focus off real issues, are you? [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]] 13:18, August 19, 2021 (EDT)

:::Baradar is the head of the Taliban not the legitimate Afghan government. But if you feel there are issues more important than this then you don't need to put it. [[User:Bytemsbu|Bytemsbu]] ([[User talk:Bytemsbu|talk]]) 13:31, August 19, 2021 (EDT)

::"legitimate government?" Wow. Wow. And again I say wow. Talk about putting the barndoor before the horse.... [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]] 13:48, August 19, 2021 (EDT)

::Did I hear you right? Are you referring to a group that shoots women in the street for not wearing burqas, as "legitimate"? Maybe in Twitter world, Anthony Blinken, Joe Biden, a host of Democrats and MSM, but not in the real universe that I personally was born into, or the real universe that God created. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]] 14:05, August 19, 2021 (EDT)

::My sources say, "[https://uncoverdc.com/2021/08/16/bidens-disastrous-exit-from-afghanistan/ Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani has already relinquished power to an interim government led by Taliban commander Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar."] What is significant here is, we don't have articles on either Amrullah Saleh or Mullah Baradar, before we go off half-cocked on MSM/Democrat/Biden junta/CCP [[fake news]]. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]] 15:38, August 19, 2021 (EDT)

==You're a liberal==
Deletion of climate LIBRAL
:Sticks and stones may break my bones, but idiots never hurt me. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]] 20:12, August 21, 2021 (EDT)

== A request ==

I don't think Conservapedia has in it's manual of style page info on not creating orphan pages.

Since orphan pages are not a good thing and you have mentioned how irritating they are to you, please update our manual of style page. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 00:56, August 23, 2021 (EDT)

:Ok, will do. it kinda goes hand in hand with categorizing, too. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]] 01:11, August 23, 2021 (EDT)
== Request ==

For [[:File:Guy L. Moser bioguide picture.jpg]], I made the mistake of downloading the direct history.house.gov version to upload rather than Wikimedia Common's improved version. However, if I upload a new cropped version with even a slightly different aspect ratio, everything will likely get messed up. Can you go to the file page and see if you can delete the current file version without deleting the page entirely? Correct me if I'm wrong, but there should be a way to do that in the timestamp table under "File history." Thanks! —[[User:Liberaltears|<code>'''LT'''</code>]]'''''[[User talk:Liberaltears|May D.C., his mother, and I.S. be all well!]]''''' Saturday, 16:19, September 25, 2021 (EDT)
:I see you deleted the file, which still works because I was able to upload a better version in its place successfully; however, was it impossible to only delete the file version without deleting the entire page, even though there was only one file revision? —[[User:Liberaltears|<code>'''LT'''</code>]]'''''[[User talk:Liberaltears|May D.C., his mother, and I.S. be all well!]]''''' Saturday, 16:31, September 25, 2021 (EDT)
:(ec) I dunno if that fixed it. You may have to re-upload as File:Guy L. Moser bioguide picture2 or something. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]] 16:32, September 25, 2021 (EDT)
::Whoops, pardon my quick reply here which caused an edit conflict. So to clarify, my request was to avoid having to re-upload the file separately under another title. —[[User:Liberaltears|<code>'''LT'''</code>]]'''''[[User talk:Liberaltears|May D.C., his mother, and I.S. be all well!]]''''' Saturday, 16:34, September 25, 2021 (EDT)
== Vaccine mandates and a quote from a Clint Eastwood movie ==

[[Image:Hitler.jpg|thumb|300px|center|[[Adolf Hitler]] was against vaccine mandates!<ref>[https://jacobinmag.com/2021/09/vaccine-mandates-covid-pandemic-german-nazi-inoculation-policy You Know Who Else Opposed Vaccine Mandates? Hitler.]</ref> ]]
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[[File:Washington-deleware.jpg|thumbnail|600px|center|General [[George Washington]] ordered [[smallpox]] inoculations for all troops.<ref>[https://health.mil/News/Articles/2021/08/16/Gen-George-Washington-Ordered-Smallpox-Inoculations-for-All-Troops General George Washington Ordered [[Smallpox]] Inoculations for All Troops]</ref>
 
 
"I have right to a lawYEEER!" - the killer Scorpio in the 1971 movie ''Dirty Harry'' which featured [[Clint Eastwood]].<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066999/characters/nm0000142 Dirty Harry (1971)]</ref>
 
 
Apparently, George Washington's troops didn't have ready access to legal counsel concerning their innoculations or they thought they had weak cases. Or consider this radical thought: His troops thought their responsibility to get vaccinated against smallpox trumped any potential right they had to not get vaccinated.]]
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[[File:Donald Trump and Jesus is King sign.jpg|center|thumbnail|400px|A quick note to [[conservative]], Republican [[Donald Trump]] supporters who are against Covid-19 vaccines: Donald J. Trump launched [[Operation Warp Speed]] which helped cause Covid-19 vaccines be developed in a speedy fashion. Put that in your anti Covid-19 vaccine pipes and smoke it!
 
 
Donald Trump and [[Melania Trump]] were both vaccinated with a Covid-19 vaccine with no apparent catastrophic effects!<ref>[https://www.deseret.com/2021/4/23/22399234/former-president-donald-trump-americans-coronavirus-vaccine-obama-bush-clinton-carter Former President Donald Trump tells Americans to get the coronavirus vaccine, calls it a ‘true miracle’]</ref>
 
 
Serious side effects that could cause a long-term health problem are extremely unlikely following any vaccination, including COVID-19 vaccination. Vaccine monitoring has historically shown that side effects generally happen within six weeks of receiving a vaccine dose.<ref>[https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/safety/safety-of-vaccines.html#:~:text=Serious%20side%20effects%20that%20could,receiving%20a%20vaccine%20dose. Safety of COVID-19 Vaccines]</ref> See also: [https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/coronavirus/in-depth/coronavirus-long-term-effects/art-20490351 Long haul Covid-19 - Mayo Clinic]
 
 
For more information, please see: [https://conservapedia.com/User:Conservative/Sports,_exercise_and_diet#Coronavirus_prevention.2C_info_and_treatments Coronavirus prevention, Covid-19 vaccines, treatments and general information] ]]
:Yah, Hitler was against smoking, too. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]] 04:10, September 30, 2021 (EDT)
:(A) Donald Trump ordered a vaccine, not a genetic experiment. (B) mRNA experiments are not a vaccine. (C) The CDC changed the definition of vaccine in August 2021. (D) Dr. Anthony Fauci did not inform President Trump that [[SARS-CoV-2]] was not a naturally occurring virus and was created in a laboratory at the time of President Trump's approval of Warp Speed. (E) We still await the arrival of a vaccine, and the results of the illegal genetic experiments. However, the science has become so politicized, it's impossible to put a timeframe on expectations. Simply because Trump was deceived by the CCP, WHO, and Dr. Fauci is your weakest argument to have confidence in genetic experiments carrying the misnomer of a vaccine. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]] 04:48, September 30, 2021 (EDT)
:(E) And your use of MSM & govt propaganda regarding George Washington is flawed. That was [https://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/smallpox/sp_variolation.html variolation], not vaccination. Variolation is taking material {scabs} directly from an infected person and infecting another person. Your cited source uses the word inoculation; the alleged covid vaccines fail to inoculate, witness [[breakthrough case]]s. A vaccine is the actual virus itself, measured out in doses to fit a person's age and body weight. The mRNA spiked protein is invented in a laboratory and is not a synthetic reproduction of the SARS CoV-19 virus. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]] 07:19, September 30, 2021 (EDT)
::I think we should largely agree to disagree.

::I do know that you are incorrect about some basic facts.

::For example, vaccines commonly are not 100% effective and thus have some breakthrough cases. "Even the measles vaccine, which is incredibly effective, fails to protect about 3 percent of vaccinated individuals who are exposed to the virus. Jonas Salk's polio vaccine—hailed a medical miracle—was 80 percent to 90 percent effective at preventing paralysis caused by the polio virus. Breakthrough infections of flu are even more common. While the exact effectiveness of the flu vaccine fluctuates year-to-year, it ranges between 40 percent and 60 percent."[https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/six-important-things-know-about-breakthrough-infections-180978408/]

::In addition, even in the case of breakthrough cases of coronavirus, a person's morbidity rate will be lower than if they were not inoculated against the disease.[[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 12:31, September 30, 2021 (EDT)

:::Well, we can resolve much of this by understanding what a vaccine is. Vaccines are measured doses of the virus itself to induce an immunological reaction. It should be obvious by now that covid so-called "vaccines" do no such thing. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]] 14:33, September 30, 2021 (EDT)
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=== Notes ===
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== Uighur Genocide Article ==

:How do you propose that we start the article?[[User:Bytemsbu|Bytemsbu]] ([[User talk:Bytemsbu|talk]]) 20:26, October 3, 2021 (EDT)

::[https://conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&profile=advanced&search=%22Uyghur+genocide%22&fulltext=Search&ns0=1&ns1=1&ns2=1&ns3=1&ns4=1&ns5=1&ns6=1&ns7=1&ns8=1&ns9=1&ns10=1&ns11=1&ns12=1&ns13=1&ns14=1&ns15=1&ns120=1&ns121=1&ns122=1&ns123=1&ns124=1&ns125=1&ns126=1&ns127=1&profile=advanced Here's all the pages that use the term.] In the China article, we have three different subsections that touch on it, [[China#East_Turkestan_.28Xinjiang.29]], [[China#Uyghurs_and_Muslims]], and [[China#Uyghur_genocide]]. I suggest we begin with the cite in [https://conservapedia.com/China#cite_note-183 footnote 183] from the Uyghur genocide subsection for the Intro, and consolidate information from the other two subsections to eliminate redundancy.

::Also, after laying out the case for genocide in the main body, then include a second section on Forced labor and re-education, which technically may be considered a separate issue from [[genocide]], and eventually can be made into a single article as well, with information collected in a Uyghur genocide page. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]] 20:51, October 3, 2021 (EDT)

::I named the article as East Turkestani genocide due to it including not just Uighurs but all Turkic peoples.[[User:Bytemsbu|Bytemsbu]] ([[User talk:Bytemsbu|talk]]) 21:16, October 3, 2021 (EDT)

== Category move request ==

Hi RobSmith, can you please move Category:Old Guard (The South) to "Category:Old Republicans (The South)" without leaving a redirect? When I created the category, it had been a while since I read a hard cover of ''The End of Southern Exceptionalism'', and now realizing that I can just access it via Google Books and even [https://books.google.com/books?id=tiNYRu5rvVgC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q=old&f=false search for key terms], I likely confused the term used in the book with something else.

Thanks! —[[User:Liberaltears|<code>'''LT'''</code>]]'''''[[User talk:Liberaltears|May D.C., his mother, and I.S. be all well!]]''''' Saturday, 22:43, October 29, 2021 (EDT)

== YOU ARE A RADICAL ABORTIONIST ==

YOU DISGUST ME!!! YOU THINK ABORTION ISNT MURDER. GET A LIFE AND GO BACK TO LIBERAL WIKIPEDIA!! IM REFERING TO WHEN YOU REMOVED MY EDITS FROM PRAMILLA JAYAPAL!!! SHE MURDERED HUMAN AND YOU SUPPORT THAT DISGUSTING {{unsigned|Superbanana}}

== Conservative Of The Year 2021 ==

Hello,

It starting to get close towards the end of the year. Should Conservapedia create the Conservative Of The Year, 2021 page? Also, I think it might be interesting if Conservapedia created a RINO Of The Year.--[[User:TheNewRight|TheNewRight]] ([[User talk:TheNewRight|talk]]) 14:22, November 4, 2021 (EDT)
:I think there is a page already started, but I don't have a link yet. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]] 01:44, November 5, 2021 (EDT)
::The Conservative Of The Year, 2021 page does not appear to have been made yet. Could I be given permission to make the page?--[[User:TheNewRight|TheNewRight]] ([[User talk:TheNewRight|talk]]) 18:35, November 17, 2021 (EST)
:::Sure. Please pattern it after the previous year's pages with the appropriate catgorization, etc. If another already exists and found later, we can merge it. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]] 18:38, November 17, 2021 (EST)
::::Could you give me the power to create new pages? I cannot create new pages.--[[User:TheNewRight|TheNewRight]] ([[User talk:TheNewRight|talk]]) 18:36, November 18, 2021 (EST)
:::::Do you have SkipCapthca? [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]] 19:09, November 18, 2021 (EST)
::::::I do not think I do.--[[User:TheNewRight|TheNewRight]] ([[User talk:TheNewRight|talk]]) 21:52, November 18, 2021 (EST)
:::::::Never mind I do have SkipCaptcha. How would I go about crating a page. I cannot figure out how to create one.--[[User:TheNewRight|TheNewRight]] ([[User talk:TheNewRight|talk]]) 21:54, November 18, 2021 (EST)
::::::::Do you know how to activate your user page? [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]] 21:56, November 18, 2021 (EST)
::::::::According to your contribs, [https://conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Talk:List_of_Former_Tea_Party_Supporters_Who_Have_Become_RINOs_or_Never_Trumpers&diff=1685562&oldid=1683587 you created this page right here.] [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]] 22:00, November 18, 2021 (EST)
:::::::::I was able to create the page! Thank you for your help!--[[User:TheNewRight|TheNewRight]] ([[User talk:TheNewRight|talk]]) 23:24, November 18, 2021 (EST)

== Conservative is doxxing others ==

In [[Essay:_A_reply_to_some_desperate_secular_liberals/leftists_who_pulled_out_the_race_card_and_unsuccessfully_tried_to_compare_me_to_Klansmen#10_point_to_do_list_and_considerations_concerning_potential_defamation_lawsuit_or_lawsuits_2|this recent essay of his]], the fifth point in that particular subsection is publicly revealing private information about others. Can you delete the essay, since I don't have deletion powers? Thanks. —[[User:Liberaltears|<code>'''LT'''</code>]]'''''[[User talk:Liberaltears|May D.C., his mother, and I.S. be all well!]]''''' Sunday, 13:37, November 7, 2021 (EST)
::Yah I saw. I initiated a private discussion. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]] 15:04, November 7, 2021 (EST)
:::Shouldn't those types of inappropriate postings simply be nuked on the spot? It doesn't matter who inserts such information, as they should not be allowed to remain on the site, period. —[[User:Liberaltears|<code>'''LT'''</code>]]'''''[[User talk:Liberaltears|May D.C., his mother, and I.S. be all well!]]''''' Sunday, 15:07, November 7, 2021 (EST)
:::Also, thanks for removing the link to the essay from MPR. —[[User:Liberaltears|<code>'''LT'''</code>]]'''''[[User talk:Liberaltears|May D.C., his mother, and I.S. be all well!]]''''' Sunday, 15:08, November 7, 2021 (EST)
:::::(ec) Yes, for registered users, but an Admin should be given the opportunity to correct the error. I did remove the link from MPR to the doxxing page. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]] 15:10, November 7, 2021 (EST)
:::::This reminds much of another unnamed former Admin: he just likes pressing buttons to nuke his enemies because he can and doesn't think before hand. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]] 15:13, November 7, 2021 (EST)
::::::Conservative has demonstrated himself to continuously make inappropriate postings and often times stubbornly refuse to admit he's wrong. He's been given enough chances. —[[User:Liberaltears|<code>'''LT'''</code>]]'''''[[User talk:Liberaltears|May D.C., his mother, and I.S. be all well!]]''''' Sunday, 15:13, November 7, 2021 (EST)
:::::::They think being an Admin is just a game of Space Invaders and they can nuke their opponents by pressing a button. This is why I advocated for bureaucrat powers to teach them the proper role of an Admin. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]] 15:15, November 7, 2021 (EST

== Trevor Noah ==

I think [[Trevor Noah]] is very famous liberal comedian. in article I showed his double standards for his views on police brutality in USA and South Africa. I wish you to show the article again, and thank you --[[User:Alex Kosh|Alex Kosh]] ([[User talk:Alex Kosh|talk]]) 16:33, November 7, 2021 (EST)
:I recreated the page. It needs to be brought up to encyclopedic standards. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]] 19:22, November 7, 2021 (EST)

== Please delete the two revisions left by a recent vandal ==

[[Special:Contributions/PerterKabangsLT|Please hide the content, username and edit summaries for those diffs ASAP.]] Thanks. —[[User:Liberaltears|<code>'''LT'''</code>]]'''''[[User talk:Liberaltears|(TALK PAGE]] | [[Special:Contributions/Liberaltears|CONTRIBUTIONS)]]''''' Friday, 21:59, November 18, 2021 (EST)
:User:Conservative is more skilled at deleting whole talk pages like that than I am. I might leave it for him. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]] 22:04, November 18, 2021 (EST)
::I believe you've deleted revisions before. Don't administrator duties include the deletion of diffs left by inappropriate edits? —[[User:Liberaltears|<code>'''LT'''</code>]]'''''[[User talk:Liberaltears|(TALK PAGE]] | [[Special:Contributions/Liberaltears|CONTRIBUTIONS)]]''''' Friday, 22:08, November 18, 2021 (EST)
:::I don't want to make the wrong deletion, and I believe he's more skilled at it. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]] 22:12, November 18, 2021 (EST)
::::In case you haven't yet noticed, Conservative frivolously deletes perfectly fine diffs while declining to delete inappropriate revisions most of the time. Do you actually expect him to carry out administrator duties after all the times he's abused them? —[[User:Liberaltears|<code>'''LT'''</code>]]'''''[[User talk:Liberaltears|(TALK PAGE]] | [[Special:Contributions/Liberaltears|CONTRIBUTIONS)]]''''' Friday, 22:15, November 18, 2021 (EST)
:::::Someday we'll make you boss, and you can handle all these weighty decisions. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]] 23:30, November 18, 2021 (EST)

== Quick Question ==

Hey, Rob. Hope you’re doing well. I was wondering if you could tell me if I have the ability to apply files, such as pictures and such, to articles on here? I have tried a few times to add pictures to the pages I’ve already created. Also, how do you think I’m doing with making pages and editing? Thanks in advance and have a great [[Thanksgiving]]! -[[User:SteKelBry|SteKelBry]] ([[User talk:SteKelBry|talk]]) 14:45, November 23, 2021 (EST)

:Place image upload requests here: [[Conservapedia:Image upload requests]]. As to editing, it looks pretty good, with the exception of uncited editorial comments such as these [https://conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Derek_Chauvin&diff=prev&oldid=1762732][https://conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Derek_Chauvin&diff=prev&oldid=1773759], which make you look like a subversive Democrat trying to play the [[race card]]. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 15:28, November 23, 2021 (EST)

::Thanks, and my apologies for that. I’ve since learned that I shouldn’t submit personal opinions such as those. I hope I can put that mishap behind me so I can further contribute to Conservapedia. God Bless and Happy Thanksgiving! -[[User:SteKelBry|SteKelBry]] ([[User talk:SteKelBry|talk]]) 15:48, November 23, 2021 (EST)

:::Well, that's good to hear. Cuz even if you are or were a subversive Democrat, that tired old stale stuff gets pretty insulting after a while, as if we're too stupid to see it or notice it. You need to become more sophisticated in your use of dogwhistles and subversion. Good luck. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 16:05, November 23, 2021 (EST)

== Another category move request ==

Hi RobSmith, can you please move [[:Category:Half-Breeds]] to [[:Category:Half-Breeds (Republican Party)]]? Thanks! —[[User:Liberaltears|<code>'''LT'''</code>]] '''''[[User talk:Liberaltears|(The Old Right was right!)]]''''' Friday, 14:55, November 26, 2021 (EST)

== Please don't plagiarize my work ==

Pertaining to most of the block of text you added [[Mask_mandate#Laws_for_thee_but_not_for_me|here]], it appears you outright copy/pasted it from my [[Salongate]] article. —[[User:Liberaltears|<code>'''LT'''</code>]] '''''[[User talk:Liberaltears|(The Old Right was right!)]]''''' Sunday, 16:56, November 28, 2021 (EST)
:[https://conservapedia.com/Conservapedia:Copyright By contributing information to Conservapedia, you irrevocably consent to the display, copying, reuse or editing of your information, edits and entries, with or without attribution. You agree to waive and indemnify this and all affiliated sponsors, editors, users, or sites from claims for liability resulting from use, by you, of the content contained herein. This is a binding legal document. By using this site you agree to be bound by it.]
:[[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 17:01, November 28, 2021 (EST)
::Even if CP allows it, plagiarizing is not a good practice. I don't think readers want to see the exact same block of text in multiple articles. Can you at least re-write it in your own words? —[[User:Liberaltears|<code>'''LT'''</code>]] '''''[[User talk:Liberaltears|(The Old Right was right!)]]''''' Sunday, 17:04, November 28, 2021 (EST)
:::Well, edit it then. As an Admin, you need to know these things.
:::Granted, the phrase "your information" may need to be amended, being that it may now have an ambiguous or diferent meaning (related to doxxing) that was not commonly or popularly known at the time that version of the policy was written. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 17:07, November 28, 2021 (EST)
:::And your understanding or use of the term "plagiarizing" is incorrect, given the copyright policy, which you have agreed to, nullifies making any such claim. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 17:11, November 28, 2021 (EST)
:::WP:OWN, or [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Ownership_of_content Ownership of content] may be helpful before you employ such language as "my Salongate article." [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 17:17, November 28, 2021 (EST)

:::As I've said 10,000 times, being an Admin isn't about pressing buttons to nuke your enemies. It's about educating and helping users and Admins become better editors and Admins. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 17:21, November 28, 2021 (EST)

:::Let's take [https://conservapedia.com/File:McGowan_Harris_Clinton_Giuffre.PNG this tweet, for example, copypasted from Wikipedia] and tweeted to Kamala Harris by [[Rose McGowan]]. I wrote most of that text (which now has minor edits), but have no claim of plagiarism or ownership of it. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 17:32, November 28, 2021 (EST)

== Please check your email ==

Thanks. —[[User:Liberaltears|<code>'''LT'''</code>]] '''''[[User talk:Liberaltears|(The Old Right was right!)]]''''' Monday, 23:23, November 28, 2021 (EST)

== I made some improvements to Conservapedia's blocking policy page ==

Rob, I made some improvements to Conservapedia's blocking policy page

You can see the changes at: [[Conservapedia:Blocking policy]]

Also, I made some minor improvements to this page: [[Conservapedia:Guidelines]] at the [https://conservapedia.com/Conservapedia:Guidelines#Conservapedia.27s_blocking_policy_for_editors_of_the_wiki Conservapedia's blocking policy for editors of the wiki] section.

Generally speaking, given human nature (see: [[Fall of man]]), wikis are more prone to heavy-handed blocking than to too lenient blocking. The Bible refers to the authoritarian aspect of human nature once people have power. For example, "But Jesus called them to Himself and said, 'You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and those who are great exercise authority over them. Yet it shall not be so among you; but whoever desires to become great among you, let him be your servant.'" (Matthew 20:25-26). [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 06:57, November 29, 2021 (EST)

== Main page right ==

As your request, I removed the main page right item. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 02:06, December 2, 2021 (EST)

== quick note ==

Do you reinstall Skype? [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 07:22, December 12, 2021 (EST)
:yah, give it a try. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 07:24, December 12, 2021 (EST)
::It says you are not online. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 07:26, December 12, 2021 (EST)
:::Sign into Skype. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 07:26, December 12, 2021 (EST)
::::Are you signed into Skype? [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 07:28, December 12, 2021 (EST)
:::::I'm in as HJ. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 07:29, December 12, 2021 (EST)
Then call me. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 07:31, December 12, 2021 (EST)
:It says PM is not online. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 07:33, December 12, 2021 (EST)

== Another Quick Question ==

Hi, Rob. Hope you’re doing well. Based on my contributions these past few months, do you think I have the qualities to be an Administrator on here one day? Hopefully soon, I can earn access to photo upload privileges so I won’t have to bug you about adding photos to the pages I create, haha. Thanks in advance and have a great Christmas. -[[User:SteKelBry|SteKelBry]] ([[User talk:SteKelBry|talk]]) 19:00, December 17, 2021 (EST)
:Sorry, I have no say in that at all. Those decisions are made by the boss. It's probably been 10 years or more since a new Admin was created. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 19:07, December 17, 2021 (EST)

== Kathy Hochul ==

Why do you add Satanists category to [[Kathy Hochul]]? --[[User:Alex Kosh|Alex Kosh]] ([[User talk:Alex Kosh|talk]]) 17:34, December 23, 2021 (EST)
:I think the answer is in the two sentence text: "Hochul claims the coronavirus vaccine is from God and that people aren’t listening to God, so she needs them to be her ‘apostles’ to go out and spread the vaccine." (It's obvious this racist scumbag is speaking to what the atheist left consider superstitious God-fearing and God-believing African Americans in the traditional Marxist and Satanic [[sociopath]]ic manipulation of Black voters). But you have a point; perhaps the Category should not have been created or perhaps the Category needs some discussion to keep it.

:I would argue however, if the decision is to keep the Category, this crossing-the-line of [[separation of church and state]] by an elected official to manipulate vulnerable and oppressed people certainly qualifies as Satanic. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 17:45, December 23, 2021 (EST)

:And we know for a fact the coronavirus is not from God, it came from God-hating Satanists and idolators like Anthony Fauci and the Chinese Communist Party. If that's not proof of another Satanic lie from the pit of hell by a white Democrat, what is? [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 17:55, December 23, 2021 (EST)

::''people aren’t listening to God, so she needs them to be her ‘apostles’ ''
::Is Hochel, like Anthony Fauci, claiming to be God? or the Way, the Truth, and the Life? [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 18:01, December 23, 2021 (EST)
:::Attaboy. Let it all out. [[User:ConwayIII|ConwayIII]] ([[User talk:ConwayIII|talk]]) 18:31, December 23, 2021 (EST)
::::Let's not lose focus, the question is over creating and keeping certain categories. On a more philosophical plane however, an agnostic certainly would have a measure of deniability for engaging in Satanic activities, whereas atheists, their cohorts and supporters are more less indefensible. Go ahead, please, try justifying an atheist and Satanic position to a God-fearing African American. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 18:53, December 23, 2021 (EST)
::::Hochel, in her own words, is belittling and mocking African Americas for believing in God and not accepting the gospel of [[Faucism]]. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 19:54, December 23, 2021 (EST)
::::We have the same phenomena in the UK, where the Archbishop of Canterbury said [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yzva0Wrs8Os 'Jesus would take the vaccine'.] [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 20:01, December 23, 2021 (EST)
:::::Defeating parodists by making them redundant is quite the flex, man. You wouldn't believe the amount of money Soros recently offered to try & get the band back together, but it was agreed round the table that your stuff just couldn't be topped. [[User:ConwayIII|ConwayIII]] ([[User talk:ConwayIII|talk]]) 20:19, December 23, 2021 (EST)
::::::Truth is like the coronavirus, its spread cannot be stopped despite the best efforts of men. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 20:38, December 23, 2021 (EST)
:::::::Dang. [https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2021/12/23/trump-appeals-supreme-court-dispute-over-jan-6-documents/8892937002/ God loves a trier, though, right?] [[User:ConwayIII|ConwayIII]] ([[User talk:ConwayIII|talk]]) 21:29, December 23, 2021 (EST)
::::::::Too bad the [[J6 panel]] is illegal. The House Resolution that created it requires 13 members and 6 appoint by Kevin McCarthy, which never happened. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 21:35, December 23, 2021 (EST)

:: I dont agree with her vaccine policy, but sorry that doesnt make her a Satanist or even Atheist. I would like to see reliable sources instead of personal conclusions to prove that she is Satanist. --[[User:Alex Kosh|Alex Kosh]] ([[User talk:Alex Kosh|talk]]) 22:20, December 23, 2021 (EST)
:::It's her own words. If she's not claiming to be God herself, she engaged in some sickening racist pandering. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 23:21, December 23, 2021 (EST)

:::Wait wait wait. Is the argument now, "Sure, racism is bad, but it's not as bad as being a Satanist?" [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 23:23, December 23, 2021 (EST)

:::: No I want to see reliable source prove that she is satanist. Blasphemy doesnt make her Satanist --[[User:Alex Kosh|Alex Kosh]] ([[User talk:Alex Kosh|talk]]) 23:41, December 23, 2021 (EST)

:::::Blasphemy makes her a child of God? Racism makes here a child of God? (Blacks certainly would be interested in hearing that).

:::::Unfortunately, God doesn't really provide neutral space for agnostics. That's purely a human construct. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 23:46, December 23, 2021 (EST)

:::::[https://healthimpactnews.com/2021/n-y-governor-kathy-hochuls-god-is-satan-preaches-at-nyc-church-and-proudly-displays-the-mark-of-the-beast/ N.Y. Governor Kathy Hochul’s “God” is Satan – Preaches at NYC Church and Proudly Displays the “Mark of the Beast”]
:::::Let's not leave it at that - let's dissect her words a little further....
{{quotebox|"I prayed a lot to God during this time.

And you know what? God did answer our prayers. '''He made the smartest men and women, the scientists, the doctors, the researchers, he made them come up with a vaccine.'''

That is from God to us. And we must say, “Thank you, God. Thank you.”

And I wear my vaccinated necklace all the time to to say “I’m vaccinated.”

All of you. Yes, I know '''you’re vaccinated. You’re the smart ones."'''}}
:And how does God answer all this?
:*''Pride goeth before destruction''
:*''He catcheth the crafty in their own craftiness
:*''God has chosen the foolish things of this world to confound the wise
::I could go on... [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 00:03, December 24, 2021 (EST)
:*''I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.
:*[https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/topics/Flattery 34 Bible Verses about Flattery]
:Maybe flattery works on liberals and Satanists, but to a child of God it's a red flag. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 00:09, December 24, 2021 (EST)
:Then we have to consider the fact that she spoke these words in the midst of the congregation.... [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 00:09, December 24, 2021 (EST)
:Her pitch sounds a bit more like Pharoah calling upon Jannes and Jambres. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 00:13, December 24, 2021 (EST)

:Please, don't take my judgement on the matter. Let's look at some of the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXaP76musWM 2,000+ comments on her words in Youtube] (I know, I know, Youtube just hasn't gotten around to blocking them yet).
:*"God told me not to listen to false prophets. - 793 Likes
:*“Now let me tell you how God loves abortion.” Gov. Hochul. - 798 Likes
:None of this is surprising, Democrat officials have mouthing this kinda Satanic BS for decades.
:*"It's so cringe worthy when self serving politicians invoke the name of god. - 790 Likes
::*Rob's comment: No, Donald Trump is not self serving. You miss the qualifier.
:*"This is what a cult leader sounds like. - 797 Likes
:*"Unbelievable level of evil. To stand in "church" and commit blasphemy. To promote a shot that is killing people worldwide. The audacity of these people is astounding. They WILL answer to God for their sins.
:Yah, does she really listen to the voters? [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 00:45, December 24, 2021 (EST)
:Personally, when I hear someone like this talk, I can only scratch my head and say, "What the hell is wrong with people in New York to elect someone like this?" [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 00:48, December 24, 2021 (EST)
:What a way to burst onto the national scene. Does she, or any professional media consultant, think she can ever rescind this level of stupidity, ignorance, and outright insulting comments? Ever?
:Maybe this crap flies in New York, but name one, just one, New York politician between FDR & Trump who made it on the national scene? And the reason for that is, New Yorkers consider people like Hochel, AOC, Schumer, Nadler, Gillibrand, Cuomo, De Blasio etc etc etc as "leaders" and representatives of themselves. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 03:01, December 24, 2021 (EST)

:: I checked the link that you share but is also its personal conclusion not reliable source. What she said speaks her foolishness lower IQ, and she made big mistake for using religion to convince people to take the vaccine. but again that doesnt make her necessarily a Satanist. a Satanist mean worshiper of Satan, is there any proof that she worship Satan, I didnt see that. --[[User:Alex Kosh|Alex Kosh]] ([[User talk:Alex Kosh|talk]]) 22:21, December 24, 2021 (EST)-
:::No, you are dead wrong. Most servants of Satan are so deceived by the father of lies, they do not know they are serving Satan. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 23:35, December 24, 2021 (EST)
:::There are numerous examples, both from the bible and in everyday life to verify this. For example, what could be more Satanic than an atheist, many of whom deny that the spirit world and Satan exists? That proves the level of so-called "self-deception", which really is Satanic deception. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 23:38, December 24, 2021 (EST)

: The Encyclopedias should rely on reliable sources, not personal conclusions. does the other administrators agree with that? --[[User:Alex Kosh|Alex Kosh]] ([[User talk:Alex Kosh|talk]]) 00:33, December 25, 2021 (EST)
::Ask em. Personally, I can't think of a one that would defend a Satanist. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 02:41, December 25, 2021 (EST)
::She supports abortion, doesn't she? I doubt anyone here in CP management thinks a child of God supports abortion (I could be wrong). And I doubt anyone thinks there's a grey area where one can be both. But I don't know. Anyways, it's a debate I wouldn't hesitate to engage in. You can always create a debate page on that subject, either Hochul individually or [[Debate:Can an abortion supporter also be a child of God?]] [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 02:46, December 25, 2021 (EST)

::What you need to realize here is, Hochul stepped into one big pile of doggie-doodoo with her stupid, off the cuff, Satanic remarks inside a church during a church service. And there is no way out for her other than repentance and baptism. And if it takes New York Democrats to wish Andrew Cuomo was back, so be it. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 02:55, December 25, 2021 (EST)

:: For Abortion we can add [[:Category:Abortion Advocates]] instead of [[:Category:Satanists]]. and also if she support Abortion that doesnt make her Satanist. Satanist is big insult, We can't accuse anyone we don't like of being Satanic. and do you really think abortion supporter is Satanist?, maybe you dont many figures support abortion including the conservative ones like [[Tomi Lahren]], [[Rudy Giuliani]] and [[Margaret Thatcher]]. president Trump formerly was supporter of abortion, is he former Satanist?. --[[User:Alex Kosh|Alex Kosh]] ([[User talk:Alex Kosh|talk]]) 19:29, December 25, 2021 (EST)
:::Satanism is an insult? I've never met the Satanist yet who wasn't proud of being in rebellion against God. Children of God are not afraid of the devil, they have been set free. Only sinners cower before the devil. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 23:06, December 25, 2021 (EST)
:::: OK so does Hochul ever stated she is Satanist? --[[User:Alex Kosh|Alex Kosh]] ([[User talk:Alex Kosh|talk]]) 23:39, December 25, 2021 (EST)
:::::*''They speak lies to one another; They speak with flattering lips and a double heart.'' Ps. 12:2
:::::*''with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips: Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness: Their feet are swift to shed blood: Destruction and misery are in their ways: And the way of peace have they not known: There is no fear of God before their eyes.'' Rm. 3:13-15
::::::I think it's obvious which side she's on. She spoke her words in church. She should have saved it for Don Lemon or NBC. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 23:59, December 25, 2021 (EST)
::::::Now, we can break it down (for example, '' Their feet are swift to shed blood'' can be laid at the doorstep of her predecessor Andrew Cuomo and the nursing home crisis, and I don't know her involvement, but what is she doing to bring Cuomo and other conspirators to justice?) ''Their is no fear of God before their eyes'' - why did she speak such blasphemies before a the congregation in church? What interests me most is ''Whose mouth is full of cursing'' because this is a twofer related to ''flattery''; she flatters her followers with ''you are the smart ones'', while cursing the stupid unvaccinated. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 00:09, December 26, 2021 (EST)

:: I need reliable source to prove that she is Satanist, this is simple. if there are no source, so you should delete category from article --[[User:Alex Kosh|Alex Kosh]] ([[User talk:Alex Kosh|talk]]) 19:31, December 25, 2021 (EST)
:::Her sources are her own mouth. It's no different than Fauci claiming to be God ("I am Truth"). [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 23:06, December 25, 2021 (EST)

:::: I didnt saw any sources, I am only saw personal conclusions. --[[User:Alex Kosh|Alex Kosh]] ([[User talk:Alex Kosh|talk]]) 23:42, December 25, 2021 (EST)
:::::In sending out her 'apostles', she implies the unvaccinated are in rebellion against God, i.e. Satanists. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 00:27, December 26, 2021 (EST)

: In order to prove what you are saying, you either have to bring a source that admits that she is a Satanist from her mouth, or another source that proves that she is performing Satanic rituals
:Other than this, your words are nothing but personal conclusions and conspiracy theory and may harm the reputation of this encyclopedia. --[[User:Alex Kosh|Alex Kosh]] ([[User talk:Alex Kosh|talk]]) 01:05, December 27, 2021 (EST)
::It's no big deal. Anyone in rebellion against God is a Satanist, which is the vast majority of people on planet earth. Only those in rebellion against God fear Satan, or think it's a big insult. It's not. Satan is who their boss is and who they serve. It is not even a case of outing a Satanist in the closet - by their works ye shall know them. Was Christ a liar when he said that? [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 02:47, December 27, 2021 (EST)
{{quotebox|"there’s people out there who aren’t listening to God and what God wants."}}
::Now, there's people out there who aren't listening to Anthony Fauci, who claims to be God ("to attack me is to attack Truth"), and what Fauci wants. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 05:07, December 27, 2021 (EST)

:: I dont think Jesus asked you to add Satanist Category to Kathy Hochul article. again you are going too far by this stubbornness by bringing Bible verse. Bible didnt prove she is Satanist. also I dont think Jesus would like us to make assumptions to other people without reliable source even if they are our enemy. I dont like anyone to make assumption to me, I am also dont make any assumption to other people without reliable source. Assumption is a characteristic of liberals against their enemies (read [[Meena Harris]] story), but we must be better than them. --[[User:Alex Kosh|Alex Kosh]] ([[User talk:Alex Kosh|talk]]) 18:41, December 27, 2021 (EST)

:::I'm going too far? She's the one claiming the unvaccinated don't listen to her god, Dr. Fauci. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 18:44, December 27, 2021 (EST)

:::Before It's News: [https://beforeitsnews.com/new-world-order/2021/10/new-york-governor-kathy-hochul-is-an-evil-satanic-witch-who-claims-to-speak-for-god-and-says-vaccines-are-a-gift-from-god-no-not-unless-it-is-the-faslse-god-lucifer-pure-blashemy-truly-dispicabl-10443.html New York Governor Kathy Hochul is an Evil Satanic Witch, Who Claims to Speak For GOD and Says Vaccines Are a Gift From GOD. No, Not Unless it is the Faslse god Lucifer. Pure Blashemy- Truly Dispicable]. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 18:46, December 27, 2021 (EST)

== Russia is a place where one can have a good life, but they are still overcoming their past ==

Everyone once in a while, I watch a documentary. I watched this documentary: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxpEsBqliEQ Love in Russia].

Russian society is traditional in some ways, but I am sure that 70+ years of godless communism has had its effect on society.

But people with Christian values are having kids and the irreligious/nonreligious are not, so things can gradually get better. Time will tell. I think in the next 12 years or so, there will be a global recession, so that will cause a lot of problems. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 01:14, December 24, 2021 (EST)
:I let a homeless lady from Russia stay at my place for about 2 weeks. I learned more about Russia.

:The USA should try to have better relations with Russia. Trump tried to do this.

:By the way, I bailed out of the documentary at the 30 minute point. It dealt with the 3% of Russian society that are freaks. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 01:25, December 24, 2021 (EST)
::So I watched the documentary all the way thru. These kids these days, wudayagonnado? [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 06:48, December 24, 2021 (EST)
::I don't know if you're familiar with [[Pelageya]], probably one of the greatest vocalists alive today. She's sings Cossack (or Kazakh) warrior songs. This is nothing new, Russia has longtime (even in Czarist times) been a nation of widows and orphans, cause it is a warrior culture, having so many borders to defend, or absorbing so many smaller nations and tribes into it. Even Pelageya has no idea who her father is. So what the DW documentary reports really has not emerged since the collapse of USSR. The aftermath of WWII was just another time when Russia again was a nation of widows. And many of the songs Pelageya sings are about the warrior dying on the battlefield and thinking about his wife. Once you grasp these songs go back hundreds of years, you can get a great insight into Russian culture. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 07:04, December 24, 2021 (EST)

=== This is what I was referring to above ===

[[File:04656 market in Sanok.JPG|thumbnail|200px|center|[[Alcoholism]] was a serious social problem in the former atheistic [[Soviet Union]].[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18245818] Between 1940 and 1980, this [[atheist state]] had the largest increase of the amount of alcohol usage in the developed world.[http://isw.sagepub.com/content/35/4/441.extract] ]]
{{clear}}
It's too bad that Russia chose atheistic communism for so many decades. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 01:32, December 24, 2021 (EST)
:I have to admit, my appreciation and love of Russian society and culture has come a long way in the past 25-30 years. What went unreported in the West, it was the Church more than anything that caused the demise of Soviet Communism.
:Despite what Soviet communism did to Russian culture - and you are absolutely correct the damage was serious and longlasting - IMO a typical Russian of average intelligence, education, and maybe even with fetal alcohol syndrome, is more objective and levelheaded in their understanding of culture, society, history the issues affecting the contemporary world than 90% of our "best educated" professors in the United States.
:Bear in mind, nearly 40% of the Russian federation are Muslims - [[secular]] Muslims - and they wouldn't have it any other way. They supported Soviet Communism then, and Russian Democracy now, cause they don't want to live under [[Shariah]] law. And they have a higher birth rate than ethnic Russians. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 01:52, December 24, 2021 (EST)
:Watch [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Bnt3CIqGhk this 3 1/2 minute video.] You don't need any translation or English subtitles to understand what is going on. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 01:56, December 24, 2021 (EST)
::a white boy is abusing his girlfriend on the streets of Moscow, and nobody reacts. The same couple do it again, only this time she wears a [[hijab]] {Islamic headscarf}, and Muslim men step up to protect her. It's not a religious thing, it's a culture phenomena in a multicultural society. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 02:01, December 24, 2021 (EST)
:::Putin does not drink and he works out two hours a day so that is good.[https://www.businessinsider.com/vladimir-putin-daily-routine-2017-6#his-work-schedule-tends-to-be-more-flexible-over-the-weekend-to-accommodate-putins-english-language-classes-on-sunday-he-sometimes-prays-and-makes-confession-23] But he is a former KGB agent and Business Insider reports: "On Sunday, he sometimes prays and makes confession... Nonetheless, Russian officials close to the president stress that "his life is not that of a Christian," according to Newsweek."[https://www.businessinsider.com/vladimir-putin-daily-routine-2017-6#his-work-schedule-tends-to-be-more-flexible-over-the-weekend-to-accommodate-putins-english-language-classes-on-sunday-he-sometimes-prays-and-makes-confession-23]

:::As long as the corrupt Putin is in office, Russia will stagnate. Leadership is by example. Russia has to overcome its demographic death spiral. And the heavy drinking and Russian men cheating on their wives is causing family problems. Apparently, Putin cheated on his wife. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 03:15, December 24, 2021 (EST)

::::This debate has raged forever - I recall my teacher [https://books.google.com/books?id=RniDlAP7ulkC&pg=PT4&lpg=PT4&dq=prof+william+renzi&source=bl&ots=TZH9Xyh_Oz&sig=ACfU3U1w12_iNy0BaGTV9umVsry_zEQrXw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiO1pP8l_z0AhVZG80KHbrFAPQQ6AF6BAgCEAM#v=onepage&q=prof%20william%20renzi&f=false Bill Renzi] saying many people believe Russia has to be governed by autocrats to keep it together, be it the Czars, Lenin, Stalin, or Brezhnev. It's too big and too diverse (Stalin's own son didn't speak Russian). Russia is not a single ethnicity, culture, religion or language. It is a "Union of Peoples" and has been since Czarist times.
:::::Technically, no nation has been one ethnicity/culture at all short of Balkanization, so please don't use that as a reason to justify a communist stooge like Putin (especially when even the JBS-backed New American made clear he was still communist). Even France has had multiple ethnicities in there (Alsace was a germanophone-speaking region [in fact, one of the reasons why the Jacobins planned a genocide of that region before the guillotine was used on Robespierre is precisely BECAUSE of its german-speaking population], and there's hints at Napoleon and Robespierre being ethnically Sicilian and Irish, respectively). And Great Britain is composed of four ethnicities/cultures (Irish, Scottish, Welsh, and English). And don't get me started on America which is multicultural even WITHOUT the current diversity crap being forced unto us by leftists. Germany was similar, originally being composed of multiple different countries (Bavaria, Poland, Austria, Deutsch, among others). In fact, the entire POINT of being a nation is in fact a "Union of Peoples", so it's not exclusive to Russia. And for the record, while it might be true the Tsars were autocratic, at least they believed in God and NOT Socialism or anything like that, unlike Lenin, Stalin, Brezhnev, or, yes, even Putin. I appreciate Russian society pre-Lenin. Post-Lenin, it is garbage, even under Putin, who refuses to go back to the Tsar. [[User:Pokeria1|Pokeria1]] ([[User talk:Pokeria1|talk]]) 12:02, December 24, 2021 (EST)
::::::The 'captive nations' have been set free. The rest remain part of the federation because they want to, given the alternative of being swallowed up by Islamic or Sinic culture, or other hostile neighbors. Russia has played a role in history similar to that of the British Empire, raising up peoples all over the planet to a level above what used to be call 'barbarism'. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 15:37, December 24, 2021 (EST)
:::::::If that's the case, please explain why Putin's gunning to go to war and annex various nations? If I were him and I truly thought they should remain free, I wouldn't even bother trying to prep an invasion of them. Besides, don't you think the fact that actual right-wing/conservative sources like JBS/New American and outono claiming Putin's a communist should give you pause? It's not like I'm citing Time Magazine or any left-wing rags. And for the record, if he truly cared about getting rid of Communism, he'd make sure ALL of it is destroyed, make sure the populace has nothing but disgust, regarding of ethnicity and culture, make sure to fire all the KGB priests and if necessary even line them up to a wall and shoot them, and certainly tear down Marx's statue and Lenin's tomb. That's what I would have done as an anti-Communist, make sure Communism is extinct. [[User:Pokeria1|Pokeria1]] ([[User talk:Pokeria1|talk]]) 15:57, December 24, 2021 (EST)
::::::::NATO provocation. You read too much CIA agitprop. NATO is supplying lethal weapons to Ukraine in the Donbass region, hence Putin and Russia are reacting. Whatever idiots in the Pentagon and CIA drum up this senseless bs need to be chastised forthwith. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 16:13, December 24, 2021 (EST)
:::::::::Ah, first of all, JBS has been [https://thenewamerican.com/fire-brennan-or-abolish-the-cia/ highly critical] [https://thenewamerican.com/is-it-time-to-shut-down-the-cia/ of the CIA], so it's not like they'd be pushing for the CIA's propaganda anyhow. Second of all, Putin was also funding the very same groups that George Soros is funding going by [https://www.outono.net/elentir/2017/11/22/neither-with-soros-nor-with-putin-the-russian-interference-in-catalonia-and-the-spanish-right/ this article] here as well as [https://www.outono.net/elentir/2020/03/05/the-george-soros-of-moscow-vladimir-putin-and-his-support-to-the-radical-left-of-the-west/ this article] (and it's very obvious that they're not CIA either. Actually, while commentating on the state of other countries, they are primarily concerned with Spain first, and they spare no criticism of socialism in their own country, being as merciless in their criticisms of Spanish Socialists as they are of Putin, of Cuba, and of any socialist/Communist nation. And just as an FYI, they've been VERY critical of the EU as well, especially it's soft treatment of socialists. If anything, outono's been far more consistent in being anti-socialist than Putin EVER was.). Third of all, Putin as of now is ALLYING with China, meaning they're not even enemies at all, or rivals. You're making the same mistake that people in the 1930s did with Stalin and Hitler before their Molotov-Ribbentropp act. [[User:Pokeria1|Pokeria1]] ([[User talk:Pokeria1|talk]]) 17:10, December 24, 2021 (EST)
::::::::::I haven't read any of the JBS stuff on Putin, and if it's anything like how you characterize it, they are wrong, assuming you are characterizing is correctly. Russia harbors no aggressive intentions against anybody outside its borders. Russia, as always, is preoccupied with defending its immense borders (and possible hostile actors within its borders). As to Ukraine, if it thinks it's going to convert Sevastopol into a NATO naval base, think again. As Dana Carvey would say, ''Naga doit''. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 18:06, December 24, 2021 (EST)
:::::::::::It's EXACTLY what they're saying. And BTW, it's not just JBS, it's plenty of other conservative sources as well. And BTW, did you know that Putin literally FUNNELED the Steele Dossier as well, aka the whole Russian Collusion thing? Don't take it from me, read it from Daniel Greenfield on Front Page Magazine: https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/12/schumer-who-accused-trump-russian-collusion-daniel-greenfield/ And don't forget outono, they're critical of Putin, the EU, all the socialist actors around the world. Actually, with the information FPM provided among others, if you support Putin, you support the Russian Dossier. [[User:Pokeria1|Pokeria1]] ([[User talk:Pokeria1|talk]]) 18:19, December 24, 2021 (EST)
::::::::::::Putin handed the Steele dossier to [[Peter Strzok]] and said, "Here, do something with it"? No, don't think so. That was the Hillary-Brennan-Comey-McCabe pipeline. Now, if you wanna discuss who handed it to the NYT, WaPo, ''etal'', you're not going to find Putin there, either. The pipeline goes Hillary-[[Jake Sullivan]]-[[Isikoff]] etal. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 18:26, December 24, 2021 (EST)
:::::::::::::He used a cutout. Of course Putin wouldn't directly order for or hand over those things, he's not stupid. Even Lenin avoided directly signing the death warrants that the Chekha carried out despite obviously encouraging it behind the scenes. Heck, if anything, Putin PAID those guys to spread that disinformation via Vincent Roberti and [https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2021/05/lobbying-push-russian-pipeline/ Putin's] Gazprom lobbying group. Me? I'd fight against China AND Russia, heck, fight against any Communist country, even risk rendering the world to cinders just to ensure Communism's dead and God's iron fist is controlling the world alongside his son Jesus Christ. [[User:Pokeria1|Pokeria1]] ([[User talk:Pokeria1|talk]]) 18:33, December 24, 2021 (EST)
::::::::::::::I gitit I gitit. Hillary was just a stooge as was the whole corrupt Democrat machine and MSM. There were victimized by one of Putin's evil plots to take over the world. That, of course is why we have to put back these idiots and maintain them in power, to defend against the evil Putin. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 19:13, December 24, 2021 (EST)
:::::::::::::::I never said the Democrats or Hillary were victims of Putin. Actually, if anything, I'd argue they're ALLIES, aka, collaborators with Putin, not victims of any sort. And for the record, I don't support the Democrats, at all. Especially not the ones who pushed the dossier. If anything, the fact that the same guys who pushed the Russia Collusion narrative to oust Trump are getting paid by Putin proves that, no, if anything, THEY'RE the ones colluding with Putin. If ANYONE was a victim of Putin, it's Trump. And quite frankly, you're acting more like Lyn Wood when he ordered for people to not vote during the period between the election and Biden's "inauguration", which apparently resulted in those crypto-commies Jon Ossoff and Warnock being elected into office (that, and voter fraud). And for the record, Obama was allied with Putin even back then, as you can see [https://thenewamerican.com/putin-bombs-obama-s-syrian-rebels-obama-joins-putin-alliance/ here]. [[User:Pokeria1|Pokeria1]] ([[User talk:Pokeria1|talk]]) 19:29, December 24, 2021 (EST)
::::::::::::::::Congrats. It's only December 2021, and you figured out the Trump-Russia hoax is a hoax. I had it figured by December 2016, and provided the corroborating evidence by March 2017, two months before Comey got fired and Mueller was called in to coverup the scandal. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 19:34, December 24, 2021 (EST)
:::::::::::::::::I already figured it out even earlier, like during March 2016. I knew Trump would never have colluded with Russia at all, that it was a hoax. Heck, despite my being autistic/aspergers with humor not being one of my strongest suits, even I could figure out Trump was joking when he said he could have the Russians investigate the hack to the DNC office. And the reason I knew that, is because Putin made no secret to wanting to restore Communism in Russia (I've already seen photos years back of Putin giving speeches in front of Soviet paraphanelia on Breitbart, BEFORE the 2016 election I should add, and posts on freerepublic making clear that he was pushing for a revitalization of Stalin). My mom also recognized that Trump couldn't have colluded with Putin either, even pointing out that Putin would have known what he was going to get regarding a good deal via Hillary Clinton and her Uranium deal. The only difference between you and me regarding the Trump-Russia Hoax is that I was firmly aware of Russia under Putin STILL being communist, while you are naively believing that they've given up on Communism despite even KGB defectors making it clear that they still hold on to Communism. And BTW, I pegged Russia as still being Communist as early as 2012 when I briefly saw in ''Dreams of my Father'' Karl Marx's statue being in Moscow, something that, had they genuinely given up on it, they would have torn it down like they did various Lenin and Stalin statues. [[User:Pokeria1|Pokeria1]] ([[User talk:Pokeria1|talk]]) 19:40, December 24, 2021 (EST)
::::::::::::::::::You're betraying yourself with the above posting. Let me count the ways. (a) "Trump was joking when he said he could have the Russians investigate the hack to the DNC office." Trump never said or implied any such thing. You are repeating Democrat commie agitprop (meaning you do not understand anything about the issue). (b) Putin had no involvement in any way, shape, or form in the origins of the dossier. (c) The Trump-Russia hoax at no point ever was a foreign policy issue. It was purely, from origin and inception, domestic politic corruption. (d) You continue to imply that Vladimir Putin, and/or Communism, has something, anything, to do with Trump-Russia You are in fact mouthing DNC talking points at this point. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 19:51, December 24, 2021 (EST)
::::::::::::::::::At this point, based on your posting above, I don't think you know or understand anything about what the scandal or crime was in the Trump-Russia hoax. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 19:53, December 24, 2021 (EST)
::::::::::::::::::Trump-Russia has absolutely nothing to do with Russia. It was a hoax. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 19:56, December 24, 2021 (EST)
::::::::::::::::The origins of Trump-Russia can be traced back to (a) the long delays in investigating Hillary's emails; (b) the fact that James Comey, and not Loretta Lynch, held a press conference clearing Hillary. This should have raised eyebrows everywhere. (c) The Bill Clinton/Loretta Lynch tarmac meeting. These were all the clues in open source MSM that something was seriously wrong with the Obama [[DOJ]]. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 20:02, December 24, 2021 (EST)
::::::::::::::::::::That's actually what I was referring to. The DNC servers got hacked and their emails disappeared. [https://www.theblaze.com/news/2016/07/25/trump-taunts-claims-that-russia-hacked-dnc-emails-for-him-the-new-joke-in-town Trump, jokingly, stated that he could get Putin to help investigate the emails for them] (and the Blaze, the source of that, was on Trump's side, not the dossier's side. Same goes for [https://www.newsmax.com/Politics/donald-trump-russian-network-vladimir-putin/2016/09/08/id/747391/ Newsmax], which the democrat agitprop hates as well.). My dad watched the broadcast, BTW, and he recognized it as a joke. As far as the Trump-Russia collusion Hoax, let me remind you that Daniel Greenfield, in the link I provided to you above, specifically pointed out that ALL of the Democrats who claimed Trump engaged in collusion, ended up paid by Putin and his shell corporation, meaning they if ANYTHING were the ones colluding with Putin, and more importantly, that Putin was pushing the collusion hoax as well. And yes, ultimately, it DOES have to do with Russia as well. And BTW, if I were you, I'd dedicate full hatred to both China AND Russia, not to mention Cuba, Vietnam, Venezuela, and the like, any and all Communist countries, dedicate every waking hour to wiping out Communism across the globe, and replacing it with the governments they had prior to Communism's take over, bare minimum (in Russia's case, reinstitute the Tsar). I would NEVER side with a Communist, period. I'd fight ALL of them, even down to the last breath if I must, as God demands that I and others do, fight to the bitter end, not care if it results in our extinction as a result. God wants Communism dead above all else, to ensure his rule is NEVER challenged at all. [[User:Pokeria1|Pokeria1]] ([[User talk:Pokeria1|talk]]) 20:20, December 24, 2021 (EST)
:::::::::::::::::::::It was an inside job or "hack" in May 2016. In August, Trump jokingly invited Russia to clear their name from the false accusations that "Russia hacked the DNC", or that "WikiLeaks is a KGB front." (You still seem to think Russia had something to do with the "DNC hack". I suppose you think Julian Assange is a KGB agent, too).
:::::::::::::::::::::[[Michael Sussmann]], who was just indicted by John Durham, is the guy who initiated the DNC hack hoax. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 20:32, December 24, 2021 (EST)

:::::::::::::::::::::Let's clarify the misleading narrative you began here: Trump's comments to "Russia" had nothing to do with '''[https://conservapedia.com/CrowdStrike#DNC_hack_hoax Sussmann's DNC hack hoax]''' - Trump was talking about recovering Hillary's emails, which Comey, McCabe, Strzok, and Lynch never prosecuted for destruction of U.S. government documents and mishandling of national security information. Be careful where you are going with DNC BS. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 20:37, December 24, 2021 (EST)
::::::::::::::::::::::I never said anything about Russia having anything to do with the DNC hack at all. If anything, I specifically indicated that Donald Trump was joking on that front, in other words, that he trolled the MSM and Russia WASN'T responsible for the hack. But Russia DEFINTIELY had something to do with the Dossier, especially when all the principal actors of that dossier, from Pelosi to Schumer, conveniently got paid by one of Putin's shell corporations around the time of the pipeline thing, as Daniel Greenfield pointed out in that article. Also, Wikileaks is obviously not a KGB front (the KGB died with the Soviet Union), and aside from that, Julian Assange isn't even on the Russian payroll, but he is definitely a Marxist-Leninist. I WILL admit I probably mixed up the two events. My mistake on that front. But Putin being Communist has been backed up by Conservative/right wing sources who also have spent quite a few times condemning various communist deep state groups as well, including Ion Mihai Pacepa. [[User:Pokeria1|Pokeria1]] ([[User talk:Pokeria1|talk]]) 21:09, December 24, 2021 (EST)

:::::::::::::::::::::::*''I could figure out Trump was joking when he said he could have the Russians investigate the hack to the DNC office.''
:::::::::::::::::::::::*''The DNC servers got hacked and their emails disappeared. Trump, jokingly, stated that he could get Putin to help investigate the emails for them
:::::::::::::::::::::::Do you even pay attention to what you post, or do you just like trolling me? [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 23:47, December 24, 2021 (EST)

::::And they certainly have [https://youtu.be/cMFIWBQB1kE a better national anthem than then we do - including the lyrics (click CC).] [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 05:22, December 24, 2021 (EST)
:::::I think it is mostly due to Eastern Orthodox Christianity being more hierarchal than Protestant Christianity. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 06:46, December 24, 2021 (EST)
::::::Except for the 70 year captivity in the Soviet era, Russia never had a separation of church and state in its 1,000 year history. And still doesn't. Even in Soviet times the people (''narodny'') never accepted separation of church and state. What is odd, how Muslims are content to live under the Russian Orthodox rather than under Shariah theocracy. The Jews OTOH, have had big problems with it. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 07:53, December 24, 2021 (EST)

===Greenfield article===
While the [https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/12/schumer-who-accused-trump-russian-collusion-daniel-greenfield/ Greenfield article certainly is interesting] and worthy of coverage in its own right, it adds nothing to our knowledge of the internal conspirators and law breakers involved in the [[Russia collusion hoax]]. These all are merely Democrat elected officials who spewed ''[[WaPo]]'' bullcrap. And the point of the article is, that while they were lying and deceiving the American electorate, they were also taking money from Russians. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 00:04, December 25, 2021 (EST)

== Watch this video. It is very informative ==

Watch this video: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTf4JYfMuoI Bad News: How Woke Media Undermines Democracy]

It is very informative. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 06:48, December 24, 2021 (EST)
:Watched most of it last night. Will finish up today or tomorrow. How did they hold a symposium on this at Berkley without leftist Stormtroopers not burning the building down? Is it possible in 2021 for scholarship, discussion, and debate to still occur at leftist institutions? Makes me somewhat suspicious. She says, 'eight million people who voted for Obama also voted for Trump, so the idea Trump supporters are all racists is bs.' Better late than never. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 15:54, December 24, 2021 (EST)
::Here is another excellent video on the book with multiple people giving their perspectives: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKD7e5WoF_8 How woke media undermines democracy: A book event with Batya Ungar-Sargon].

::The videos confirmed what I thought all along which is the "golden rule". Namely, he who holds the gold rules. The left-leaning media caters to wealthy people on the left side of the spectrum because that maximizes advertising revenue. And the right-leaning media caters the wealthy right leaning wealthy people because that maximizes their advertising revenue. In addition, it is engagement that drives up revenue online so news stories are crafted to push people's buttons (like cause moral outrage). [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 17:04, December 24, 2021 (EST)
:::If it bleeds, it leads, as they say in the newspaper industry. People don't want stories about a newborn liter of puppies on the front page. In sales we say 'fear sells'. In fact, that is the secret of sales - the message is always negative. The two motivating factors to get people to part with their money is fear and greed. Fear that you may miss out on a deal or that your house will burn down with everybody in it ''if you don't buy'', and greed - 'wouldn't you like to be the first one on your block to have one?'
:::So that's how you capture people's attention - fear and greed. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 17:14, December 24, 2021 (EST)
:::This explains the incessant [[race card]], Dems have to scare the daylights out Blacks to keep them motivated to keep them voting. "The Klan is going to burn a cross on your yard!" Repubs have to recognize how powerful and effective this latent internal fear in Blacks is. So "racism", "white supremacy", "white privilege", "systemic racism" become buzzwords and phrases tossed around to great effect. Ignoring the impact it has, and why these are used, is not helpful, and can even fuel more of it. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 18:13, December 24, 2021 (EST)
::::The point of the book/video is that white, liberal elites care more about racism than blacks/Latinos and have hyper concern about racism because it makes them feel morally superior. And that hyper anti-racism causes radical policies like defund the police which actually hurts blacks/Latinos. And that this hyper anti-racism is partly fueled by the media whose journalists/interns come from Ivy League schools where hyper, anti-racism is also fueled.

::::Meanwhile, these white, liberal elites want open borders which drive down wages for Anerican Blacks/Latinos and working class whites. And they fight school choice (which blacks/Latinos want) which would give Black/Latinos and working class whites better educations. And these same white, liberal elites pushed policies that shipped blue-collar jobs overseas which hurt working class Black/Latinos and working class whites. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 00:06, December 25, 2021 (EST)

:::::It's a ''[[quid pro quo]]:'' white liberals in politics and media spread alarm and fear among Blacks with, "boogeyman is gonna getcha," for which they hope to be rewarded with votes.
:::::In 2020, the Democrats already knew the "cry wolf" effect is diminishing: and [https://conservapedia.com/images/e/e6/Support_for_Democratic_Candidates%2C_2012-2020.PNG in fact provides us with evidence of voter fraud.] While the percentage of Blacks voting Democrat continues to slip, all the fraud and ballot box stuffing occurred predominantly in black precincts. It's pathological: Democrats would have to cheat in black precincts with or without covid and mail-in ballots, if they hoped to win with declining numbers of blacks voting Democrat. Fortunately for them, they had enough of experienced ballot box stuffing teams in place already, and even were able to train new participants in how to do it in such a massive effort. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 00:23, December 25, 2021 (EST)

== Alexa.com ending on May 1, 2022 ==

Alexa.com ending on May 1, 2022.[https://support.alexa.com/hc/en-us/articles/4410503838999]

Compete.com was retired previously.

It looks like Similarweb.com will be the only free major ranking of a website's traffic.

Similarweb.com is more reliable than Alexa, but it is updated less frequently. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 00:52, December 25, 2021 (EST)

:This means two things: (a) Amazon (and Bezos), which owns Alexa, will move it resources into another area to attack and try to destroy conservative websites: and (b) numerous startups (both black hat and white hat) will step up to try to fill the gap left by Alexa. So we'll have to go through a period of screening new startups beginning now. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 01:04, December 25, 2021 (EST)

::In January/February, I will have access to a SEMRush.com subscription which ranks websites by web traffic. The public can see the rankings for the top 100 websites ranked by SEMRush.[https://www.semrush.com/blog/most-visited-websites/] [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 01:24, December 25, 2021 (EST)
:::Actually, the fact that Compete.com and Alexa.com disappeared/disappearing means there is not a lot of money in providing free rankings so the gap might not be filled. But there is not a gap since SimilarWeb.com still exists. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 01:26, December 25, 2021 (EST)
::::Alexa's pretty big; they have to wait til March to fill out contracts for service that exist. They likely will take many of their clients with them into a new subscription service (under whatever name). Similarweb and SEMRush will pick up a lot. But the global market is sooo big, there will be a rush by small startups. It will not be unlike all the smaller competitors Twitter and YouTube have. And they'll offer free service to attract new customers. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 01:37, December 25, 2021 (EST)
::::Alexa is so big, it feels it has gathered enough knowledge about how the business works (and have gathered the best customers) they can squash any competitors and starts ups. But one or two small startups will survive in the long run.
::::Also, Alexa feels the market has reached a saturation point to where the prospects for future growth do not require them to offer free service. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 01:42, December 25, 2021 (EST)
::::Anyways, this explains why their free ranking service has gone haywire over the past 9 months - they didn't want any new customers. It would only require them to hire more expert help to take on piddly-squat customers. Now they can concentrate their best employees on their best customers. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 01:52, December 25, 2021 (EST)
Actually, Alexa.com had a free service plus with a subscription, you could get more data. Both are disappearing in 2022.

Anyways, I have access to multiple tools that show a website's relative strength compared to other websites.

For example, here is some information from Ahrefs.com about Conservapedia:

[[File:Conservapedia linking websites.JPG|thumbnail|center|700px|Amount of domains linking to Conservapedia according to Ahrefs.com]].
{{Clear}}
The domain strength reflects both the quality/quantity of domains linking to Conservapedia. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 01:56, December 25, 2021 (EST)
:No way is Alexa giving up the money from its subscription service. It is simply changing its name. If that were not true, the market to fill in the gap would be even more wide open. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 02:28, December 25, 2021 (EST)
::"Existing subscriptions will remain active until May 1, 2022 UTC. After that, customers will no longer have access to Alexa.com."[https://support.alexa.com/hc/en-us/articles/4410503838999]

::In May of 2022, Alexa will end as a subscription service. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 03:11, December 25, 2021 (EST)

:::Yes, the name Alexa. It's no different than when the [[NKVD]] changed its name to the [[KGB]], or [[ACORN]] changed its name to dozens of other names in different states. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 03:26, December 25, 2021 (EST)
:::There is no way they will walk away from the revenue stream they built over 25 years. And even if they did, the people they fired will start up a new business and reclaim the lost customers. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 03:28, December 25, 2021 (EST)
::::They will walk away from a revenue if the [[opportunity cost]] warrants it. It comes down to return on investment (ROI). If a higher ROI can be had elsewhere, Alexa's subscribers will be abandoned. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 03:43, December 25, 2021 (EST)
:::::Amazon purchased the company for $250 millilon in 1996; it made $6 million last year. So yah, it looks like a loser. So they shut it down and write off the losses (which go against income of Amazon). But nobody walks away from the $6 million revenue stream they built up, and the knowledge of the industry they created (at such a cost). So it gets reorganized. Some employees get transferred, others go off and create a new company with their knowledge base and existing client list. Now, the relationship of the new company to Amazon is different question; Bezos may be just a stockholder in the new company - apart from Amazon (or other executives buy stock or make loans to their former employees).
:::::Bottomline, if it is not an opportunity for the existing hands-on employees with knowledge and the client list, it is an opportunity for others to gross $6 million a year. The demand from the existing clients will not disappear with Alexa. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 03:56, December 25, 2021 (EST)

== Can you please check your email? ==

Thanks. —[[User:Liberaltears|<code>'''LT'''</code>]] '''''[[User talk:Liberaltears|(The Old Right was right!)]]''''' Monday, 22:20, December 26, 2021 (EST)

== Hi Rob. This is Nishant Xavier ==

Hi Rob. How are you? This is Nishant. I'm back now and am in the process of writing a Book on how we can distribute Crores (10s of Millions) of Bibles to the Masses in India. I want to complete the Conservapedia Bible Project Translation. I like it: https://conservapedia.com/Matthew_1-9_(Translated) But I have a question. Why is "He" and "His" etc not Capitalized when referring to Lord Jesus Christ? It should be imho, as He is King of Kings. [[User:NishantXavier|NishantXavier]][[User talk:NishantXavier|For Christ the King]] 17:07, February 1, 2022 (EST)
:Welcome back. Good to hear from you. I know User:Liberaltears was anxious to talk with you about a few things. As to the CBP, I'm not certain what the answer is cause I've not been involved in the Project. However, my guess would be that some editors deem capitalizing "He" as somewhat archaic, although I can't say for sure. Anyways, welcome back. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 17:17, February 1, 2022 (EST)

Uh, do you not want any rebuttals against the arguments used to disprove its existence?

Cultural Marxism

2022-02-08T17:59:33Z

SmashCulturalMarxism: /* Criticism */

[[File:Gramsci.png|thumb|200px|Antonio Gramsci]]
'''Cultural Marxism''' is a branch of [[Marxist]] ideology formulated by the ''[[Frankfurt School]]'', which had its origins the early part of the twentieth century. Cultural Marxism comprises much of the foundation of [[political correctness]]. It emerged as a response of [[Europe]]an Marxist intellectuals disillusioned by the early political failures of conventional economic Marxist ideology.<ref>cf. External source: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIdBuK7_g3M Cultural Marxism: The Corruption of America] is a James Jaeger Film with ambition to show how ''a love affair with collectivist ideologies has lead to ever bigger government and the welfare-warfare state. Lead by a Marxist splinter group called the "[[Frankfurt School]]" -- "[[the long march through the institutions]]" has infiltrated every corner of [[Western culture]] to corrupt traditional Christian values with "[[political correctness]]," another name for "cultural Marxism."''</ref>

The central idea of Cultural Marxism is to soften up and prepare [[Western Civilization]] for [[economic]] Marxism after a gradual, relentless, sustained attack on every institution of Western culture,<ref>Ludwig, E. Jeffrey (October 23, 2019). [https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/communist-influences-are-destroying-the-us-faster-and-faster Communist influences are destroying the US, faster and faster]. ''LifeSiteNews''. Retrieved October 23, 2019.</ref> including schools,<ref>Svab, Petr (November 25, 2019). [https://www.theepochtimes.com/school-programs-mixed-with-social-marxism-spread-through-america_3152761.html School Programs Mixed With Social Marxism Spread Through America]. ''The Epoch Times''. Retrieved November 25, 2019.</ref> literature, art, film, the [[Judeo-Christian]] worldview tradition, [[marriage]] and the [[Destroying the family|family]],<ref>Solway, David (August 23, 2018). [https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/karl-marx-hated-marriage-and-marxism-is-marriages-enemy Karl Marx hated marriage, and Marxism is marriage’s enemy]. ''LifeSiteNews'' (from the ''American Thinker''). Retrieved August 28, 2018.</ref> sexual mores, [[War on Sovereignty|national sovereignty]], etc.<ref>cf. The tendency of dictatorial ideologies to influence public institutions etc. so that these would serve their agendas is termed as [[Gleichschaltung]]. 
See also:
*Warner, Gerald (February 4, 2015). [https://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/02/04/for-the-first-time-in-history-conservatives-are-at-the-forefront-of-the-cultural-revolution/ For the First Time in History, ‘Conservatives’ Are at the Forefront of the Cultural Revolution]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved December 25, 2017.
:"By the post-War era the Cultural Marxist programme had a wide-reaching agenda of destruction. It aimed to destroy the family, denying the specific roles of the father and mother, and advocated the teaching of sex and homosexuality to children; mobilisation of women as revolutionaries against men, through aggressive feminism; large-scale immigration to abolish national identity; dependency on the state and state benefits; control and infantilisation of the media."</ref> The attacks are usually framed in Marxist terms as a class struggle between oppressors and oppressed; the members of the latter class allegedly include women, minorities, homosexuals, and adherents of non-Western ideologies such as Islam. Cultural Marxism has been described as "the cultural branch of [[globalism]]."<ref>[https://www.westernmastery.com/2017/03/23/cultural-marxism-is-the-1-enemy-of-western-civilization/ Cultural Marxism is the #1 Enemy of Western Civilization]. ''Western Mastery''. March 23, 2017. Retrieved December 25, 2017.</ref>

While Marx's ''[[Communist Manifesto]]'' focused on the alleged class struggle between bourgeois (owners of the means of production) and proletariat (workers), Marx did address culture, which he intimated would change after his economic vision was implemented. [[Patrick Buchanan]] argues that Cultural Marxism succeeded where Marx failed.<ref>[http://cnsnews.com/blog/grant-m-dahl/buchanan-cultural-marxism-has-succeeded-where-marx-and-lenin-failed Buchanan: ‘Cultural Marxism’ Has Succeeded Where Marx and Lenin Failed], [[CNSNews]]</ref> Marxism has permeated the American Left.<ref>Kirk, Charlie (September 27, 2020). [https://humanevents.com/2020/09/26/far-from-being-dead-true-marxism-is-very-much-alive/ Far From Being “Dead,” True Marxism Is Very Much Alive.] ''Human Events''. Retrieved September 27, 2020.</ref>

Among cultural Marxists, the book ''[[Dialectic of Enlightenment]]'' is considered to be a central text.<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/apr/08/frankfurt-school-dialectic-of-enlightenment The Frankfurt school, part 3: Dialectic of Enlightenment ]</ref><ref>''Dialectic of Enlightenment'' was written in 1944 by Theodor W. Adorno and Max Horkheimer</ref>

An effective way for cultural Marxists to influence the culture is to infiltrate schools and indoctrinate students, which the [[Democratic Socialists of America]] explicitly endorsed in 2018.<ref>Newman, Alex (August 29, 2018). [https://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/education/item/29907-socialists-urge-infiltration-of-government-schools Socialists Urge Infiltration of Government Schools]. ''The New American''. Retrieved August 29, 2018. See also:
*Newman, Alex (February 6, 2019). [https://www.thenewamerican.com/print-magazine/item/31250-education-s-future-globalization-of-indoctrination Education’s Future: Globalization of Indoctrination]. ''The New American''. Retrieved February 6, 2019.</ref>

==History==

===Marx, Engels and Lenin on culture===
The cultural views of [[Karl Marx]] and [[Friedrich Engels]] were, in general, different from those of the 20th century Cultural Marxists. Marx and Engels were proponents of [[Realism]] in the arts and culture. They maintained that any honest artist who longs for truth and is guided by sincere ethics, would end up portraying the grueling realities of [[capitalism]] realistically without having to be a [[socialism|socialist]]. They give the example of their contemporary French writer [[Honoré de Balzac]], who, despite being a staunch [[monarchy|monarchist]], his realist literary works laid bare the immorality of 19th century capitalist relations of production and thus Balzac's work is of great value to progressives even though his personal ideology was conservative. Engels called this the "Triumph of Realism" (Sieg des Realismus), explaining that Balzac's sincere ethics and the fact that his heart longed for truth and objectivity inevitably made him a realist critic of capitalist exploitation in his literature, although his personal political alignment always remained [[conservatism|conservative]]. According to Engels: <blockquote>Balzac boldly exposed the contradiction of nascent capitalist society and hence his observation of reality constantly clashed with his political prejudices. But as an honest artist he always depicted only what he himself saw, learned and underwent, concerning himself not at all whether his-true-to-life description of the things he saw contradicted his pet ideas.<ref>https://www.academia.edu/28848230/Two_Balzacs_Two_Gogols_Two_Tolstoys</ref></blockquote>

Engels declared that Balzac was his favorite writer. Marx's Das Kapital also makes some references to the works of Balzac.

[[Vladimir Lenin]] was also a proponent of Realism and stressed its superiority over [[Modernism]]. He considered [[Leo Tolstoy]] to be the most effective depicter of the everyday life of Russian peasants, even though Tolstoy was a nobleman. Lenin once wrote to [[Maxim Gorky]]: "Until this Count, we had no real peasant in our literature."<ref>https://www.marxists.org/archive/gorky-maxim/1924/lenin-the_man.html</ref> Here too, the personal merit of Tolstoy as an author, to Lenin, is not the superlative genius of Tolstoy that enabled him to represent both the Russian [[Kulak|Kulaks]] as well as the Russian Muzhiks so effectively. Ultimately it was the compulsion for truthful representation that made Tolstoy do so.<ref>https://www.academia.edu/28848230/Two_Balzacs_Two_Gogols_Two_Tolstoys</ref>

Both the thesis of Marx-Engels on Balzac and that of Lenin on Tolstoy hold that it is the conditions of the class struggle which determine those of the cultural struggle, not vice versa (for it was the advent of French capitalism in Balzac's case and the fight of Russian peasants for emancipation in Tolstoy's case that "woke up" the two authors and oriented them towards social realism), and thus the cultural struggle must be subordinate to the class struggle.

In short, all three of Marx, Engels and Lenin considered culture to be part of the "superstructure" rather than the "base", and thus maintained that it is the change in the [[economy]] that leads to the change in a society's culture, and ran contrary to the thesis of the Cultural Marxists that a [[Cultural Revolution|cultural revolution]] can be possible before the socio-politico-economic [[proletariat|proletarian]] revolution.

===Soviet Marxism against Cultural Marxism: Lukacs against the Frankfurt School===

Knowing the above, one can more easily understand the nature of the cultural debates between [[Marxism|Marxist]] intellectuals in the 1920s. The Soviet "orthodox" Marxists, such as [[Grigory Zinoviev]], Nikolai Bukharin and Karl Radek, maintained that the revolution in capitalist countries will come only through the [[class warfare|class struggle]] of the workers against the [[bourgeoisie]] and that culture plays a secondary role in this struggle. They also maintained that Marxist art should adhere to a simple, realistic and popularly understandable depiction of the evils of capitalism.

In a 1924 [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union|Soviet Communist Party]] congress, many Cultural Marxist and Modernist authors were harshly criticized by Soviet officials as "heretics". In his speech entitled The Struggle Against the Ultra-Lefts and Theoretical Revisionism, Zinoviev fiercely attacked [[Georg Lukacs]]' book History and Class Consciousness, declaring: ‘If we get more of these professors spinning out their Marxist theories, we shall be lost. We cannot tolerate theoretical revisionism of this kind in our Communist International.’ Nikolai Bukharin, soon to replace Zinoviev as [[Joseph Stalin]]’s chief ally in the [[Comintern]], told Karl Korsch, author of one of the most influential Cultural Marxist texts: ‘We can’t put every piece of garbage up for discussion.’<ref>https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/revhist/backiss/vol8/no1/smith.html</ref> Karl Radek also formulated the superiority of classical [[European]] Realism over Modernism, saying "If I were to write novels, I would learn how to write them from Tolstoy and Balzac, not from [[James Joyce]]."<ref>https://www.marxists.org/archive/radek/1934/sovietwritercongress.htm</ref> This year, which coincides with Stalin's takeover of the Party, marks the moment in which the [[Soviet Union]] closed its door to Cultural Marxism. Soon, the USSR made illegal such evils as [[homosexuality]] and [[abortion]].<ref>https://www.marxist.com/from-emancipation-to-criminalisation-stalinist-persecution-of-homosexuals-from-1934.htm</ref><ref>http://soviethistory.msu.edu/1936-2/abolition-of-legal-abortion/</ref>. From now on, Cultural Marxists considered the USSR as the "betrayer of the revolution". The advent of the [[Hitler]] dictatorship in [[Germany]] also meant the Frankfurt School was closed, and from 1933 Cultural Marxists started emigrating to America.

Karl Korsch, [[Georg Lukacs]] (only in his early philosophical period) and [[Antonio Gramsci]] (see below) were the original founders of Cultural Marxism. Their thought influenced that of the members of the [[Frankfurt School]] of [[Critical Theory]] ([[Theodor Adorno]], [[Max Horkheimer]], Walter Benjamin, [[Herbert Marcuse]], [[Erich Fromm]] etc.) who mingled Marxism with the theories of [[Sigmund Freud]], [[Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel]] and [[Immanuel Kant]], something unacceptable for Soviet Marxists. For the Cultural Marxists, the world of ideas is equally important to the material one, and they maintained that it is possible for a revolution in the world of ideas to lead to a revolution in the material world. They also abandoned the defense of realism and instead championed [[modernism]] and [[abstract art]], labelled as "degenerate" by both Nazis and Soviets. In response, they equated [[Nazism]] and [[Stalinism]], being some of the first proponents of the theory of [[totalitarianism]]. The Frankfurt School's theories, akin to neo-Hegelian dialectical idealism and "Freudo-Marxism" focusing on "[[sexual revolution|sexual liberation]]", are what forms the crux of Cultural Marxism.

Lukacs, however, soon repudiated these theories and returned to a much more orthodox Marxist stance, coming at odds with his former Frankfurt comrades, whose theories he now labelled "Café Marxism". He chose to live in the Soviet Union and his native [[Hungary]] and became the Culture Minister of the 1956 [[Hungarian Revolution]] under [[Imre Nagy]]. He fiercely criticized those Frankfurt School intellectuals who instead went to live in the comforts of the [[United States]] and [[West Germany]]. In 1962 Lukacs wrote: <blockquote>A considerable part of the leading German intelligentsia, including [[Theodor Adorno|Adorno]], have taken up residence in the "Grand Hotel Abyss" which I described […] as "a beautiful hotel, equipped with every comfort, on the edge of an abyss, of nothingness, of absurdity. And the daily contemplation of the abyss between excellent meals or artistic entertainments, can only heighten the enjoyment of the subtle comforts offered.<ref>https://www.marxists.org/archive/lukacs/works/theory-novel/preface.htm</ref>.</blockquote>

In the world of Marxist thinkers, what Lukacs said here is the equivalent of flashing a red cloth around at an angry bull. Lukacs said that the Frankfurt School thinkers started to become bourgeois idealists who didn't care about having an active hand in the fight against political exploitation and oppression. Now that they were famous and kind of moneyed, they were sitting at their cozy desks at the luxurious Grand Hotel writing about Marxism, but they were becoming increasingly detached from its political cause. He pretty much accused them of hypocrisy—of living like fat-cat capitalists and losing focus.<ref>https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literary-critics/gyorgy-lukacs/quotes</ref>

[[Image:Breitbart1.jpg|thumb|160px|right|Andrew Breitbart]]
[[Andrew Breitbart]] gives a great if not brief crash course discussion about ''Cultural Marxism'' with Peter Robinson of the [[Hoover Institute]] for ''Uncommon Knowledge'', and, in part, this is what he said:
<blockquote>Think about this: These guys left, THESE GUYS LEFT NAZI GERMANY and Mussolini's Italy to come to California in the 1940's and they lived by the beach, and they were depressed by the relentless cheery-ness - the productivity; and the capitalism that they witnessed around them. And they came up with, at the end of the day; We can call it Cultural Marxism, but at the end of the day, we experience it on a day to day basis, by that I mean a minute by minute, second by second basis. It’s political correctness and it’s multiculturalism.<ref>[https://youtu.be/b8CpON8VrRU?t=22m38s Andrew Breitbart - Media War]</ref></blockquote>

In the video, Breitbart discusses the ''Frankfurt School'', ''[[Critical Theory]]'', [[Herbert Marcuse]], [[Antonio Gramsci]], [[Max Horkheimer]], [[Theodor Adorno]], [[Bertolt Brecht]], and others of the German School, many which emigrated to America. He further wrote about ''Cultural Marxism'' more in-depth in his book ''Righteous Indignation''.

===Gramsci===

[[Antonio Gramsci]] was a lieutenant of [[Joseph Stalin]] who headed the [[Italian]] branch of the International Communist movement ([[Comintern]]). After several failed assassination attempts on Mussolini, Gramsci was imprisoned in 1926 until his death in 1937. While in prison Gramsci wrote his ''Prison Notebooks'', speculating on the failure of [[violent]] [[revolution]] to materialize in [[Western Europe]] as [[Karl Marx]] had predicted. Gramsci's works are considered by [[Socialists]] to be foundational to modern [[public education]] and Cultural Marxism.<ref>https://www.jstor.org/stable/23768314?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents</ref><ref>https://www.marxists.org/archive/gramsci/prison_notebooks/problems/education.htm</ref><ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdTTr4iYT0M</ref>

Gramsci's theory of "cultural hegemony" states that the ruling capitalist "oppressor" class uses cultural institutions, such as "traditional marriage," to maintain power. The "oppressors" develop a "hegemonic culture" using [[ideology]] unlike Socialists who use [[violence]], economic force, and coercion. "Hegemonic culture" propagates its own values and norms so that they become "[[common sense]]" values and thus maintain the [[status quo]]. According to [[Wikipedia]], this "Hegemonic power is therefore used to maintain consent to the capitalist order, rather than coercive power using force" as Marxism does "to maintain order. This cultural hegemony is produced and reproduced" by the dominant Christian oppressor class "through the institutions that form the superstructure."

Joseph A. Buttigieg, [[Pete Buttigieg]]'s father, was a founding member of the International Gramsci Society and served as the executive secretary.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20100616163619/http://english.nd.edu/faculty/profiles/joseph-a-buttigieg/</ref>

===Dutschke===
:{{See also|Long march through the institutions}}
The Long march through the institutions is a [[Marxist]] concept formulated in 1967 by the [[West German]] student movement leader Rudi Dutschke. Dutschke reformulated [[Antonio Gramsci]]'s philosophy of cultural Marxism with the phrase ''the long march through the institutions'' (German: ''Marsch durch die Institutionen'') to identify the political war of position or incrementalism, an [[allusion]] to the [[Long March]] (1934–35) of the [[Communist Party of China|Communist Chinese]] [[People's Liberation Army]], by means of which, the [[working class]] or "oppressed" would produce their own intellectuals, civil servants, and culture (dominant ideology) to replace those imposed by the [[bourgeoisie]] or "oppressor class."<ref>{{Citation | url = http://english.nd.edu/faculty/profiles/joseph-a-buttigieg/ | editor1-first = Joseph A | editor1-last = Buttigieg | edition = English critical | last = Gramsci | title = Prison Notebooks | at = p 50 footnote 21 | quote = Long March Through the Institutions21 | deadurl = yes | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20100616163619/http://english.nd.edu/faculty/profiles/joseph-a-buttigieg/ | archivedate = 2010-06-16 | df = }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal| doi = 10.1215/01903659-32-1-33| issn = 0190-3659| volume = 32| issue = 1| pages = 33–52| last = Buttigieg| first = Joseph A.| title = The Contemporary Discourse on Civil Society: A Gramscian Critique| journal = Boundary 2| year = 2005}}</ref><ref name= "davidson">{{Citation | format = web log | url = http://carldavidson.blogspot.com/2006/04/strategy-hegemony-long-march.html | title = Strategy, Hegemony & 'The Long March': Gramsci's Lessons for the Antiwar Movement | first = Carl | last = Davidson | date = 6 April 2006}}.</ref><ref>See also [[Carl Davidson]]</ref><ref>Marsch durch die Institutionen|Marsch durch die Institutionen at German Wikipedia.</ref><ref>[[wikiquote:Antonio Gramsci#Misattributed|Antonio Gramsci: Misattributed]] at English Wikiquote for the origin of “The Long March Through the Institutions” quotation.</ref>

[[Karl Marx]] spoke of a sudden [[revolution]], where everything changes in a moment. Gramsci, the head of the [[Italian]] Communist party, was thrown in prison by [[Benito Mussolini]], where he speculated on the failure of Marxist revolution in his ''Prison Notebooks'', and attributed the failure to the cultural hegemony of the bourgeois oppressor class. Dutschke built on Gramsci's writings by proposing a long march through the cultural institutions of society - the church, entertainment, civil service, educational faculties, family institutions and marriage - to replace the dominant culture and replace it with revolutionary godless cultural Marxism.

Dutschke said, {{Quotebox|"Revolution is not a short act when something happens once and then everything is different. Revolution is a long, complicated process, where one [der Mensch] must become different...the process goes along this way, which I have once named ‘The Long March through the Established Institutions’, in which [institutions], through clarification [Aufklärung], systematic clarification and [[direct action]]s, awareness is brought [Bewusstwerdung] to further minorities in and outside the university, in schools, in trade schools, in engineer schools, also technical universities and finally in factories, where workers are currently worrying about their jobs. The process has begun, and that is a long story, which right now has been set on its course by us."<ref>http://crisiscritique.org/nov2018/boris.pdf</ref><ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_r_XahzELY</ref>}}

Gramsci theorized that if Communism achieved "mastery of human consciousness," then [[concentration camp]]s and [[mass murder]] would be unnecessary. Mastery over the consciousness of the great mass of people could be attained if Communists or their sympathizers gained control of the organs of culture — [[church]]es, [[education]], [[newspaper]]s, magazines, the electronic media, [[literature]], [[music]], the visual arts, and so on. By winning "cultural hegemony," Communism would control the deepest wellsprings of human thought and imagination. One need not control all information itself if one can gain control over the [[mind]]s that assimilate that information. Under such conditions, opposition would disappear since men are no longer capable of grasping the arguments of Marxism's opponents.<ref>https://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/history/item/15545-gramscis-grand-plan</ref>

==Criticism==
According to [[Wikipedia]], cultural Marxism has become a focal topic for many conspiracy theorist websites which seek to cloak their anti-Semitic, anti-Jew messages behind a legitimate topic. It is true that many of the members of the Frankfurt School were Jewish, but their big problem was that they were [[Marxists]]. Trying to debunk cultural Marxism’s existence via accusations of anti-semitism are also fruitless because the existence of it doesn’t rely on finding out if any of its creators were Jews, and most people who acknowledge its existence don’t do this anyway.

Leftists (and cultural marxists by extension) deny that cultural Marxism exists and seek to treat the entire topic as a "conspiracy" itself, by casting Cultural Marxism as a "myth" or a "hoax".<ref>[https://attackthesystem.com/2014/05/18/on-the-myth-of-cultural-marxism/ On the Myth of "Cultural Marxism"]</ref> Wikipedia has an entire section titled ''Cultural Marxism conspiracy theory'' within its page for the ''Frankfurt School''.<ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt_School#Cultural_Marxism_conspiracy_theory Frankfurt School - Cultural Marxism conspiracy theory]</ref> As of September 2020, Wikipedia has added an article titled "Cultural Marxism conspiracy theory," using the image of convicted terrorist and self-identified Nazi fascist Anders Behring Breivik to discredit the theory.<ref> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Marxism_conspiracy_theory</ref> Virtually every single source trying to prove it’s a myth are [[Conflict of interest|blatantly biased towards the left or even come from fellow Marxists. Most egregiously, at least one widely cited source comes from the Frankfurt School itself]].

Other common rebuttals include downplaying the impact of the Frankfurt Schools’ ideology on the world, in spite of the fact that [[LGBT|its]] [[BLM|modern-day]] [[Biden regime|adherents]] have unprecedented power and the ideology can be found in the West’s most powerful institutions.

==See also==
*[[Liberal values]]
*[[Anthropological Revolution]]
*[[Critical theory]]
*[[Equity literacy]]
*[[Destroying the family]]
*[[Biden/Harris War on Parents]]
*[[Dialectical unity of self-contradictions]]
*[[Cultural Revolution]]
*[[Frankfurt School]]
*[[Nimrodian aspirations]]
*[[Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel]]

== References ==
{{Reflist|colwidth=35em}}

==External links==
* [https://mises.org/blog/cultural-marxism-explained-7-minutes Cultural Marxism Explained in 7 Minutes], by Joseph T. Salerno at the Mises Institute
* [https://www.gotquestions.org/cultural-Marxism.html What is cultural Marxism?], at [[GotQuestions]]
* [http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=552 Political Correctness / Cultural Marxism], [[Discover the Networks]]
* [https://www.theamericanconservative.com/2009/11/19/the-roots-of-political-correctness/ The Roots of Political Correctness], by William S. Lind
* [https://dailycaller.com/2016/09/29/cultural-marxism-is-destroying-america/ Cultural Marxism Is Destroying America], by Moses Apostaticus, September 29, 2016, ''The Daily Caller''
* [https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/11/19/cultural-marxism-enemy-review-michael-walshs-book-devils-pleasure-palace/ Cultural Marxism Is the Enemy: Review of Michael Walsh’s Book ‘The Devil’s Pleasure Palace’], by Austin Ruse, Breitbart News, November 19, 2015.
*[https://topdocumentaryfilms.com/cultural-marxism-corruption-america/ Cultural Marxism: The Corruption of America], 99 min. documentary film.
*[https://www.theepochtimes.com/c-how-the-specter-of-communism-is-ruling-our-world How the Specter of Communism Is Ruling Our World]. ''The Epoch Times''.
*[https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/sacred-mission-to-destroy-normality-weimar-america/ The Sacred Mission To Destroy Normality], by Rod Dreher
*Duke, Selwyn (July 18, 2019). [https://www.thenewamerican.com/reviews/opinion/item/32884-the-left-is-following-communism-s-playbook-for-revolution The Left Is Following Communism’s Playbook for Revolution]. ''The New American''.
*[https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/item/33182-behind-the-deep-state-alex-newman-fake-fall-of-communism The Fake Fall of Communism - Behind the Deep State], ''The New American''.
*[https://youtu.be/PPRjsumWt7w Antonio Gramsci & Cultural Marxism], [[John Birch Society]], Feb 1, 2021. youtube

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[[File:Gramsci.png|thumb|200px|Antonio Gramsci]]
'''Cultural Marxism''' is a branch of [[Marxist]] ideology formulated by the ''[[Frankfurt School]]'', which had its origins the early part of the twentieth century. Cultural Marxism comprises much of the foundation of [[political correctness]]. It emerged as a response of [[Europe]]an Marxist intellectuals disillusioned by the early political failures of conventional economic Marxist ideology.<ref>cf. External source: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIdBuK7_g3M Cultural Marxism: The Corruption of America] is a James Jaeger Film with ambition to show how ''a love affair with collectivist ideologies has lead to ever bigger government and the welfare-warfare state. Lead by a Marxist splinter group called the "[[Frankfurt School]]" -- "[[the long march through the institutions]]" has infiltrated every corner of [[Western culture]] to corrupt traditional Christian values with "[[political correctness]]," another name for "cultural Marxism."''</ref>

The central idea of Cultural Marxism is to soften up and prepare [[Western Civilization]] for [[economic]] Marxism after a gradual, relentless, sustained attack on every institution of Western culture,<ref>Ludwig, E. Jeffrey (October 23, 2019). [https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/communist-influences-are-destroying-the-us-faster-and-faster Communist influences are destroying the US, faster and faster]. ''LifeSiteNews''. Retrieved October 23, 2019.</ref> including schools,<ref>Svab, Petr (November 25, 2019). [https://www.theepochtimes.com/school-programs-mixed-with-social-marxism-spread-through-america_3152761.html School Programs Mixed With Social Marxism Spread Through America]. ''The Epoch Times''. Retrieved November 25, 2019.</ref> literature, art, film, the [[Judeo-Christian]] worldview tradition, [[marriage]] and the [[Destroying the family|family]],<ref>Solway, David (August 23, 2018). [https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/karl-marx-hated-marriage-and-marxism-is-marriages-enemy Karl Marx hated marriage, and Marxism is marriage’s enemy]. ''LifeSiteNews'' (from the ''American Thinker''). Retrieved August 28, 2018.</ref> sexual mores, [[War on Sovereignty|national sovereignty]], etc.<ref>cf. The tendency of dictatorial ideologies to influence public institutions etc. so that these would serve their agendas is termed as [[Gleichschaltung]]. 
See also:
*Warner, Gerald (February 4, 2015). [https://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/02/04/for-the-first-time-in-history-conservatives-are-at-the-forefront-of-the-cultural-revolution/ For the First Time in History, ‘Conservatives’ Are at the Forefront of the Cultural Revolution]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved December 25, 2017.
:"By the post-War era the Cultural Marxist programme had a wide-reaching agenda of destruction. It aimed to destroy the family, denying the specific roles of the father and mother, and advocated the teaching of sex and homosexuality to children; mobilisation of women as revolutionaries against men, through aggressive feminism; large-scale immigration to abolish national identity; dependency on the state and state benefits; control and infantilisation of the media."</ref> The attacks are usually framed in Marxist terms as a class struggle between oppressors and oppressed; the members of the latter class allegedly include women, minorities, homosexuals, and adherents of non-Western ideologies such as Islam. Cultural Marxism has been described as "the cultural branch of [[globalism]]."<ref>[https://www.westernmastery.com/2017/03/23/cultural-marxism-is-the-1-enemy-of-western-civilization/ Cultural Marxism is the #1 Enemy of Western Civilization]. ''Western Mastery''. March 23, 2017. Retrieved December 25, 2017.</ref>

While Marx's ''[[Communist Manifesto]]'' focused on the alleged class struggle between bourgeois (owners of the means of production) and proletariat (workers), Marx did address culture, which he intimated would change after his economic vision was implemented. [[Patrick Buchanan]] argues that Cultural Marxism succeeded where Marx failed.<ref>[http://cnsnews.com/blog/grant-m-dahl/buchanan-cultural-marxism-has-succeeded-where-marx-and-lenin-failed Buchanan: ‘Cultural Marxism’ Has Succeeded Where Marx and Lenin Failed], [[CNSNews]]</ref> Marxism has permeated the American Left.<ref>Kirk, Charlie (September 27, 2020). [https://humanevents.com/2020/09/26/far-from-being-dead-true-marxism-is-very-much-alive/ Far From Being “Dead,” True Marxism Is Very Much Alive.] ''Human Events''. Retrieved September 27, 2020.</ref>

Among cultural Marxists, the book ''[[Dialectic of Enlightenment]]'' is considered to be a central text.<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/apr/08/frankfurt-school-dialectic-of-enlightenment The Frankfurt school, part 3: Dialectic of Enlightenment ]</ref><ref>''Dialectic of Enlightenment'' was written in 1944 by Theodor W. Adorno and Max Horkheimer</ref>

An effective way for cultural Marxists to influence the culture is to infiltrate schools and indoctrinate students, which the [[Democratic Socialists of America]] explicitly endorsed in 2018.<ref>Newman, Alex (August 29, 2018). [https://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/education/item/29907-socialists-urge-infiltration-of-government-schools Socialists Urge Infiltration of Government Schools]. ''The New American''. Retrieved August 29, 2018. See also:
*Newman, Alex (February 6, 2019). [https://www.thenewamerican.com/print-magazine/item/31250-education-s-future-globalization-of-indoctrination Education’s Future: Globalization of Indoctrination]. ''The New American''. Retrieved February 6, 2019.</ref>

==History==

===Marx, Engels and Lenin on culture===
The cultural views of [[Karl Marx]] and [[Friedrich Engels]] were, in general, different from those of the 20th century Cultural Marxists. Marx and Engels were proponents of [[Realism]] in the arts and culture. They maintained that any honest artist who longs for truth and is guided by sincere ethics, would end up portraying the grueling realities of [[capitalism]] realistically without having to be a [[socialism|socialist]]. They give the example of their contemporary French writer [[Honoré de Balzac]], who, despite being a staunch [[monarchy|monarchist]], his realist literary works laid bare the immorality of 19th century capitalist relations of production and thus Balzac's work is of great value to progressives even though his personal ideology was conservative. Engels called this the "Triumph of Realism" (Sieg des Realismus), explaining that Balzac's sincere ethics and the fact that his heart longed for truth and objectivity inevitably made him a realist critic of capitalist exploitation in his literature, although his personal political alignment always remained [[conservatism|conservative]]. According to Engels: <blockquote>Balzac boldly exposed the contradiction of nascent capitalist society and hence his observation of reality constantly clashed with his political prejudices. But as an honest artist he always depicted only what he himself saw, learned and underwent, concerning himself not at all whether his-true-to-life description of the things he saw contradicted his pet ideas.<ref>https://www.academia.edu/28848230/Two_Balzacs_Two_Gogols_Two_Tolstoys</ref></blockquote>

Engels declared that Balzac was his favorite writer. Marx's Das Kapital also makes some references to the works of Balzac.

[[Vladimir Lenin]] was also a proponent of Realism and stressed its superiority over [[Modernism]]. He considered [[Leo Tolstoy]] to be the most effective depicter of the everyday life of Russian peasants, even though Tolstoy was a nobleman. Lenin once wrote to [[Maxim Gorky]]: "Until this Count, we had no real peasant in our literature."<ref>https://www.marxists.org/archive/gorky-maxim/1924/lenin-the_man.html</ref> Here too, the personal merit of Tolstoy as an author, to Lenin, is not the superlative genius of Tolstoy that enabled him to represent both the Russian [[Kulak|Kulaks]] as well as the Russian Muzhiks so effectively. Ultimately it was the compulsion for truthful representation that made Tolstoy do so.<ref>https://www.academia.edu/28848230/Two_Balzacs_Two_Gogols_Two_Tolstoys</ref>

Both the thesis of Marx-Engels on Balzac and that of Lenin on Tolstoy hold that it is the conditions of the class struggle which determine those of the cultural struggle, not vice versa (for it was the advent of French capitalism in Balzac's case and the fight of Russian peasants for emancipation in Tolstoy's case that "woke up" the two authors and oriented them towards social realism), and thus the cultural struggle must be subordinate to the class struggle.

In short, all three of Marx, Engels and Lenin considered culture to be part of the "superstructure" rather than the "base", and thus maintained that it is the change in the [[economy]] that leads to the change in a society's culture, and ran contrary to the thesis of the Cultural Marxists that a [[Cultural Revolution|cultural revolution]] can be possible before the socio-politico-economic [[proletariat|proletarian]] revolution.

===Soviet Marxism against Cultural Marxism: Lukacs against the Frankfurt School===

Knowing the above, one can more easily understand the nature of the cultural debates between [[Marxism|Marxist]] intellectuals in the 1920s. The Soviet "orthodox" Marxists, such as [[Grigory Zinoviev]], Nikolai Bukharin and Karl Radek, maintained that the revolution in capitalist countries will come only through the [[class warfare|class struggle]] of the workers against the [[bourgeoisie]] and that culture plays a secondary role in this struggle. They also maintained that Marxist art should adhere to a simple, realistic and popularly understandable depiction of the evils of capitalism.

In a 1924 [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union|Soviet Communist Party]] congress, many Cultural Marxist and Modernist authors were harshly criticized by Soviet officials as "heretics". In his speech entitled The Struggle Against the Ultra-Lefts and Theoretical Revisionism, Zinoviev fiercely attacked [[Georg Lukacs]]' book History and Class Consciousness, declaring: ‘If we get more of these professors spinning out their Marxist theories, we shall be lost. We cannot tolerate theoretical revisionism of this kind in our Communist International.’ Nikolai Bukharin, soon to replace Zinoviev as [[Joseph Stalin]]’s chief ally in the [[Comintern]], told Karl Korsch, author of one of the most influential Cultural Marxist texts: ‘We can’t put every piece of garbage up for discussion.’<ref>https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/revhist/backiss/vol8/no1/smith.html</ref> Karl Radek also formulated the superiority of classical [[European]] Realism over Modernism, saying "If I were to write novels, I would learn how to write them from Tolstoy and Balzac, not from [[James Joyce]]."<ref>https://www.marxists.org/archive/radek/1934/sovietwritercongress.htm</ref> This year, which coincides with Stalin's takeover of the Party, marks the moment in which the [[Soviet Union]] closed its door to Cultural Marxism. Soon, the USSR made illegal such evils as [[homosexuality]] and [[abortion]].<ref>https://www.marxist.com/from-emancipation-to-criminalisation-stalinist-persecution-of-homosexuals-from-1934.htm</ref><ref>http://soviethistory.msu.edu/1936-2/abolition-of-legal-abortion/</ref>. From now on, Cultural Marxists considered the USSR as the "betrayer of the revolution". The advent of the [[Hitler]] dictatorship in [[Germany]] also meant the Frankfurt School was closed, and from 1933 Cultural Marxists started emigrating to America.

Karl Korsch, [[Georg Lukacs]] (only in his early philosophical period) and [[Antonio Gramsci]] (see below) were the original founders of Cultural Marxism. Their thought influenced that of the members of the [[Frankfurt School]] of [[Critical Theory]] ([[Theodor Adorno]], [[Max Horkheimer]], Walter Benjamin, [[Herbert Marcuse]], [[Erich Fromm]] etc.) who mingled Marxism with the theories of [[Sigmund Freud]], [[Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel]] and [[Immanuel Kant]], something unacceptable for Soviet Marxists. For the Cultural Marxists, the world of ideas is equally important to the material one, and they maintained that it is possible for a revolution in the world of ideas to lead to a revolution in the material world. They also abandoned the defense of realism and instead championed [[modernism]] and [[abstract art]], labelled as "degenerate" by both Nazis and Soviets. In response, they equated [[Nazism]] and [[Stalinism]], being some of the first proponents of the theory of [[totalitarianism]]. The Frankfurt School's theories, akin to neo-Hegelian dialectical idealism and "Freudo-Marxism" focusing on "[[sexual revolution|sexual liberation]]", are what forms the crux of Cultural Marxism.

Lukacs, however, soon repudiated these theories and returned to a much more orthodox Marxist stance, coming at odds with his former Frankfurt comrades, whose theories he now labelled "Café Marxism". He chose to live in the Soviet Union and his native [[Hungary]] and became the Culture Minister of the 1956 [[Hungarian Revolution]] under [[Imre Nagy]]. He fiercely criticized those Frankfurt School intellectuals who instead went to live in the comforts of the [[United States]] and [[West Germany]]. In 1962 Lukacs wrote: <blockquote>A considerable part of the leading German intelligentsia, including [[Theodor Adorno|Adorno]], have taken up residence in the "Grand Hotel Abyss" which I described […] as "a beautiful hotel, equipped with every comfort, on the edge of an abyss, of nothingness, of absurdity. And the daily contemplation of the abyss between excellent meals or artistic entertainments, can only heighten the enjoyment of the subtle comforts offered.<ref>https://www.marxists.org/archive/lukacs/works/theory-novel/preface.htm</ref>.</blockquote>

In the world of Marxist thinkers, what Lukacs said here is the equivalent of flashing a red cloth around at an angry bull. Lukacs said that the Frankfurt School thinkers started to become bourgeois idealists who didn't care about having an active hand in the fight against political exploitation and oppression. Now that they were famous and kind of moneyed, they were sitting at their cozy desks at the luxurious Grand Hotel writing about Marxism, but they were becoming increasingly detached from its political cause. He pretty much accused them of hypocrisy—of living like fat-cat capitalists and losing focus.<ref>https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literary-critics/gyorgy-lukacs/quotes</ref>

[[Image:Breitbart1.jpg|thumb|160px|right|Andrew Breitbart]]
[[Andrew Breitbart]] gives a great if not brief crash course discussion about ''Cultural Marxism'' with Peter Robinson of the [[Hoover Institute]] for ''Uncommon Knowledge'', and, in part, this is what he said:
<blockquote>Think about this: These guys left, THESE GUYS LEFT NAZI GERMANY and Mussolini's Italy to come to California in the 1940's and they lived by the beach, and they were depressed by the relentless cheery-ness - the productivity; and the capitalism that they witnessed around them. And they came up with, at the end of the day; We can call it Cultural Marxism, but at the end of the day, we experience it on a day to day basis, by that I mean a minute by minute, second by second basis. It’s political correctness and it’s multiculturalism.<ref>[https://youtu.be/b8CpON8VrRU?t=22m38s Andrew Breitbart - Media War]</ref></blockquote>

In the video, Breitbart discusses the ''Frankfurt School'', ''[[Critical Theory]]'', [[Herbert Marcuse]], [[Antonio Gramsci]], [[Max Horkheimer]], [[Theodor Adorno]], [[Bertolt Brecht]], and others of the German School, many which emigrated to America. He further wrote about ''Cultural Marxism'' more in-depth in his book ''Righteous Indignation''.

===Gramsci===

[[Antonio Gramsci]] was a lieutenant of [[Joseph Stalin]] who headed the [[Italian]] branch of the International Communist movement ([[Comintern]]). After several failed assassination attempts on Mussolini, Gramsci was imprisoned in 1926 until his death in 1937. While in prison Gramsci wrote his ''Prison Notebooks'', speculating on the failure of [[violent]] [[revolution]] to materialize in [[Western Europe]] as [[Karl Marx]] had predicted. Gramsci's works are considered by [[Socialists]] to be foundational to modern [[public education]] and Cultural Marxism.<ref>https://www.jstor.org/stable/23768314?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents</ref><ref>https://www.marxists.org/archive/gramsci/prison_notebooks/problems/education.htm</ref><ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdTTr4iYT0M</ref>

Gramsci's theory of "cultural hegemony" states that the ruling capitalist "oppressor" class uses cultural institutions, such as "traditional marriage," to maintain power. The "oppressors" develop a "hegemonic culture" using [[ideology]] unlike Socialists who use [[violence]], economic force, and coercion. "Hegemonic culture" propagates its own values and norms so that they become "[[common sense]]" values and thus maintain the [[status quo]]. According to [[Wikipedia]], this "Hegemonic power is therefore used to maintain consent to the capitalist order, rather than coercive power using force" as Marxism does "to maintain order. This cultural hegemony is produced and reproduced" by the dominant Christian oppressor class "through the institutions that form the superstructure."

Joseph A. Buttigieg, [[Pete Buttigieg]]'s father, was a founding member of the International Gramsci Society and served as the executive secretary.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20100616163619/http://english.nd.edu/faculty/profiles/joseph-a-buttigieg/</ref>

===Dutschke===
:{{See also|Long march through the institutions}}
The Long march through the institutions is a [[Marxist]] concept formulated in 1967 by the [[West German]] student movement leader Rudi Dutschke. Dutschke reformulated [[Antonio Gramsci]]'s philosophy of cultural Marxism with the phrase ''the long march through the institutions'' (German: ''Marsch durch die Institutionen'') to identify the political war of position or incrementalism, an [[allusion]] to the [[Long March]] (1934–35) of the [[Communist Party of China|Communist Chinese]] [[People's Liberation Army]], by means of which, the [[working class]] or "oppressed" would produce their own intellectuals, civil servants, and culture (dominant ideology) to replace those imposed by the [[bourgeoisie]] or "oppressor class."<ref>{{Citation | url = http://english.nd.edu/faculty/profiles/joseph-a-buttigieg/ | editor1-first = Joseph A | editor1-last = Buttigieg | edition = English critical | last = Gramsci | title = Prison Notebooks | at = p 50 footnote 21 | quote = Long March Through the Institutions21 | deadurl = yes | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20100616163619/http://english.nd.edu/faculty/profiles/joseph-a-buttigieg/ | archivedate = 2010-06-16 | df = }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal| doi = 10.1215/01903659-32-1-33| issn = 0190-3659| volume = 32| issue = 1| pages = 33–52| last = Buttigieg| first = Joseph A.| title = The Contemporary Discourse on Civil Society: A Gramscian Critique| journal = Boundary 2| year = 2005}}</ref><ref name= "davidson">{{Citation | format = web log | url = http://carldavidson.blogspot.com/2006/04/strategy-hegemony-long-march.html | title = Strategy, Hegemony & 'The Long March': Gramsci's Lessons for the Antiwar Movement | first = Carl | last = Davidson | date = 6 April 2006}}.</ref><ref>See also [[Carl Davidson]]</ref><ref>Marsch durch die Institutionen|Marsch durch die Institutionen at German Wikipedia.</ref><ref>[[wikiquote:Antonio Gramsci#Misattributed|Antonio Gramsci: Misattributed]] at English Wikiquote for the origin of “The Long March Through the Institutions” quotation.</ref>

[[Karl Marx]] spoke of a sudden [[revolution]], where everything changes in a moment. Gramsci, the head of the [[Italian]] Communist party, was thrown in prison by [[Benito Mussolini]], where he speculated on the failure of Marxist revolution in his ''Prison Notebooks'', and attributed the failure to the cultural hegemony of the bourgeois oppressor class. Dutschke built on Gramsci's writings by proposing a long march through the cultural institutions of society - the church, entertainment, civil service, educational faculties, family institutions and marriage - to replace the dominant culture and replace it with revolutionary godless cultural Marxism.

Dutschke said, {{Quotebox|"Revolution is not a short act when something happens once and then everything is different. Revolution is a long, complicated process, where one [der Mensch] must become different...the process goes along this way, which I have once named ‘The Long March through the Established Institutions’, in which [institutions], through clarification [Aufklärung], systematic clarification and [[direct action]]s, awareness is brought [Bewusstwerdung] to further minorities in and outside the university, in schools, in trade schools, in engineer schools, also technical universities and finally in factories, where workers are currently worrying about their jobs. The process has begun, and that is a long story, which right now has been set on its course by us."<ref>http://crisiscritique.org/nov2018/boris.pdf</ref><ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_r_XahzELY</ref>}}

Gramsci theorized that if Communism achieved "mastery of human consciousness," then [[concentration camp]]s and [[mass murder]] would be unnecessary. Mastery over the consciousness of the great mass of people could be attained if Communists or their sympathizers gained control of the organs of culture — [[church]]es, [[education]], [[newspaper]]s, magazines, the electronic media, [[literature]], [[music]], the visual arts, and so on. By winning "cultural hegemony," Communism would control the deepest wellsprings of human thought and imagination. One need not control all information itself if one can gain control over the [[mind]]s that assimilate that information. Under such conditions, opposition would disappear since men are no longer capable of grasping the arguments of Marxism's opponents.<ref>https://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/history/item/15545-gramscis-grand-plan</ref>

==Criticism==
According to [[Wikipedia]], cultural Marxism has become a focal topic for many conspiracy theorist websites which seek to cloak their anti-Semitic, anti-Jew messages behind a legitimate topic. It is true that many of the members of the Frankfurt School were Jewish, but their big problem was that they were [[Marxists]]. Trying to debunk cultural Marxism’s existence via accusations of anti-semitism are also fruitless because the existence of it doesn’t rely on finding out if any of its creators were Jews, and most people who acknowledge its existence don’t do this anyway. Leftists (and cultural marxists by extension) deny that cultural Marxism exists and seek to treat the entire topic as a "conspiracy" itself, by casting Cultural Marxism as a "myth" or a "hoax".<ref>[https://attackthesystem.com/2014/05/18/on-the-myth-of-cultural-marxism/ On the Myth of "Cultural Marxism"]</ref> Wikipedia has an entire section titled ''Cultural Marxism conspiracy theory'' within its page for the ''Frankfurt School''.<ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt_School#Cultural_Marxism_conspiracy_theory Frankfurt School - Cultural Marxism conspiracy theory]</ref> As of September 2020, Wikipedia has added an article titled "Cultural Marxism conspiracy theory," using the image of convicted terrorist and self-identified Nazi fascist Anders Behring Breivik to discredit the theory.<ref> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Marxism_conspiracy_theory</ref> Virtually every single source trying to prove it’s a myth are [[Conflict of interest|blatantly biased towards the left or even come from fellow Marxists. Most egregiously, at least one widely cited source comes from the Frankfurt School itself]].

==See also==
*[[Liberal values]]
*[[Anthropological Revolution]]
*[[Critical theory]]
*[[Equity literacy]]
*[[Destroying the family]]
*[[Biden/Harris War on Parents]]
*[[Dialectical unity of self-contradictions]]
*[[Cultural Revolution]]
*[[Frankfurt School]]
*[[Nimrodian aspirations]]
*[[Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel]]

== References ==
{{Reflist|colwidth=35em}}

==External links==
* [https://mises.org/blog/cultural-marxism-explained-7-minutes Cultural Marxism Explained in 7 Minutes], by Joseph T. Salerno at the Mises Institute
* [https://www.gotquestions.org/cultural-Marxism.html What is cultural Marxism?], at [[GotQuestions]]
* [http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=552 Political Correctness / Cultural Marxism], [[Discover the Networks]]
* [https://www.theamericanconservative.com/2009/11/19/the-roots-of-political-correctness/ The Roots of Political Correctness], by William S. Lind
* [https://dailycaller.com/2016/09/29/cultural-marxism-is-destroying-america/ Cultural Marxism Is Destroying America], by Moses Apostaticus, September 29, 2016, ''The Daily Caller''
* [https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/11/19/cultural-marxism-enemy-review-michael-walshs-book-devils-pleasure-palace/ Cultural Marxism Is the Enemy: Review of Michael Walsh’s Book ‘The Devil’s Pleasure Palace’], by Austin Ruse, Breitbart News, November 19, 2015.
*[https://topdocumentaryfilms.com/cultural-marxism-corruption-america/ Cultural Marxism: The Corruption of America], 99 min. documentary film.
*[https://www.theepochtimes.com/c-how-the-specter-of-communism-is-ruling-our-world How the Specter of Communism Is Ruling Our World]. ''The Epoch Times''.
*[https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/sacred-mission-to-destroy-normality-weimar-america/ The Sacred Mission To Destroy Normality], by Rod Dreher
*Duke, Selwyn (July 18, 2019). [https://www.thenewamerican.com/reviews/opinion/item/32884-the-left-is-following-communism-s-playbook-for-revolution The Left Is Following Communism’s Playbook for Revolution]. ''The New American''.
*[https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/item/33182-behind-the-deep-state-alex-newman-fake-fall-of-communism The Fake Fall of Communism - Behind the Deep State], ''The New American''.
*[https://youtu.be/PPRjsumWt7w Antonio Gramsci & Cultural Marxism], [[John Birch Society]], Feb 1, 2021. youtube

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Cultural Marxism

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[[File:Gramsci.png|thumb|200px|Antonio Gramsci]]
'''Cultural Marxism''' is a branch of [[Marxist]] ideology formulated by the ''[[Frankfurt School]]'', which had its origins the early part of the twentieth century. Cultural Marxism comprises much of the foundation of [[political correctness]]. It emerged as a response of [[Europe]]an Marxist intellectuals disillusioned by the early political failures of conventional economic Marxist ideology.<ref>cf. External source: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIdBuK7_g3M Cultural Marxism: The Corruption of America] is a James Jaeger Film with ambition to show how ''a love affair with collectivist ideologies has lead to ever bigger government and the welfare-warfare state. Lead by a Marxist splinter group called the "[[Frankfurt School]]" -- "[[the long march through the institutions]]" has infiltrated every corner of [[Western culture]] to corrupt traditional Christian values with "[[political correctness]]," another name for "cultural Marxism."''</ref>

The central idea of Cultural Marxism is to soften up and prepare [[Western Civilization]] for [[economic]] Marxism after a gradual, relentless, sustained attack on every institution of Western culture,<ref>Ludwig, E. Jeffrey (October 23, 2019). [https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/communist-influences-are-destroying-the-us-faster-and-faster Communist influences are destroying the US, faster and faster]. ''LifeSiteNews''. Retrieved October 23, 2019.</ref> including schools,<ref>Svab, Petr (November 25, 2019). [https://www.theepochtimes.com/school-programs-mixed-with-social-marxism-spread-through-america_3152761.html School Programs Mixed With Social Marxism Spread Through America]. ''The Epoch Times''. Retrieved November 25, 2019.</ref> literature, art, film, the [[Judeo-Christian]] worldview tradition, [[marriage]] and the [[Destroying the family|family]],<ref>Solway, David (August 23, 2018). [https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/karl-marx-hated-marriage-and-marxism-is-marriages-enemy Karl Marx hated marriage, and Marxism is marriage’s enemy]. ''LifeSiteNews'' (from the ''American Thinker''). Retrieved August 28, 2018.</ref> sexual mores, [[War on Sovereignty|national sovereignty]], etc.<ref>cf. The tendency of dictatorial ideologies to influence public institutions etc. so that these would serve their agendas is termed as [[Gleichschaltung]]. 
See also:
*Warner, Gerald (February 4, 2015). [https://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/02/04/for-the-first-time-in-history-conservatives-are-at-the-forefront-of-the-cultural-revolution/ For the First Time in History, ‘Conservatives’ Are at the Forefront of the Cultural Revolution]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved December 25, 2017.
:"By the post-War era the Cultural Marxist programme had a wide-reaching agenda of destruction. It aimed to destroy the family, denying the specific roles of the father and mother, and advocated the teaching of sex and homosexuality to children; mobilisation of women as revolutionaries against men, through aggressive feminism; large-scale immigration to abolish national identity; dependency on the state and state benefits; control and infantilisation of the media."</ref> The attacks are usually framed in Marxist terms as a class struggle between oppressors and oppressed; the members of the latter class allegedly include women, minorities, homosexuals, and adherents of non-Western ideologies such as Islam. Cultural Marxism has been described as "the cultural branch of [[globalism]]."<ref>[https://www.westernmastery.com/2017/03/23/cultural-marxism-is-the-1-enemy-of-western-civilization/ Cultural Marxism is the #1 Enemy of Western Civilization]. ''Western Mastery''. March 23, 2017. Retrieved December 25, 2017.</ref>

While Marx's ''[[Communist Manifesto]]'' focused on the alleged class struggle between bourgeois (owners of the means of production) and proletariat (workers), Marx did address culture, which he intimated would change after his economic vision was implemented. [[Patrick Buchanan]] argues that Cultural Marxism succeeded where Marx failed.<ref>[http://cnsnews.com/blog/grant-m-dahl/buchanan-cultural-marxism-has-succeeded-where-marx-and-lenin-failed Buchanan: ‘Cultural Marxism’ Has Succeeded Where Marx and Lenin Failed], [[CNSNews]]</ref> Marxism has permeated the American Left.<ref>Kirk, Charlie (September 27, 2020). [https://humanevents.com/2020/09/26/far-from-being-dead-true-marxism-is-very-much-alive/ Far From Being “Dead,” True Marxism Is Very Much Alive.] ''Human Events''. Retrieved September 27, 2020.</ref>

Among cultural Marxists, the book ''[[Dialectic of Enlightenment]]'' is considered to be a central text.<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/apr/08/frankfurt-school-dialectic-of-enlightenment The Frankfurt school, part 3: Dialectic of Enlightenment ]</ref><ref>''Dialectic of Enlightenment'' was written in 1944 by Theodor W. Adorno and Max Horkheimer</ref>

An effective way for cultural Marxists to influence the culture is to infiltrate schools and indoctrinate students, which the [[Democratic Socialists of America]] explicitly endorsed in 2018.<ref>Newman, Alex (August 29, 2018). [https://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/education/item/29907-socialists-urge-infiltration-of-government-schools Socialists Urge Infiltration of Government Schools]. ''The New American''. Retrieved August 29, 2018. See also:
*Newman, Alex (February 6, 2019). [https://www.thenewamerican.com/print-magazine/item/31250-education-s-future-globalization-of-indoctrination Education’s Future: Globalization of Indoctrination]. ''The New American''. Retrieved February 6, 2019.</ref>

==History==

===Marx, Engels and Lenin on culture===
The cultural views of [[Karl Marx]] and [[Friedrich Engels]] were, in general, different from those of the 20th century Cultural Marxists. Marx and Engels were proponents of [[Realism]] in the arts and culture. They maintained that any honest artist who longs for truth and is guided by sincere ethics, would end up portraying the grueling realities of [[capitalism]] realistically without having to be a [[socialism|socialist]]. They give the example of their contemporary French writer [[Honoré de Balzac]], who, despite being a staunch [[monarchy|monarchist]], his realist literary works laid bare the immorality of 19th century capitalist relations of production and thus Balzac's work is of great value to progressives even though his personal ideology was conservative. Engels called this the "Triumph of Realism" (Sieg des Realismus), explaining that Balzac's sincere ethics and the fact that his heart longed for truth and objectivity inevitably made him a realist critic of capitalist exploitation in his literature, although his personal political alignment always remained [[conservatism|conservative]]. According to Engels: <blockquote>Balzac boldly exposed the contradiction of nascent capitalist society and hence his observation of reality constantly clashed with his political prejudices. But as an honest artist he always depicted only what he himself saw, learned and underwent, concerning himself not at all whether his-true-to-life description of the things he saw contradicted his pet ideas.<ref>https://www.academia.edu/28848230/Two_Balzacs_Two_Gogols_Two_Tolstoys</ref></blockquote>

Engels declared that Balzac was his favorite writer. Marx's Das Kapital also makes some references to the works of Balzac.

[[Vladimir Lenin]] was also a proponent of Realism and stressed its superiority over [[Modernism]]. He considered [[Leo Tolstoy]] to be the most effective depicter of the everyday life of Russian peasants, even though Tolstoy was a nobleman. Lenin once wrote to [[Maxim Gorky]]: "Until this Count, we had no real peasant in our literature."<ref>https://www.marxists.org/archive/gorky-maxim/1924/lenin-the_man.html</ref> Here too, the personal merit of Tolstoy as an author, to Lenin, is not the superlative genius of Tolstoy that enabled him to represent both the Russian [[Kulak|Kulaks]] as well as the Russian Muzhiks so effectively. Ultimately it was the compulsion for truthful representation that made Tolstoy do so.<ref>https://www.academia.edu/28848230/Two_Balzacs_Two_Gogols_Two_Tolstoys</ref>

Both the thesis of Marx-Engels on Balzac and that of Lenin on Tolstoy hold that it is the conditions of the class struggle which determine those of the cultural struggle, not vice versa (for it was the advent of French capitalism in Balzac's case and the fight of Russian peasants for emancipation in Tolstoy's case that "woke up" the two authors and oriented them towards social realism), and thus the cultural struggle must be subordinate to the class struggle.

In short, all three of Marx, Engels and Lenin considered culture to be part of the "superstructure" rather than the "base", and thus maintained that it is the change in the [[economy]] that leads to the change in a society's culture, and ran contrary to the thesis of the Cultural Marxists that a [[Cultural Revolution|cultural revolution]] can be possible before the socio-politico-economic [[proletariat|proletarian]] revolution.

===Soviet Marxism against Cultural Marxism: Lukacs against the Frankfurt School===

Knowing the above, one can more easily understand the nature of the cultural debates between [[Marxism|Marxist]] intellectuals in the 1920s. The Soviet "orthodox" Marxists, such as [[Grigory Zinoviev]], Nikolai Bukharin and Karl Radek, maintained that the revolution in capitalist countries will come only through the [[class warfare|class struggle]] of the workers against the [[bourgeoisie]] and that culture plays a secondary role in this struggle. They also maintained that Marxist art should adhere to a simple, realistic and popularly understandable depiction of the evils of capitalism.

In a 1924 [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union|Soviet Communist Party]] congress, many Cultural Marxist and Modernist authors were harshly criticized by Soviet officials as "heretics". In his speech entitled The Struggle Against the Ultra-Lefts and Theoretical Revisionism, Zinoviev fiercely attacked [[Georg Lukacs]]' book History and Class Consciousness, declaring: ‘If we get more of these professors spinning out their Marxist theories, we shall be lost. We cannot tolerate theoretical revisionism of this kind in our Communist International.’ Nikolai Bukharin, soon to replace Zinoviev as [[Joseph Stalin]]’s chief ally in the [[Comintern]], told Karl Korsch, author of one of the most influential Cultural Marxist texts: ‘We can’t put every piece of garbage up for discussion.’<ref>https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/revhist/backiss/vol8/no1/smith.html</ref> Karl Radek also formulated the superiority of classical [[European]] Realism over Modernism, saying "If I were to write novels, I would learn how to write them from Tolstoy and Balzac, not from [[James Joyce]]."<ref>https://www.marxists.org/archive/radek/1934/sovietwritercongress.htm</ref> This year, which coincides with Stalin's takeover of the Party, marks the moment in which the [[Soviet Union]] closed its door to Cultural Marxism. Soon, the USSR made illegal such evils as [[homosexuality]] and [[abortion]].<ref>https://www.marxist.com/from-emancipation-to-criminalisation-stalinist-persecution-of-homosexuals-from-1934.htm</ref><ref>http://soviethistory.msu.edu/1936-2/abolition-of-legal-abortion/</ref>. From now on, Cultural Marxists considered the USSR as the "betrayer of the revolution". The advent of the [[Hitler]] dictatorship in [[Germany]] also meant the Frankfurt School was closed, and from 1933 Cultural Marxists started emigrating to America.

Karl Korsch, [[Georg Lukacs]] (only in his early philosophical period) and [[Antonio Gramsci]] (see below) were the original founders of Cultural Marxism. Their thought influenced that of the members of the [[Frankfurt School]] of [[Critical Theory]] ([[Theodor Adorno]], [[Max Horkheimer]], Walter Benjamin, [[Herbert Marcuse]], [[Erich Fromm]] etc.) who mingled Marxism with the theories of [[Sigmund Freud]], [[Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel]] and [[Immanuel Kant]], something unacceptable for Soviet Marxists. For the Cultural Marxists, the world of ideas is equally important to the material one, and they maintained that it is possible for a revolution in the world of ideas to lead to a revolution in the material world. They also abandoned the defense of realism and instead championed [[modernism]] and [[abstract art]], labelled as "degenerate" by both Nazis and Soviets. In response, they equated [[Nazism]] and [[Stalinism]], being some of the first proponents of the theory of [[totalitarianism]]. The Frankfurt School's theories, akin to neo-Hegelian dialectical idealism and "Freudo-Marxism" focusing on "[[sexual revolution|sexual liberation]]", are what forms the crux of Cultural Marxism.

Lukacs, however, soon repudiated these theories and returned to a much more orthodox Marxist stance, coming at odds with his former Frankfurt comrades, whose theories he now labelled "Café Marxism". He chose to live in the Soviet Union and his native [[Hungary]] and became the Culture Minister of the 1956 [[Hungarian Revolution]] under [[Imre Nagy]]. He fiercely criticized those Frankfurt School intellectuals who instead went to live in the comforts of the [[United States]] and [[West Germany]]. In 1962 Lukacs wrote: <blockquote>A considerable part of the leading German intelligentsia, including [[Theodor Adorno|Adorno]], have taken up residence in the "Grand Hotel Abyss" which I described […] as "a beautiful hotel, equipped with every comfort, on the edge of an abyss, of nothingness, of absurdity. And the daily contemplation of the abyss between excellent meals or artistic entertainments, can only heighten the enjoyment of the subtle comforts offered.<ref>https://www.marxists.org/archive/lukacs/works/theory-novel/preface.htm</ref>.</blockquote>

In the world of Marxist thinkers, what Lukacs said here is the equivalent of flashing a red cloth around at an angry bull. Lukacs said that the Frankfurt School thinkers started to become bourgeois idealists who didn't care about having an active hand in the fight against political exploitation and oppression. Now that they were famous and kind of moneyed, they were sitting at their cozy desks at the luxurious Grand Hotel writing about Marxism, but they were becoming increasingly detached from its political cause. He pretty much accused them of hypocrisy—of living like fat-cat capitalists and losing focus.<ref>https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literary-critics/gyorgy-lukacs/quotes</ref>

[[Image:Breitbart1.jpg|thumb|160px|right|Andrew Breitbart]]
[[Andrew Breitbart]] gives a great if not brief crash course discussion about ''Cultural Marxism'' with Peter Robinson of the [[Hoover Institute]] for ''Uncommon Knowledge'', and, in part, this is what he said:
<blockquote>Think about this: These guys left, THESE GUYS LEFT NAZI GERMANY and Mussolini's Italy to come to California in the 1940's and they lived by the beach, and they were depressed by the relentless cheery-ness - the productivity; and the capitalism that they witnessed around them. And they came up with, at the end of the day; We can call it Cultural Marxism, but at the end of the day, we experience it on a day to day basis, by that I mean a minute by minute, second by second basis. It’s political correctness and it’s multiculturalism.<ref>[https://youtu.be/b8CpON8VrRU?t=22m38s Andrew Breitbart - Media War]</ref></blockquote>

In the video, Breitbart discusses the ''Frankfurt School'', ''[[Critical Theory]]'', [[Herbert Marcuse]], [[Antonio Gramsci]], [[Max Horkheimer]], [[Theodor Adorno]], [[Bertolt Brecht]], and others of the German School, many which emigrated to America. He further wrote about ''Cultural Marxism'' more in-depth in his book ''Righteous Indignation''.

===Gramsci===

[[Antonio Gramsci]] was a lieutenant of [[Joseph Stalin]] who headed the [[Italian]] branch of the International Communist movement ([[Comintern]]). After several failed assassination attempts on Mussolini, Gramsci was imprisoned in 1926 until his death in 1937. While in prison Gramsci wrote his ''Prison Notebooks'', speculating on the failure of [[violent]] [[revolution]] to materialize in [[Western Europe]] as [[Karl Marx]] had predicted. Gramsci's works are considered by [[Socialists]] to be foundational to modern [[public education]] and Cultural Marxism.<ref>https://www.jstor.org/stable/23768314?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents</ref><ref>https://www.marxists.org/archive/gramsci/prison_notebooks/problems/education.htm</ref><ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdTTr4iYT0M</ref>

Gramsci's theory of "cultural hegemony" states that the ruling capitalist "oppressor" class uses cultural institutions, such as "traditional marriage," to maintain power. The "oppressors" develop a "hegemonic culture" using [[ideology]] unlike Socialists who use [[violence]], economic force, and coercion. "Hegemonic culture" propagates its own values and norms so that they become "[[common sense]]" values and thus maintain the [[status quo]]. According to [[Wikipedia]], this "Hegemonic power is therefore used to maintain consent to the capitalist order, rather than coercive power using force" as Marxism does "to maintain order. This cultural hegemony is produced and reproduced" by the dominant Christian oppressor class "through the institutions that form the superstructure."

Joseph A. Buttigieg, [[Pete Buttigieg]]'s father, was a founding member of the International Gramsci Society and served as the executive secretary.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20100616163619/http://english.nd.edu/faculty/profiles/joseph-a-buttigieg/</ref>

===Dutschke===
:{{See also|Long march through the institutions}}
The Long march through the institutions is a [[Marxist]] concept formulated in 1967 by the [[West German]] student movement leader Rudi Dutschke. Dutschke reformulated [[Antonio Gramsci]]'s philosophy of cultural Marxism with the phrase ''the long march through the institutions'' (German: ''Marsch durch die Institutionen'') to identify the political war of position or incrementalism, an [[allusion]] to the [[Long March]] (1934–35) of the [[Communist Party of China|Communist Chinese]] [[People's Liberation Army]], by means of which, the [[working class]] or "oppressed" would produce their own intellectuals, civil servants, and culture (dominant ideology) to replace those imposed by the [[bourgeoisie]] or "oppressor class."<ref>{{Citation | url = http://english.nd.edu/faculty/profiles/joseph-a-buttigieg/ | editor1-first = Joseph A | editor1-last = Buttigieg | edition = English critical | last = Gramsci | title = Prison Notebooks | at = p 50 footnote 21 | quote = Long March Through the Institutions21 | deadurl = yes | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20100616163619/http://english.nd.edu/faculty/profiles/joseph-a-buttigieg/ | archivedate = 2010-06-16 | df = }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal| doi = 10.1215/01903659-32-1-33| issn = 0190-3659| volume = 32| issue = 1| pages = 33–52| last = Buttigieg| first = Joseph A.| title = The Contemporary Discourse on Civil Society: A Gramscian Critique| journal = Boundary 2| year = 2005}}</ref><ref name= "davidson">{{Citation | format = web log | url = http://carldavidson.blogspot.com/2006/04/strategy-hegemony-long-march.html | title = Strategy, Hegemony & 'The Long March': Gramsci's Lessons for the Antiwar Movement | first = Carl | last = Davidson | date = 6 April 2006}}.</ref><ref>See also [[Carl Davidson]]</ref><ref>Marsch durch die Institutionen|Marsch durch die Institutionen at German Wikipedia.</ref><ref>[[wikiquote:Antonio Gramsci#Misattributed|Antonio Gramsci: Misattributed]] at English Wikiquote for the origin of “The Long March Through the Institutions” quotation.</ref>

[[Karl Marx]] spoke of a sudden [[revolution]], where everything changes in a moment. Gramsci, the head of the [[Italian]] Communist party, was thrown in prison by [[Benito Mussolini]], where he speculated on the failure of Marxist revolution in his ''Prison Notebooks'', and attributed the failure to the cultural hegemony of the bourgeois oppressor class. Dutschke built on Gramsci's writings by proposing a long march through the cultural institutions of society - the church, entertainment, civil service, educational faculties, family institutions and marriage - to replace the dominant culture and replace it with revolutionary godless cultural Marxism.

Dutschke said, {{Quotebox|"Revolution is not a short act when something happens once and then everything is different. Revolution is a long, complicated process, where one [der Mensch] must become different...the process goes along this way, which I have once named ‘The Long March through the Established Institutions’, in which [institutions], through clarification [Aufklärung], systematic clarification and [[direct action]]s, awareness is brought [Bewusstwerdung] to further minorities in and outside the university, in schools, in trade schools, in engineer schools, also technical universities and finally in factories, where workers are currently worrying about their jobs. The process has begun, and that is a long story, which right now has been set on its course by us."<ref>http://crisiscritique.org/nov2018/boris.pdf</ref><ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_r_XahzELY</ref>}}

Gramsci theorized that if Communism achieved "mastery of human consciousness," then [[concentration camp]]s and [[mass murder]] would be unnecessary. Mastery over the consciousness of the great mass of people could be attained if Communists or their sympathizers gained control of the organs of culture — [[church]]es, [[education]], [[newspaper]]s, magazines, the electronic media, [[literature]], [[music]], the visual arts, and so on. By winning "cultural hegemony," Communism would control the deepest wellsprings of human thought and imagination. One need not control all information itself if one can gain control over the [[mind]]s that assimilate that information. Under such conditions, opposition would disappear since men are no longer capable of grasping the arguments of Marxism's opponents.<ref>https://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/history/item/15545-gramscis-grand-plan</ref>

==Criticism==
According to [[Wikipedia]], cultural Marxism has become a focal topic for many conspiracy theorist websites which seek to cloak their anti-Semitic, anti-Jew messages behind a legitimate topic. It is true that many of the members of the Frankfurt School were Jewish, but their big problem was that they were [[Marxists]]. Trying to debunk cultural Marxism’s existence via accusations of anti-semitism are also fruitless because the existence of it doesn’t rely on finding out if any of its creators were Jews, and most people who acknowledge its existence don’t do this anyway. Leftists (and cultural marxists by extension) deny that cultural Marxism exists and seek to treat the entire topic as a "conspiracy" itself, by casting Cultural Marxism as a "myth" or a "hoax".<ref>[https://attackthesystem.com/2014/05/18/on-the-myth-of-cultural-marxism/ On the Myth of "Cultural Marxism"]</ref> Wikipedia has an entire section titled ''Cultural Marxism conspiracy theory'' within its page for the ''Frankfurt School''.<ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt_School#Cultural_Marxism_conspiracy_theory Frankfurt School - Cultural Marxism conspiracy theory]</ref> As of September 2020, Wikipedia has added an article titled "Cultural Marxism conspiracy theory," using the image of convicted terrorist and self-identified Nazi fascist Anders Behring Breivik to discredit the theory.<ref> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Marxism_conspiracy_theory</ref> Virtually every single source trying to prove it’s a myth are [[Conflict of interest|blatantly biased towards the left or even come from fellow Marxists. Most egregiously at least one widely cited source comes from the Frankfurt School itself]].

==See also==
*[[Liberal values]]
*[[Anthropological Revolution]]
*[[Critical theory]]
*[[Equity literacy]]
*[[Destroying the family]]
*[[Biden/Harris War on Parents]]
*[[Dialectical unity of self-contradictions]]
*[[Cultural Revolution]]
*[[Frankfurt School]]
*[[Nimrodian aspirations]]
*[[Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel]]

== References ==
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==External links==
* [https://mises.org/blog/cultural-marxism-explained-7-minutes Cultural Marxism Explained in 7 Minutes], by Joseph T. Salerno at the Mises Institute
* [https://www.gotquestions.org/cultural-Marxism.html What is cultural Marxism?], at [[GotQuestions]]
* [http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=552 Political Correctness / Cultural Marxism], [[Discover the Networks]]
* [https://www.theamericanconservative.com/2009/11/19/the-roots-of-political-correctness/ The Roots of Political Correctness], by William S. Lind
* [https://dailycaller.com/2016/09/29/cultural-marxism-is-destroying-america/ Cultural Marxism Is Destroying America], by Moses Apostaticus, September 29, 2016, ''The Daily Caller''
* [https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/11/19/cultural-marxism-enemy-review-michael-walshs-book-devils-pleasure-palace/ Cultural Marxism Is the Enemy: Review of Michael Walsh’s Book ‘The Devil’s Pleasure Palace’], by Austin Ruse, Breitbart News, November 19, 2015.
*[https://topdocumentaryfilms.com/cultural-marxism-corruption-america/ Cultural Marxism: The Corruption of America], 99 min. documentary film.
*[https://www.theepochtimes.com/c-how-the-specter-of-communism-is-ruling-our-world How the Specter of Communism Is Ruling Our World]. ''The Epoch Times''.
*[https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/sacred-mission-to-destroy-normality-weimar-america/ The Sacred Mission To Destroy Normality], by Rod Dreher
*Duke, Selwyn (July 18, 2019). [https://www.thenewamerican.com/reviews/opinion/item/32884-the-left-is-following-communism-s-playbook-for-revolution The Left Is Following Communism’s Playbook for Revolution]. ''The New American''.
*[https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/item/33182-behind-the-deep-state-alex-newman-fake-fall-of-communism The Fake Fall of Communism - Behind the Deep State], ''The New American''.
*[https://youtu.be/PPRjsumWt7w Antonio Gramsci & Cultural Marxism], [[John Birch Society]], Feb 1, 2021. youtube

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