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2002-10-05 03:30 | User Profile
More Marxsim: "Mainstreaming Hate" SPLC attacks William Lind and Paul Weyrich
What inspired a key Christian Right leader to speak at a Holocaust denial conference? Another Jewish conspiracy, of course.-SPLC
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Mainstreaming Hate A key ally of Christian Right heavyweight Paul Weyrich addresses a major Holocaust denial conference
William Lind is a key spokesman for cultural conservatism. WASHINGTON, D.C. - William Lind has long been a point man for cultural conservatism, a key player in the world of right-wing politicians, and, in recent years, the head of the Free Congress Foundation's Center for Cultural Conservatism. As a close friend of arch-conservative strategist Paul Weyrich, who started the Free Congress Foundation in 1978, Lind has developed into an important voice on the Christian right.
He also seems to be cultivating friends in some remarkable places. This June 15, at a major Holocaust denial conference put on by veteran anti-Semite Willis Carto in Washington, D.C., Lind gave a well-received speech before some 120 historical revisionists, conspiracy theorists, neo-Nazis and other anti-Semites, in which he identified a small group of people who he said had poisoned American culture. On this point, Lind made a powerful connection with his listeners.
These guys, he explained, were all Jewish.
Free Congress Foundation official William Lind addresses a Holocaust denial conference in June, telling neo-Nazis and others that a handful of Jews conspired to subvert Western civilization. Lind seemed nervous when he gave his speech, apparently sensing the potential for bad publicity. I do want to make it clear for the foundation and myself that we are not among those who question whether the Holocaust occurred, he said. But he added that he was there despite that, because his foundation had a regular policy to work with a wide variety of groups on an issue-by-issue basis.
Listening and enthusiastically applauding was a crowd that included Jürgen Graf, a Swiss Holocaust denier who fled to Iran to avoid prosecution at home; Eustace Mullins, a rabid anti-Semite who once wrote an article entitled Adolf Hitler: An Appreciation; former SS man Hans Schmidt, and many others.
Lind's theory was one that has been pushed since the mid-1990s by the Free Congress Foundation - the idea that a small group of German philosophers, known as the Frankfurt School, had devised a cultural form of Marxism that was aimed at subverting Western civilization. The method, he said, involved manipulating the culture into supporting homosexuality, sex education, egalitarianism, and the like, to the point that traditional institutions and culture are ultimately wrecked.
Their whole plan, he said, is the destruction of Western culture.
The they to whom Lind referred were a group including Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer, and Herbert Marcuse, all Jews who fled Germany and went to Columbia University in the 1930s. Lind accused Marcuse, who coined the slogan Make Love, Not War, of inventing the concepts of tolerance and political correctness. He added darkly that Adorno and Horkheimer spent the war years in Hollywood and said they likely conspired to use films as a social conditioning mechanism to get gullible Americans to accept supposed perversions like homosexuality.
A number of hate groups, including the racist Council of Conservative Citizens (CCC), have taken up the Free Congress Foundation's theories about the Frankfurt School. But that's not the only point some of them share with Lind.
In 1995, a futuristic fantasy by Lind was published in The Washington Post just 11 days after the Oklahoma City bombing. It described the breakdown of the United States, a land that had developed the stench of a Third World country, into racial mini-states a salutary result, in the narrator's judgment, that enabled a return to older Victorian values in now all-white New England. Lind also wrote of teaching kids in this brave new world with Mr. McGuffy's readers - a reference to school books used in the 19th century that are chock-full of anti-Semitic stereotypes.
[T]he majority had taken back the culture, Lind enthused in his piece, which was published by the Post to try to explain to its readers the apocalyptic visions of militiamen and their fellow travelers. Civilization had recovered its nerve.
Meanwhile, the CCC has been peddling copies of a Free Congress Foundation documentary called Political Correctness: The Frankfurt School, with a short CCC introduction added. Told of this apparent rip-off, Free Congress Foundation attorney Clay Rossi said in April that the foundation had not authorized the use of its videotape and would order the hate group to stop selling its version immediately.
Three months later, the CCC was still selling the tape.
Intelligence Report Fall 2002 Issue 107
2002-11-18 05:09 | User Profile
This attack on William Lind and Paul Weyrich is worth reading.
2003-01-06 03:48 | User Profile
The "Liberals" even hate the Mr. McGuffy's Reader.
2003-01-06 07:50 | User Profile
Originally posted by Faust@Nov 18 2002, 05:09 This attack on William Lind and Paul Weyrich is worth reading.
It is. Interesting how the Frankfurt School theory seems to bother the SPLC more than the speech location at the IHR.
I wonder why Lind had to give his speech at the IHR. Aren't there any other organizations willing to hear about this subject?
2003-01-06 08:22 | User Profile
Originally posted by Faust@Oct 5 2002, 03:30 **
Meanwhile, the CCC has been peddling copies of a Free Congress Foundation ?documentary? called ?Political Correctness: The Frankfurt School,? with a short CCC introduction added. Told of this apparent rip-off, Free Congress Foundation attorney Clay Rossi said in April that the foundation had not authorized the use of its videotape and would order the hate group to stop selling its version immediately.
Three months later, the CCC was still selling the tape.
Intelligence Report Fall 2002 Issue 107**
Here's a link to some of those tapes.
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Sounds like we've got an unlikely allie on the Christian Right. ;)
2003-01-15 00:09 | User Profile
While I agree with Wryrich et al that the Frankfurt School was instrumental in moving classical Marxist focus on class to an anti-white focus, it has to be said that most the specifically racists and 'conspiratorial' work was not done by Frankfurt School theorists, but readers of theirs who adapted and twisted their ideas to new, anti-white purposes. Adorno, for one, is a brilliant thinker we all ought to read, who has many ideas that are very relevant to conservative criticism of culture under the neocon regime. Most of the other FS theorists are also quite intelligent and thoughtful, even if they many false and dangerous ideas.
2003-01-15 00:32 | User Profile
Originally posted by darkeddy@Jan 15 2003, 00:09 While I agree with Wryrich et al that the Frankfurt School was instrumental in moving classical Marxist focus on class to an anti-white focus, it has to be said that most the specifically racists and 'conspiratorial' work was not done by Frankfurt School theorists, but readers of theirs who adapted and twisted their ideas to new, anti-white purposes. Adorno, for one, is a brilliant thinker we all ought to read, who has many ideas that are very relevant to conservative criticism of culture under the neocon regime. Most of the other FS theorists are also quite intelligent and thoughtful, even if they many false and dangerous ideas.
Gottfried provides one example of such a selective adaption of critical theory, as you suggest.
**Having said that, I should note that the "cultural Marxism" that came out of the Frankfurt School reinforced my conservatism. But by the time I began imbibing this German radical tendency, an exposure that David Gordon picked up on in reviewing my books, I was already decidedly on the right. Thereafter I drew selectively from Adorno, Horkheimer, and my teacher Herbert Marcuse, to construct a critique of the practice and ideology of the managerial state.
It is arguably possible for a paleo to be influenced by Frankfurt School critical theory in a way that would not be the case with exposure to Straussianism. The reason for insisting on this distinction is simple and it is one that Hans-Hermann Hoppe, who has also incorporated some aspects of critical theory into his work, would give as well: whereas so-called Cultural Marxists provide a key to grasping the substance and fictions of managerial tyranny, Straussians have created a defense of such tyranny, disguised as global democracy or as standing up for "values." In short, while critical theory can help one to look more deeply into leftist mechanisms of control and global democratic agitprop, the Straussians have worked to justify and misrepresent such control. In the language of Antonio Gramsci, whose thinking overlapped that of the Frankfurt School, Straussians predictably defend the "hegemonic ideology" associated with the ruling class. They are also heavily, indeed obscenely, rewarded defenders of that ruling class, holding high places in leftist academic institutions, in the government bureaucracy, and in bogus conservative "thinktanks."**
[url=http://forum.originaldissent.com/index.php?act=ST&f=8&t=1212&hl=the+new+dark+age]Straussians vs. PaleoConservatives[/url]
Overall though, while critical theory can apparently be used to critique the managerial state, I suppose, it certainly seems from what I know of it that the overall legacy of Critical Theory IS political correctness, and it is only incidental that critical theory, when attacking PC entrenched in institutions, can ironically be used to what amounts in essense to critiquing itself.
[url=http://forum.originaldissent.com/index.php?act=ST&f=3&t=3589&st=0&#entry26301]The New Dark Age - The Frankfurt School and Political Correctness[/url]
BTW, good to see you back, Eddy/NeoN.