This is certainly not an original concept but I don't think it's talked about a lot, and I see quite often traditional morals and free market being advocated by the same person. I think they are ultimately incompatible and that the threat of 'cultural marxism' can only ever be spread through a capitalist system.
Free Market Capitalism is a system that relies on 'negative rights' instead of 'positive rights'. It is therefore a relativistic system, as it does not discriminate between 'good behavior' and 'bad behavior', outside of private property rights. It also does not discriminate between national and foreign capital, or national and foreign interests. Therefore, it is easy for oligarchs to subvert a nation's interests and values, simply by dominating it economically - and thereby promoting whatever kind of propaganda they want (usually, propaganda that turns people into mere consumers: sodomy, usury, alternative lifestyles, hedonism, consumerism, etc).
It is also, undeniably, the biggest force for technological progress and the biggest generator of material wealth. This can be a problem in an of itself for traditional structures, when unchecked by some state measure to curb it. As Ted Kaczynski wrote in his Manifesto:
The conservatives are fools: They whine about the decay of traditional values, yet they enthusiastically support technological progress and economic growth. Apparently it never occurs to them that you can’t make rapid, drastic changes in the technology and the economy of a society without causing rapid changes in all other aspects of the society as well, and that such rapid changes inevitably break down traditional values.
The kind of material changes that Free Market Capitalism operates are revolutionary and operate a subsequent revolution in the societal norms (and social strata).
Lastly, the increased material wealth makes the average man complacent, apathetic and it also makes the country which has it very attractive for economic migrants, thereby doubly undermining the national sovereignty and cohesion.
Communism on the other hand, and despite its claims, keeps people poor, has virtually no social mobility, is formally very hierarchical. Even though it does promote relativism officially, it is a lot less relativistic than Capitalism.
We also see it in practice. Which countries still have some form of traditional morality and social structure in Europe? The former Communist countries. Which countries are completely down the drain in relativism? The capitalists.
We know from historical documents that oligarchs of the industrial revolution have funded propaganda of both Communists and Liberals (the original ones, now called Libertarians) to undermine the ancien regime and the rule of monarchs. I assume they were doing an experiment to see which system would most quickly undermine and destroy the traditional society. I think the contest has been over since the mid-late 80s. While the West had become illiterate, matriarchal, deracinated, apathetic, atomized and hedonistic - the East was still highly educated, patriarchal, always on the edge of rebelling against the system, community oriented and bound by traditional social norms.
Due to all this, I consider the term 'cultural marxism' to be incorrect. Even though the original thinkers were self-described marxists, their ideas did not spread through marxist countries or structures, but through the most capitalist and liberal country in the world to all other countries that adopted international free market capitalism.
Free Market Capitalism is a system that relies on 'negative rights' instead of 'positive rights'. It is therefore a relativistic system, as it does not discriminate between 'good behavior' and 'bad behavior', outside of private property rights. It also does not discriminate between national and foreign capital, or national and foreign interests. Therefore, it is easy for oligarchs to subvert a nation's interests and values, simply by dominating it economically - and thereby promoting whatever kind of propaganda they want (usually, propaganda that turns people into mere consumers: sodomy, usury, alternative lifestyles, hedonism, consumerism, etc).
It is also, undeniably, the biggest force for technological progress and the biggest generator of material wealth. This can be a problem in an of itself for traditional structures, when unchecked by some state measure to curb it. As Ted Kaczynski wrote in his Manifesto:
The conservatives are fools: They whine about the decay of traditional values, yet they enthusiastically support technological progress and economic growth. Apparently it never occurs to them that you can’t make rapid, drastic changes in the technology and the economy of a society without causing rapid changes in all other aspects of the society as well, and that such rapid changes inevitably break down traditional values.
The kind of material changes that Free Market Capitalism operates are revolutionary and operate a subsequent revolution in the societal norms (and social strata).
Lastly, the increased material wealth makes the average man complacent, apathetic and it also makes the country which has it very attractive for economic migrants, thereby doubly undermining the national sovereignty and cohesion.
Communism on the other hand, and despite its claims, keeps people poor, has virtually no social mobility, is formally very hierarchical. Even though it does promote relativism officially, it is a lot less relativistic than Capitalism.
We also see it in practice. Which countries still have some form of traditional morality and social structure in Europe? The former Communist countries. Which countries are completely down the drain in relativism? The capitalists.
We know from historical documents that oligarchs of the industrial revolution have funded propaganda of both Communists and Liberals (the original ones, now called Libertarians) to undermine the ancien regime and the rule of monarchs. I assume they were doing an experiment to see which system would most quickly undermine and destroy the traditional society. I think the contest has been over since the mid-late 80s. While the West had become illiterate, matriarchal, deracinated, apathetic, atomized and hedonistic - the East was still highly educated, patriarchal, always on the edge of rebelling against the system, community oriented and bound by traditional social norms.
Due to all this, I consider the term 'cultural marxism' to be incorrect. Even though the original thinkers were self-described marxists, their ideas did not spread through marxist countries or structures, but through the most capitalist and liberal country in the world to all other countries that adopted international free market capitalism.