Norway Terror Suspect Wanted To Save Europe From ‘Cultural Marxism’

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http://hereandnow.wbur.org/2011/07/25/norway-right-wing

Confessed right wing Norwegian attacker Anders Breivik has said that he wants to save Europe and Norway from a multiculturalism that he calls cultural Marxism.

Birdwell said that the shift away from a race-based ideology is also a strategic decision for these groups.

“If you look at his manifesto, he states that for pragmatic purposes and in order to make sure that they have legitimacy, they have to move away from race-based arguments and move towards this cultural conservative which emphasizes and attacks Islam. And this allows the far right to take up the mantle in defense of western enlightenment values like women’s rights… and gain more legitimacy.”

Birdwell says that mainstream politicians are now struggling to address the fears among many Europeans that Muslim communities are not assimilating, without fanning the fire of far-right groups.

Interesting that European right wingers are shifting their arguments from a race-based opposition to immigration to one based on the cultural conservatism of Muslim immigrants "to gain more legitimacy". They may be smarter (and more dangerous) now than when their views were so obviously racist that they could be easily dismissed.

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1. the "cultural Marxism" meme was apparently developed in the US

"Cultural Marxism," described as a conspiratorial attempt to wreck American culture and morality, is the newest intellectual bugaboo on the radical right. Surprisingly, there are signs that this bizarre theory is catching on in the mainstream.

(...)

In a nutshell, the theory posits that a tiny group of Jewish philosophers who fled Germany in the 1930s and set up shop at Columbia University in New York City devised an unorthodox form of "Marxism" that took aim at American society's culture, rather than its economic system.

The theory holds that these self-interested Jews — the so-called "Frankfurt School" of philosophers — planned to try to convince mainstream Americans that white ethnic pride is bad, that sexual liberation is good, and that supposedly traditional American values — Christianity, "family values," and so on — are reactionary and bigoted. With their core values thus subverted, the theory goes, Americans would be quick to sign on to the ideas of the far left."

(...) it may be William Lind, who has long worked at the Free Congress Foundation that his ally Paul Weyrich founded, who has done the most to define the enemies who make up the so-called "cultural Marxists." Ultimately, this enemy has come to embody a whole host of Lind's bête noires — feminists, LGBT people, secular humanists, multiculturalists, sex educators, environmentalists, immigrants, black nationalists, the ACLU and the hated Frankfurt School philosophers.

In July 1998, Lind told a conference of the right-wing watchdog group Accuracy in Academia that political correctness and cultural Marxism were "totalitarian ideologies" that were turning American campuses into "small ivy-covered North Koreas, where the student or faculty member who dares to cross any of the lines set up by the gender feminist or the homosexual-rights activists, or the local black or Hispanic group, or any of the other sainted 'victims' groups that revolves around, quickly find themselves in judicial trouble."


http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2003/summer/reframing-the-enemy?page=0,0