Mallory Malone
Mrs. Harman
1st Block Gold
Response Essay
29 September, 2017 America’s Cultural Marxism Bill Lind uses his article “The Origins of Political Correctness” to convince audiences of his theory that Marxism is the basis for modern American political correctness. Lind initially supports his theory by stating parallels between the two: the ideologies, the victimization, the restriction of certain groups, and the cunning presentations used. He further links these statements as he claims that political correctness represents the cultural side of Marxism, which then leads to his justification that political correctness stemmed in American colleges before spreading into society. Using his correlations between what modern society …show more content…
It is Marxism translated from economic into cultural terms” (2). He immediately dives into five points which reveal the parallels between political correctness and classic Marxism: “First, both are totalitarian ideologies,” “Second, the cultural Marxism of Political Correctness has a single factor explanation of history,” “Third just as in classical economic Marxism, certain groups are priori good, and other groups are evil,” “Fourth, both economic and cultural Marxism rely on expropriation,” “Finally, both have a method of analysis that automatically give the answers they want” (2-4). Though political correctness does not yet control all aspects a totalitarian ideology controls, the other parallels Lind addresses prove self-explanatory if the reader pauses to think of current events. Historically, political correctness leans in the favor of those under the discretion of racial or sexual terms as America’s history seems to pit whites and males against blacks and females; in these instances, political correctness says that history includes blacks-against-whites and males-against-females, in which political correctness deems one group as the victim while the other group serves as the public enemy. Lind supports his fourth point of “expropriation” by comparing how communist rulers in Russia took the wealth from the top class so society seemed equal to how political correctness strips college scholarships from deserving students to provide for the minority - despite the minority not having the skillset for this college. The final point Lind uses to support his theory of cultural Marxism explains the way public and political speeches avoid actual issues because of political correctness or, as Lind states, “Destruction essentially takes any text, removes all meaning from it and re-inserts any meaning desired”; he explains “destruction [of text]” as
Mrs. Harman
1st Block Gold
Response Essay
29 September, 2017 America’s Cultural Marxism Bill Lind uses his article “The Origins of Political Correctness” to convince audiences of his theory that Marxism is the basis for modern American political correctness. Lind initially supports his theory by stating parallels between the two: the ideologies, the victimization, the restriction of certain groups, and the cunning presentations used. He further links these statements as he claims that political correctness represents the cultural side of Marxism, which then leads to his justification that political correctness stemmed in American colleges before spreading into society. Using his correlations between what modern society …show more content…
It is Marxism translated from economic into cultural terms” (2). He immediately dives into five points which reveal the parallels between political correctness and classic Marxism: “First, both are totalitarian ideologies,” “Second, the cultural Marxism of Political Correctness has a single factor explanation of history,” “Third just as in classical economic Marxism, certain groups are priori good, and other groups are evil,” “Fourth, both economic and cultural Marxism rely on expropriation,” “Finally, both have a method of analysis that automatically give the answers they want” (2-4). Though political correctness does not yet control all aspects a totalitarian ideology controls, the other parallels Lind addresses prove self-explanatory if the reader pauses to think of current events. Historically, political correctness leans in the favor of those under the discretion of racial or sexual terms as America’s history seems to pit whites and males against blacks and females; in these instances, political correctness says that history includes blacks-against-whites and males-against-females, in which political correctness deems one group as the victim while the other group serves as the public enemy. Lind supports his fourth point of “expropriation” by comparing how communist rulers in Russia took the wealth from the top class so society seemed equal to how political correctness strips college scholarships from deserving students to provide for the minority - despite the minority not having the skillset for this college. The final point Lind uses to support his theory of cultural Marxism explains the way public and political speeches avoid actual issues because of political correctness or, as Lind states, “Destruction essentially takes any text, removes all meaning from it and re-inserts any meaning desired”; he explains “destruction [of text]” as