Reddit reviews The Next Conservatism

I suspect it started when a well meaning, fairly intelligent Jewish man named Paul Gottfried tried to explain The Frankfurt School (and specifically Herbert Marcuse, his one time teacher) to William S. Lind. Lind having worked for a republican congressman during the cold war went straight to a place of red-scare paranoia. So where Gottfried wrote things like this about Cultural Marxism:

>"Nothing intrinsically Marxist, that is to say, defines "cultural Marxism," save for the evocation or hope of a postbourgeois society."

>"The mistake of those who see one position segueing into another is to confuse contents with personalities."

Lind (an ideologically drive political pundit) wrote things like this:

>"The next conservatism should unmask multiculturalism and Political Correctness and tell the American people what they really are: cultural Marxism. Its goal remains what Lukacs and Gramsci set in 1919: destroying Western culture and the Christian religion. It has already made vast strides toward that goal. But if the average American found out that Political Correctness is a form of Marxism, different from the Marxism of the Soviet Union but Marxism nonetheless, it would be in trouble. The next conservatism needs to reveal the man behind the curtain - - old Karl Marx himself."

It all came from a place of desperation - they thought conservatism was dying, and this was part of their effort to create a "new conservatism".