Don’t Blame Karl Marx for ‘Cultural Marxism’

You might think that a history of cultural Marxism would start with Marx, but the poorly coiffed Prussian has almost nothing to do with this tale of insidious infiltration. Instead, the theory took off in the late 1990s due to speeches, essays, and books by William Lind, then with the Free Congress Foundation, and Patrick Buchanan, the firebrand conservative columnist, TV talking head, and sometime presidential candidate. (The idea, though not the name, was hatched earlier, in a 1992 monograph called “The New Dark Age: The Frankfurt School and Political Correctness.” It was written by a disciple of the noted conspiracy theorist Lyndon LaRouche.)

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The CIA & the Frankfurt School’s Anti-Communism

Free Congress Foundation:

The Free Congress Research and Education Foundation, also known as the Free Congress Foundation or FCF, was an American conservative think tank founded by Paul Weyrich and based near Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.

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Prior to CSFC, Weyrich had co-founded The Heritage Foundation a 501(c) (3) think tank. The board of Heritage was predominantly northeastern fiscal conservatives, and after Roe v. Wade was decided, they refused to engage on the abortion issue. That prompted Weyrich’s organization of a PAC. CSFC was a pioneer in political direct mail fundraising.

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Krieble Institute [Atlas Network]

Another initiative taken on by the foundation was the training of anti-communists in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. This Institute bore the name of Robert Krieble, the primary donor to these activities.
Through the Krieble Institute, “Bob [Krieble] produced the first political commercials ever run on Ukrainian television. They promoted Ukrainian independence. And when 89 percent of the voters agreed with that message, their democratic will drove the last nail into the Soviet coffin.”