The sinister attack on Australian culture by the evil Socialist Marxists.



Mark Latham: ALP is full of useful idiots assisting cultural Marxism
Mark Latham, The Daily Telegraph October 17, 2017 12:00am

When Vladimir Lenin coined the phrase “useful idiots” in politics, he gave us a handy way of understanding Bill Shorten’s Labor Party.

As identity politics has taken hold of our major public institutions and private companies, Labor politicians have played along.

In wanting to help so-called “oppressed minorities”, they have fallen into the trap of naively assisting the far more dangerous agenda of cultural Marxism.


Mark Latham. Picture: Harold David

In the eyes of this far-Left movement, they are very useful idiots.

With the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, most people thought Marxism had been defeated.

But this was only true of economic Marxism — government control of the means of production.

Like a scene from a Terminator movie, neo-Marxists reassembled themselves, morphing into an even more menacing force.

They adopted the tactics of the Italian writer Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937). Instead of seeking economic control, they pursued cultural control by manipulating the beliefs, values and language of society.

Gramsci proposed a “long march through the institutions”, steadily taking over universities, schools, media outlets and government agencies by appointing like-minded people to senior positions.


Karl Marx argued for state control of production


AntonioGramsciarguedthatsocialistsshouldfirstcontrolculture,beliefsandvaluesofasocietybeforebeingabletocontroltheeconomy.

Sound familiar?

This is what has happened to Australia over the past 20 years. Political correctness is being used to control our language.

Gender fluidity courses in schools are being used to teach young people there is no such thing as fixed, biological science.

Post-structuralist Marxism is now the dominant ideology in Australia’s universities, such that students are being made to “unlearn” all prior knowledge and to regard history, science and even education itself as “capitalist constructs”.

Employment quotas and theories of “unconscious bias” are dismantling merit-based recruitment, with people hired by the medieval habit of how they look (skin colour and gender).

The overall impact has been to create a society devoid of certainty, drained of institutional ballast.

Cultural Marxism aims to convince people their true beliefs and identities in life are being repressed, that in feeling anxious and uneasy, they need to rise up against the existing social order.

MARK LATHAM: Stop! Diversity police, this is just too much

It’s a powerful movement that started in the underbelly of our institutions and now dominates around 80 per cent of Australian public life.

The rest of us, the 20 per cent, are the resistance.

I say these things from a background in the right-wing of the Labor Party, where I fought the Left internally on most issues.

But I’m not the only one saying it.

Peter Baldwin, the intellectual leader of the Socialist Left faction in the period of the Hawke and Keating governments, has been making similar points.

He has called for a new political alliance: for conservatives, libertarians and traditional social democrats to unite in preserving the values of the 17th-century Enlightenment.

To defend freedom, science and reason.

MARK LATHAM: Finally, someone goes against the herd

To fight for fraternity: bringing people together in common cause.

This is where Shorten and Labor have lost the plot. Identity politics is an incredibly divisive doctrine.

It pits Australians against each other: black versus white, female versus male, gay versus straight.

The neo-Marxists like it this way, as it creates the preconditions of political unrest: large parts of society agitating on spurious grounds.

Why would Labor ever endorse it?


Opposition Leader Bill Shorten sees Aboriginals, migrants and females as victims, according to Mark Latham. Picture: Kym Smith

The founding purpose of social democracy is to encourage co-operation between people, transcending self-interest and superficial differences such as skin colour.

Under Shorten’s leadership, the ALP has ditched this kind of thinking.

It’s now a wholly owned subsidiary of identity politics, where questions of race, gender and sexuality are central to its policymaking.

Shorten believes Australia is so bigoted that a democratic vote on same-sex marriage would force large numbers of gay people to kill themselves — a false prophecy.

He sees Aboriginal, migrant and female Australians as victims of institutionalised prejudice.

He has said an ALP government will actively discriminate in favour of these groups.

This means more safe space segregation, more language policing, more radical gender theory, more job quotas and more damaging social division.

In effect, the Daniel Andrews Labor model in Victoria will be imported to Canberra.

Labor sickness continues overleaf

The paw Lefties are too distraught to even utter mutter or splutter.

Philpott gets quite philosophical.

Mark Latham, Peta Credlin, Tony Abbott have found their true niche in life.  Harassing the Lefties!!!!

And weather vane Shorten is now a cultural Marxist just itching to RESTART the BOATS and send Electricity prices thru the roof.

And now something just for those who still think that unions are not useless parasites feeding on the goodness of Australia.

And the fowl unions are misusing SUPER funds to pay for this and to make up for their rapidly falling "membership".


The unions have turned into violent brutish thugs as they become irrelevant



The unions are pretending to protect workers while acting against their interests
By Parnell McGuinness -  July 14, 2017 801
   
In an unequal fight, you can rely on Australians to sympathise with the underdog. There’s something very appealing in this default preference for the righting wrongs and supporting the weaker party. You could say, we’re generous to a fault.

The problem is, the fault is a grave one, which leaves us open to manipulation. Powerful interests exploit it by hiding behind the weak to prosecute their agenda.

There is no better example of this phenomenon than Australia’s modern trade unions.

Trade unions played an important role during the industrial revolution, giving workers a voice in negotiating wages and conditions. Union membership grew over the course of the 20th century – peaking, in Australia, in the mid-1960s. But they were made obsolete in the best possible way: by succeeding. Government accepted the need the need to protect workers and took on primary responsibility for balancing the needs of work-makers and work-takers.

THE UNIONS ARE AT ODDS WITH THE INTERESTS OF THE WORKERS THEY CLAIM TO REPRESENT

With the machinery of power in place, but suddenly bereft of their original purpose, the unions embarked on a destructive spiral which has put them at odds with the interests of the workers they claim to represent.

A professional class of unionists has sprung up. These unionists rarely have experience working in the industries they are attached to, let alone creating value as business owners. Unsurprisingly then, while they are very good at the rhetoric of organised labour, they are blind to how their actions actually impact workers. Perhaps it is unkind to suggest it, but it can look to the untrained eye as though they also don’t care: after all, they will never lose their livelihood if they throttle a small business, or go hungry if they stand in the way of employment.

This kind of unionist sees the skilled worker who would like a higher hourly wage, but not the unskilled worker trying to get a toehold in the employment market from which to develop her skills.

They see the work that an intern performs, but not the time the business invests in training him.

And they certainly don’t see the business which would like to hire a good casual on a permanent basis but is daunted by the compliance cost each additional employee represents.

PEOPLE HAVE EVERY RIGHT TO BE ANGRY THAT THEIR RETIREMENT SAVINGS ARE BEING USED TO SHORE UP THE POWER OF THE UNIONS

And yet the unions continue to pretend they are protecting the weak, while making deals which disadvantage both workers and jobseekers. Union membership is now down below 10 per cent of the total workforce, so it seems most people have cottoned on to the con. Workers need to know how they are being used by the unions – and they have every right to be angry that their retirement savings are being used to shore up the power of the institutions they refuse to join, funding campaigns that run counter to their interests.

Even if you leave aside for a moment the horrendous misuse of member money that was showcased by the Health Services Union, this attack on the vulnerable in their own name is an affront.

It’s time to return the power to the people who work in and create real jobs. Let’s start by making the unionists get real jobs themselves.

https://thefairgo.com/unions-pretend-to-protect-workers/

Grendel wrote on Oct 18^th, 2017 at 11:06pm:


Who did you get that from, Goosey?

The paw Lefties are too flabbergasted to even begin.

And Futility in search of Failure excels himself with irrelevancy - no surprise he is normally ignored.

Grendel wrote on Oct 20^th, 2017 at 9:44am:


You should have just said that it was your words.  The clown would have been googling to contradict you in a nanosecond.

Didn't Paul Keating say that ?