Frank wrote on Sep 5^th, 2026 at 1:22pm:




An annual conference organised by radical publisher Haymarket Books has just taken place, under the banner of socialism. In the aftermath, X was soon awash with scornful posts lambasting participants for both their ostentatiously ugly personal presentation and their outlandish ‘politics’.


‘The political deployment of GLP-1s is fascistic’, Da’Shaun L. Harrison – a fat man in a face mask – informed the audience about popular weight-loss drugs like Ozempic. ‘Not because the individuals take them, but because the conditions under which they become necessary are shaped by a world fixated on genociding fat people.’ Okay, fattie. But the only people surveilling you are the food marketers.

In contemporary socialism, it is perfectly fine – nay, encouraged – to simply invent scenarios, like a genocide of fat people, out of whole cloth and then pretend to be a martyr for them.

Make no mistake, these activists are not representing the streets or the tower blocks of housing estates. They are representing the halls of academia. Harrison gave the game away when he namechecked prominent academic Frantz Fanon and his ‘account of black flesh under colonial surveillance’.

Perhaps my favourite part of the conference was when bearded lady Rabbi Jessica Rosenberg spouted unintelligible gobbledegook about ‘expressions of the divine emerging from movement work’ while a co-panelist solemnly intoned that, in Minneapolis, ‘sites of state murder’ have become ‘sites of continuous ritual’.

The truly objectionable thing about this is that this version of left-wing politics has totally replaced genuine grassroots, working-class, trade-union and solidarity movements. This is a zombie social movement that wears the skin of working-class struggle, but actually stands against everything actual working-class culture used to pride itself on: hard work, faith, fairness, family. All of those things are deemed ‘far right’ now.

These spoilt, navel-gazing children of privilege have stolen left-wing representation from the working classes. They even have the audacity to paint normal folk as extremists – for simply being in touch with reality and having the correct amount of scorn for delusional ideologues who say things like men can have babies, or that nations should not have borders

https://www.spiked-online.com/2026/09/08/the-sickness-and-silliness-of-modern-so...

Frank wrote on Sep 16^th, 2026 at 8:37pm:


While Matt Canavan, leader of the National Party, is right to criticise the curriculum for being  ‘feminised’, but an even greater problem, as suggested by Angus Taylor the Leader of the Liberal Party, is the way teachers, influenced by faculties of education, professional bodies like the Australian Curriculum Studies Association (ACSA) and Australian Education Union (AEU), are imposing their one-sided agendas on students.
Such are the concerns about teacher-training faculties no longer being impartial and balanced that, in  2023, the Institute of Public Affairs (IPA) examined what was taught across 27 Australian universities offering teaching degrees. Margaret Chambers, a research fellow at the IPA, summarises the survey’s findings:

IPA research found that the teaching of woke ideology accounted for 31 per cent of all teaching subjects provided by Australian universities, equating to one and-a-quarter years of a four-year Bachelor of Education degree.

Of the 3,713 subjects offered to teaching students in Australia in 2023, 1,169 subjects teach Critical Social Justice, including subjects focusing on diversity and inclusion, Aboriginal education, social and emotional learning, and sustainability.

To fully understand the pervasive influence of cultural-left ideology on schools one needs to appreciate that the cultural-left’s long march through the education system began in the late 1960s and early 1970s and, such is its success, that the school curriculum has long been captured.

Melbourne University’s Lyn Yates in Chapter 2 of Australia’s Curriculum Dilemmas describes the late 1960s as a time when “Educationalists such as Paulo Freire, Ivan Illich, John Holt, Paul Goodman were producing popular works that became best sellers around the world”.   Such books critiqued the school curriculum as an “empty ritual, or ineffective, or worse, actually oppressive to young people, especially those from poorer backgrounds”.

Alan Barcan in his book Sociological Theory and Educational Reality (1993) also focuses on the late 1960s to the early 1970s as the time when education was redefined by the cultural-left. Barcan details how education faculties at the University of New South Wales, as well as Deakin, Monash and La Trobe universities, replaced a liberal-humanist approach to education with one drawing on Marxist-inspired critical theory and the belief schools must become a vanguard to promote radical change.

At La Trobe University, for example, Barcan writes “the School of Education, made up of six centres, was well stocked with neo-Marxists and feminists”.  Barcan also refers to the University of NSW’s Kevin Harris, who argued “all knowledge is ideological” and, as a result, “education simply produces a particular consciousness: one suited to the capitalist mode of production”.

The belief that all knowledge is ideological and that schools promote false consciousness are two of the central tenets of cultural Marxism drawing on Antonio Gramsci’s concept of cultural hegemony by Fabian infiltration of the institutions and Louis Althusser’s concept of capitalist society’s ideological state apparatus. Such is the influence of cultural-Marxism that one of the texts set for teacher training, Making the Difference (1982), argues “schooling reproduces the structure of inequality itself” and that teachers “have to decide whose side they are on”.
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Since the mid-1980s the AEU and its predecessor, the Australian Teachers’ Federation (ATF), have argued schools are a key part of what Marxist academic Althusser depicts as the ideological state apparatus employed to dominate and subjugate the disadvantaged and the dispossessed. Instead of prioritising established subjects and areas of knowledge the 1985 policy states. The ATF believes that curriculum policy should be located in “a political, social, economic, demographic and economic context” based on the belief knowledge is a socio/political construct. The 1986 curriculum document argues any new curriculum must address “The pronounced inequality in the distribution of social, economic, cultural and political resources and power between social groups which restricts the life development of many”.


https://quadrant.org.au/news-opinions/education/four-decades-of-class-warfare/


It's everywhere alright, most promimently and in plain sight in education , in the arts and cultural institutions.

Albo is a Marxist -

he wants to lock anyone up for 15 years who disagrees with him - just like Stalin and his gulags.

https://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1789248162/30#30

Bobby. wrote on Sep 17^th, 2026 at 8:13pm:


Sounds more like Trump to be honest. Who woulda thunk - Trump a Marxist. Though definately not a cultural Marxist - no class at all.

Communism is the best for a Family structure.
Anything above from community to National, it weakens with ever level up.

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