How Can We Stop The Wreckage Of Cultural Marxism? Spencer Klavan Has Some Ideas

Jesse RussellFebruary 10, 2023

In his 11th thesis, he famously “Theses on Feuerbach” (1888), Karl Marx famously stated, “The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.” This phrase has been interpreted in several ways by both Marx’s critics and his fans, but one salient reading is that Marx saw philosophy leading fundamentally toward revolutionary change.

Marx and his associates started the cultural revolution and the economic revolution. However, Marx and other Marxists had a different goal. The post-Trump era has seen many of those on the left focus their efforts on a cultural revolution to leave (the most wealthy). “progressive”(Capitalists) in control of the economic system, while allegedly creating more “inclusive and tolerant” Capitalism in its most basic form.

This is one of the most important elements. “cultural Marxism” The eradication of or at least modification to the foundation of Western thought, especially the ancient traditions of Greece and Rome. This thinking asserts that Western civilization is fundamentally racist and sexist.

One individual who has provided a robust defense of the West’s classical tradition is Spencer Klavan. Spencer Klavan is both the associate editor of The Claremont Review of Books, and the features editor of The American Mind. He hosts the television show The Claremont Review of Books. “Young Heretics Show” Author of the forthcoming “How to Save the West: Ancient Wisdom for 5 Modern Crises.” He has recently written the forward for a new issue of “The Stoics.” So I sought his cure for postmodern decay.

Jesse Russell: Which crisis do you see in the West today, and why?

Spencer Klavan: The West’s primary crisis, which occupies the central portion of my book, is the loss of our ancestral faith. Friedrich Nietzsche saw it coming in “The Gay Science.” The most famous passage he wrote was the “madman” He grieves over the demise of God because he sees what no one else can: that belief in a creator consciousness, which is the foundation upon which all moral axioms rest, is the foundation. Our morality would be very different without it. We give up and try. “to become gods ourselves.”

We like to think this isn’t the case. We think that we can do without. “niceness” You can also find it on the “common decency” That supposedly animates all civilized people, and teaches them that “all men are created equal.” But the central truths of the West aren’t “self-evident” It is just a natural feeling. They don’t just occur to us out of the blue. Most people have had them throughout history. Not Believed in equality of human beings. It is something we believe in, or used to believe it, because it was what we believed. Our creator has bestowed this gift on us.

Nietzsche observed that if you remove this belief, the old morality may last for a while among those who already have it. “blindly accepted what has been labeled right since childhood.”