Malcolm Parkin: Cultural Marxism's impact a growing threat to society

Women at Greenham Common reverentially interviewed now

The answer is Cultural Marxism, a development of the former failed anti-capitalist Marxist workers movement. This cultural version is dedicated to creating a new society by demolishing custom and tradition, prior to rebuilding with its own standards.

With no god other than itself, it has no moral code, so lies and deceit are used to achieve its ends. Marxists promote non-Western cultures and religions, and anti-Western education curricula. Mass immigration from third world countries – a prime objective – has already taken place under the Blair/Brown/Darling and Mandelson regime of the late 1990s. That economically inept wrecking crew also unknowingly made strides towards the achievement of another Marxist objective – the destruction of capitalism.

Social guilt is promoted, particularly by television, which has become the organ of the Left by virtue of its EU funding, and from the influence of its journalists and editors, mostly of the bien pensant and anti-British view.

A good example was seen during the Somerset Levels flooding of 2013/14, when Jon Snow of Channel 4 was reluctantly standing in waist deep water interviewing a clearly distraught couple whose house behind them was submerged and ruined. “Of course,” said Snow cheerily to the weeping housewife, “This is nothing. You should see it in the Sudan when it rains…whoosh…everything gone!” The poor woman stood dumbstruck.

Rights are given to those who exclude themselves from society, social workers will champion the rights of these people, teaching us to sympathise with them, on the basis that society has let them down.

A more dangerous objective of Cultural Marxism is the establishment of an elite and unelected post-democratic new world order, so efforts to negate the work of elected representatives and to destroy the democratic process is unrelenting at all levels.

Schemes to disrupt and distract abound. Man-made climate change has been invented as the successor to the hole in the ozone layer and its predecessors global warming and the rising of the sea, and sold to governments and to the Greens, who have become unwitting tools of the Marxists, and taken us back to windmills and wood burning as a means of providing energy that is inadequate for industry, and a further step towards the destruction of capitalism.

And so these perverse views have gradually come to be accepted as normal by their repetition and enforcement in various situations. The former dungaree-clad chanting women chained to RAF Greenham Common are now dressed by Armani and appearing on TV news programmes to be reverentially interviewed, while our natural instincts are suppressed to make us accept the distortions of Cultural Marxism.

Malcolm Parkin is a retired businessman. He lives in Kinross