Anti-culture—a global Communist threat to the entire West
03/17/2023
On February 25, a conference was organized at the National Institute of Rural Culture and Heritage in Warsaw, during which the effects of the ministerial project Find Yourself were summarized. Its authors have prepared a special educational platform aimed at young people. You can find as many as 146 short films (plus the same number of PDF brochures) devoted to the history of the development of Marxism, anti-Catholic myths that are spread in the public space, as well as contemporary ideological threats.
In addition, the project implementers published a popular science publication "Encyklopedia Antykultury", which consists of 60 entries. Its authors (7 experts from various fields) tried to present in an accessible way the birth, development and mutations of Marxism, i.e. the ideology of anti-culture. It is worth listening to the debate that took place on the occasion of the book launch (video below the text).
An additional advantage of this position may also be the fact that the authors are young people who better understand the problems and mentality of the young generation of Poles. In addition, the book is recommended by Krzysztof Karoń, an excellent expert on neo-Marxism, author of the best-selling "History of Anti-Culture". It can be said that the Encyclopaedia of Anticulture is a conscious reference to the work of this distinguished researcher.
As Jakub Zgierski points out in the introduction to the book, "the aim of the anti-culture ideology is to kill people's ability to creative and useful work, which is a prerequisite for the functioning of the capitalist system, and more broadly - an efficient economy, where everyone works for their own living, and thus freedom." . In his opinion, people subjected to anti-cultural treatment are consciously and deliberately reduced to a state in which they must support forces promising them the creation of a brave new world. The price for "free" freedom, universal equality and prosperity without work, however, is to strengthen the ranks of the revolution.
This utopian system, which is in fact the new communism, will prove to be a paradise, but only for the parasitic elites who will gain power on the backs of the rebellious masses. For Marxism was never about the welfare of workers or, as in modern versions, of women, immigrants, black people, and homosexuals. They are only a means to an end.
" Encyclopaedia of Anticulture" - excerpts from the book
“ The communist revolution won in backward Russia, not in industrially developed Western Europe, as the founder of Marxism, Karl Marx, wished. After World War I, Marxist ideologues faced the need to find an answer to the question why Western societies rejected the communists' offer and preferred to defend their states and nations. One such attempt was made by the Italian communist Antonio Gramsci, who noticed the attachment of Europeans to traditional Christian culture and values,” indicates Jakub Zgierski, discussing the history of the Frankfurt School, which laid the foundation for the development of cultural Marxism.
“ The Frankfurters rejected both terrorist Bolshevism and the conciliatory politics of Social Democracy, adopting a new approach, only seemingly centered on cultural issues. Inspired by Freudianism, the Frankfurt School saw that capitalism could be overthrown if the culture and institutions that supported it were destroyed: the traditional family, education system, and religion. It turned out that the best tool to gain control over society, especially youth, is the sexual revolution.
“ Today, the European Union has its own flag, anthem and unofficial constitution. Its institutions - the Commission, Parliament and the Court of Justice - deal not only with matters related to the economy, but also politics. The next steps will include deepening the monetary and military union, including the creation of a common European army in place of national armies. Everything indicates that the future of the EU is to be a large, federal, supranational state. For this reason, the direction in which the European Union is now heading has nothing to do with what it was supposed to be at the beginning. So will democracy be replaced by the authoritarian rule of the Eurocrats, and economic cooperation by the bureaucratic dictates of a federal superstate?” – writes Michał Pytel in the chapter discussing the process of European integration.
“ Although anti-art formally belongs to contemporary art, in reality it is not an artistic trend, but a purely ideological one. The name itself is a negation of the classically understood art. In fact, anti-art does not create works, but products, rejecting the importance of the artist's workshop and the purposefulness of his work. Basically, we are dealing here with a set of social engineering techniques, i.e. methods of exerting influence that allow the transformation of social consciousness in the service of the revolution,' explains Jakub Zgierski in the entry devoted to the phenomenon of anti-art.