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Join Us Today For Backchannel: A Free, Live Videocast

Thursday October 8, 2020 at 12 p.m. Central Time

 

Intellectual Takeout and Charlemagne Institute are proud to announce Backchannel: a free, live videocast presentation and discussion. We invite our readers and supporters to watch these weekly presentations from one of our thinkers on a designated topic, and submit their questions for the subsequent Q&A session. It’s a continuing opportunity to join an interactive forum – to hear from some of our country’s brightest minds, ask questions, and gain their behind-the-scenes insights and wisdom.

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This week's episode:
Cultural Marxism
 
 
with Dr. Paul Gottfried
Chronicles
 Editor in Chief
 

Please join us today, Thursday, October 8, 2020 at 12:00 p.m. CDT for this week’s Backchannel videocast featuring Dr. Paul Gottfried, Chronicles Editor in Chief, on the topic of "Cultural Marxism." Dr. Gottfried will delve into his extensive knowledge on the subject to help us understand the meaning and origin of the term, and what the implications of this ideology are for our society.

Gottfried writes in The American Conservative:

"There is a long established practice of confusing what is misleadingly called 'Cultural Marxism' with socialism and Marxist economics. The two are most definitely not the same. Those who invented what the Frankfurt School in interwar Germany called Critical Theory, and that was called by its friends and later adversaries 'Cultural Marxism,' were intent on a cultural revolution. Critical Theory was only secondarily about changing the economic system, which is the primary interest of socialists and which real Marxists maintained could only come about through violence. Although the Frankfurt School and its descendants favored state ownership of productive forces, they took this stand only as a means towards a cultural end. They viewed socialism as instrumental for overcoming sexism, anti-Semitism, and homophobia. These things, which they equated with 'fascism,' were their primary targets."
 
About the Presenter

Dr. Paul Gottfried, Editor in Chief of Chronicles magazine, is Horace Raffensperger Professor Emeritus of Humanities at Elizabethtown College and author of Multiculturalism and the Politics of Guilt, The Strange Death of Marxism, and Conservatism in America: Making Sense of the American Right. His latest books are The Vanishing Tradition: Perspectives on American Conservatism and Fascism: The Career of a Concept.
 

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Please join us today, Thursday, October 8, 2020 at 12:00 p.m.
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As always, a large part of the program will be reserved for viewer and listener questions! Comment during the broadcast via these social platforms or email your questions regarding the presentation to [email protected]. We will answer selected questions at the end of the presentation.

If you miss this or any of our live broadcasts, view the Backchannel archive here. Archived episodes will usually be available by the day after the broadcast.

We look forward to hosting you!

Sincerely,
 
Devin C. Foley
 

Devin C. Foley
Co-Founder and CEO,
Charlemagne Institute

 

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