Psychologized Marxism and Its Widespread Influence On American Life and Institutions - 10:34 AM, 1/29/2012 |
Psychologized Marxism and Its Widespread Influence On American Life and Institutions Bernard Pyron Political Correctness, Cultural Marxism and Transformational Marxism refer to almost the same movement derived from Hegel, especially Marx, Freud and American personality and social psychology. The Frankfurt School, and Theodor W. Adorno's 1950 book, The Authoritarian Personality, added Freud and then American personality and social psychology to ...Hegel and Marx in creating the highly influential transformational Marxist movement in the United States. Transformational Marxism has been taught in the public schools and in our universities for many decades. Almost everyone in the U.S. who went through the public schools during the last four decades of the 20th century was exposed to transformational Marxism in some form. As a result, almost all American Baby Boomers are under some influence from this psychologized form of Marxism. Baby Boomers are usually defined as those born from 1946 until 1964, the year the birth rate began to decline. I talked on the phone a few days ago with William Caulson, who, with Carl Rogers, was one of the major founders of the encounter group movement, which made use of a form of the dialectic attitude change procedure. Caulson was on a fellowship in the Wisconsin Psychiatric Institute and associated with Carl Rogers, when I worked on the Schizophrenic project of Rogers et al in 1963. One question I asked Caulson was what is the connection between Rogers and Maslow (A.H. Maslow) and the Frankfurt School of Adorno and others. Caulson said that Maslow worked on the Authoritarian Personality Project with Adorno and others. The question is why was Carl Rogers so interested in ideas which fit in so well with the Adorno group's agenda? One possible answer is John Dewey, a significant figure in American education, who was a follower of the first experimental psychologist Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt (1832-1920) who ran the first experimental psychology lab at the University of Leipzig. Wundt was the founder of what is called the Leipzig School, which included John Dewey, a highly influential American educator, who was at Columbia University's Teachers College when Carl Rogers was a grad student there. Rogers may have absorbed some of the reductionist and anti-Christian attitudes of the Wundt Leipzig School from Dewey.... The aim of cultural Marxism, or Psychologized Marxism, was to weaken and try to destroy Christian faith. The movement started from a position saying that there is no God. But psychologized Marxism also invaded the Christian seminaries and the churches. Within Christianity, psychologized Marxism did not openly advocate atheism. Instead, it strengthened false doctrines and the use of many different Bible versions to create confusion about the authentic word of God, and above all it, taught Christians to use what Dean Gotcher calls the Diaprax, or the practice of the dialectic. Remember that Marxism got the dialectic from the German philosopher Georg Hegel......See http://www.crossroad.to/articles2/05/dialectic.htm .........."In 1847 the London Communist League (Karl Marx and Frederick Engels) used Hegel's theory of the dialectic to back up their economic theory of communism. Now, in the 21st century, Hegelian-Marxist thinking affects our entire social and political structure." Psychologized Marxism led to greater acceptance by Christians of false doctrines and the use of the new Bible versions by the promotion of the dialectic procedure of discourse between Christians. The dialectic challenges a thesis, such as the one which holds that the word of God is inspired by the Holy Spirit. It challenges any fixed doctrine in Christianity, and offers opinions, feelings and group consensus in place of "it is written." The dialectic often side steps the thesis and comes against it from the side in a deceptive way. It may also lead people to misrepresent what the Bible position is in a conversation. So, the dialectic within Christianity has been used as a way of defending and promoting false doctrines. |
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