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Entry: "Islamophobia" and "Anti-Fascist" Frauds Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/islamophobia_and_anti_fascist_frauds#1511 Post contents: Having read D'Souza's "The Enemy Within," I can say that it is a masterly presentation of carefully selected facts (and careful omission of others) designed to lead to D'Souza's predetermined conclusion. He brings up a great number of "straw man" arguments as to why the Islamic world is aggrieved with the United States, only to dismiss them - leaving only Islamic disgust with American decadence as the explanation. While it is true the mullahs are appalled at the sexual libertinism and vulgarity of the West, he fails, I believe deliberately, to say anything about their much more significant grievances with U.S. military presence on the Arabian peninsula following the first Gulf war, and the U.S. government's generous ongoing subsidy of Israel. Of course anyone holding himself forth as a conservative who dares to mention these points will be treated as Ron Paul was by Rudy Giuliani in the recent Republican debate. I've also read Prof. Gottfried's book "The Strange Death of Marxism," and while I agree with most of what he has written I would take exception to the implicit claim that Marxism is dead. It has, rather, undergone a metamorphosis, not unlike that which the malaria plasmodium does at various stages in its life cycle. Marxism-Leninism, the attempt to re-organize society economically along the lines of the former Soviet Union, is assuredly a thing of the past. But the Marxism of the Frankfurt School, which has succeeded it in the West, is not a mutation or a "post Marxist" phenomenon. It hearkens back to Marx's own derision for what he called, in "The Communist Manifesto," the claptrap of the bourgeois family, and the wisecrack of Engels that the only difference between marriage and prostitution was the duration of the contract. It draws particularly on Engels's "The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State." It is not very far from these to Herbert Marcuse's "Eros and Civilization." The Frankfurt School realized that if society was to be re-constructed, its very foundation - the patriarchal family - had to be demolished, and it was the failure of Marxism-Leninism to have destroyed the family that led to its demise. The legacies of the New Left, of which Marcuse was the intellectual godfather, are with us today in the forms of "womens' liberation" and "gay liberation." They are effective agents of destruction and we have already seen greater ravages from them in the years since 1968 than we did from three generations of Gus Hall-style communist subversion. Sent at: 2008 05 16