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Entry: "Islamophobia" and "Anti-Fascist" Frauds Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/islamophobia_and_anti_fascist_frauds#1518 Post contents: To clarify my previous comment for the benefit of Mr. Hayes: Both Engels and the Frankfurt School believed that the patriarchal family and private property were mutually-supporting institutions. Engels thought the patriarchal family, and what he considered to be the inferior status of women in it, would disappear with the disappearance of private property. The Frankfurt School, seeing the failure of Marxist economics in the Soviet Union and the distinct lack of allure that Marxism possessed for the working classes in the prosperous West, decided it had to reverse the sequence of events, and destroy the family first so that economic communism could be introduced afterward. Once no one felt the loyalties of kinship, once every child was a bastard, then all would be equal, and prepared to share (indeed, to demand to share) equally with others without preference for one's own flesh and blood. We see the partial vindication of this view in the politics of the American black community, with its 70%+ rate of bastardy. Blacks are the most reliable native-born voting block in support of redistributive taxation and economic interventionism. Rep. Charles Rangel (D-Harlem) has gone so far to suggest that anyone who wishes to reduce marginal income tax rates is "racist." It doesn't matter to the followers of Marcuse and Adorno that sexual libertines, man-hating feminists, and homosexuals have come along for the ride. They are welcomed as fellow travellers. The appeal of the Frankfurt School's anti-family program to the predilections of such people, from its point of view serves only to hasten the day when the fond Marxist hope of a propertyless, egalitarian utopia may be realized. People have been engaging in sexual peccadilloes of every imaginable variety since the dawn of time, but it is only in the modern age that anyone has thought it necessary or desirable to justify such behavior ideologically. De Sade could probably be cited as a forerunner of that effort, but he was certainly not responsible for the great recent efflorescence of academic pseudo-scholarship devoted to the end of destroying the family - "womens' studies," "queer studies," "transgender studies," etc. All of this may be laid at the feet of the Frankfurt School, and particularly of Marcuse. Sent at: 2008 05 16