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Entry: "Islamophobia" and "Anti-Fascist" Frauds Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/islamophobia_and_anti_fascist_frauds#1528 Post contents: Further to Mr. Hayes, of course the 'sixties marked the beginning of the concerted attack on the family. The seeds had been sown long before, but mostly remained dormant. Suddenly the climate changed and they sprouted. What caused the climate to change? Those who didn't live through the 'sixties (and many who did live through them) don't perceive how intimately the phenomena of political New Left (campus unrest, the Chicago riots of 1968, etc.) and the counterculture ("sex 'n drugs'n rock 'n roll") were intertwined. They didn't manifest themselves spontaneously - both were projects of the intellectual class. One of Marcuse's proteges at UCLA, for example, was Angela Davis, later a prominent black militant associated with the Black Panthers, and ultimately a hard-core communist who received the Soviet Union's Lenin Prize. The Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) was probably the main New Left group inspired by Frankfurt School ideas. Out of the SDS sprang the Weathermen or Weather Underground, responsible for many bombings, jailbreaks, etc. But these revolutionary activities also tied in with the hedonistic counterculture - the Weathermen, in return for monies paid them by Timothy Leary's psychedelic drug distribution ring, the "Brotherhood of Eternal Love," broke Leary out prison, spirited him out of the country, and brought him to Algiers, where he shared digs with no less than Eldridge Cleaver, Black Panther leader and fugitive from justice. The tie-in of homosexual political activism to both the Old and the New Left is similarly documented. Harry Hay, founder of the Mattachine Society, was a long-time communist. Tony Kushner, the militant gay activist responsible for "Angels in America," was an undergraduate at Columbia University during the heyday of the New Left. Kushner became friends there with a woman named Kimberly Flynn. According to a New Yorker article on Kushner (Jan. 3, 2005) "Flynn had, Kushner says, 'a vast appetite for pedagogy - she loves explaining things to people.'... Kushner, in turn, had a vast curiosity. 'She led and I followed,' he says. 'She read Walter Benjamin and told me I should. And Marcuse, Adorno, Horkheimer. I had read some Freud and some Marx, but not nearly as widely'..." So, there you have it from the horse's mouth - or some other part of its anatomy. Frankfurt School theorists provided the intellectual inspiration of Tony Kushner, one of the country's most visible apologists for the legitimization of buggery. The readings I suggest to anyone who wishes to understand the influence of the Frankfurt School in the attack on the patriarchal family largely follow the list given by Tony Kushner. Marcuse's "Eros and Civlization" and Adorno's "The Authoritarian Personality" are probably the books with which to begin. Dreadfully turgid stuff! Still, with a little patience you should be able to see that their ideas have become the commonplaces of left-wing culture warriors. Sent at: 2008 05 16