{"id":1841745,"date":"2023-02-10T06:48:53","date_gmt":"2023-02-10T11:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1841745"},"modified":"2023-02-10T06:49:46","modified_gmt":"2023-02-10T11:49:46","slug":"how-can-we-stop-the-wreckage-of-cultural-marxism-spencer-klavan-has-some-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-can-we-stop-the-wreckage-of-cultural-marxism-spencer-klavan-has-some-ideas\/","title":{"rendered":"How Can We Stop The Wreckage Of Cultural Marxism? Spencer Klavan Has Some Ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhow-can-we-stop-the-wreckage-of-cultural-marxism-spencer-klavan-has-some-ideas%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1841745&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>In his 11th thesis, he famously \u201cTheses on Feuerbach\u201d<em> <\/em>(1888)<em>, <\/em>Karl Marx famously stated, \u201cThe philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.\u201d This phrase has been interpreted in several ways by both Marx\u2019s critics and his fans, but one salient reading is that Marx saw philosophy leading fundamentally toward revolutionary change.<\/p>\n<p>Marx and his associates started the cultural revolution and the economic revolution. However, Marx and other Marxists had a different goal. The post-Trump era has seen many of those on the left focus their efforts on a cultural revolution to leave (the most wealthy). \u201cprogressive\u201d(Capitalists) in control of the economic system, while allegedly creating more \u201cinclusive and tolerant\u201d Capitalism in its most basic form. <\/p>\n<p>This is one of the most important elements. \u201ccultural Marxism\u201d The eradication of or at least modification to the foundation of Western thought, especially the ancient traditions of Greece and Rome. This thinking asserts that Western civilization is fundamentally racist and sexist.<\/p>\n<p>One individual who has provided a robust defense of the West\u2019s classical tradition is Spencer Klavan. Spencer Klavan is both the associate editor of The Claremont Review of Books, and the features editor of The American Mind. He hosts the television show The Claremont Review of Books. \u201cYoung Heretics Show\u201d Author of the forthcoming \u201cHow to Save the West: Ancient Wisdom for 5 Modern Crises.\u201d He has recently written the forward for a new issue of \u201cThe Stoics.\u201d\u00a0So I sought his cure for postmodern decay.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jesse Russell: Which crisis do you see in the West today, and why?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Spencer Klavan: The West\u2019s primary crisis, which occupies the central portion of my book, is the loss of our ancestral faith. Friedrich Nietzsche saw it coming in \u201cThe Gay Science.\u201d The most famous passage he wrote was the \u201cmadman\u201d He grieves over the demise of God because he sees what no one else can: that belief in a creator consciousness, which is the foundation upon which all moral axioms rest, is the foundation. Our morality would be very different without it. We give up and try. \u201cto become gods ourselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0We like to think this isn\u2019t the case. We think that we can do without. \u201cniceness\u201d You can also find it on the \u201ccommon decency\u201d That supposedly animates all civilized people, and teaches them that \u201call men are created equal.\u201d But the central truths of the West aren\u2019t \u201cself-evident\u201d It is just a natural feeling. They don\u2019t just occur to us out of the blue. Most people have had them throughout history. <em>Not <\/em>Believed in equality of human beings. It is something we believe in, or used to believe it, because it was what we believed. <em>Our creator has bestowed this gift on us<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Nietzsche observed that if you remove this belief, the old morality may last for a while among those who already have it. \u201cblindly accepted what has been labeled <em>right<\/em> since childhood.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you can\u2019t believe in something beyond this life, you\u2019ll struggle to make sense of things here and now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1719,"featured_media":1841748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[10642,10498,11538,7974,15772,17958],"class_list":["post-1841745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-cultural","tag-ideas","tag-klavan","tag-marxism","tag-spencer","tag-wreckage"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1841745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1719"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1841745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1841745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1841748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1841745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1841745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1841745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}