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Genesis 3:1-7 and the Origins of the Contemporary Dialectic
Posted : 21 Aug, 2012 11:26 AM
Genesis 3:1-7 and the Origins of the Contemporary Dialectic
"Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
2. And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:
3. But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.
4. And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:
5. For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
6. And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.
7. And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons." Genesis 3: 1-7
Satan, the first facilitator, lured Eve into a dialogue, and through the dialectic process fixed Eve's obedience to God, and overthrew the absolute patriarchal authority of God. The human father in the family is a reflection of God's patriarchal authority, and the father is told to love his wife and children.
This is a topic that is not easily understood by many Americans, and it is not understood by people in the American churches as being the problem it is. Many of them believe that Marxism is limited to the political and economic areas and is not relevant to culture, psychology, the media and religion. But Transformational Marxism is not bolshevism. In fact, many of the change agents leading the infiltration of American culture by Transformational Marxism posed as psychologists and psychiatrists, and there were other American psychologists, not part of the German Frankfurt School, who were allied with the Frankfurters in their movement to change American culture and religion. A part of this infiltation has been the use of the Hegelian-Marxist dialectic.
The Frankfurt School Marxists mixed Marx with Freud, and then later in America they mixed personality-social psychology, clinical psychology, the Group Dynamics movement, and the encounter group movement with Marxist theory. In the process of mixing Marx with psychology, the American psychologist and psychiatrist allies of the Frankfurters perfected the Hegelian-Marxist dialectic as an attitude and belief changing procedure and adapted it to small groups, though it is also used on large number of people by the media and by politicians. And their Hegelian-Marxist dialectic attitude change procedure was used by the Rick Warren people in the Purpose Driven Church, in some mega churches and the movement emphasizing church growth over being true to the Gospel. But the use of the dialectic in promoting and in defending man's leaning to his own understanding is not limited to the church growth movement and to the huge churches.
Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937), along with Georg Lukacs, was the founder
of cultural Marxism. Gramsci pioneered the concept of cultural
hegemony as a means of changing a society into a collectivist Marxist
state. Gramsci was from Italy while Lukacs was from Hungary.
Gramsci taught that capitalism in the West kept its control not only
by violence and economic power, but also by culture. The bourgeoisie
had created a hegemonic or dominant culture, which kept capitalism in
power. The Marxist revolution had to first change the culture to take
over capitalist society.
And Gramsci believed that Marxism must first establish its cultural
dominance in society and then when that dominance was in place the
people would willingly obey the Marxist political authorities. He saw
Marxist intellectuals as directors (later called "facilitators" in the
U.S.) who created Marxist cultural dominance by means of ideological
institutions which are education, the media, and religion.
The intellectuals of the German Frankfurt School operated from major American universities. Theodore W. Adorno, who posed as a personality-social psychologist, was lodged in the University of California at Berkeley and at first Herbert Marcuse was at Brandeis University, and later at the University of California at San Diego. Marcuse was more of a sociologist and philosopher than a psychologist.
Antonio Gramsci was an incremental, or slow step by step
revolutionary rather than an advocate of quick and violent takeover of
a government. Gramsci talked about the "long march through the
institutions" to take over Western society. This slower, step by
step takeover of the culture of the West is exactly what has been
happening since the fifties and sixties.
Georg Luk�cs (1885-1971) was one of the two founders of Western
Marxism, the ideology that departed from the Marxist orthodoxy of the
old Soviet Union. His Transformational Marxism advocated a slower
takeover of Western Europe and the United States by changing the
culture. As such, Transformational Marxism is not Bolshevism - of
Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin - which sought to take over capitalist
nations by overthrowing national governments and then purging out
those who opposed the Bolshevist regime by shooting them.
On http://www.schillerinstitute.org/fid...frankfurt.html and
Georg Luk�cs and "Aufhebung der Kultur," Abolishment of Culture, they
say "Lukacs identified that any political movement capable of bringing
Bolshevism to the West would have to be, in his words, "demonic"; it
would have to "possess the religious power which is capable of filling
the entire soul; a power that characterized primitive Christianity."
They go on to say that "What differentiated the West from Russia,
Lukacs identified, was a
Judeo-Christian cultural matrix which emphasized exactly the
uniqueness and sacredness of the individual which Lukacs abjured. At
its core, the dominant Western ideology maintained that the
individual, through the exercise of his or her reason, could discern
the Divine Will in an unmediated relationship. What was worse, from
Lukacs' standpoint: this reasonable relationship necessarily implied
that the individual could and should change the physical universe in
pursuit of the Good; that Man should have dominion over Nature, as
stated in the Biblical injunction in Genesis. The problem was, that as
long as the individual had the belief�or even the hope of the
belief�that his or her divine spark of reason could solve the problems
facing society, then that society would never reach the state of
hopelessness and alienation which Lukacs recognized as the necessary
prerequisite for socialist revolution."
From its beginning, the leaders of Transformational Marxism knew they
could be more effective if they concealed the Marxist nature of their
work, and instead led the society of the West out of the protestant
individual based cultural dominance with its morality, individual
freedom, self-reliance and relationship to Jesus Christ.
"In 1919, Lukacs was the Hungarian Minister of Culture of the
government of the short-lived Hungarian Soviet Republic ."
http://www.schillerinstitute.org/fid...frankfurt.html
When Lukacs became Deputy Commissar for Culture in the Bolshevik
government in Hungary, one of Lukacs�s first acts was to introduce sex
education into Hungary�s public schools. Lukacs wanted to create a
culture in which sex outside of marriage was accepted, to help destroy
the West's Christian based sexual morality, and eventually to do away
with the Western, protestant individual based culture itself.
In 1922, inspired in part by Lukacs, a group of German Marxists
established a think tank at Frankfurt University in Germany called the
Institute for Social Research. This institute, soon known simply as
the Frankfurt School, would become the center of cultural Marxism.
The Frankfurters wanted to change the economic focus of traditional
Marxism to a cultural focus. To do this they first turned to Sigmund
Freud. Later in the United States, Theodor W. Adorno pretended to be
a personality-social psychologist and researcher using paper and
pencil questionnaires. Soon a number of 20th century change agents,
including some psychologists and psychiatrists - Abraham H. Maslow,
Carl R. Rogers, the Frankfurter Eric Fromm, Wilhelm Reich on the
fringes of the Frankfurters, Norman O. Brown, Irvin D. Yalom and
Herbert Marcuse, a Frankfurter Marxist sociologist, all began to lead
Gramsci's long march through the institutions of America.
How would Transformational Marxism began to take over our
institutions? The answer by the leaders of Transformational Marxism
was the counterculture of the sixties and seventies which was to begin
the process of takeover of the American culture. The counterculture
established the drug movement, sexual rebellion against Christian
sexual morality, plus feminism, the Black movement, as well as the
homosexual and lesbian movements. Lesbianism became politically and
sexually correct in the major universities soon after the seventies.
The major universities became change agents, with their politically
correct feminism, gay rights, lesbianism, homosexuality, self psychology, and
Marxist sociological ideology, all within cultural Marxism. Pornography, as on the Internet, is allied with all this because it too attacks Christianity and the family.
The Baby Boomer generation became the target of the Frankfurt School's
intellectuals, the first American generation to become influenced by the new
collectivist cultural dominance created by Transformational Marxism.
American generations born before the Baby Boomers began in 1946 tended
to follow a culture of protestant based individualism, a culture that
valued individual freedom, individual moral responsibility and
self-reliance. The transformation of American individual-based culure
derived from the protestant Reformation is not yet complete, but its
well along in its "long march through the institutions."
And the stealth
Marxist intellectuals knew that they had to weaken American Chfristianity
and in the language of metaphor of the Bible, to deprive the salt of its savour.
Matthew 5: 13 says "Ye are the salt of he earth: but if the salt have lost its savour wherewith shall it be
salted. It is hencedforth good for nothing, but to be cast out and to be trodden under
foot of men."
The leader of the Transformational Marxists, Theodor W. Adorno, in his 1950 book, The Authoritarian Personality,
talked a great deal about diminishing and even destroying the influence of Christianity, along with the family, in
the West.
The Greek word from which "savour" is translated is moranthe, a form of moros, dull of stupid. In other
words, Matthew 5: 13, in using the metaphor of Christian moral and spiritual leadership of people as "salt" is really talking about Christianity's loss of cognitive competence, but its a spiritual competence, from having something of the mind of Christ, and having some part of His light to give to others who can accept it. The dialectic process makes people dumber, and when the Christian churches become the target of the stealth Marxist dialectic,
the Christians become dumbed down to some extent. The Christians under the dialectic lose their light
from Christ, but this is all part of the falling away of II Thessalonians 2: 3 and the leavening of the churches of Luke 13: 21.
Its not only the dialectic that has caused a loss of the light, but also the failure of the zeal for the truth which has been going on for many decades.
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