Why “Cultural Marxism” is Made Up Right Wing Horsefuckery

From fringe theory to mainstream talking point, this is how “Cultural Marxism” became a political weapon. Breaking down the anatomy of a conspiracy theory designed to manipulate and divide.

In the late 1990s, a conservative influencer (wank) named William Lind began making the rounds on the conference circuit. With his neatly parted brown hair, rigid posture, and sharp button-down shirt, Lind looked every bit the part of a serious academic.

And the theory he shared with his attentive audiences certainly sounded serious. Dead serious. Deathly serious, in fact, if you believed his warning about the “insidious” plague eating away at Western civilization from the inside out.

He called this invented plague “Cultural Marxism.”​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Lind claimed that classic economic Marxism was no longer the greatest threat facing the West. Instead, a new and more nefarious form of Marxism had supposedly infiltrated our culture, our values, our very way of life. According to Lind, a cabal of left-wing intellectuals, mostly Jewish (remember this part) and many affiliated with a little-known school of social theory called the Frankfurt School, had been working for decades to systematically undermine the foundations of Western society.