Reviews for Politics in America, Texas Edition

The average rating for Politics in America, Texas Edition based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-12-20 00:00:00 Nancy Compston Loved this book. A great scholarly historical look at a topic that should be of great interest to Marxists and to people on the left in general in the English speaking world who are familiar with any of the major political and intellectual developments of the last forty years or so.

Review # 2 was written on 2016-12-28 00:00:00 Andrew Hayes The Roots Of British Cultural Marxism ~ Author Believes It Made A Valuable Contribution To The Nation. This book helps you understand how Marxism managed to get it's foot in the door. By reading between the lines you can unmask the process these cultural theorists and their backers, used on the population. The oppression archetype was massively amplified by these radicals and our society was destabilised-it remains fragmented. Group Mind theory says that what happens at the conscious level is determined by what takes place at the subconscious group mind level. Britons were convinced they were involved in a participative humanitarian endeavour when in reality they had been subjected to a manipulative grooming process via ingenious propaganda techniques. Nearly all of the intellectual and artistic movements of the 20th century were inspired by thinkers who were financed by central bankers - some of them worked for Soviet Intelligence. Cultural theory is Leftist criticism of the culture we live in.Cultural theorists interpret the traditional and the normative as oppressive,as something that should be constantly analyzed opposed and challenged.Academics in this field counter the idea that a nation's culture is whole (homogenised) as they prefer it to be ever changing with lots of diversity.This is in line with the Marxist concept of 'repressive toleration',which is a tolerance for movements from the left, but intolerance for movements from the right. The author focuses on the work of the following academic intellectuals. Rodney Hilton - communist historian Shelia Rowbotham - communist feminist Catherine Hall - feminist historian EP Thompson - communist historian Stuart Hall - Marxist writer Christopher Hill - communist,lifelong radical Perry Anderson - editor of the New Left Review Barbara Taylor - feminist historian Raymond Williams - Marxist writer Dick Hebridge - Marxist professor Eric Hobsbawm - Marxist historian All of these people had something important in common,they were mostly all secular humanists who promoted causes which championed the right to self-determination, for example, freedom of choice regarding sexual relationships & reproduction (abortions) etc, and they were deeply infatuated with Karl Marx. They were probably well meaning individuals and some of their theorising was quite noble,it had some genuine worth,however Marxism was their opium.They idolized a man who made it his mission to get rid of God [quote] "The Prussian political philosophers from Leibnitz to Hegel have laboured to dethrone God, and if I dethrone God I also dethrone the king who reigns by the grace of God." The author of this textbook is a Left wing academic who has a very positive (naive) view of Cultural Marxism. It is obvious he feels the critical theory that came out of the Frankfurt school and it's subsequent application to our British culture (the Utopian spell it cast) was something valuable.He does not acknowledge it resulted in a deliberate subversion of the existing social order which people would probably have rejected if it had been made overt. The British people would have never knowingly adopted communism but under the banner of 'equality' they unwittingly did adopt it. They were able to twist reality, under the guise of broadening our horizons.