Italian
communist Antonio Gramsci (1891–1937) described
how the state and ruling capitalist class – the bourgeoisie –
“use cultural institutions to maintain power in capitalist
societies. The bourgeoisie, in Gramsci's view, develops a hegemonic
culture using ideology rather than violence, economic force, or
coercion. Hegemonic culture propagates its own values and norms so
that they become the "common sense” values of all and thus
maintain the status quo. Hegemonic power is therefore used to
maintain consent to the capitalist order, rather than coercive power
using force to maintain order. This cultural hegemony is produced and
reproduced by the dominant class through the institutions that form
the superstructure.” (Wikipedia)
This was summarized by
the phrase “a march through the institutions” (schools, the
media, government, etc.) which was brilliantly accomplished in the
1960's by the counter-cultural left, which has now successfully
replaced traditional culture in America and the West with various
versions of cultural Marxism.
The New Right in
France saw the sense of using this strategy for the Right, and I affirm this commom sense strategy for the task of rationally and instinctively
channeling education and human cultures to move in the natural and
integrated direction of the evolutionary sciences. The
biological origin of our social behavior actually ends the
intellectual defense of postmodern relativism and the cultural
Marxist ideologues. But it also takes some of the virtue-signaling
away from conservatives.
The science of
sociobiology has shown us that the natural order evolved a human
nature that is genetically kin-centered,
gender defined, age-graded, heterosexual, marriage-making,
hierarchical, ethnocentric, even xenophobic, and religious-making,
among other conservative things, with group-selection as the primary
unit of selection, followed by individual selection. That is almost
the opposite of cultural Marxism and modern liberalism. It shows us
that given real human nature an ethnopluralism of ethnostates is
instinctively and rationally the best political configuration for
humans beings to live within.
But any future effective politics which
affirms ethnostatism and an ethnopluralism of ethnostates will need
to first legally march through the institutions. This calls for
enormous almost inhuman patience, but if the cultural institutions
and the people have not affirmed the political and social philosophy,
radical, unlawful, or violent action usually leads nowhere or brings only
more destructive violence.
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