The Dystopian Gramscian Vision Has Arrived

“The civilized world has been thoroughly saturated by Christianity for two thousand years. Any country grounded in Christian values cannot be overthrown until those roots are cut. But to cut the roots, to change culture, a long march through the institutions [education, government, religion] is necessary. Only then will power fall into our laps like ripened fruit.”

Antonio Gramsci
Founding Intellect Behind Cultural Marxism

Gramsci was a Italian Marxist who had adjusted the works of Marx away from a solely economic model and towards a model that retained much of Marx’s basic thought but instead of view all things through a economic grid broadened the Marxist critique so as to aim at all of culture, inclusive of economics. This really was latent in Marxist though but Gramsci made it central and distinct.

Marx desired to cut the roots of capitalism. His was a vision where class warfare between the proletariat and the bourgeoise, where the proletarian working class would rise up and throw off the bourgeoise and claim for themselves the means of production, thus ushering in an egalitarian Utopia. Gramsci, and the Cultural Marxists who followed him understood that, more had to be done then just gaining the means of production. The Cultural Marxists believed that the egalitarian Utopia could only be brought in by going for more than just economics, and class warfare. A larger arena must be attacked and that larger arena was Christian culture as a whole.

Gramsci in the quote above talks about the necessity to cut the roots of Christian culture in order to overthrow Christian countries. His plan was, to put it in other language, was to de-Christianize the culture of Christian countries. According to his plan, there would be a need of a new proletariat to overthrow the previous order. Classical Marxism insisted on workers of the world uniting against the bourgeoise (owner class). That proletariat vision had failed. Gramsci essentially said a new proletariat had to be recruited to battle a new bourgeoise. That new proletariat would be the Christian cultural root cutters. In that context, Gramsci and the later Cultural Marxists also adjust the Classical Marxist antithesis. Instead of a world divided into proletariat (workers) and bourgeoise Gramsci and his followers divided the world into the “oppressed” vs. “the oppressors.” The oppressed would be the new proletariat class that would cut Christian cultural roots and overthrow Christian countries.

Classical Marxism had taught the workers were oppressed but in the Gramscian vision the oppressed category would be expanded. It would still include the oppressed workers, but added to that would be those who Christians had “oppressed” because they were those who, by their behavior, rejected Christian culture. This expanded the pool of “oppressed” by creating a new proletariat that included Feminists, Sodomites, Sexual Perverts, Minorities operating according to envy, and those who had ever “suffered” under Christian colonialism. These people would be the new proletariat that would cut the roots on Christian values and so overthrow Christian countries.

This new proletariat would overthrow Christian countries via the long march through the institutions. This was the equivalent of the classical Marxist idea of the workers seizing the means of production. This long march through the institutions meant that the oppressed class mentioned above would take over, from within, the previously Christian institutions. The technique they would use to do that was by selling the idea that Christianity was tyranny and Christians were tyrants and only by following their solutions could people be liberated from the oppressor Christian faith. Ironically enough, the enemy here weaponized the Christian faith against Christian in order to cut the roots of their Christian values. The Christian faith was reduced to love and the new proletariat kept banging away that Christian values were not loving to the oppressed. Poor disadvantaged people like Feminists, Sexual Perverts, minorities animated by envy, were not being loved as Christians said all men should be loved. The demand went up that these who had been oppressed be allowed to have a voice in our previously Christian institutions. This is what Gramsci meant by the long march. Over the course of time, increment by increment, the Institutions would be changed so that the previous bottom rail of society (the so-called oppressed) would become the top rail of society. In the world of the Cultural Marxist the oppressed were in the advantageous position.

What Gramsci desired was put even more colorfully by German Communist Willi Munzenberg when he said,

“We must organize the intellectuals and use them to make Western civilization stink. Only then, after they have corrupted all its values and made life impossible, can we impose the dictatorship of the proletariat.”

The putative “intellectuals” (they’re really quite stupid people with above average IQ’s) have indeed led the way in making Western civilization stink. In my own lifetime America has been Weimar-ized. In my own lifetime I have seen the rise and mainstreaming of the sodomite. I have seen the ever increasing mainstreaming of gender blending. I have seen the percentages out of wedlock pregnancies and birth sky-rocket. I have seen the fair skinned well dressed western woman become adorned with tramp stamps, while dressed like a whore who is pining for business. I have seen Church services go from a proper and respectful decorum reflecting a sense of “The Holy,” to bad Hootie & the Blowfish concert. I have lived through the process of making Western civilization stink.

Gramsci’s work has been more successful than Marx’s initial offerings. The long march through the Institutions has been largely accomplished and we stink. This long march will continue until power falls into the laps of the Feminists, the sexual perverts, the angry and envy filled minorities, the illegal immigrant etc. The power is already falling into their hands. New York city has its Mamdani. DEMS in Michigan are running Abudullah Al-Sayed, an angry, envy filled minority for US Senate. DEMS in Texas are running a chap who has insisted that “God is non-binary.”

No longer can it be said that the civilized world is saturated by Christianity. The consequences of rejecting a absolutely personal and transcendent God has done its work. As a result it must be said that Gramsci and the Cultural Marxists have created the new West.

Before ending we must note that Gramsci gets an assist in all this from Radical Two Kingdom theology promoted by much of the Church today. R2K gets an assist because it teaches that the church can not and must not speak against the Weimar-ization of Western civilization. More than that R2K suggests it is sin for the pulpit to limn out how the West has been de-Christianized. So, while Gramsci and the Cultural Marxist ideas have indeed accomplished a long march through the Institutions, R2K (men like David Van Drunnen, R. Scott Clark, and Mike Horton) should be given the assist they deserve for where we are at today.

May God help us all as we continue to fight against this Gramscian dystopian nightmare. After all, in the end it can only fail.

Author: jetbrane

I am a Pastor of a small Church in Mid-Michigan who delights in my family, my congregation and my calling. I am postmillennial in my eschatology. Paedo-Calvinist Covenantal in my Christianity Reformed in my Soteriology Presuppositional in my apologetics Familialist in my family theology Agrarian in my regional community social order belief Christianity creates culture and so Christendom in my national social order belief Mythic-Poetic / Grammatical Historical in my Hermeneutic Pre-modern, Medieval, & Feudal before Enlightenment, modernity, & postmodern Reconstructionist / Theonomic in my Worldview One part paleo-conservative / one part micro Libertarian in my politics Systematic and Biblical theology need one another but Systematics has pride of place Some of my favorite authors, Augustine, Turretin, Calvin, Tolkien, Chesterton, Nock, Tozer, Dabney, Bavinck, Wodehouse, Rushdoony, Bahnsen, Schaeffer, C. Van Til, H. Van Til, G. H. Clark, C. Dawson, H. Berman, R. Nash, C. G. Singer, R. Kipling, G. North, J. Edwards, S. Foote, F. Hayek, O. Guiness, J. Witte, M. Rothbard, Clyde Wilson, Mencken, Lasch, Postman, Gatto, T. Boston, Thomas Brooks, Terry Brooks, C. Hodge, J. Calhoun, Llyod-Jones, T. Sowell, A. McClaren, M. Muggeridge, C. F. H. Henry, F. Swarz, M. Henry, G. Marten, P. Schaff, T. S. Elliott, K. Van Hoozer, K. Gentry, etc. My passion is to write in such a way that the Lord Christ might be pleased. It is my hope that people will be challenged to reconsider what are considered the givens of the current culture. Your biggest help to me dear reader will be to often remind me that God is Sovereign and that all that is, is because it pleases him.

4 thoughts on “The Dystopian Gramscian Vision Has Arrived”

  1. As Bakunin expressed it in his Revolutionary Catechism, wicked oppressors are “people to whom we concede life provisionally, in order that, by a series of monstrous acts, they may drive the people into inevitable revolt.” [But] the killing of wicked people implies no really valuable criticism of the existing social order. … If a son kills a bad father, the act, though meritorious in its humble way, does not take us much further. But if he kills a good father, it cuts at the root of all ‘that pestilent system of family affection and lovingkindness and gratitude’ on which the present system is largely based.” … In Syndicalism we have for the first time in human history a full-fledged philosophy of the Under-Man—the prologue of that vast revolt against civilization which, with Russian Bolshevism, has actually begun. p. 108.

    T. Lothrop Stoddard, ‘The Revolt Against Civilization: The Menace of the Underman’, 1922, Ostara 2021

      1. Thanks very much.
        I believe in God’s absolute sovereignty, and that no human willing can operate outside of that. We humans experience our willing as free, and it IS free, rightly understood, under God’s sovereignty.
        Leibniz the Reformed Christian philosopher does the best job of anyone I know of explaining the relationship between human willing and God’s sovereignty. Anselm is also very good. Pierre Bayle, the brilliant skeptic, does his best to refute Leibniz, as recorded in the Theodicy, but fails.
        Leibniz stresses how our willing is determined by inclinations but is still metaphysically contingent and not necessary and therefore free. However, God as Sovereign ultimately determines, by HIs grace, how we will be inclined.
        Again, a complicated and fascinating subject. More to come.
        And best to you.
        Winston

        P.S. In my household, the Synod of Dort convenes every few days on this very complex and fascinating subject. My wife is always pressing me for greater clarification.

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