We continue to review Dr. Schlebusch’s “Assailing the Gates of Hell; Christianity at War with the Left.”
In chapter 2-3 Dr. Schlebusch turns to identifying the enemy of Christianity, Christendom and the West having given a brief history lesson in chapter 1 explaining how we have gotten to this point. In chapter 2 the enemy is identified as classical Marxism while chapter 3 the enemy has morphed into cultural Marxism. In my own reading it has been suggested that both incarnations of Marxism (classical and cultural) flow from the pen of Marx with classical Marxism being tied to Marx’s later writings while cultural Marxism is an expression of Marx’s earlier writings. The main difference between the two is that while classical Marxism focused its materialistic dialectics on the realm of the economic so that man is understood as exclusively as a economic matter in motion being, whereas cultural Marxism moved the focus away from Marx’s original dialectical materialism back to Hegel’s idealistic materialism but as focused on man’s cultural existence. Following, the Marxist Gramsci, the cultural Marxists no longer viewed everything through an exclusively economic grid choosing instead to contend that the Marxist Utopia would only be achieved by poisoning the cultural inheritance of the West. In the words of cultural Marxist Willi Münzenberg, the cultural Marxist resolved to, “organize the intellectuals and use them to make Western civilization stink.” Only then would the West fall to the Marxist vision. Whereas classical Marxists viewed man as an economic being, the cultural Marxists viewed man as a cultural being.
Dr. Schlebusch in chapter 2 first explains how the effects of the French Revolution resulted in the rise of the God-state inasmuch as the philosophes and illuminati had succeeded in tearing the family, clan, community, and church via social contract theory from having any jurisdictional authority in the life of the individual, leaving thus the vulnerable contextual-less individual with only the state as that institution providing atmospheric context to find meaning. In such a way the state became God walking on the earth. However, the project of the Masons and illuminists failed as the vision of egalitarianism became an unobtainable promise, as was planned from the outset by the architects of Enlightenment Liberalism.
This failure of Liberalism created a vacuum that was filled by the next ideological Golem, Marxism. Whereas Liberalism had gone after the Aristocratic class in order to establish egalitarianism, upon that failure Marxism went after the Bourgeoise capitalist class in pursuit of the same egalitarian reality. In order to arrive at this desired egalitarian reality the Marxists as materialists invoked their famous scientific socialism to serve as the new norm that would norm all norms. It was scientific socialism and not God’s revelation, that would usher in the new egalitarian world. Here Dr. Schlebusch uses wonderful quotes from Francis Nigel Lee, Herman Bavinck, and Rushdoony to support his argumentation. Of course this scientific socialism in turn yielded to scientism and eventually people began to clue in that scientific socialism and scientism were hardly objective given the Marxist dismissal of God as the governing reality but instead were only as good as the godless scientists like Trofim Lysenko who were jerry-rigging the results of their “science.” Meaning was now man-made.
Dr. Schlebusch points out that all of this was merely the manifestation of Marxism’s warfare with God’s revelation. Marxism, being both atheistic and materialistic having eliminated the God of the bible from their consideration were at war with God’s revelation. The contest was and remains between God’s revelation vs. man’s autonomous self-revelation.
Dr. Schlebusch then gives some space to explaining the absolute necessity of private property. Necessary, first because it is the explicit teaching of Scripture. Necessary, secondly, because private property is the only way wherein initiative to improve one’s property is secured. Being property-less in a Marxist system leaves one as existing in a state wage slave status. Marxism has demonstrated that reality everywhere it has been tried.
Dr. Schlebusch closes chapter two by giving a quick overview of the Bolshevik Revolution demonstrating how it was consistent with the tenents of Marxism. He then turns to give a foretaste of cultural Marxism which he examines more closely in the next chapter.
Dr. Schlebusch opens chapter 3 by giving the methodology of the cultutral Marxists. Whereas the classical Marxists had used a sledge hammer to seek to advance their revolution against revelation the cultural Marxists, having altered slightly the usage of the dialectic to point it at culture worked like a canker worm to hollow out from the inside Western civilization. This is sometimes referred to as “the long march through the institutions.” Cultural Marxists would change the context of modern man not via the guillotine and gulag but would bring change by making Western civilization stink so that Western man would himself demand the change that Bolsheviks had failed in permanently bringing in.
At this point Dr. Schelbusch brings forth the fact that many names that are behind the cultural Marxist push (and it was true of the classical Marxist push as well) were and remain Jewish. Dr. Schlebush names the Jewish influence in the area of pornography, and entertainment — two major areas used in the cultural Marxist subversion of the West. Wisely, Dr. Schlebusch cites other sources (Marhoefer and Gabler) in order to sustain his argument here. Dr. Schlebusch reminds his readers that the Hollywood “Hays code” was implemented in order to place barriers on Jewish coarseness. Eventually, the Hays code fell and Hollywood returned to where it was before the Hays code was implemented complete with blasphemy of Jesus Christ and sexual debauchery at every turn. All of this is footnoted from impeccable source material. This is not nekulturny Jew bashing. This is providing the cold hard facts of the cultural Marxist deterioration of Western civilization as pursued by those, who have for centuries, hated Jesus Christ and have taken that hatred of Jesus Christ out on Christendom.
Dr. Schlebush next takes a quick look at how the Jewish media reports “the news,” by examining briefly the Nick Sandmann’s event and the George Floyd event. He could just as easily chosen the Kyle Rittenhouse event or the Ahmaud Arbrey event or any number of other events that finds the media putting the Christian white man in their sites. Dr. Schlebusch ends this chapter by next putting the government schools and Universities as well as the Churches in the West in the dock. He brings forth evidence that these institutions have also likewise fallen to the subversion of the cultural Marxists.
For those who have followed Iron Ink over the years you know that we have been banging the same drum that Dr. Schlebusch bangs in this volume. Here at Iron Ink we have chronicled the same demise of Christendom. We have put the same guilty parties in the dock. We have been screaming our lungs out to awaken the moribund West. We are more than delighted for Dr. Schlebusch singing from the same hymnbook.
If you don’t have this book… if you are new to this line of argumentation then you desperately need to read this primer and get up to speed quickly. The hour is late. We need all hands on deck to fight the enemy.