(The idea, though not the name, was hatched earlier, in a 1992 monograph called "The New Dark Age: The Frankfurt School and Political Correctness." It was written by a disciple of the noted conspiracy theorist Lyndon LaRouche.)
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Instead, the theory took off in the late 1990s due to speeches, essays, and books by William Lind, then with the Free Congress Foundation, and Patrick Buchanan, the firebrand conservative columnist, TV talking head, and sometime presidential candidate. You might think that a history of cultural Marxism would start with Marx, but the poorly coiffed Prussian has almost nothing to do with this tale of insidious infiltration. The Critical Theory Conspiracy Saratm/Fiverr
You won't win the day by treating people who merely disagree with you as stalking horses for socialist tyranny. But declaring that advocates of multiculturalism, feminism, and gay rights are the pawns of dead Jewish communists is both mistaken as a matter of cultural history and foolish as a way to sell an alternate ideology. It may be comforting to believe your ideological foes are dupes of manipulative intellectual fiends. How can you approve of sympathetic gay people appearing in yogurt commercials if it's all a commie plot?
You have to give the conspiratorial right credit for clever rhetorical deck-stacking, at least. Thus, political correctness is part of a lefty long con to take over America. Here's how the narrative goes: After the horrific deaths of millions, global communism may have been discredited as a viable economic system, but its proponents want to sneak it perniciously through the back door via cultural decadence. The twist was to begin dragging Karl Marx into it. This bill of particulars is not new, especially from conservatives. The list of developments for which "cultural Marxism" has been blamed includes the following: the LGBT rights movement, especially the legal push to eliminate sodomy laws and legitimize gay marriage activism for transgender acceptance and recognition the increase in divorce at the end of the 20th century and a decrease in nuclear family formation African Americans protesting police abuse art and music that fails to follow familiar genre conventions increased depictions of a variety of races, genders, and sexualities in popular media acceptance of immigrants and the cultural pluralism they bring a lack of tolerance for nonliberal ideas on college campuses.