Peter Hitchens on "cultural Marxism"

Peter Hitchens, in the Daily Mail, notes that there is some tentative rethinking of sex education going on in Britain, though far too late in his view.

The official excuses for sex education are extraordinarily feeble. The real purpose of this mental poison and immoral preaching is to debauch children by smashing up the moral values they have received at home or in church. Its inventor, the Hungarian Bolshevik [Georg] Lukacs admitted this. His followers do not admit it even to themselves—hence the ludicrousness of their official position.

He is onto something here (though the "church" reference doesn't seem very applicable in present-day Britain). "Cultural Marxism" is somehow able to make great strides, as though it were a gigantic conspiracy—and yet there are no conspirators, or at any rate not many of them. Most "cultural Marxists" would be bemused or indignant at being called by that name. One is reminded of Keynes' saying, "The ideas of economists and political philosophers . . . are more powerful than is commonly understood . . . . Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist."

(inspired by a remark of Ectomorph)