Cultural war

By: Pedro Corzo - 09/10/2024

Guest columnist.
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Most wars of the past were characterized by the territorial greed of their protagonists. However, in the last Great War, Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union and the Empire of the Rising Sun tried to cover up their greed with ideological proposals, as if this pretext would protect their criminal actions.

These conflicts have been very costly for humanity, which is why history judges their managers harshly, which has perhaps motivated those who, in the present, like to stir up the global village and cover up their ambitions for control with supposedly novel proposals.

Let us not fool ourselves, the cultural battle, as the late Fidel Castro called it – even after his death he remains a nuisance – is a destabilizing factor as bloody as a missile explosion. Castro undoubtedly read Antonio Gramsci, who apparently believed more in the cultural war than in the now displaced class struggle.

It is true that there are no dead people in the streets or destroyed buildings, but the existential spaces that we enjoy and the civic prerogatives to which we are entitled can be taken away from us if we do not accept that there are social groups that want to impose their values ​​to the detriment of those we defend.

Conflicts in society, regardless of the times, are not new, but Adolf Hitler's attempt to annihilate the Jews in a great exercise of social engineering, the forced displacement of Cuban totalitarianism against its opponents in the 1960s and 1970s, as well as Iran's legislation authorizing the hanging of passive homosexuals, added to that country's intention to destroy the State of Israel and the worldwide growth of anti-Semitism, make me fear that the cultural battle is becoming much more popular than in the past.

In this dispute, the physical losses may not be relevant in number, but the removal of the foundations on which our values ​​are based forces us to confront and be willing to defend our beliefs, with as much or more rigor as if we were fighting for our lives.

The most remarkable thing about this situation is that enemies can live together and turn their own residence into a battlefield. Our customs, habits, beliefs and convictions can be modified by activists and professionals in social management, among whom there are plenty of people who have a vision of intolerance against traditions very similar to that of those accused of intransigence that they seek to replace.

Marxists and their fellow travellers, the main promoters of the cultural war, are among the staunchest allies of a so-called progressive movement that seeks to change the norms and values ​​of our society, massively using, among other means, the film and entertainment industry, as well as social networks, to spread their opinions and catechize their listeners.

Marxists or the cannibalistic left, eternal enemies of what we call Christian or Western civilization, obtained great advantages in free societies because these confer equal rights to all their members. In addition, they counted on the complicity and indolence of some of their leaders, who in their eagerness to climb the ladder and appear to be progressive and unaware of the final objective, sponsored those who were willing to bury them.

Once again, history repeats itself. More than half a century ago, I read a biography of Alexander the Great that pointed out that he had not survived his territorial conquests because he was assimilated by the civilization he had conquered, so it would not be new that those who defeated Nazism and Marxism were conquered by the double standards of the defeated.

It is difficult to understand those who are capable of negotiating the values ​​that make up their existence in order to continue representing what, by their own management, is in decline. The saying that “the road to hell is paved with good intentions” is still valid.

These are hard times. We must assume responsibility. Some people call those who are willing to believe in their values ​​intransigent, and if that is what it means, then intransigence is welcome.

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