Thread by @PaulHRosenberg

Generic anti-Semitism isn't driving terrorism like the Poway shooting. A *specific* narrative, "cultural Marxism" is. And it was specifically designed for that purpose. salon.com/2019/05/05/a-u… 1/11

Author/researcher @DavidNeiwert wrote about the pattern of violence being spread via the "cultural Marxism" conspiracy theory at Daily Kos: 2/11
dailykos.com/stories/2019/4…

And researcher @brucewilson tweeted out an informative thread tracing the links: 3/11

https://twitter.com/brucewilson/status/1122463772503871488

Folks on the left have been writing about the spread of the 'cultural Marxism' conspiracy theory at least since a 2003 @splcenter report: 4/11
splcenter.org/fighting-hate/…

The nan behind the conspiracy theory--paleoconservative mucky-muck William Lind--came to it via his work on '4th Generation Warfare' [4GW] in 2 papers that researcher @4GWDOTDOTDOT analyzed thoroughly here: 5/11
academia.edu/19612493/PART_…

The first [1989] 4GW paper was *primarily* military, with some cultural concerns creeping in, but they became central in the second one [1994]: 6/11

Between the two papers, Lind apparently encountered a raw form of the conspiracy theory, which had been mutating within the Lyndon LaRouche cult since the 1970s, as a recent article by Andrew Wood documents: 7/11
communemag.com/the-american-r…

.@4GWDOTDOTDOT calls Lind a 'vector' for spreading the narrative, but @brucewilson gives him a lot more specific credit: 8/11

There was a LOT of projection going on. Most significantly: 1) Lind & other paleocons were keenly interested in shifting focus from economics to culture--which the narrative blames on a Jewish cabal, shifting their dark motives onto the other side: 9/11

Even more stiking, 2) Lind's fantasy ideal is to fragment the US into separate regional cultural enclaves. This was first shown in a 1995 WaPo op-ed published just after the Oklahoma City Bombing, 10/11
washingtonpost.com/archive/opinio…

Thus 'cultural Marxism' myth is largely autobiographical for Lind but he's no more a puppet-master than those he accuses. Per @Peter_Turchin larger socio-economic forces create conditions for his paranoid fantasy to spread. Read the whole story here: 11/11
salon.com/2019/05/05/a-u…