Intellectual Origins and the Evolution of Political Corectness – A Critical Perspective
Intellectual Origins and the Evolution of Political Corectness – A Critical Perspective

Summary/Abstract: Today, the world is undergoing massive and very rapid changes. Following the conflicts that the West has gone through, especially in the last century, a new ideology has emerged, a postmodern one, inspired by the old ones, more precisely by Marxism and the theories of the Frankfurt school, namely cultural Marxism or cultural neo-Marxism. This ideology has no economic basis for its goal of changing and revolutionizing society, but a socio-cultural one, wanting to standardize cultures and ethnicities by eliminating any individual differences. The most powerful weapon of this current is political correctness or PC, a tool that aims to censor any opinions contrary to neo-Marxists, a tool that has come to have legal status in some Western countries such as Canada, Sweden, France and others. Based on postmodern elements, this current seeks to relativize any truth and to take advantage of the nihilism and anomies that have emerged in the societies in which it makes its presence known. Most often associated with the political "left", political correctness seeks to eliminate any contrary opinion, any opposition and automatically free speech and thus erodes the basis of democracy and the Enlightenment values that led to the formation of the West as we know it today.

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