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The Marx-Freud Religion

If you are the parent of a potential ASU student, do you want the personal religious beliefs of a professor taught in the classroom or shaping degree programs? I have been posting events at ASU that presuppose the Marx-Freud religion. These two thinkers were pseudo-scientists whose theories are wholly discredited empirically. Thus, I refer to them as religion because their adherents are committed to these presuppositions which shape the professor’s identity and are taught with a missionary zeal in classes. In fact, these presuppositions so shape all of their thinking that many of these adherents are not conscious of them and do not know their origin. They do not know themselves.

To be a member of the Marxist religion is to be committed to the atheist beliefs outlined in the Communist Manifesto beginning with the first lines:

“The history of all hitherto existing society† is the history of class struggles. Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guild-master‡ and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, a fight that each time ended, either in a revolutionary reconstitution of society at large, or in the common ruin of the contending classes” (The Communist Manifesto).

There is no God. History is a class/race/gender conflict. Social justice is the endeavor to give to the oppressed what is due to them from the oppressors. Human rights are co-extensive with giving power to the oppressed. The whole emphasis is on oppression and power. 

This framework is simply assumed by the kinds of programs and degrees I am posting about here. When it is brought to their attention the professors advancing this view often believe they are simply “telling the truth.” They are “true-believers” in their cause and are shocked to find anyone doubts its veracity. To them, their cause is simply the correct one and it should not be questioned or put alongside other perspectives for comparison.

To be a member of the Freudian religion is to be committed to the beliefs outlined in books like Freud’s “Beyond the Pleasure Principle.” There he says:

“In the psycho-analytical theory of the mind, we take it for granted that the course of mental processes is automatically regulated by the pleasure-principle: that is to say, we believe that any given process originates in an unpleasant state of tension and thereupon determines for itself such a path that its ultimate issue coincides with a relaxation of this tension, i.e., with avoidance of ‘pain’ or with production of pleasure.” (Beyond the Pleasure Principle, Freud).

Radical gender ideology builds on these claims. Humans and the distinction male/female are not created by God. A person’s mental development is closely linked to sex and pleasure in childhood years. Your gender need not align with your biological sex. Healthy development means identifying with whatever gender you believe you are at the time and not allowing other outside forces like parents or tradition to hinder you. This creates another group of the “oppressed.”

“The sex-quest to which the physical development of the child set limits could be brought to no satisfying conclusions hence the plaint in later life: ‘I can’t do anything, I am never successful’ (Beyond the Pleasure Principle, Freud).

This development can result in inhibitions or neuroses when it is repressed. Parents and religious traditions are sources of repression. To bring this repression to the forefront of the mind and then resolve it by permitting the free expression of sexual desire is the healthy outcome of psycho-analysis and secular education.

You can see how this Freudian religion provides the presuppositions for the radical gender ideology that is taught at universities just like the Marxist presuppositions are those used for radical class and race ideologies pushed in the name of helping the oppressed.

For parents of potential ASU students, do the professors who will teach your children know themselves? You can ask them ahead of time about how they view the world and what they assume in their classes. Find out 1. if they are a member of this religion and 2. do they assume it to be true and require their students to do the same or do they allow for the free exercise of speech and debate about all ideas.