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Multiculturalism and the Politics of Guilt: Toward a Secular Theocracy (Volume 1) Paperback – January 2, 2004

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Multiculturalism and the Politics of Guilt extends Paul Gottfried’s examination of Western managerial government’s growth in the last third of the twentieth century. Linking multiculturalism to a distinctive political and religious context, the book argues that welfare-state democracy, unlike bourgeois liberalism, has rejected the once conventional distinction between government and civil society.

            Gottfried argues that the West’s relentless celebrations of diversity have resulted in the downgrading of the once dominant Western culture. The moral rationale of government has become the consciousness-raising of a presumed majority population. While welfare states continue to provide entitlements and fulfill the other material programs of older welfare regimes, they have ceased to make qualitative leaps in the direction of social democracy. For the new political elite, nationalization and income redistributions have become less significant than controlling the speech and thought of democratic citizens. An escalating hostility toward the bourgeois Christian past, explicit or at least implicit in the policies undertaken by the West and urged by the media, is characteristic of what Gottfried labels an emerging “therapeutic” state.

For Gottfried, acceptance of an intrusive political correctness has transformed the religious consciousness of Western, particularly Protestant, society. The casting of “true” Christianity as a religion of sensitivity only toward victims has created a precondition for extensive social engineering. Gottfried examines late-twentieth-century liberal Christianity as the promoter of the politics of guilt. Metaphysical guilt has been transformed into self-abasement in relation to the “suffering just” identified with racial, cultural, and lifestyle minorities. Unlike earlier proponents of religious liberalism, the therapeutic statists oppose anything, including empirical knowledge, that impedes the expression of social and cultural guilt in an effort to raise the self-esteem of designated victims.

            Equally troubling to Gottfried is the growth of an American empire that is influencing European values and fashions. Europeans have begun, he says, to embrace the multicultural movement that originated with American liberal Protestantism’s emphasis on diversity as essential for democracy. He sees Europeans bringing authoritarian zeal to enforcing ideas and behavior imported from the United States.

            Multiculturalism and the Politics of Guilt extends the arguments of the author’s earlier After Liberalism. Whether one challenges or supports Gottfried’s conclusions, all will profit from a careful reading of this latest diagnosis of the American condition.

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"It is a small, conservative, philosophical gem, and I love it."--Amos Perlmutter

"Gottfried's book addresses multicultural ideology and its program: to fashion beliefs and behavior in conformity with the multicultural outlook on the world, which is one of victim and victimizer. . . . His analysis of the situation both in the United States and in western Europe is devastating and brilliant, and in providing a precise analysis of what it is we are up against he has produced a book from which any authentic conservative would benefit."--American Conservative

"Gottfried has seen an aspect of multiculturalism and political correctness that previous critics of these doctrines have failed adequately to stress. He uses his insight to develop a brilliant analysis and critique of the modern managerial and therapeutic state. . . . Gottfried has dissected the social effects of the contemporary church better than anyone else of whom I am aware."--Mises Review

For those who can handle the truth, Paul Edward Gottfried serves as a fusion of Aristotle, Joseph de Maistre, and Carl Schmitt. What Aristotle did for the Greek polis, Gottfried has done for the nation-states of the West. . . . Gottfried makes a compelling case that political correctness has become a substitute for Christianity."--Chronicles

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Paul Edward Gottfried is Professor of Humanities at Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania. He is the author of After Liberalism: Mass Democracy in the Managerial State and The Search for Historical Meaning: Hegel and the Postwar American Right.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ University of Missouri; 1st Paperback Edition (January 2, 2004)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 176 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0826215203
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0826215208
Reading age ‏ : ‎ 18 years and up
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 9.2 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.6 x 9 inches

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Being close to 90 and always a keen observer of events, and being also of a management science background, I noted many of the same individual facts the author describes but failed to see the big picture. His description of the big picture had me frequently thumping my forehead and exclaiming, "Yes, yes, YES!" I don't always agree with him but he has cobbled together a damn good argument for the existence of the managerial, therapeutic state, its motives and means. Really, though, you have to read his book and follow the events and people he describes. But it would help if you were 75+ years of age so you could recall reading about many of these or events and people in newspapers, newsreels at the movie, and early TV, or if like me you were a part of the occupation forces stationed in Germany after WWII. Today's media is a house of distortion. But Multiculturalism And The Politics of Guilt should may guide you closer to the truth of what is going on than anything I have ever read.

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This book is an observation in time. What's striking is the terminology used is now common political vernacular. As Yuri Bezmenov explained, it takes 15 years for the administered poison to take effect.

The author attempts to explain which groups in western societies are more susceptible to Frankfurt School Cultural Marxism. The origin and implementation of that FSCM is omitted other than a reference to The Authoritarian Personality. The author schooled with Herbert Marcuse.

The prose is disjointed as the author draws upon German, French and Italian sources which are collated to reveal that FSCM is occurring ubiquitously. Many sentences are overly complex, require a reread for comprehension. Less frequently, the writing is casual eg the very last paragraph.
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The book references the Jewish holocaust over 10 times. It was around this period Holocaustianity became a daily part of the media curriculum. For this other holocausts/genocides are referenced eg Irish, Armenian, Ukrainian. The author even mentions pejorative misuse and overuse of "fascist".

Less critically, many paragraphs offer concise articulate insights into what western societies are encountering. These are perhaps the "gems", other reviewers praised.

Worth reading for the illustrious descriptions of where western societies are, but not how we got here, nor where it is going.

However, to understand what is happening elsewhere in the world (the ubiquity of FSCM) , the Internet, particular Facebook as a news streaming tool, provides that information but it's still worth reading for the paragraph gems.

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In an absolutely stunning indictment of today's guilt-ridden culture, Paul Gottfried explains how we have become a multicultural nation and how it has led to disastrous results.

Gottfreid's theories in explaining how guilt plays a part in this transformation of our country are very convincing in that the majority culture. which still has the residue of its Calvinist Protestant past, is convicted about how their ancestors were responsible for the sin of slavery or segregation and that they must make a constant atonement to satisfy the wrath of the minorities and to free themselves of guilt. . On page 16 of the book, Gottfried makes the following comment on today's liberal Protestants: "A less self-reliant type, this latter day Protestant is the self-absorbed but uneasy materialist. He looks to the state and media for moral direction while professing belief in therapeutic sentiments and plastic 'human rights'." Indeed, instead of inward conversion and private penance as a means to make a better society, the modern day liberal Protestant uses what Gottfired calls the "therapeutic state" to correct the wrongs of society through various anti-discrimination and anti-poverty statutes. This is the earmark salvation by the State where sins of the past are expunged by legislation.

In his discussion of the concept of secular theocracy, Gottfried eloquently states the following:

"Unlike medieval Christianity, the enforced commonality in the current managerial (state) setting is not shared ritual and sacramental mysteries or ecclesiastical authorities, but a tightening system of managerial control. It is one that requires its subjects to behave unnaturally, despising their ancestry and inherited morals and at least pretending to reach out for "enrichment" to alien groups and to the practitioners or unconventional lifestyles. Submission to these behavioral and verbal guidelines, without the physical bullying carried out by the Nazi or Soviet states, can only be explained by looking at today's Western Culture....A Liberal Christianity dressed up selectively with New Testament teachings about self-denial and sin provides the suitable theological framework for multicultural politics."

Today's political setting is indeed pulsating with guilt and it is also true that the State is looked upon for salvation and that our politicians are those priests that perform miracles and healing. One newscaster stated a few years ago that Obama is a "sorta god."

A brilliant book that needs to be read more widely. Five stars.

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Redemption Leading to Multiculturalism

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This book is a very academic, very dense with words, study on Multiculturalism. In it, the author argues that Multiculturalism-especially importing dysfunctional Third World People-is an outgrowth of America's founding Protestantism.

Many of America's mainline Protestant denominations have lost their belief in the abstract version of Christianity, such as Original Sin being caused by eating a fruit in the Garden of Eden, but still feel the guilt of Mankind's fall. In this case, the plight of Third World people is the sin and redemption comes through Multicultural programs.

This book is written in the heavy style of a peer-reviewed, university-level humanities thesis. The resulting shibboleths shroud its simple idea with complexity which detract from the work.

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