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In March and November 2010, and again in July 2015, we drew our readers' attention to Georg Lukacs (pictured above).
He was the Education Commissar during the days of the first Communist regime in Hungary. As a key Marxist theoretician in the Marxist-oriented Frankfurt School (of Social Deconstruction), Lukacs developed the idea of Revolution and Eros, in order to subversively undermine Judeo-Christian civilization.
Lukacs' promotion of atheistic sex-education aimed to unleash sexual instinct in young people as a means of social destruction. This could be achieved by splitting young people from the traditional influences and mores of their family, culture and the Catholic Church; thus making them more malleable to the aims and controls of the socialist state. He once said that any political movement that was capable of bringing Bolshevism to the West would have to be demonic: ''It would have to possess the religious power which is capable of filling the entire soul.''
Any attempt to understand the ubiquitous advance of ''sex-education'' in the schools - including the so-called Catholic schools - of the West, must necessarily include some investigation of the Frankfurt School.
Points of Contact and Divergence
In terms of this overall agenda, Pope Francis' apostolic exhortation Amoris Laetitia, intriguingly contains both points of contact and divergence.
In the first instance, the document contains one important paragraph, which parents wanting to defend the chastity of their children, as well as their own parental rights as primary educators, will be able to draw from.
We speak of AL 84, wherein Pope Francis affirms: ''At the same time, I feel it important to reiterate that the overall education of children is a ''most serious duty'' and at the same time a ''primary right'' of parents. This is not just a task or a burden, but an essential and inalienable right that parents are called to defend and which no one may claim to deprive them. The State offers educational programmes in a subsidiary way, supporting the parents in their indeclinable role; parents themselves enjoy the right to choose freely the kind of education - accessible and of good quality - which they wish to give their children in accordance with their convictions.''Â
This paragraph contains a footnote linking it back to the key teaching found in paragraph 23 of the Pontifical Council for the Family's splendid 1995 document, The Truth and Meaning of Human Sexuality; at once affirming the status of that document and furthering its relevance.Â
This is all well and good.
As we have said, it will add an important piece of documentary ammunition for parents defending their own rights and the purity of their children; a defence which, in relation to the promotion of homosexualist ideology to small children at Sacred Heart ''Catholic'' School in Atherton, we have recently seen to be even more necessary than ever.
Erich Fromm
And yet, with the kind of ambiguity which has become strangely typical in the days of Pope Francis, the clear benefits of this single paragraph must be contrasted to the inclusion of the entire section AL 280-286 - which though dedicated to the supposed theme of The Need for Sex-Education - makes absolutely no mention of the role of the parents whatsoever...
Troubling too, is the inclusion in that section of a quote taken from Erich Fromm's book The Art of Loving. Such a reference invites much further investigation.  
Another Marxist Theoretician in the Frankfurt School: Erich Fromm poses with a gesture reminiscent of freemasonic signs of recognition.
It must be said that the Erich Fromm quote in Amoris Laetitia is pretty innocuous in itself. Drawing from Fromm, Pope Francis writes: ''Young people should not be deceived into confusing two levels of reality: ''sexual attraction creates, for the moment, the illusion of union, yet, without love, this 'union' leaves strangers as far apart as they were before.''
It is not so much what Fromm says in this quote that troubles us here. It is the question of the choice to draw from Fromm in a papal document at all.
To illustrate what I mean, and I do not intend to sound extreme, it is true that Adolf Hitler said some positive things about autobahn construction and the promotion of affordable vehicle ownership for the masses. However, in an article promoting road transport, none but a sympathetic fascist would ever dream of drawing from Hitler's words; so tainted would they be with all the evils of National Socialism. Perhaps it is an extreme example, but it well illustrates the point.
Fromm's Background and Thought
To make clearer my intended sense, we now need to consider something of the background of Erich Fromm; and of his theoretical writings in the Art of Loving.
Whilst Fromm came from a Jewish background, his paradigm was rooted in the Talmud, rather than the Torah. Drawing on this, Fromm's developing secular-humanistic philosophy departed from the traditional understanding that Adam and Eve had sinned by eating of the fruit in the garden.
Instead, Fromm eventually presented this as some kind of virtue! He suggested that by eating the fruit, independent human action was promoted; together with the use of reason to establish moral values, rather than the adherance to authoritarian moral values.
Is this sounding familiar?
Fromm even saw the eating of the fruit in the garden, and the subsequent sense of shame, as representative of human stages of evolution.
In time, like Georg Lukacs above, Fromm became involved with the Frankfurt School (of Social Deconstruction). This school applied the Hegelian Dialectic to culture and even to itself.
As an important aside, it is worth knowing that Walter Benjamin was also involved with this Frankfurt School. His writings were loaded with concepts and words taken straight from the kabbalah and the occult.
In a typically deconstructionist and post-modern manner, Benjamin suggested that modern laguages were incomplete and were thus incapable of expressing anything until society and language reached some supposed point of wholeness. He thought that the achievement of a Communist revolution would bring about a mass redemption of society. Although I suggest no direct link between Benjamin and Pope Francis, I nevertheless have a troubling sense that this typically post-modern view of language, may be one of the dynamics involved in Pope Francis' consistent use of ambiguities to move Catholicism in a certain globalizing direction; whilst at the same time trying to keep everyone on board in a kind of ''unity in diversity'' model. There is something of this in Fromm's thinking too: from a young age, his Talmudic background had instilled in him an exhilarating desire for a future coming together of all nations. In a later article, I hope to reflect on that ''smoking footnote'' in relation to the use of ambiguous language in holding together ''factions'', as though the Church were merely a political body. Anyway, I digress...Â
Returning to our present theme, Fromm worked to merge a synthesis between Marx and Freud. He then used the resultant Marxian social psychology to try and interpret religion and religious phenomena. Through his ongoing writings, Fromm promoted a Marxist Humanism that was concerned with human development of individuals and the creation of an egalitarian socialist society. In this he rejected both Western capitalism and Soviet Communism. He viewed these two opposed systems as dehumanizing structures that had brought alienation.
Although he publicly broke with the Frankfurt School and rejected the Soviet model, Fromm continued to work for a form of Marxist socialism that would, in his view, re-emphasise the ideal of personal freedom.
The Art of Loving?
At this point I want to draw attention to the ''hidden in plain sight'' similarity between the title of Fromm's quoted book and that of Archbishop Victor Manuel Fernandez' improbably-named book The Art of Kissing - Heal Me with Your Mouth (You know...).
Let it be remembered that Fernandez is the reputed author of both Amoris Laetitia and Evangelii Gaudium. Surely, this is too much of a coincidence: does it thus underscore the importance of Fromm's influence in the apostolic exhortation as a whole?
It was in his later period that Fromm wrote his book The Art of Loving; a text which draws heavily on Marx's theory of alienation. Fromm argued that capitalism caused people not to love one another and suggested that, instead, people would develop stronger relationships under Marxist socialism...
Again, in a typically post-modern fashion, Fromm's book The Art of Loving also pushed his notion that sexual differences between men and women were merely social constructs. As such, he rejected gender as something innate.
I witnessed first-hand the results of this kind of nonsense about 15 years ago, when I was employed in ''Justice and Peace'' work on the streets of Salford. It was there that I came up against a strange combination of Marxism and the New Age among the nuns, lay people and various field workers from other ecclesial communities.
One day, with absolutely no sense of irony a colleague, who was a minister in a Protestant denomination, suddenly expressed his concern that his 6-year old daughter was, ''developing some quite gender-specific tendencies by wanting to buy a pretty princess dress that she had spotted in a toy-shop window''. This chap was wondering what he could do to ''correct'' these ''gender-specific tendencies''... It was around that time that I realized with utter horror the dark night of unreason that we were entering into as a society...
Anyway, Pope Francis sees fit to include a quote straight out of Fromm's book The Art of Loving, in a section about sex-education which lacks any reference to parental involvement, as part of his new apostolic exhortation Amoris Laetitia.
Image of the cover from Fromm's book The Art of Loving: It is interesting to notice how the use of a globe enclosed by 4 arrows, which each look like ''devil's tails'', appears to make an image of an ''all-seeing-eye''. The use of freemasonic symbolism, plus ''all-seeing-eyes'', ''devil's tail'' arrows, 5-pointed stars angled downwards like pentagrams, hidden 666 logos, zeus lightning bolts and ''swirling 6 patterns'' has become predominant in recent years. If you study corporate logos, greetings cards, product packaging, television sets/adverts and shop signs you will begin to notice that this is sadly true.Â
Social Deconstruction - Frankfurt Style
Just before concluding, I wanted to mention some of the methods the Frankfurt School suggested for social deconstruction. These included: the promotion of continual change to create confusion; the declaration of women as an oppressed class, and of men as their oppressors; the attack on the role of the father; the denial of specific roles of father and mother; the wresting away from families their roles as primary educators; the teaching of sex and homosexuality to children; and the encouragement of massive immigration to destroy cultural identity.
Ask yourself: Who is promoting these trends most clearly today and where are they promoting them?
Pray, Hope and Don't Worry!
We encourage all readers to pray the Rosary each day, to pray to the Holy Spirit for discernment, to carefully study Amoris Laetitia in light of Sacred Scripture and Tradition and to stand up strongly about the ambiguities and seeming errors contained therein.
Our Lady of Quito - Pray for us.
St. Joseph - Protector of the Church - Pray for us.Â
