Cultural Marxism ‘is causing mental illness in childhood’
CULTURAL Marxism is destroying children’s souls and leading to increased self-harm and suicide, according to a Tory MP.
Miriam Cates, who represents the Red Wall seat of Penistone and Stocksbridge, said the teaching of critical race theory and other such concepts in schools was responsible for causing mental illnesses.
She told the National Conservatism Conference she was not surprised that fewer young people were becoming parents because they did not have “hope for the future” themselves.
“That hope is sadly diminishing in so many of our young people today,” Ms Cates said. “Because liberal individualism has proved to be completely powerless to resist the cultural Marxism that is systematically destroying our children’s souls.
“When culture, schools and universities openly teach that our country is racist, our heroes are villains, humanity is killing the Earth, you are what you desire, diversity is theology, boundaries are tyranny and self-restraint is oppression, is it any wonder that mental health conditions, self-harm and suicide, and epidemic levels of anxiety and confusion characterise the emerging generation?”
Lord Mann, the Government’s antisemitism tsar, questioned Ms Cates’s use of the term “cultural Marxism”, saying it was rooted in a “conspiracy theory with anti-semitism at its core”.
But Yoram Hazony, the chairman of the conference and an orthodox Jewish theologian, said the term was “an apt phrase to describe the cultural agenda promoted by many on the Left today” and insisted he “offers no platform to antisemites”.