Msgr. Robert J. Batule: The Self-Alienation of Cultural Marxism

By Msgr. Robert J. Batule, The Catholic Thing, August 21, 2024

Msgr. Robert J. Batule, a priest of the Diocese of Rockville Centre, is the Pastor of Saint Margaret Church in Selden, New York. He had been a faculty member at two different seminaries and has been a contributor of essays, articles, and book reviews to various Catholic publications throughout the course of his nearly forty-year priestly ministry.

As students are returning to school this week, chances are very good that campus unrest will return as well with the new academic year. And given the presidential election, the national media – television especially – will bring enormous attention, once again, to the grievances of a class of people that we should call cultural Marxists, whose ideas on alienation harken back to the class antagonism of Europe in the nineteenth century.

But first, who are the cultural Marxists? Let’s start with who they are not. …