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===As a conspiracy theory=== {{Main|Cultural Marxism conspiracy theory}} Some conservative commentators in the [[Western world|West]] argue that "political correctness" and multiculturalism are part of a conspiracy with the ultimate goal of undermining [[Judeo-Christian ethics|Judeo-Christian values]]. This theory, which holds that political correctness originates from the [[critical theory]] of the [[Frankfurt School]] as part of a conspiracy that its proponents call "[[Cultural Marxism conspiracy theory|Cultural Marxism]]".<ref>{{cite book|title=The Post-War Anglo-American Far Right: A Special Relationship of Hate|last=Jamin|first=Jérôme|publisher=[[Palgrave Macmillan]]|year=2014|isbn=978-1137396198|editor1-last=Shekhovtsov|editor1-first=A.|location=[[Basingstoke]]|pages=84–103|chapter=Cultural Marxism and the Radical Right|doi=10.1057/9781137396211_4 |editor2-last=Jackson|editor2-first=P.|chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/postwarangloamer0000unse/page/84 |chapter-url-access=registration |access-date=31 January 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Cultures of Post-War British Fascism|last=Richardson|first=John E.|date=2015|isbn=9781317539360|editor1-last=Copsey|editor1-first=Nigel|chapter='Cultural-Marxism' and the British National Party: a transnational discourse|publisher=Routledge |editor2-last=Richardson|editor2-first=John E.|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HIwGCAAAQBAJ|access-date=12 August 2015|archive-date=29 September 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200929062019/https://books.google.com/books?id=HIwGCAAAQBAJ|url-status=live}}</ref> The theory originated with Michael Minnicino's 1992 essay "New Dark Age: Frankfurt School and 'Political Correctness'", published in a [[Lyndon LaRouche]] movement journal.<ref>[[Martin Jay|Jay, Martin]] (2010), "[https://web.archive.org/web/20111124045123/http://cms.skidmore.edu/salmagundi/backissues/168-169/martin-jay-frankfurt-school-as-scapegoat.cfm Dialectic of Counter-Enlightenment: The Frankfurt School as Scapegoat of the Lunatic Fringe]". ''[[Salmagundi (magazine)|Salmagundi]]'' (Fall 2010–Winter 2011, 168–69): 30–40.</ref> In 2001, conservative commentator [[Patrick Buchanan]] wrote in ''[[The Death of the West]]'' that "political correctness is cultural Marxism", and that "its trademark is intolerance".<ref>[[Patrick Buchanan|Buchanan, Patrick]]. ''[[The Death of the West]]'', p. 89.</ref>
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