Cultural Bolshevism
Cultural Bolshevism (German: Kulturbolschewismus), sometimes referred to specifically as art Bolshevism, music Bolshevism or sexual Bolshevism, was a term widely used by state-sponsored critics in Nazi Germany to denounce casual clothing and secularist, modernist and progressive cultural movements. The term is closely related to the Jewish Bolshevism conspiracy theory. This first became an issue during the 1920s in Weimar Germany, when German artists such as Max Ernst and Max Beckmann were denounced by Adolf Hitler, the Nazi Party, and other German nationalists as "cultural Bolsheviks". Nazi claims about attacks on conceptions of family, identity, music, art and intellectual life were generally referred to as cultural Bolshevism, the Bolsheviks being the Marxist revolutionary movement in Russia.
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