Marc Sidwell Reads From His Book: "TLM: How The Left Won The Culture War" (The Long March)

The New Culture Forum's publication "The Long March Through The Institutions: How the Left Won the Culture War & What To Do About It" may be downloaded free of charge from our website: newcultureforum.org.uk (Direct link: www.newcultureforum.org.uk/ass.... Hard copies may be purchased by making a £10 donation also via the website (further details please email: [e-mail])
How does culture shape political power? Many Conservatives now fear that victory at the ballot box is not enough. Despite Boris Johnson’s triumph in the 2019 election, they sense that a larger cultural battle has been lost. Some accuse the left of mounting a secret, slow-motion takeover, inspired by the ideas of the Italian communist Antonio Gramsci - the ‘long march through the institutions’.
The New Culture Forum's new book by Marc Sidwell uncovers the truth: a tangled history in which active subversion runs alongside unintended consequences and missed opportunities. Armed with a clearer understanding of the left’s long march, it also reveals new possibilities for fighting back.
In this video, author Marc Sidwell reads from the above publication.
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[@colonelflashman972]

what a good idea, Mark please do more youtube there's is a large form out there for you.

[@newtalking3]

Get in bitchute plateform also as there is not censorship there also parler

[@gillianmason4198]

Please can you tell me more about Bitchue and Parler platforms

[@davidroberts1187]

The physical process of reading for me and many others acts like a sleeping tablet, to have someone read important books jackonory style is a very powerful tool. Great stuff.

[@flat5sharp11]

If there's a book you'd like to read - you can get the talking book. Most books come in audio format these days.

[@PrincipledUncertainty]

I so wish that Mark is wrong about all of this, but it rings horribly true. Taking back the institutions must take priority over everything else, or voting will remain merely a gesture.

[@markwoodson2020]

Humans are motivated by story. The story of pure free markets is not compelling. We must understand a conservative story including community, tradition, family, art, faith, love, adventure, purpose.

[@diogenes9524]

Thanks. This synthesis/analysis is overdue.

[@davidhodgson4685]

@@Clone42 The free market and the language and concepts that have grown-up around it, oppose the Christian message. The free market has led to dangerous concentration of wealth; so that today 1 man owns more than 350,000,000,000 people. In order to justify this, people have been encouraged towards the idea of a meritocracy. The meritocracy-cult proposes the ranking of people in accordance with their competence, whereas Christianity taught that everyone was made in the image of God, and had within them the spark of the divine (omnes pares creantur). The meritocracy-cult fosters in many a sense of inadequacy, whist furnishing others with a misplaced sense of superiority. Studies have shown that material success leads to a dramatic loss of empathy - the degeneracy of those at the top of the meritocracy-cult surely gives testimony to that.

[@richardlbowles]

An interesting and highly relevant reading, Mr. Sidwell, and it gives us all a taster to persuade us to buy the book.

[@CrystalJ7]

unavailable on Amazon......thank you Marc....I 'enjoyed' that very much, in the same vein as Melanie. I will be getting a copy! bless you. :-)

[@bruceclark2277]

Read once - reading again brilliant. Thank you 👍

[@davidhurcombe6505]

I don't believe we've lost the war. The fact is its taken too many people to long to notice the subtle changes that were made to our society. The error of our enemy though is that after taking control of our education, law and political systems they got over excited and saw the end in sight. Rather than continuing the slow, calculated infiltration of our systems they made a mad dash to the finish line and allerted the general populous to what was going on and in doing so created a small resistance to their ideologies. Fast forward a few years and the last few steps for the ideologs has been slow due to a greater understanding by a widening number of people of what is really happening to our culture. Yes they have won many battles using their stealth but but now more people are seeing the truth the war is far from over. The tide is turning.

[@lydiamalone1859]

Social media has a lot to do with this. Despite censoring we are still getting the word out.

[@alixstubbs5949]

I hope that your right.

[@timothyhallett6312]

I hope you will be proved true, but it will take decisive action to first halt and then reverse the Long March: civil service, judges, police, education, numerous quangos and BBC. They will all have to be tackled, head on and with drive and purpose, in the coming four years.

[@gillianmason4198]

I hope you are right for the sake of the children and the country. ......We are at War. The left evidently thought when Boris won the election we may have lost the battle but we will win the war.

[@davidhurcombe6505]

With a positive attitude towards making the required changes and some faith in ourselves we can win. Already we are seeing the once united minority groups spitting into their own little factions. LGBTQ is having a problem maintaining the L BAME people are beginning to see that the oppression they were being told they had was the actual oppression. And if the BBC get the licence replaced with something else, less people will be susceptible to their reporting.

[@indigenousnorwegianeuropa4145]

Based on your performance, I will purchase♥️🇳🇴 An important contribution to the disturbing public sphere of our era.

[@jaimem4973]

Excellent. Contact your Conservative MPs and ask they listen to this and then ask them what the hell is the Tory party doing? Tell them you’ll vote for the Brexit Party unless some radical changes take place - and CHANGES, not cheap talk about changes, as the lubricious Theresa May was so talented at - the only thing she was talented at.

[@eddiej6195]

All the soft"conservatives" should be made to read this book and then grow some spine before it is too late

[@robinwells8879]

Eddie J are we sure that they can read?🤣

[@user-yg2gw4je8d]

My suggestion is that we don't reform existing institutions. Instead, let's build our own institutions from whole cloth. For those institutions funded by government, we simply replace them with each new alternative when it's ready. We then simply cut the funding from the institution being replaced. There is one exception - the BBC. Just scrap the license fee, and let the people who run it deal with the mess. For those that aren't publicly funded - such as Twitter, Facebook and Google - we ought to create a legal environment that makes it *_vastly_* more expensive to host cancel-mad outrage mobs, along with all those cowardly employers who took the path of least resistance. Let's make this legislation retroactive. Let's shift the worry experienced by victims of outrage mobs to the people and organisations who allow them to exist. And to all those who roll over and comply with their demands.

[@connietolleson9105]

Yes! Working on it! Not difficult to do with current tech, just need enough folks to agree.

[@00dude3]

One these organisations fall they have to be defunded, past the point of no return

[@robertsmith3878]

Yuri Bezmenov warned the west

[@ramrod1016]

Good book and an interesting and insightful view of the current cultural crisis we are experiencing.

[@hazchemel]

thank you. you are right, of course. when was it that you began to realise the totality of the situation? .... and the reading, though sober and sombre is neither morbid, stupid nor malicious (unlike the left); again thank you

[@AnnBurgess00]

At last we are becoming wise to the situation. I do hope this book is available as an audiobook. I really enjoyed being read to!

A must read. Any of you who don't know who Gramsci is should find out. We should also be clear that, no matter what you think about Trump, if he loses in November then the world is in deep trouble. Boris must act quickly. Putting the BBC in order would be a good first step.

[@willmartin1033]

I'm currently at university as a mature student. As I listened to this a cold chill went down my spine multiple times. Every word is true.

[@lizajames]

Such a treat to have it read for us. I love the indulgence of an audio book.

[@daleskidmore1685]

Nicely read and very interesting. Gramsci was the subject of a re run of Great Lives recently on Radio 4 Extra, recorded some years ago. At the risk of sounding like a pedant: A decade is 10 years, not, as seems to be very common these days, something that has rotted..

[@raymondmajer8748]

A very well written but depressing chapter, my only consolation is that I'm now on the lee side of my life, so hopefully I'll be out of here before it get's much worse. What a f**k up!!

[@barbaraseymour3437]

raymond majer Well, perhaps you should use the remainder of your life to get behind the move for reform and re-education. Your wisdom could be useful but your moral support would certainly be.

[@barbaraseymour3437]

Excellent and beautifully read.

[@ConsultancymarketingCoUk]

Very depressing; without doubt the war has become more extreme with the defeat of the EUSSR by Brexit.. I do hope Boris and his team are working on strategies to deal with this evil in our midst.

[@michaelwhite8031]

This is a wonderfully succinct analysis.

[@apemant]

Thank you

[@ralfhexham2847]

Thanks that was good.

[@AnnBurgess00]

You read well, Marc! I wish you had done the whole book on Audible. I concentrate better if I syphon off the wandering part of my brain by doing knitting or crochet while listening to my books.

[@monoman4083]

please make a free mp3 downloadable of whole book with you reading it. thanks. this will be popular..

[@newtalking3]

I would like to email and get permission to include sections of your reading in a lecture i will be giving

[@barbaraseymour3437]

Alchemymind _1 Buy the book!

[@robinwells8879]

Despite being a lifelong Tory I have given up on the Conservative Party who now appear completely and irretrievably lost. I had such hope that Mr Johnson would rail against the dying of the light but even he seems an entirely broken man. I am not sure what British democracy's current offering has of value to give its electorate. I am hoping against hope that the military will stage a coup as I fear that is the only hope for Britain. I'm told they nearly did in the seventies at the time of the lefts last omnishambles and one must hope that there is still a core of decency amongst their ranks. Sadly though, I am not sure what is left to rescue since the Health department took out the British economy. Like "TheHarry, formerly known as prince", 😉 I feel like I should apologise uncomfortably to my children's generation but in my case, for the kind of stunning stupidity that appears to have been brought about by Harry and his chosen ilk. I actually weep.

[@BaronMichaelDeBlone1066]

Similar thinking here. There were murmurings from the military over the possibility of Corbyn being elected. This situation won't have gone unnoticed. If it persists then queen and country are under threat and that is precisely what they are there to defend. Johnson's camouflage of being conservative leader is not as safe as he clearly seems to think. Bottle it he did and there have to be consequences. We desperately need accountability after Iraq War, Expenses Scandal, Immigration levels, Brexit delays (not to mention the latest 'deal' we are expecting with the EU) and the shilly shallying over Covid19.

[@BaronMichaelDeBlone1066]

Eloquent, informative and concise introduction, really sets the scene and whets the appetite when politics usually leaves me cold too. I was fully absorbed with the exception of a couple of points that set my critical thinking off (that's my nod to David Starkey btw). I ended up merging related aspects as I thought them through during the listen. The pacing helped a lot. One half of me wants to believe that Boris Johnson is assuaging the climate lobby element some of whom in turn have proudly pointed out (including directly to myself) that they are 'holding the government to account'. My suspicious and cynical mind fostered by decades of political lies emanating from parliament as a whole informs me that the government probably has quango monopolies set up with ex hippy middle class parents bolstering some monied interests just as PFI in the NHS benefited some tories. Similar to this I think could be applied the other direction as in assuaging larger C conservatives regarding Roger Scruton. Is the Prime Minister trying to be all things to everybody and perhaps not wholly convincing anybody? There is a sense of not knowing where we stand at the moment. I try to cut people in a difficult situation as much slack as I can and covid-19 is one such situation that I think just about warrants this whilst also being convinced it has been blown out of proportion. Benefit of the doubt swings me from the perspective of believing in law and order but then I wonder if the Prime Minister believes in that as strongly as I do. The other half of me is convinced that this is a more longer term ideological shift ala Labour's under Blair post John Smith (labour's forgotten man) leadership thus fitting into the long march through the institutions which there seems to be little conscious attempt to halt such as taken action against the anti-democratic stance of deplatforming. And that we are on something of a continuum narrative beginning with the earlier conservative shift of sorts under Margaret Thatcher which I loosely tag into my interpretation of this reading from the perspective of division. Things trundled along a wee bit quicker under new labour but I think we are all pretty clear by now that it did not start there. The lack of action following open desecration of national icons by a racially and extremist focussed movement amounting to criminal damage leads me to believe the latter half is the more likely true scenario. That this very wilful act openly supported albeit indirectly in some cases by other recognised official bodies may, however, suggest an end to race relations as we have come to know it. The realistic likelihood of retribution of course not yet manifested (although some of us are experiencing a prevalence of motorbike gangs which could be one social indication thereof) on our streets when say the London mayor has his no doubt controversial list of as yet unnamed statues erected could signal a final breakdown in those long time fragile race relations weakened by consistently negligent immigration policy - again - from both sides of the house. It could also be deliberately manipulated from the right as well as the left. How the prime minister is seen to handle serious challenges has a huge bearing on public confidence so why would he keep people guessing after defeating Corbyn precisely for playing that game? I think the big election majority was largely based on the firmer brexit stance counter to Corbyn's position of uncertainty (and that is being too kind to labour). This has of course yet to be honoured with a good deal that IMHO is unlikely to be as good as a no deal. Strong clear leadership would more likely have completely broken ties with the EU from day one, conducting the divorce settlement through the legal routes whilst focussing on domestic issues such as the very NHS assumely at the centre of the PMs strategy. I said before the circus started that handling as above would have encouraged other none left governed nations to follow suit in a wider effort to shift more power away from that centralised control. Britain could have become a world leader again instead we seem to be cowering like a mischievous schoolkid on the brink of being found out. There is clearly more suspicion over May than Johnson but like I say it hasn't fully played out yet. Efforts to bolster public support might include revision of bedroom tax, snoopers' charter or tv license abolition yet we have had nothing like this. Just listening to the news on R3 this morning the latest announcements re: Covid-19 from Boris Johnson (which to be honest I can barely maintain full conscious through anymore) once again intimated to me that I am listening to an actually powerless leader reading the latest chapter of a narrative and he and his various ministers are not anywhere near as convincing as Marc Sidwell is here. Well done Marc!

[@scdobserver835]

Why is your book not available on Amazon UK?

[@barbaraseymour3437]

SCD Observer Need you ask?

[@sallyb1689]

It’s a very long march. I remember my teachers telling us how evil Thatcher was and that we should wear white poppies in November. As a 13 year old, I felt deep disagreement with that indoctrination.

[@BaronMichaelDeBlone1066]

I never liked Thatcher based on my own analysis but she had leadership qualities and that is what leaders are elected for not to bottle it at the first serious challenge for the sake of popularity. People need to know where they stand and especially at a time like Covid19. The military cannot be happy with this situation as if it continues the queen and country is under threat.

[@newtalking3]

My copies are ordered! Will it also be on Amazon so I can recommend to others?

[@rutameldere3992]

Avoid Amazon -that is a part of problem ,look at an alternative online booksellers,pls.

[@lyndamyles8354]

Brilliant, now I know what to get all my leftie ( not for long) friends for Christmas. Ordering mine now

[@00dude3]

I'd pay for an audio book version

[@djsega4289]

Sounds like a great book

[@alleycat8589]

Your direct download link is “404”. Perhaps update it to reflect the latest website configuration?

[@hannannah1uk]

Depressing.

[@grandmiserthe3rd434]

McCarthyism was right , time for the Red Hunt

[@fantastic1965]

I was in a panic for a moment. I thought this was going to be Mark Sedwill; a rather unpleasant character

[@1SpudderR]

Hmm? This apparently was written pre Covid .....virus.....And now the Author needs to update the book......... Hmm? Good luck on that one then!

[@gipgap4]

Captured institutions = Universities

[@Mark761966]

Did you mean the "Spooks (British slang for spies) at Langley (city in the state of Virginia known for housing the headquarters of the CIA)?

[@MsMiklosa]

Well yes, Marcuse made sure that Gramsci’s long march succeeded in the USA. It did as we observe it right now. Fully unexpectedly the US fell, Europe follows. The formerly communist Europeans are fighting hard against the red pest. For how long?

[@jimluebke3869]

The Liberation of our Institutions -- sounds like a good cause. =)

[@Mark761966]

But 18 to 24 year olds already have the vote.

[@eileenthompson5958]

Beautifully read .... a pleasure to listen to, although the content is a rather disheartening. sigh 🙄

[@transientresponse8078]

All of the institutions are of the left due to the lack of accountability of results. BBC.. funded.... universities.. funded schools... funded...All this on top off universities producing an endless line of graduates in the humanities instead of in STEM fields. Now we thought on the right or capitalist side of things, what is the point of this. But these people are now in HR departments, marketing as well as the old MSM, and the new online versions and companies owning them. To change this will take as long as the construction of The Long March..

[@magicbeav]

I will be buying this book when it’s out on paperback. I can’t stand hardbacks. I wouldn’t even mind paying the same price to get the paperback at the same time as it is annoying waiting. But that’s how much I dislike hardbacks. Thanks anyway.

[@vanjkas]

Too late, and it's our own fault. The signs could be seen in little inserts and changes in education curricula thirty years ago, and the stacking of public broadcasting personnel. With Conservative governments in power, holding the defunding weapon and doing nothing to force adherence to the (Australian) ABC's charter or review teaching content. I wish all of you the best luck in the coming decades. Me, I'll be stocking my cellar with the best and observing the start of Western Civilisation tipping over. Like some fifth-century Roman patrician. Goodnight.

[@paulward1362]

Have you ever considered a move left from the young may be the disadvantages and obstacles they face fiscally? House price to insecure job ratio? Increased debt? Also cultural Marxism is a product of capitalism ie. Individual choice of products, that now includes gender, sex, race, identity politics so collective individualism group think rather like capitalist adverts steer people.