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I haven't seen Enemy at the Gates but I looked at the plot description. It doesn't sound pro-communist, just pro-Russian when they were fighting against Nazi Germany. I assume you know that Russia was on our side during WWII. Pointing out the flaws of our culture(racism, sexism etc) is not pro-communist. I know of no movie that claimed that other countries are perfect, or even significantly better, compared to the USA. Even in the anti-war movies I have seen, ordinary soldiers are not the bad guys. The bad guys are the crazy or fanatical soldiers who kill for pleasure, kill civilians indiscriminately or abuse the locals, not the regular troops. Cultural Marxism is an unfounded conspiracy theory used to red bait people who want the USA to be a more free, just and fair nation.
"According to German political scientist Thomas Grumke, the new American extreme right undertook a reinterpretation of the enemy image in the 1990s because the classical Red Scare ceased working. Part of this strategy is the introduction of fighting terms such as “Cultural Marxism”, which is used by American conservatives to describe an alleged conspiratorial attempt of the Left to destroy the cultural and moral values of the United States through systematic attacks on the American Way of Life[citation needed]. According to the Frankfurt School conspiracy theory, Cultural Marxism supposedly began in the culture war of the 1930s when a small group of Jewish philosophers fled from the German Reich to the United States...."
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Cultural Marxism is nothing new, what do you think identity politics are? Various groups of marxists seeking to divide the nation. The term merely describes the tactic that had been employed for some time.
Critical theory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaThe Frankfurt School (German: Frankfurter Schule) is a school of neo-Marxist interdisciplinary social theory[1] associated in part with the Institute for Social Research at the Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany. The school initially consisted of dissident Marxists who believed that some of Marx's followers had come to parrot a narrow selection of Marx's ideas, usually in defense of orthodox Communist parties. Meanwhile, many of these theorists believed that traditional Marxist theory could not adequately explain the turbulent and unexpected development of capitalist societies in the twentieth century. Critical of both capitalism and Soviet socialism, their writings pointed to the possibility of an alternative path to social development.[2] Frankfurt School - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
So you see the left could not credibly defend communism but were still seeking marxism-and they did that by essentially painting the US as an awful place, to facilitate change more amendable to marxism. This isn't a conspiracy theory, you just aren't well read enough to know what you believe is based on marxist dogma. Welcome to the world.