Dnarever wrote on Jan 15
th, 2026 at 7:33pm:
Frank wrote on Jan 15
th, 2026 at 4:27pm:
Marxism = class struggle is the driving force of history.
As the working class was reluctant to revolt and dfrive history, the formula became :
the struggle between the oppressed and the oppressors is the driving force of history.
With identitity politics (post-Soviet Marxism) the 'proletariate' has metastasised into a miriad oppressed identity groups.
Now all you have to do is find yourself an identity of victimhood and bingo! as the member of the 'oppressed community', you are now on the 'right side of history' just by perceiving yourself as oppressed.
Quote:post-Soviet Marxism
Not sure that this term has any real meaning.
Don't really think that Pre Russia Marxism or During Soviet Marxism are terms with meaning either.
Russia was a failed corrupt version of false communism, they tried to associate with Marxist theory but it wasn't really genuine and didn't work in reality. Soviet Russia was a dictatorial authoritarian regime dressed up in the pretense of communism, socialism or marxism..
You are not sure of a whole lot of things, duckwit.
Have you ever heard of Marxist-Leninist dogma? Stalinism? These were the main currents of Soviet Marxism.
But Marxism lived on even after the end of the Leninist or Stalinist phase, it lives on in many academic fields, especially politics, sociology and as post-Soviet Marxism, in cultural studies, literature, philosophy, sociology, gender and race studies, education and all the other 'oppressed identity' studies.
And things that live on in the academy make way, with the graduates, to the public service, schools, corporations, NGOs, political party offices, the yarts etc.
Proletariate/the oppressed such as [
your victime group here] versus bourgeoisie/the oppressors such as [
your pet peeve group here.
Marxism is, above all, a method. Like science. No wonder Marx called his ideas on historical and dialectical materialism 'scientific'. Marxism is a method of social, cultural, political and economic analysis. The method of analysing and treating culture as the struggle of the oppressed against the oppressor is cultural Marxism.