Melanias purse wrote on Mar 21^st, 2026 at 2:03pm:



EVEN wiki knows better than you two ignorant tossers.



Marxist cultural analysis is a form of cultural analysis and anti-capitalist cultural critique, which assumes the theory of cultural hegemony and from this specifically targets those aspects of culture that are profit driven and mass-produced under capitalism.[

The original theory behind this form of analysis is commonly associated with Georg Lukács, Antonio Gramsci, and the Frankfurt School. It represents an important current within Western Marxism, observing that societies maintain cohesion and stability by reproducing a dominant culture.[5] Marxist cultural analysis has commonly considered the industrialization, mass-production, and mechanical reproduction of culture by the "culture industry" as having an overall negative effect on society, an effect which reifies the self-conception of the individual.[2][6]

The tradition of Marxist cultural analysis has also been referred to as "cultural Marxism" and "Marxist cultural theory", in reference to Marxist ideas about culture.[7][8][9][10][11][12] However, since the 1990s, the term "Cultural Marxism" has largely referred to the Cultural Marxism conspiracy theory, a conspiracy theory popular among the far right without any clear relationship to Marxist cultural analysis.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marxist_cultural_analysis

Have a look, silly bozos. Check out the footnotes and refernces, too.

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I am off to the shops I need some Cultural Marxist Coffee.

Dnarever wrote on Mar 16^th, 2026 at 8:08pm:


Oh, I know. Nutzis.

Look, this is a little bit complicated, so requires some explanation.

Marx came up with communism in a spree of youthful hijinx. The revolutions of 1848 had that effect, I guess. Marx's early Hegelian teleology was rather idealistic, unnecessary and frankly, quite dull.

When Marx grew up, he scrapped the early communism for the more far more centrist social democracy, advocating state reforms to tame capitalism, not scrap it. Essentially, Marx ended up with the same political objectives as the modern Liberal Party.

In the end, when it came to the role of government, Marx was about as radical as John Howard.

Basically, there was so little government in the late 19th century, anybody who advocated any form of social intervention by the state was described as a socialist.

Marx never imagined social programs like the NDIS, state subsidized child care or even universal health care. In the 19th century, these kinds of functions were performed by the church, charitable bodies and privately-funded benevolent societies. They founded hospitals, orphanages, poor houses and work farms.

Marx wasn't around to see the emergence of state bodies like the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority or the role of reserve banks in determining interest rates, setting employment targets and managing capital shocks.

These functions were essentially what Young Marx wanted communism to do. He never imagined developed states like Britain and Germany could achieve these aims without taking the economy over first.

Old Marx lived to see the emergence of centralized nation states. He died the same year the first German chancellor Bismarck introduced sickness insurance in 1883 - the first of a series of state-funded social programs, pensions and insurance schemes, anywhere in the world.

These reforms were a response to the rise of the socialist parties Marx inspired. They united in Germany in the Social Democratic Party (SPD), the biggest threat to Bismarck's rule. The SDP kept the leftards nice and snug under the Efurt program, committing to a Marxist agenda in 1891.

Krauts love a good program, and they seem quite good at knitting factions together to form power. The leftards agreed to stop complaining, and the moderates agreed that Marx was right all along, we just have to be patient. So, they agreed on things like an eight hour work day, eradicating child poverty, expanding Bismarck's social insurance, letting leftards join unions and giving the vote to everybody over 21.

As the 19th century rolled into the 20th, more people were granted the right to vote. WWI killed off so many men, it was natural to let more people vote. In England, they decided to let all men vote in 1918. In Germany, there were so few men left, they extended the vote to women as well.

Basically, everybody was scared of the Bolsheviks, who'd won the Russian Revolution in 2017. They didn't let anybody vote at all.

In 1918, the SDP won a majority in the German Reichstag. The Krauts chucked out the Kaiser and created the Weimar Republic. SDP leader, Friedrich Ebert, formed a coalition and became Germany's first prez in 1919.

It wasn't easy. To stay in power, he had to fight off the newly formed Communist Party (KPD), many of them radicals from the SDP, inspired by the Bolsheviks. The Spartacist uprising was staged in January 1919, led by Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg. Half a million workers went on strike, over 100,000 took part in the Berlin protests, largely peaceful, and most of them willing to negotiate with the SDP to form power and have a proper socialist country.

Friedrich Ebert rallied the troops. The uprising was crushed by the Freikorps, who later became the Nazis, also socialists - Nationalist socialists. Karl and Rosa were taken off and shot, Nazi style. Not the most Marxist thing to do back then, but Marx never said it would be easy.

Over in Russia, the Bolsheviks were in the midst of two revolutions and a civil war. When Lenin tried working out what Marx would do, nothing Marx wrote helped. Marx was so useless in staging revolutions, Lenin had to go and write What Is To Be Done? Burning Questions of Our Movement. It's so un-Marxist, the Bolsheviks called it Marxism-Leninism, which became the official communist dogma of the 20th century.

Later, when the Chows had a tiff with the Soviets, Mao called the Soviets revisionists, saying his revolution was the real Marxism-Leninism. This became known as Maoism.

Then the Western Europeans pointed out Marx wrote only about developed industrialised countries, not backward agrarian societies, so none of them were right. Gramsci called the Soviets state capitalists. The Soviets weren't nice at all, going around and invading everybody - that was imperialism. So the Europeans went off revolutions altogether and back to reforming capitalism again.

GOVT2991: Political Analysis
2026 unit information
This unit introduces students to the history and diversity of theoretical approaches used in the study of politics. The unit begins with an overview of the history of political thought, encompassing Ancient political thought, Medieval political thought, and the Enlightenment and Modern political thought. Next, debates within the philosophy of knowledge are used to explore the broad theoretical frameworks used within the contemporary study of politics, ranging from positivism, behavioralism, critical realism, Marxism, feminism, interpretivism and postcolonialism.
USyd


This unit provides students with a grounding in the key methodological and theoretical approaches relevant to the study of global politics and the world system. The unit begins with the breakdown of the key methodological, epistemological and ontological camps in global politics and theory. It then explores the historical emergence of traditional approaches such as realism, liberalism and Marxism and their outlines their competing perspectives and associated research methodologies. The unit concludes by considering more recent approaches, including feminism, critical theory, constructivism, postcolonialism, postmodernism and green theory. Students will gain an understanding of the critical intersections between theory and methods in the context of world politics
Mac Uni

Modern political theorists grapple with significant political and social transformations such as capitalism, bureaucratisation, rationalisation and globalization. They diagnose various 'pathologies' they fear might result from these transformations: alienation and injustice, disenchantment and authoritarianism, nihilism and social disintegration. They also identify political solutions to these maladies: revolutionary action, charismatic leadership, new forms of democracy and citizenship, or new types of social movements. This unit examines and assesses modern political theorists' diagnoses of and cures for modern society, focusing on how they conceptualise key political concepts such freedom, power, community and legitimacy. It will do so by examining the political theories of Marx, Durkheim, Weber, Foucault, Habermas and other contemporary critical theorists.
Monash


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Bobby. wrote on Mar 21^st, 2026 at 4:16pm:


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Yes I thought that lactose intolerance = Marxist ?

Melanias purse wrote on Mar 21^st, 2026 at 6:30pm:

And you an arse sniffing, grotesque, grimacing son of pakistan.
But NOBODY is curious about that.