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Reply #2325 - Yesterday at 1:50pm

Frank wrote on Aug 5^th, 2026 at 9:31am:

Dnarever wrote on Aug 4^th, 2026 at 11:43pm:

Frank wrote on Aug 4^th, 2026 at 8:34am:

Dnarever wrote on Aug 2^nd, 2026 at 9:53pm:

Bobby. wrote on Aug 2^nd, 2026 at 8:01pm:

Dnarever wrote on Aug 2^nd, 2026 at 7:54pm:

You do know that accross the two and a half thousand posts on this topic nobody has yet named even one tree - not one. There is no way to build that forest with no trees ?

What you have here is a desert of cultural Marxists - you got none - nada - zero.

I keep finding them everywhere. Huh

Name one high profille cultural marxist ? (Just 1)

Culture—as Marx, and all his 'descendants' saw—is not politically neutral. Nor is it merely subjective values, tastes, or ideas of individuals’ private lives.

'Progressive', lefty politics and culture are strongly influenced by political theories, most significantly by Marxism and its permutations. Marxism is, above all, a method of social andd political analysis, adapted constantly and everywhere to local circumstances.

So Marxists dialectical materialist way of looking at and seeing society, its polithcs znd culture, are. Present in every 'progrsssive', lefty political, cultural, educational endeavour and project.

If you say that there is no such thing as cultural Marxism then you also must maintain that there is no such thing as cultural or political conservatism. You cant have one without the other - it's basis Marxist dialectic!

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Then you also must maintain that there is no such thing as cultural conservatism.

Correct.

In fact there is no record of any conservative with an ounce of culture.

Idiotic, as to be expected.

Still almost 2.5 thousand posts without anyone naming one single cultural marxist - not one -None - zero - zilch - nada. Nobody has even silghtly infered that there may be one somewhere / anywhere, Just one?

Substance = zero.

Inane Insults = plentiful.

Insults Substitue for fact = NO

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Reply #2326 - Yesterday at 2:02pm

The ex-Cambridge professor thrived in a sector where woke delusions pass for academic insight.

When Cambridge University appointed Jason Arday as its youngest black professor in March 2023, the BBC released a video of his head of department greeting him in person.

‘We are so lucky to have you’, grovelled Professor Hilary Cremin, as she gripped Arday’s hands like a novice nun being introduced to the Pope. ‘You are the best in the world in terms of the research you do’, she gushed. It hasn’t aged well.

Did Arday exercise some kind of Svengali-like charm over Cremin and her team? Or were the academics just unbelievably gullible? I suspect the truth is more concerning. For Arday’s appointment is surely the most egregious example yet of the influence on our educational system of a racialised ideology that makes irrational decisions like Cremin’s almost inevitable.

In the good old days, Britain’s top universities were famous the world over for their rigorous standards and a culture that promoted success. Neither of these things is much in vogue now at Cambridge University’s education department – at least if we are to judge from an interview Cremin gave in November last year. Asked about the alleged failure of racial minorities to succeed within higher education, Cremin blamed US president Donald Trump and the populist right. She also issued a warning about the ‘psychopathology’ of success itself. ‘The people who rise to the top are the worst of us not the best of us’, Cremin declared, as if she’d forgotten how close to the top she was herself. Those who do succeed, she said, skew heavily towards the narcissistic and Machiavellian.

The joke is that she could well have been describing Jason Arday. She probably never would have made that connection, though, for the simple reason that Arday was black. And in the imagination of woke pseuds, people of colour are forever the good guys in a cosmic struggle against baddies – otherwise known as white people – who are, we must never be allowed to forget, the source of all the world’s problems.

This template comes from the gospel of race activism that dominates our educational system now – namely, critical race theory. Critical race theory’s central conviction is that racial inequality in Western institutions is not a flaw, but a design feature. Everything about an institution – from how it is organised to the things it prioritises – is supposed to keep black people down.

This means that academic standards in universities can never be considered value-free. And all for the simple reason that standards themselves, as well as the use of reason and knowledge by which they are met, are tools of white supremacy. Instead, critical race theory devotees insist there are many ‘truths’ and many ways to uncover them.
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Critical race theory (CRT) was officially organized in 1989, at the first annual Workshop on Critical Race Theory—though its intellectual origins go back much farther, to the 1960s and ’70s. Its immediate precursor was the critical legal studies (CLS) movement, which dedicated itself to examining how laws and legal institutions serve the interests of the wealthy and powerful at the expense of the poor and marginalized. (CLS, an offshoot of Marxist-oriented critical theory, may also be viewed as a radicalization of early 20th-century legal realism, a school of legal philosophy according to which judicial decision making, especially at the appellate level, is influenced as much by nonlegal—political or ideological—factors as by precedent and principles of legal reasoning.)
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Reply #2327 - Yesterday at 2:08pm

Contemporary Marxist thought reinterprets classical frameworks to address modern crises. It focuses on the systemic instability of capitalism, intersecting global struggles, and the need for alternative futures.

Major theoretical and practical currents include:
Ecosocialism: Theorists like Kohei Saito and John Bellamy Foster argue that Marx recognized the environmental destruction inherent in capitalism. Ecosocialist thought links climate change to the drive for endless accumulation and advocates for "degrowth communism" to avoid ecological collapse.

Social Reproduction Theory: This framework extends Marxist analysis to the domestic and social spheres. Scholars emphasize that the capitalist economy relies heavily on unpaid or underpaid labor—such as childcare, healthcare, and education—to reproduce the working class.

Contemporary Imperialism and Decoloniality: Current thought critically analyzes neocolonialism and inter-imperialist rivalries. Modern Marxists increasingly focus on national emancipation from Western hegemony and global economic exploitation.

Theories of the State and Authoritarianism: Philosophers like John Holloway and others investigate how the modern capitalist state protects private property, manages global financial crises, and enforces right-wing populist or authoritarian agendas.

In line with the central theme of this year’s conference, we invite contributions that address the following non-exclusive questions:

Marxist theories of imperialism and war
Contemporary dynamics and contradictions of capitalist accumulation
Imperialism and climate catastrophe
Resistance to imperialism and socialist strategy
Palestine and the genocidal violence of the Zionist state
Race, racialisation and capitalism
Imperialism, feminism and the (re)configuration of global gender politics
Contemporary authoritarianism, the transformation of capitalist states, and the attacks on democratic freedoms
The renewed wave of right-wing attacks on reproductive freedom, sexual orientation and trans people
However, as it does every year, the conference aims to serve as a space of broad comradely discussion of all issues related to critical Marxist theory and research across the globe and across all disciplines and interests, including philosophy, political economy, sociology, literary and cultural studies, history, political theory and so on. That means, general submissions are also encouraged.

In addition to the general conference CFP, the following streams will each be issuing individual CFPs:

Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Struggles
Marxism & Disability
Marxism, Culture and the Arts
New Technologies
Workers & Capital
Climate
Imperialism & Anti-Imperialism
Eastern Marxisms
https://www.historicalmaterialism.org/event/twenty-third-annual-conference/

Historical Materialism: Research in Critical Marxist Theory is a Marxist journal, appearing four times a year, based in London. Founded in 1997, it asserts that, notwithstanding the variety of its practical and theoretical articulations, Marxism constitutes the most fertile conceptual framework for analysing social phenomena, with an eye to their overhaul. In our selection of materials, we do not favour any one tendency, tradition or variant. Marx demanded the ‘merciless criticism of everything that exists’: for us that includes Marxism itself. Details for submitting articles to the journal can be found here.

Since 1997, the Editorial Board has extended its activities beyond the production of the journal. We contribute to producing the Historical Materialism Book Series published first in hardback by Brill followed by a paperback edition published by Haymarket. We organise the annual HM London conference in mid-November, now in its 22nd year. Affiliated networks are organising conferences in Ankara, Barcelona, New York, Montreal, Sydney, Athens, Cluj with past conferences in Beirut, Rome and Delhi.
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A reading guide for militantly ignorant duckwits:
https://www.historicalmaterialism.org/category/reading-guides/

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Reply #2328 - Yesterday at 2:39pm

Well Frank the two previous posts do not have a single word related to Cultural Marxism. They refer to some connection between what Karl Marx said around 150 years ago to CRT (Critical race theory and Critical legal studies) CLS. which on the face seems absurd. However how it was derived does in no way mitigate that these theories seem to have substance. These ideas could well have been developed from any group relying on thought backed by fact.

Though it does seem a stretch to relate it back to Karl Marx's ecanomic theory, An English ecanomic theorist who died in 1883 and had said nothing even remorely related. It was never easy to take the 20th century people who were associated with Marxism to be taken seriously when their discussions in these areas had nothing to do with marxism at all. They were clearly pushing theor own barrows.

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Reply #2329 - Yesterday at 2:48pm

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Karl Marx did not write a single systematic book on culture, but his framework of historical materialism views culture as part of the "superstructure" shaped by the economic "base". Art, law, religion, and ideas reflect the interests of the ruling class and maintain capitalist social order.

Core Ideas on Culture

Material Base: How a society makes its money dictates its social rules.

Ruling Ideas: The dominant culture in any epoch serves the elite class.

Alienation: Capitalism stops people from finding true creative freedom in their work.

False Consciousness: Workers may accept ruling-class ideas that go against their own real interests.

Later Cultural Theories

Frankfurt School: 20th-century thinkers analyzed how mass media and pop culture pacify the working class.

Hegemony: Antonio Gramsci showed how ruling groups maintain power through cultural consent rather than just force.

Cultural Studies: Later scholars used Marxist tools to study everyday life, media, and power dynamics

So this is saying that Marx himself held the opposite view to what the claims are on Cultural Marxism and Marx himself viewed Culture to be a tool of the capitalists. i.e Cultural Capitalism ?

Cultural Marxism is just a case of the right rewriting the historical facts again. It just isn't real. It isn't a thing.

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Reply #2330 - Yesterday at 3:14pm

Dnarever wrote Yesterday at 2:48pm:

So this is saying that Marx himself held the opposite view to what the claims are on Cultural Marxism and Marx himself viewed Culture to be a tool of the capitalists. i.e Cultural Capitalism ?

Cultural Marxism is just a case of the right rewriting the historical facts again. It just isn't real. It isn't a thing.

Really?

Who tells you all the time what to do, what to think and what to feel?

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Reply #2331 - Yesterday at 4:34pm

Dnarever wrote Yesterday at 2:39pm:

Well Frank the two previous posts do not have a single word related to Cultural Marxism. They refer to some connection between what Karl Marx said around 150 years ago to CRT (Critical race theory and Critical legal studies) CLS. which on the face seems absurd. However how it was derived does in no way mitigate that these theories seem to have substance. These ideas could well have been developed from any group relying on thought backed by fact.

Though it does seem a stretch to relate it back to Karl Marx's ecanomic theory, An English ecanomic theorist who died in 1883 and had said nothing even remorely related. It was never easy to take the 20th century people who were associated with Marxism to be taken seriously when their discussions in these areas had nothing to do with marxism at all. They were clearly pushing theor own barrows.

Marx was not an 'English economc theorist.' Your ignorance and your pride in it, are limitless.

Marxism is a method of social, cultural, economic, historical etc analysis.

It is not entirely Marx's invention. Dialectics has been around since Socrates. Marx took Hegel's dialectical analysis of history (and culture) and 'turned it upside down, by giving it a materialist foundation (instead of Hegel's idea-ism)

You do not need to have the word 'culture' in every discussion of history, society, politics, art etc since these are ALL, tegether, form culture. In Marxist terminology, culture is the superstructure on top of the economic, material foundations. the latter determining the former. That method of analyisng any subject - dialectical materialism, historical materialism - is the Marxist method and it is present in every academic discipline, even the hard sciences, but very wide spread in the soft and pseudo sciences like sociology and in the arts, histoy and literature, journalism, social work, education.

It long predates any narrow, American "cultural Marxism' that wikipedia talks about.

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Reply #2332 - Yesterday at 4:38pm

Bobby. wrote Yesterday at 3:14pm:

Dnarever wrote Yesterday at 2:48pm:

So this is saying that Marx himself held the opposite view to what the claims are on Cultural Marxism and Marx himself viewed Culture to be a tool of the capitalists. i.e Cultural Capitalism ?

Cultural Marxism is just a case of the right rewriting the historical facts again. It just isn't real. It isn't a thing.

Really?

Who tells you all the time what to do, what to think and what to feel?

What part of that is cultural ? - None right.

But it is all genuine 100% right wing Authoritarian practice ? Do you recall a guy named Tony who was telling women what they could think while ironing ? Do you recall his predecessor telling you who we should allow to come here ? This is real not some theory about someone who doesn't exist theoretically telling you anything but in reality telling you nothing. There is no cultural marxist in Australia in any position of power anywhere telling what to do or think or feel about anything.

Go ahead tell us the name of any culural Marxist who has told you anything ? I doubt that there is even 1 genuine cultural marxist in the world - it just isnt a thing.

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Reply #2333 - Yesterday at 5:01pm

Frank wrote Yesterday at 4:34pm:

Dnarever wrote Yesterday at 2:39pm:

Well Frank the two previous posts do not have a single word related to Cultural Marxism. They refer to some connection between what Karl Marx said around 150 years ago to CRT (Critical race theory and Critical legal studies) CLS. which on the face seems absurd. However how it was derived does in no way mitigate that these theories seem to have substance. These ideas could well have been developed from any group relying on thought backed by fact.

Though it does seem a stretch to relate it back to Karl Marx's ecanomic theory, An English ecanomic theorist who died in 1883 and had said nothing even remorely related. It was never easy to take the 20th century people who were associated with Marxism to be taken seriously when their discussions in these areas had nothing to do with marxism at all. They were clearly pushing theor own barrows.

Marx was not an 'English economc theorist.' Your ignorance and your pride in it, are limitless.

Marxism is a method of social, cultural, economic, historical etc analysis.

It is not entirely Marx's invention. Dialectics has been around since Socrates. Marx took Hegel's dialectical analysis of history (and culture) and 'turned it upside down, by giving it a materialist foundation (instead of Hegel's idea-ism)

You do not need to have the word 'culture' in every discussion of history, society, politics, art etc since these are ALL, tegether, form culture. In Marxist terminology, culture is the superstructure on top of the economic, material foundations. the latter determining the former. That method of analyisng any subject - dialectical materialism, historical materialism - is the Marxist method and it is present in every academic discipline, even the hard sciences, but very wide spread in the soft and pseudo sciences like sociology and in the arts, histoy and literature, journalism, social work, education.

It long predates any narrow, American "cultural Marxism' that wikipedia talks about.

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Marx was not an 'English

Correct he was German but lived in London for 35 years.

It is insane to believe that there is a cultural marxism arm that has members in the Marxist family or that there is even a marxist family of organisations.

Marx's comments relating to culture was simply to explain it as a tool used by capitalists.

There simply has never been a marxist group dedicated to Culture. There has never been such a thing as a cultural marxist except in demented right wing fiction.

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Reply #2334 - Yesterday at 6:17pm

Dnarever wrote Yesterday at 4:38pm:

Bobby. wrote Yesterday at 3:14pm:

Dnarever wrote Yesterday at 2:48pm:

So this is saying that Marx himself held the opposite view to what the claims are on Cultural Marxism and Marx himself viewed Culture to be a tool of the capitalists. i.e Cultural Capitalism ?

Cultural Marxism is just a case of the right rewriting the historical facts again. It just isn't real. It isn't a thing.

Really?

Who tells you all the time what to do, what to think and what to feel?

What part of that is cultural ? - None right.

But it is all genuine 100% right wing Authoritarian practice ? Do you recall a guy named Tony who was telling women what they could think while ironing ? Do you recall his predecessor telling you who we should allow to come here ? This is real not some theory about someone who doesn't exist theoretically telling you anything but in reality telling you nothing. There is no cultural marxist in Australia in any position of power anywhere telling what to do or think or feel about anything.

Go ahead tell us the name of any culural Marxist who has told you anything ? I doubt that there is even 1 genuine cultural marxist in the world - it just isnt a thing.

The ABC and SBS tells you all the time what to do, what to think and what to feel. Undecided

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Reply #2335 - Yesterday at 6:33pm

Frank wrote Yesterday at 2:08pm:

Contemporary Marxist thought reinterprets classical frameworks to address modern crises. It focuses on the systemic instability of capitalism, intersecting global struggles, and the need for alternative futures.

Correct (ie, the underlined)....hence the 'DSGE' postulate of mainstream neoclassical dogma which tries to convert this real observed systemic instability into a 'general equilibrium' theory, to defend the supposed superiority of laissez faire markets.

Hopeless.

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Reply #2336 - Yesterday at 6:40pm

Bobby. wrote Yesterday at 6:17pm:

Dnarever wrote Yesterday at 4:38pm:

Bobby. wrote Yesterday at 3:14pm:

Dnarever wrote Yesterday at 2:48pm:

So this is saying that Marx himself held the opposite view to what the claims are on Cultural Marxism and Marx himself viewed Culture to be a tool of the capitalists. i.e Cultural Capitalism ?

Cultural Marxism is just a case of the right rewriting the historical facts again. It just isn't real. It isn't a thing.

Really?

Who tells you all the time what to do, what to think and what to feel?

What part of that is cultural ? - None right.

But it is all genuine 100% right wing Authoritarian practice ? Do you recall a guy named Tony who was telling women what they could think while ironing ? Do you recall his predecessor telling you who we should allow to come here ? This is real not some theory about someone who doesn't exist theoretically telling you anything but in reality telling you nothing. There is no cultural marxist in Australia in any position of power anywhere telling what to do or think or feel about anything.

Go ahead tell us the name of any culural Marxist who has told you anything ? I doubt that there is even 1 genuine cultural marxist in the world - it just isnt a thing.

The ABC and SBS tells you all the time what to do, what to think and what to feel. Undecided

No they don't; apart from presenting news as it happens, they do present ideas for the listener's consideration.

Spot the difference from your absurd assertion?

fyi, I'm no dount as often repulsed by their mainstream economic analysis as you are by their (according to you) "cultural Marxism".

Go figure...

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Reply #2337 - Yesterday at 6:54pm

thegreatdivide wrote Yesterday at 6:40pm:

Bobby. wrote Yesterday at 6:17pm:

The ABC and SBS tells you all the time what to do, what to think and what to feel. Undecided

No they don't; apart from presenting news as it happens, they do present ideas for the listener's consideration.

Spot the difference from your absurd assertion?

fyi, I'm no dount as often repulsed by their mainstream economic analysis as you are by their (according to you) "cultural Marxism".

Go figure...

No - they are so clever about it that you don't realise that they are brainwashing you.

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Reply #2338 - Yesterday at 7:46pm

Bobby. wrote Yesterday at 6:54pm:

thegreatdivide wrote Yesterday at 6:40pm:

Bobby. wrote Yesterday at 6:17pm:

The ABC and SBS tells you all the time what to do, what to think and what to feel. Undecided

No they don't; apart from presenting news as it happens, they do present ideas for the listener's consideration.

Spot the difference from your absurd assertion?

fyi, I'm no dount as often repulsed by their mainstream economic analysis as you are by their (according to you) "cultural Marxism".

Go figure...

No - they are so clever about it that you don't realise that they are brainwashing you.

Neither the ABC or SBS have a cultural marxist department or any members or policy, programming or anything else. The only thing I watch on TV is sport, I havn't watched TV for at least 25 years. Just how do they brainwash me ?

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Reply #2339 - Yesterday at 7:52pm

Dnarever wrote Yesterday at 7:46pm:

Bobby. wrote Yesterday at 6:54pm:

thegreatdivide wrote Yesterday at 6:40pm:

Bobby. wrote Yesterday at 6:17pm:

The ABC and SBS tells you all the time what to do, what to think and what to feel. Undecided

No they don't; apart from presenting news as it happens, they do present ideas for the listener's consideration.

Spot the difference from your absurd assertion?

fyi, I'm no dount as often repulsed by their mainstream economic analysis as you are by their (according to you) "cultural Marxism".

Go figure...

No - they are so clever about it that you don't realise that they are brainwashing you.

Neither the ABC or SBS have a cultural marxist department or any members or policy, programming or anything else. The only thing I watch on TV is sport, I havn't watched TV for at least 25 years. Just how do they brainwash me ?

What about "welcome to county" ceremonies for all major sports events? Undecided

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