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.
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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