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> So it's... not Marxism at all. None of the rest of Marx makes sense if you replace "class" with "race". Correct, and in fact, many Marxists are virulently ag
by MockObject 4y ago
> So it's... not Marxism at all. None of the rest of Marx makes sense if you replace "class" with "race".
Correct, and in fact, many Marxists are virulently against CRT/wokeness, because it distracts from class as the central conflict in society.
Critics crudely call CRT/wokeness "Marxist" because it's a conflict perspective.
- tptacek 4y agoRight, but the world is full of conflict perspectives, not least among right-wingers. They can't all be Marxists, just because Gramsci came up with an ultra-generalizable concept. (I think we agree, just writing it down to clarify my thoughts).
- MockObject 4y agoWe do agree here. It's interesting that calling CRT "Marxist" gives the Fox News watchers a familiar enemy to fulminate against, and it gives the CRT peddlers themselves unearned credibility as dangerous dissidents, so it's a misidentification that serves everyone but the dwindling number of actual Marxists, and pedants bent on accuracy.
- tptacek 4y agoYeah! Suck it, Maciej!