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I think it's a bit simplistic to say that modernism is "lefty", especially today, when it's probably more of a conservative principle. (Postmodernism tends to b
by MrJohz 3y ago
I think it's a bit simplistic to say that modernism is "lefty", especially today, when it's probably more of a conservative principle. (Postmodernism tends to be more accepted by the left, which might be what you were thinking of, but even that isn't always a very useful generalisation. The whole concept of being "post truth", which was Trump's whole playbook, is a very postmodern idea.)
I think the key thing is that the modernism/postmodernism/left/right thing doesn't really matter here, because both Cultural Bolshevism and Cultural Marxism are both fundamentally conspiracy theories. They both claim that modernism (and postmodernism respectively) are attacks on our society by a small group of bad actors who have infiltrated society in some way. (And to be clear, there is no evidence for these claims at all.) In Cultural Bolshevism, those bad actors were explicitly linked to the Jews. In Cultural Marxism, that explicit link isn't often there, but given the connections to the previous antisemitic theory, and the fact that many of the early proponents were explicitly antisemitic, it's difficult to separate the two entirely.
- ghusto 3y agoReading up on this now. From the Wikipedia page: > While the term "cultural Marxism" has been used in a general sense, to discuss the application of Marxist ideas in the cultural field, the variant term "Cultural Marxism" generally refers to an antisemitic conspiracy theory. I spent longer than I care to admit diffing "cultural Marxism" and "Cultural Marxism". I think this is the problem though; they're two different things, that happen to be written the same. Page titled "Cultural Marxism": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Marxism_conspiracy_theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Marxism_conspiracy_th... Page titled "Marxist cultural analysis" that has some notes about how probably, the term "Cultural Marxism" shouldn't be used to describe "Marxist cultural analysis": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marxist_cultural_analysis?oldformat=true https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marxist_cultural_analysis?oldf... He could have just used the term lazily, rather than actually meaning to refer to the antisemitic variant.
- raxxorraxor 3y agoYou cannot really make a connection to antisemitism by certain key words. While cultural Marxism certainly has some baggage, but it does not infer any hostility to Jews. It can do so, but it shouldn't be regarded as doing so.