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Reading 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 id
by ghusto 3y ago
Reading 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.