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Actually I meant Western marxists https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Marxism https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Marxism > Less concerned with econom
by samirillian 3y ago
Actually I meant Western marxists
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Marxism https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Marxism
> Less concerned with economic analysis than earlier schools of Marxist thought, Western Marxism placed greater emphasis on the study of the cultural trends of capitalist society, deploying the more philosophical and subjective aspects of Marxism, and incorporating non-Marxist approaches to investigating culture and historical development
I thought Western marxist would be obscure to hn readers and that in the context what I meant by cultural Marxism would be clear, but I guess not.
I'm dismissive of the alt-right usage of cultural Marxism to the point of forgetting how much other people care about it
- Apocryphon 3y agoMaybe cultural theorist Marxist or cultural critique Marxist would be clearer. I hadn't heard of those thinkers you mentioned but everyone is at least faintly familiar with Žižek's shtick. fwiw, "late stage capitalism" feels to be a phrase that's been around as popular parlance since at least the mid-2010s. It's even brought up in the Wikipedia article for the term: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_capitalism#Modern_usage_of_the_phrase_and_further_evolution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_capitalism#Modern_usage_o... It's cliche by now. They should probably move on to a new buzzword. Actually, in tech, it does exist: enshittification is a good replacement as any.