Y'all still missing the point of this tweet. I know what *they* think it means, but I fail to see any connection to marxist thought at all.
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Marxism is in some ways one of the least intersectional political theories out there, it strictly subordinates all other axes to class.
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'Cultural Marxism' therefore doesn't even make sense, such a thing would be... not Marxism.
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This is maybe the best explanation yet. https://twitter.com/philthethrill/status/902317013640650753 …
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This is probably the actual source but it doesn't explain why Marxism specifically was chosen as the bogeyman https://twitter.com/PreciousBFluids/status/902317450821111808 …
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fun story about this, the wikipedia page for "cultural marxism" was merged into "Frankfurt School" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt_School#Cultural_Marxism_conspiracy_theory …
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this was then un-done, then re-done. then, jimmy fuckin wales stepped in and reverted, gave it its own page. then re-done again
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mr wikipedia himself was Mad that this isn't a real thing
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Considering most of them don't know what marxism even is, it's probably mostly a scare word: "Ooh the evil marxists coming for our culture!"
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I mean the two things right wingers fear the most are poc and communists lol
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They say a lot of things that I don't understand. They're phrases that I think get made up on like breitbart
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They've been made up before Breitbart. I'm a white hetero male and this phrase has been thrown at me for a while.
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It's an antisemitic dogwhistle, that's for sure. This article discusses the Frankfurt School connection. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/feb/22/chris-uhlmann-should-mind-his-language-on-cultural-marxism …
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They think it's Marxists undermining Western culture.
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It's just an iteration of "New World Order" The phrase has no intrinsic meaning other than to sound scary to them.
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I think they don't really have an understanding of either term.
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I don't think it has any actual meeting, it's just (((cultural marxism)))
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Then they think they're speaking my "crazy liberal" language. And I'm like I've never heard that phrase before...
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