I know what "cultural marxism" means when racists say it, but I don't get how the "cultural" part connects to the "marxism" part at all.
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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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My interpretation is that they view intersectional politics as equalizing cultural privilege, which they link with Marxism.
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yeah but they think hillary runs a child sex ring out of a pizza shop how they bridge that gap?
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the high percentage of them that are moon lawyers allow them to make moon leaps, which go very far, because of the low gravity
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I disagree. If you really dig into Marx, rather than just breeze through in an undergrad or go mining for quotes to take out of context, yea
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you find something much more complex than just lol Base superstructure. Marx got that t was knottier than that. And that goes triple
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For the guys CM actually refers to, like Frankfurt etc. they were very sensitive culture critics. That's the whole point!
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the "cultural" part is the part about how culture perpetuates classism: media/entertainment, for example
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marx was all about direct effects of labor relations; frankfurt school expanded that to looking how other parts of society perpetuate class
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so anyway. "cultural marxism" is also an anti-semitic dogwhistle bc the frankfurt school was jewish scholars who had to flee nazi germany
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Class based on economics?
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They are dumb and would never get it.
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