I still don't know what "cultural Marxism" is supposed to mean.
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Reminds me of “social Darwinism” which brings to thought forced eugenics and sterilization. My guess, they’re trying to conflate the 2
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Nah. "Social Darwinism," & eugenics in general, is embraced by a lot of fash, under that name or otherwise. "Cultural Marxism" is an antisemitic conspiracy theory playing off xenophobia & US fears of socialism, and the meaning is closer to when people yammer about "SJWs" or "PC".
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Ah. I didn’t think that they were similar (and turns out that they are not) I just assumed that they put the word “social” on front to make it sound evil.
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Yeah, I’m an actual (Frankfurt School-adjacent) Marxist, & I’m kinda just discovering this has been a thing. “¡Dios mi!” Who knew?!
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The idea, I think, is that it's supposed to be an outgrowth of Marxism - and therefore scary and un-American! - but applying (what the speaker believes to be) the principles to cultural issues rather than economic systems.
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Those words indicate a variety of marxist thought that prioritizes the superstructure (incl. culture) ahead of the base (economics). This is seen as a needed departure from marxist theory due to workers' failure to achieve class consciousness in spite of Marx's predictions
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Mostly I think “Marxism” is a word Republicans have been trained to have a strong emotional reaction to, so Republicans settled on it as a label that would allow them to package a bunch of disparate trends they didn’t like as a unified, sinister conspiracy.
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Because Marx = evil in our culture. Feeds the narrative of cool entrepreneurs believe racism while big bad bureaucrats believe equality. It’s all narrative signalling.
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i figured there was some sort of anti-semitic dogwhistle buried in there
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