No, that's not it. We absolutely do need to fear bad ideas that gain great cultural currency & become a dominant in society. We need to reason with our own moral tribes when they become infected by this in both intellectual & political thought. https://twitter.com/cultofdusty/status/970414858045968387 …
OK, that's not Marxism tho. That was about economics. Marxists were universalists and also believed in objective truth and science.
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Whether we want to call it "marxist", is whether we want the term to mean the ideological dialectics of oppressor vs oppressed?
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Lets not. That would just be confusing. Slavery abolitionists would then be Marxists.
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The problem is that they are seeking to cast demographics itself as a supremacist system of oppression. Majority as "privilege", minority as oppression. To cast familiarity, norms, perception as bias, stereotyping, discrimination.
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That is the problem, yes.
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No, economics come last because it complicates gender and racial identity. You don't get much sympathy for being a poor white man.
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Critical theory has neo-Marxist roots, at least if you believe Wikipedia... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_theory#cite_note-6 …pic.twitter.com/Xp1sbJT3nQ
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There is Marxist critical theory, yes, and it predates postmodern branches of critical theory because Marxism predates pomo.
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Much of the same dynamics, replacing economic class struggle of oppressor-oppressed with the kyriarchal demographic classes. Even drawing from much of the same source of Marxism itself, in Hegel
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I'm writing a thing about this soon. This is overstated. I'll acknowledge the links but Marxism can't reduce to 'oppressor/oppressed class'. Oppressor & oppressed classes exist & there are good & bad analyses of them.
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