4. The actual historical "cultural Marxists" (or "Western Marxists") were the Frankfurt School: Adorno, Benjamin, Marcuse etc.
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5. Cultural Marxists earned their name because they sought to supplant & update Marx's economic system with recognition of cultural forces.
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6. Frankfurt School marginalized for decades (at odds with both Stalinism of East & capitalism of West) but enjoyed 1960s resurgence
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7. For a variety of reasons Marcuse was most popular Frankfurt School figure in New Left (live in CA, Angela Davis student, wrote about sex)
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8. By coincidence Marcuse was in France in 1968 and incorrectly portrayed by press as major instigator.
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9. The conspiracy minded John Birch Society picked up on idea of Marcuse as evil masterminded & made it part of their lore.
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10. John Wayne was a Bircher and in Playboy interview of May 1971 repeats idea of Marcuse as root of all New Left evil.pic.twitter.com/POEkrvcG60
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11. Lore about Marcuse became a kind of common sense on the right, partly because it fit existing anti-Semitic tropes.
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12. Anti-semitic trope: Jewish masterminds stir up the nonwhites against white culture: far right plugged Marcuse & Angela Davis into mythos
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13. Should be said this whole view of "cultural Marxism" as root of feminism, anti-racism, PC etc is radically at odds with history
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14. Feminism, anti-racism etc had roots very different than Frankfurt School. Marcuse's ties to New Left more personal than ideological
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15. The Frankfurt School guys were pretty stuffy European elitists. Adorno hated Jazz & radical students and was super Eurocentric
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16. The alt-right view of "cultural Marxism" is just an updating of this old Birch Society myth.
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