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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17. As with all conspiracy theories, "cultural Marxism" creates convenient foe: foreign Jewish intellectuals are problem. Women & POC dupes
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18. What's interesting is that Trumpists are now connecting "cultural marxism" with "deep state." This is return to Bircher roots.
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19. 1950s/1960s Birchers thought USA gov't infiltrated by communists. Eisenhower was a commie! Not Trumpist replicating this idea.
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Difference: The Birchers never came anywhere close to the White House/sitting on the NSC.
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Right.That's why we're in deep shit.
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