It goes back to the John Birch Society in the 1960s blaming social upheaval on Herbert Marcuse (really!):https://newrepublic.com/article/144317/trumps-racism-myth-cultural-marxism …
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@nytimes op-ed which says, approvingly, that race/ gender-based identity politics are rooted in Marxist ideas of class struggle/exploitation? (IIRC, Betty Friedan also described radical feminism--critically--in quasi-Marxian terms as "sex/class warfare")pic.twitter.com/8zWFPzx6DU
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There's a difference between feminists/anti-racists/anti-imperialists using Marxist ideas & feminism, anti-racism & anti-imperialism being rooted in Marxism. It's natural for subjected groups to borrow from one of most systematic thinkers on oppression but roots lie elsewhere
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