Re:International Relations Theory Doesn’t Understand Culture
by 0815test on Monday April 01, 2019 @10:23PM
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Okay, so the "Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution" wasn't Marxist? And what about the many, many scholars who tried to understand culture using a Marxist, historically-materialist analysis, e.g. in Britain? Just because "Cultural Marxism" was picked up as a label by conspiracy theorists, doesn't mean that nothing like it exists in the real world.
Re:International Relations Theory Doesn’t Understand Culture
by fao_ on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @06:44AM
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The people understanding culture using Marxist theory, would be using Marxist Dialectic, not "Cultural Marxism".
Re:International Relations Theory Doesn’t Understand Culture
by superfist on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @08:55AM
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I just gave you list of example theories without any value function, conspiracy theories are also theories smartie. Using 'conspiracy' in front of it mean that you already judge them.
Re:International Relations Theory Doesn’t Understand Culture
by fao_ on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @11:12AM
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You fatally misunderstood my comment, and continue to misunderstand my responses. I know someone who would consider this in and of itself, a hostile act. I however, do not.
My point wasn't that Marxism as a whole does not exist, as you seem to have replied. My point was that "Cultural Marxism" specifically does not exist, and is literally neo-nazi propaganda.
For what it's worth, unlike Christianity, Islam, Freemasonry, etc. there is no such thing as 'cultural marxism'. The modern usage seems to be as a catch-all term used by (literal) fascists and fascist-associated groups for literally any progressive or postmodern viewpoint, but in addition usually has the connotations of 'cultural perversion' and 'conspiracy'. Prior usage seems to be to describe an anti-semitic conspiracy theory (that is in part related to modern usage), and the term as a whole dates back to when it was coined by the German Nazi Party ("Cultural Bolshevism" - Kulturbolschewismus) to describe modernist art movements that they thought were 'degenerative'.
Rational Wiki's second description is incredibly descriptive:
""""Cultural Marxism" (both uppercase) is a common snarl word used to paint anyone with progressive tendencies as a secret Communist. The term alludes to a conspiracy theory in which sinister left-wingers have infiltrated media, academia, and science and are engaged in a decades-long plot to undermine Western culture. Some variants of the conspiracy allege that basically all of modern social liberalism is, in fact, a Communist front group."""
See:
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Cultural_Marxism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt_School#Cultural_Marx...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Bolshevism