Re:How Basecamp Blew Up
by dools on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @08:50PM
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There is no such thing as "cultural marxism", it's a term manufactured by modern libertarians to distract people with a fake culture war while they're robbed blind by corrupt politicians. Like "virtue signalling". It's also a red flag that someone is racist and ignorant, and should be called out in the same way as flat earth, climate denial or any other range of denialist mindsets.
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Marxism is a basis for critical theory. The critical theory that made a species jump from academia to the mainstream has its roots in the ideas of Gramsci and Marcuse, among others.
I call it “cultural Marxism” because unlike plain old Marxism, it has relatively little to say about the redistribution of wealth and other economic interests. In this way it’s made itself innocuous to corporate America, which would otherwise mobilize its immune system to reject the ideas outright.
Case in point: I recently sat through some corporate training on privilege that did not, once, mention wealth or economic privilege.
Re:How Basecamp Blew Up
by tomlockwood on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @10:16PM
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What's Marxist about it, then?
Marxism is about the politics of the underclass - the revolutionary struggle to achieve a just society by upending the inequities of Capitalism. So the proletarian uprising wrests control of society from the bourgeoisie.
Cultural Marxism redefines the oppressed and oppressor along the lines of identity rather than economy. This makes it much more palatable to a capitalist society.
Re:How Basecamp Blew Up
by tomlockwood on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @11:16PM
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Ah, so it's just like Marxism, except without any of the discussion of Capitalism? And its an ideology about identity, which you feel sets it clearly apart from other ideologies?