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I also think there is such a thing as "cultural Marxism"-- i.e., Marx as refracted through the Frankfurt School (esp. Marcuse) and as applied by Gramsci. We saw this in China: "Mao did what Gramsci thought." We've seen this variant in our schools, which are almost completely ruled by Paulo Friere, and we're seeing it take over all the other institutions Gramsci targeted when he called for "seizing the means of *cultural* production." To say we're seeing *classical* Marxism in the U.S., for example, is technically incorrect--but to say we're seeing its modern-day variant (a Hegelian sythesis of postmodernism and Neo-Marxism) and is not wholly incorrect.

cryptowolf 2y ago

We are not seeing Marxism anywhere really, maybe some elements of it China and how they brought over half a million people out of extreme poverty after the Capitalist British invaded and pillaged them during the opium wars.

There is not one socialism but many different forms of it trying to achieve communism and inspired by marxism.

The Soviet model was which STATE SOCIALISM, the scandinavian model which was capitalism with elements of quality social services, and chinese socialism which mixes capitalism with socialism.

None of these are marxism and none of them are communism.

Communist parties exist, but communist countries don't.

Liberals and Democrats are none of those things.

They are the extreme right wing diguised as lefties so that red necks call them communists. lol

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freeborn | ἐλεύθερος | 8r0gwg 2y ago

This is a defitional retreat. The Frankfurt School were Marxists trying understand the psychology of the masses who went along with the "wars if the elites." The turned to, and incorporated, the insights of Freud. See the work of Philip Reiff for more on this. Marcuse, also a Marxist, recognized that would never be able to recruit the masses in the U.S. (because capitalism [of a flavor] was actually working to lift the lower classes out of poverty -- so he turned to "the ghetto" and the marginalized. The Critical Theorists, also avowed Marxists, took up this Marcusian focus. That's only a small part of the story, but one can draw a straight line from Marx to the -- I say again -- cultural Marxism (Gramsci) of today. See the work of Eric Voegelin and Augusto del Noce, or of James Lindsay, for more.