The Basics of Cultural Marxism

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🗓️ 27 October 2024

⏱️ 191 minutes

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The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Ep. 150 Cultural Marxism is a challenging term that refers to a broad Leftist social phenomenon that took place in the West through the twentieth century into the present. Based upon but modifying the Communist religion of Karl Marx, Western (Cultural) Marxism sought to find a way to infiltrate and seize the means of production of Western Civilizational culture in the hopes of opening it up to socialism (or Communism). In the 1910s through the 1930s, the Western Marxist movement truly was a Cultural Marxism. From the 1930s to the 1970s, this line of thinking was developed primarily by the Frankfurt School, which developed Critical Theory, or Critical Marxism, sometimes referred to as Neo-Marxism. Since the 1970s, it has gone Woke, adopting Intersectionality as a form of American Maoism. In this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, host James Lindsay offers a thorough beginner's overview of the whole of Cultural Marxism in four parts: Marxism and the relevant historical context; Cultural Marxism; Critical Marxism; and Woke Marxism, connecting the highlights of this movement ot the challenges of the present day. Join him and share this with your friends who are looking for a good starting place to learn about his work! New book! The Queering of the American Child: https://queeringbook.com/ Support New Discourses: https://newdiscourses.com/support Follow New Discourses on other platforms: https://newdiscourses.com/subscribe Follow James Lindsay: https://linktr.ee/conceptualjames © 2024 New Discourses. All rights reserved. #NewDiscourses #JamesLindsay #Marxism

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0:00.0	The Hello and welcome to another episode of the new discourses podcast this is James
0:24.5	Lindsay and I am doing something for you that you've been asking for for a long
0:28.7	time today and what I'm doing today is a basics. The basics of cultural Marxism. Now when we talk
0:37.1	about woke Marxism and Marxism more generally, there are a lot of subjects to cover and I mean I think we could probably build entire
0:46.7	university style I mean not just courses sequences curricula around all of the different topics.
0:56.2	And as a matter of fact, what I want to do today
0:58.5	is to kind of break into four pieces
1:01.6	a rough introduction to cultural marks. to Cultural Marxism is a fraught term. Cultural Marxism has been declared by the powers that be a conspiracy theory, and in particular an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory.
1:22.0	The claim is that the people who just notice things as they call themselves
1:28.0	on the internet today because they are in resurgence happened to notice that the members of the Frankfurt school in particular, which is one of the dimensions of the cultural Marxism or Western Marxism phenomenon, were all ethnically Jewish, although they were not, as a matter of fact, practicing or observant or certainly orthodox Jews in any regard. As a matter of fact, the religion was communism.
1:56.1	They would have promoted not quite to a man because of Walter Benjamin, but they would have
2:02.0	promoted broadly a atheism as a kind of baseline and then a faith of utopian
2:10.8	communism or socialism depending on which ones were talking about.
2:15.0	I don't know that Max Horkheimer, for example, was particularly bent on a utopian vision,
2:22.0	but Herbert Marcuse was most definitely bent on a utopian vision, but Herbert Marcuse was most definitely bent on a utopian vision.
2:25.4	He said so himself in his own words.
2:27.6	So it's difficult to talk about cultural Marxism, and this is my little disclaimer at the
2:33.6	beginning and then I'll kind of talk more about what I'm doing, why I'm doing it and
2:37.1	get to the me to this. It's difficult to talk about cultural Marxism because
2:40.9	it is labeled an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory believing that people who just
2:46.4	notice things have pointed out that the Frankfurt school was overwhelmingly, if not
2:52.4	entirely ethnically Jewish, and that they had a plot to destroy Western
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