Cultural Marxism makes sense in the context of the creep towards ever increasing social egalitarianism...Fife wrote: ↑Wed Jan 09, 2019 9:29 amSomething to read:
Cultural Marxism Is Real
Samuel Moyn, a Yale law professor, recently asked, “What is ‘cultural Marxism?’” His answer: “Nothing of the kind actually exists.” Moyn attributes the term cultural Marxism to the “runaway alt-right imagination,” claiming that it implicates zany conspiracy theories and has been “percolating for years through global sewers of hatred.”
Alexander Zubatov, an attorney writing in Tablet, countered that the “somewhat unclear and contested” term cultural Marxism “has been in circulation for over forty years.” It has, moreover, “perfectly respectable uses outside the dark, dank silos of the far right.” He concluded that cultural Marxism is neither a “conspiracy” nor a “mere right-wing ‘phantasmagoria,’” but a “coherent intellectual program, a constellation of dangerous ideas.”
In this debate, I side with Zubatov. Here’s why.
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And the assault on any form of hierarchy...
A line can be traced from the first era of Revolutions beginning with the first English Civil War, through the French Revolution and leading to the Russian Revolution with increasing social egalitarianism.... bringing politically unsophisticated classes into conflict with the established elites. And in the case of Communism we saw the darkest manifestation of this trend.
We are simply dealing with the latest manifestation of this same trend.
All revolutions require measured restraint in response or it they become unstable and toxic....
