Slimebeast said:
WolfpackN64 said:
Look, Marxist theory has never become cultural. You always had cultural interpretations, but these always deal with elite culture and inequality.
The kind of Cultural Marxism I hear so many people nagging on about DOES NOT EXIST. There has not been a cultural shift and especially not in these days, when the more hardline theories are reserting dominance. I can tell you, I'm in my university's local communist group, which has people from all kind of Marxist, Socialist and Communist thought and hardline Marxism-Lenninism has never been as popular. All the other left groups are likewise mainly focused on economic issues, with culture being a part of course, but only when it matters.
There has been no socialist conspiracy to apprehend and change culture. If anything, that's where liberals are good at (and that also explains why they are so suprised when people elect people like Trump, since they often live in social bubbles and can't see what happens at the lower and middle ends of society).
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"hardline Marxism-Leninism has never been as popular"?
But that's completely false. Hardline Marxism-Leninism is minimal in the West today. It was much much bigger in the 60s and the 70s.
"Marxist theory has never become cultural."
That's true for traditional Marxism, the one from the 19th century up until 1989. But since the Cultural revolution of Mao and since the student protests in the 60's, socialism has become increasingly very much cultural.
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I meant, never as popular since the fall of the eastern block.
And you can't seriously see the Cultural Revolution as a sign of an increasing "cultural socialism". The Cultural Revolution was Mao's way to regain the zenith of his power and hold it, it actually had very little to do with culture.
