What is Cultural Marxism? Well, even lame-ass Wikipedia got ONE thing right: it's a bastardization of the Nazi propaganda slur "Cultural Bolshevik," and in reality, it's not much more than propaganda. Cultural Marxism? You mean like Gramsci? A thoughtful and cogent analysis of how culture is harnessed to consolidate ruling class authority and reproduce the dominant discourse? Sure, I could see that as being "cultural" and "Marxist,” but not in the way the constipated right conceives of the term. This Frankfurt school, identity politics shit? I am not an expert, but I have read a fair-sized chunk of Marx, including all of the first volume of Capital, and most of the stuff on rent in volumes 2 & 3. Orthodox Marxists would shit their pants at the sight and state of modern identity politics. They believed that demolishing capitalist class relations and establishing economic democracy would, in the end, solve the issues that stem from overdermination, the countless complications that arise from the system itself -- the need for banks, cops, wars, censorship, prisons, insane asylums, etc... It would solve the messiness of sexism, too (theoretically...) Remember, people like Alexandra Kollontai never got moved up in the party ranks, and there was no push to establish any feminist wing of the party. Yes, the Soviet Union passed some of the most progressive pro-female legislation on the planet, including the introduction of abortion rights decades before American women had the right. But Marx would have looked at this weaponized identity politics and exposed it for what it is: a ruse to stymie the left. A narrative cooked up by the right and embraced by the same nuts who call Obama a socialist. You want to know what identity politics is? It is a way to justify running a war criminal for president. It is a means of making a warmongering, right-wing, anti-worker, ageist, sexist, and even anti-queer party (when it comes to any truly radical expression of sexuality) present as a "left-of-center" option.
You wanna know what cultural Marxism really is? Get it straight from the horse’s mouth. Or ass, in this case. The weekend after Mango Mussolini’s first election, the entire LAPD closed ranks to protect the Trumpers, their Herculean intellects on display for all to behold:
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