The Basics of Cultural Marxism

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:

1. Marxism and the relevant historical context;
2. Cultural Marxism;
3. Critical Marxism; and
4. Woke Marxism,

connecting the highlights of this movement to the challenges of the present day.

Watch The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Ep. 150

First published on New Discourses