The concept of Cultural Marxism has become something of a problem for the right. While there is plenty of reason to believe in it as a generalisation about certain academic circles, it has long since been designated a far-right conspiracy theory. To make sense of it without resorting to any conspiracies, it is necessary to extract the precise elements which create conceptual continuity between orthodox Marxism and the neo-Marxist theorists of Critical Theory and postmodern identity politics. They are not just an intellectual tradition applying Marxist axioms to "culture", but a single moral community, a culture built on Marxist moral principles.
Marxist Metaethics and neo-Marxism
Marxist Metaethics and neo-Marxism
Marxist Metaethics and neo-Marxism
The concept of Cultural Marxism has become something of a problem for the right. While there is plenty of reason to believe in it as a generalisation about certain academic circles, it has long since been designated a far-right conspiracy theory. To make sense of it without resorting to any conspiracies, it is necessary to extract the precise elements which create conceptual continuity between orthodox Marxism and the neo-Marxist theorists of Critical Theory and postmodern identity politics. They are not just an intellectual tradition applying Marxist axioms to "culture", but a single moral community, a culture built on Marxist moral principles.