David Brooks's declaration that something called ���cultu...

David Brooks's declaration that something called ���cultural Marxism��� directly is now ���the lingua franca of the economy��� was one of the weirdest throwaway lines of the past month. Why is David Brooks today repeating a Lyndon LaRouche talking point���a false talking point���from forty years ago? I know no group who seriously either call themselves or are fairly-described as "cultural Marxists". There are some critical theorists���but they are anti-Marxist. And their speech is in no wise the "lingua franca" of anyplace outside a few enclaves in sociology, rhetoric, and cultural studies departments. Where this came from was unclear to me���until I found Ben Alpers and this guy, a veteran of the Wikipedia edit wars:

Russell Blackford (2015): ���Cultural Marxism��� and Our Current Culture Wars: ���Richard R. Weiner... attributes the actual term ���cultural Marxism��� to Trent Schroyer[���s]... 1973 book The Critique of Domination... as a ���crisis theory��� employed by the Frankfurt School of Marxist intellectuals... [and] other[s], such as Gy��rgy Luk��cs and Henri Lefebvre.... [Today] It is employed by extreme right-wing ideologues, such as Breivik, in grandiose theories that have little credibility, and it is used popularly in ways that show little understanding of its history or its original meaning...

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