Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism? Quotes

“Ideas are not separate from reality, hovering above it in a pristine realm of conceptual purity. They are developed within particular, concrete circumstances, and they result from specific theoretical practices, which themselves are an outgrowth of society’s overall organization of intellectual production, as well as production more generally. In class societies, ideas are therefore situated, inevitably, in class struggle. This takes myriad and sundry forms, as we shall see, but the fundamental polarization of class society is a result of ownership. Those who possess and control the means of production also own and oversee the means of intellectual production. This gives them an incredible advantage in the battle of ideas since they are the proprietors of the very system that manages the mindscape of the masses.”
― Gabriel Rockhill, Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism?

“Cultural imperialism functions best through colonized intermediaries”
― Gabriel Rockhill, Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism?