I don't care if it's a "moderate", a "rational" or whatever prefixes do you have for these leftists who says they don't support the Marxist shenanigans in academia or the occurring Cultural Revolution happening all over the West over the past decade, they are lying. And you believing their lies that they're against it while not doing anything to oppose it only enables these primordial evil that's going on in the world today.
In short: "Don't believe their lies." Lying is as innate to them as they live.
By Marxist definition, no. In the traditional sense, a set of theories or philosophies held by a group or individual, often not epistemic, which informs a world view - very much an ideology.
No shit. A critique of capitalism requires capitalism. What absolution does that provide though?
Lets not ignore that globalism is actively being pushed by the left in hope of accelerated modernization. Arguably the easiest defense against that dispossession, nationalism, has by and large been a target of the left, including Marxists and neo-Marxists, since the French republicans. Progressivism was invariably influenced, and changed for the worse, by the Frankfurt school - refitting Marxian critiques towards culture as a whole. Developing Marx's rejection of logical positivism into an all out crusade by conflating it with inevitable fascism - a crusade which has negatively effected society and academia as a whole. The insistence on change instead of simple observational critique, coupled with the normalization, even romanticization of revolutionary action. How are these the sole responsibility of liberalism? Bastardized as it is, if current neoliberalism is the fault of liberalism, Marxism is at least as wanting for what it devolved into.
Contemporary social justice, as nonsensical and illogical as it is, has been weaponized towards the destruction of western culture. I survives and thrives on that rejection. Do you honestly believe all half of this bullshit would exist as it does now without critical theory, conflict theory, and where the rejection of objectivity is the norm in education and many fields of academia?
Presumptuous. I regard capitalism with no dogma, and I have more than a few bones to pick with liberalism - from classical to neoliberal. Capitalism was an improvement on feudalism. If it is to be supplanted, I simply ask for a superior alternative. Hailing from a very violent part of the world which romanticizes Marxism, and has been flirting with the worst elements of socialism for the past two decades, with a laundry list of historical failures in hand - failures that led to mass loss of life and further exploitation, I cannot in good conscience endorse or even tolerate the proposal of Marxism as a replacement. It is inflammatory, revolutionary, and fails in implementation.
While I appreciate your stance, not everyone is so reasonable as stop at the instructional value of an ideology.
A legitimately interesting read. Thanks for taking the time.
While I agree with your criticisms of liberalism by and large, I question your optimism in regards to Marxism. Overlooking economic and socio-political viability, how exactly is it exempt from the same subversion? From your responses, you seemingly limit your definition of Marxism largely to Marx's work, regarding neo/cultural Marxism as more radical liberalism. If this is the case, given the means by which "Marxism" is being proliferated and the views commonly held by self-identified Marxists, wouldn't the revolution actually be staged by a majority liberal component?