I was literally taught about cultural marxism, and with the use of those words specifically, in university (I had an english minor of all things that required us to learn about it). It was a phrase used regularly by the frankfurt school, and by those who taught the frankfurt school thinkers. It refers to their marxist ideas and how they had to adapt in the west over time. Since marx's ideas of class warfare never occurred in the west, this was blamed on cultural hegemony stopping class consciousness. Cultural marxists thus focused on this cultural hegemony, since destroying it would be necessary for marxism to emerge. Why I was learning about this in the early 2000s as a 20 year-old in English class at a state school is a very interesting question in and of itself (I did not consider it at the time).
These days however, a NEW form of neo-marxist has emerged. These are the woke who have replaced class warfare politcs with identity warfare politics. Some people like Jordan Peterson have called these new folks cultural marxists, but I think that's probably a mistake, as the term was used prior to describe the frankfurt school. They should be called neo-marxists because they operate under the same black and white, oppressor and oppressed paradigm, and similarly think there must be a revolution to take control from the oppressor class. However, the woke operate much more similar to Hitlerism in that they essentialize race and focus on one identity as the root of all evil (white men as opposed to jews) - they are not an economic movement whatsoever anymore however, unlike the frankfurt school which mostly held onto its marxist roots.
The lack of an economic aspect to wokism is likely because it has become the dominant religion of the global rich (unfortunately).
I was literally taught about cultural marxism, and with the use of those words specifically, in university (I had an english minor of all things that required us to learn about it). It was a phrase used regularly by the frankfurt school, and by those who taught the frankfurt school thinkers. It refers to their marxist ideas and how they had to adapt in the west over time. Since marx's ideas of class warfare never occurred in the west, this was blamed on cultural hegemony stopping class consciousness. Cultural marxists thus focused on this cultural hegemony, since destroying it would be necessary for marxism to emerge. Why I was learning about this in the early 2000s as a 20 year-old in English class at a state school is a very interesting question in and of itself (I did not consider it at the time).
These days however, a NEW form of neo-marxist has emerged. These are the woke who have replaced class warfare politcs with identity warfare politics. Some people like Jordan Peterson have called these new folks cultural marxists, but I think that's probably a mistake, as the term was used prior to describe the frankfurt school. They should be called neo-marxists because they operate under the same black and white, oppressor and oppressed paradigm, and similarly think there must be a revolution to take control from the oppressor class. However, the woke operate much more similar to Hitlerism in that they essentialize race and focus on one identity as the root of all evil (white men as opposed to jews) - they are not an economic movement whatsoever anymore however, unlike the frankfurt school which mostly held onto its marxist roots.
I was literally taught about cultural marxism, and with the use of those words specifically, in university (I had an english minor of all things that required us to learn about it). It was a phrase used regularly by the frankfurt school, and by those who taught the frankfurt school thinkers. It refers to their marxist ideas and how they had to adapt in the west over time. Since marx's ideas of class warfare never occurred in the west, this was blamed on cultural hegemony stopping class consciousness. Cultural marxists thus focused on this cultural hegemony, since destroying it would be necessary for marxism to emerge.
These days however, a NEW form of neo-marxist has emerged. These are the woke who have replaced class warfare politcs with identity warfare politics. Some people like Jordan Peterson have called these new folks cultural marxists, but I think that's probably a mistake, as the term was used prior to describe the frankfurt school. They should be called neo-marxists because they operate under the same black and white, oppressor and oppressed paradigm, and similarly think there must be a revolution to take control from the oppressor class. However, the woke operate much more similar to Hitlerism in that they essentialize race and focus on one identity as the root of all evil (white men as opposed to jews) - they are not an economic movement whatsoever anymore however, unlike the frankfurt school which mostly held onto its marxist roots.
I was literally taught about cultural marxism, and with the use of those words specifically, in university (I had an english minor of all things that required us to learn about it). It was a phrase used regularly by the frankfurt school, and by those who taught the frankfurt school thinkers. It refers to their marxist ideas and how they had to adapt in the west over time. Since marx's ideas of class warfare never occurred in the west, this was blamed on cultural hegemony stopping class consciousness. Cultural marxists thus focused on this cultural hegemony, since destroying it would be necessary for marxism to emerge.
These days however, a NEW form of neo-marxist has emerged. These are the woke who have replaced class warfare politcs with identity warfare politics. Some people like Jordan Peterson have called these new folks cultural marxists, but I think that's probably a mistake, as the term was used prior to describe the frankfurt school. They should be called neo-marxists because they operate under the same black and white, oppressor and oppressed paradigm, and similarly think there must be a revolution to take control from the oppressor class. However, the woke operate much more similar to Hitlerism in that they essentialize race and focus on one identity as the root of all evil (white men as opposed to jews) - they are not an economic movement whatsoever anymore.