New Discourses - A Brief History of Identity Marxism (podcast)
New Discourses - A Brief History of Identity Marxism - https://overcast.fm/+X_ysPfsLo
here, Lindsay uses “revolution” to mean: A new aristocracy that Marx wants to insert, where “he” (and his) run the show instead of who already does. Lindsay sees Marx as being resentful and jealous of the elites (and disgusted by the poor). I don’t know if this is a true description of Marx or not, but I do know it sounds a little like what Erica was saying over thanksgiving: tear down society and rebuild it, with “the better people in power” (where by this she very literally said and meant women rather than men because women are biologically more gifted at ruling organizations due to their natural ability to see the bigger picture and fit complex pieces together [a minor paraphrase])
you need a cultural revolution to pave the way for a material revoltuion because most of the entrenched adults don’t want a maaterial revolution. so you need influyenceable younge people to bring it about culturally, first.
five key pillars of cultural production needed to infiltrate and communize from within with new cultural values: religion, family, education, law, media (antonio gromsche, marcusa)
once above are infiltrated, you can have regression (the material revolution) reframed as pro-gression.
you want to replace those centers with “the institution” (the state is the ultimate institution that stewards all others). make people dependent on institutions.
all the marxists went into the classroom because they all realized that was the place to do it. 3 generations later - 50 years later - we have this generation of teachers.
cultural marxists are trying to create the set and setting (in a hallucinogenic sense) for the revolution.
“lower upper class” frustrated that they can’t be elites and definitely don’t want to be lower/working class.
Marx said agitate on economics to get the revolution. cultural marxists say agitate on culture to get the revolution.
advanced capitalism worked - it stablized the working class (and towards conservatism), gave them a decent life, rather than agitating the working class towards revolution. marcusa complained about the working class being stabilized also. (one dimensional man, repressive tolerance, essay on liberation, etc.)
Neo-marxism tries to convince people they’re oppressed, when they’re actually stable. “You’re enslaved by your freedom”. very orwellian. they hate pop culture because it makes middle/lower class happy and content. the neo-marxists try to ruin everything that makes middle class happy (sports, entertainment, etc.) - bring politics into everything. alienate the middle class at the cultural level.