- 23 Nov 2009 16:15
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Indeed, the idea being that all existing social institutions reinforced class dictatorship, which is partly true. However, the point I was making is that vulgar Marxists have a reductionist tendency to posit economic factors as the cause for...everything. Marx himself suggested historical materialism as a method, not the sole form of analysis.
Indeed, as well as the activities of Trotsky after his exile. They, and later the Frankfurt School, concluded that Western civilization was preventing the socialist revolution. Therefore their idea was to destroy the civilization they hated so much in order to be able to usher in the socialist revolution. This took some very odd twists, such as the rumor that Adorno worked as a sound engineer for Atlantic Records in order to be able to use popular music as a tool of social deconstruction. W. Cleon Skousen's book The Naked Communist does a good job detailing some of the functional activities of these new Gramscian communists in postwar America.
grypo wrote:This is somewhat true of Marxist thought, but it applies to, and I agree with this, the end of economic hegemony being the starting point for a restructuring of social and cultural societal institutions and that only its removal could spur the egalitarian movement. That's how I've read it, but I am not as much a scholarly Marxist as some others I've seen post here.
Indeed, the idea being that all existing social institutions reinforced class dictatorship, which is partly true. However, the point I was making is that vulgar Marxists have a reductionist tendency to posit economic factors as the cause for...everything. Marx himself suggested historical materialism as a method, not the sole form of analysis.
grypo wrote:I think the new liberal movement can be traced directly to Antonio Gramsci's ideas of War of Manoeuvre, which is more like we see in the media, higher education, etc. This took the place of Marxist thought when leftists realized that the worker's revolution wasn't coming by natural insurrection and organization of the the labor class.
Indeed, as well as the activities of Trotsky after his exile. They, and later the Frankfurt School, concluded that Western civilization was preventing the socialist revolution. Therefore their idea was to destroy the civilization they hated so much in order to be able to usher in the socialist revolution. This took some very odd twists, such as the rumor that Adorno worked as a sound engineer for Atlantic Records in order to be able to use popular music as a tool of social deconstruction. W. Cleon Skousen's book The Naked Communist does a good job detailing some of the functional activities of these new Gramscian communists in postwar America.
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