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[–][deleted] 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Cultural Marxism isn’t a term of the right but the alt right which is a purely racist bullshit. Not only is there no such thing as cultural Marxism it’s a dog whistle for neo Nazis which dominate alt right discourse. But I guess it might be “incivil” to point that out.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

It actually originated in Nazi Germany as "Cultural Bolshevism". However it has now become mainstream on the right and even popular among so-called liberals like Jordan Peterson.

According to wikipedia: "Cultural Bolshevism (German: Kulturbolschewismus), sometimes referred to specifically as art Bolshevism or music Bolshevism,[1] was a term widely used by Nazi German-sponsored critics to denounce modernist movements in the culture, particularly in seeking to discredit more nihilistic forms of expression. This first became an issue during the 1920s in Weimar Germany, when German artists such as Max Ernst and Max Beckmann were denounced by Adolf Hitler, the Nazi Party, and other German nationalists as "cultural Bolsheviks." Nazi claims about attacks on conceptions of family, identity, music, art and intellectual life were generally referred to as Cultural Bolshevism, the Bolsheviks being the Marxist revolutionary movement in Russia[2]. Cultural Marxism is a contemporary variant of the term promoted by psychologist Jordan Peterson which refers to the far-right antisemitic Cultural Marxism conspiracy theory."

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I’ll admit outside of alt right circles I haven’t heard the term cultural Marxist amongst what I would call conservatives. I never hear that term in Wall street journal for example or even fox but it gets mentioned in breitbart every other article. Either way sounds like a neo Nazi dog whistle. I find Jordan Peterson more along the lines of alt right. What makes him liberal exactly? He has a very traditional view of gender as far as I know.

[–]EvaWumben 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I've been hearing about cultural Marxism since the late 90s in conservative circles, honestly, and in some of the more conservative outlets in the internet's early days. And I'm not glad of my lifelong habit of looking at many sides of an issue, or I'd still not know what gender critical feminism is! Thanks, JK!