Nobody takes any notice of Booby.

His list is those members more intelligent and better informed than him, be proud to be on that list, it means you are smarter than the average OzPolian!

Karl was about economics.

Religion was the opiate of the people, thankfully much less so these days.

Marx wanted to transform the economy and that involved politics.

Jovial Monk wrote on Jan 1^st, 2024 at 12:53pm:




Marxist cultural analysis


Marxist cultural analysis is a form of cultural analysis and anti-capitalist cultural critique, which assumes the theory of cultural hegemony and from this specifically targets those aspects of culture which are profit driven and mass-produced under capitalism.[1][2][3][4]

The original theory behind this form of analysis is commonly associated with Leon Trotsky, Georg Lukács, Antonio Gramsci, and the Frankfurt School, representing an important tendency within Western Marxism. Marxist cultural analysis has commonly considered the industrialization, mass-production, and mechanical reproduction of culture by the "culture industry" as having an overall negative effect on society, an effect which reifies the self-conception of the individual.[2][5]

This article will be too intellectual for some of the posters here
but I post a small excerpt of it:


https://www.jamesgmartin.center/2019/01/cultural-marxism-is-real/






Jan 4, 2019

Allen Mendenhall


Feminism, gender studies, critical race theory, post-colonialism, disability studies—these and other disciplines routinely get pulled through one or more of the theoretical paradigms I’ve outlined. The fact that they’re guided by Marxism or adopt Marxist terms and concepts, however, does not make them off-limits or unworthy of attention.

Which brings me to a warning: Condemning these ideas as forbidden, as dangers that corrupt young minds, might have unintended consequences. Marxist spinoffs must be studied to be comprehensively understood. Don’t remove them from the curriculum: contextualize them, challenge them, and question them. Don’t reify their power by ignoring or neglecting them.

Popular iterations of cultural Marxism reveal themselves in the casual use of terms like “privilege,” “alienation,” “commodification,” “fetishism,” “materialism,” “hegemony,” or “superstructure.” As Zubatov wrote for Tablet, “It is a short step from Gramsci’s ‘hegemony’ to the now-ubiquitous toxic memes of ‘patriarchy,’ ‘heteronormativity,’ ‘white supremacy,’ ‘white privilege,’ ‘white fragility,’ ‘and whiteness.’” He adds, “It is a short step from the Marxist and cultural Marxist premise that ideas are, at their core, expressions of power to rampant, divisive identity politics and the routine judging of people and their cultural contributions based on their race, gender, sexuality and religion.”

thegreatdivide wrote on Jan 1^st, 2024 at 5:02pm:



You are talking about cultural values: justice, common prosperity, etc in Marxist terms.
Cultural Marxist terms.  Marx had absolutely nothing to say about 21st century economics. Or even 20th century economics.
What he was writing about was political economy with a dialectical materialist methodology - all cultural. Economics is cultural. Values are cultural.

Dnarever wrote on Jan 1^st, 2024 at 6:58pm:





https://www.heartland.org/

Allen Mendenhall

Author, Lawyer, Critic, Professor

    Associate Dean and Grady Rosier Professor in the Sorrell College of Business at Troy University,
    Executive Director, Manuel H. Johnson Center for Political Economy,
    Associated Scholar with the Ludwig von Mises Institute, and
    Policy Adviser for the Heartland Institute.


https://fedsoc.org/contributors/allen-mendenhall

Allen Mendenhall is Associate Dean and Grady Rosier Professor in the Sorrell College of Business at Troy University.  He holds a B.A. in English from Furman University, M.A. in English from West Virginia University, J.D. from West Virginia University College of Law, LL.M. in transnational law from Temple University Beasley School of Law, and Ph.D. in English from Auburn University. He is an elected member and trustee of the Philadelphia Society, an associated scholar at the Ludwig von Mises Institute, a policy adviser for the Heartland Institute, a former president of the Alabama Association of Scholars, and president of the Montgomery Lawyers Chapter of the Federalist Society.

Dnarever wrote on Jan 1^st, 2024 at 7:27pm:



OK - shoot the messenger -
don't try to refute his intellectual writings.