Frank wrote on Jan 1
st, 2024 at 12:27pm:
Where's the boundary between economic policy and culture?
One is concerned with
production, consumption/allocation of resources, the other is all encompassing and concerns itself with social norms, religion, gender roles, rule of law, as well as economic ideology. So Marxism is a subset of culture, with a definite
economic foundation.
Which is why Marx's concern to improve the lot of workers attracts my interest; the aspects of culture mentioned above have scant interest for Marxists, other than by
observing how the common man is enslaved by cultural norms.
Interestingly though, consider abortion: if the state looked after unwanted babies, abortion would be 'unethical'......an example of where culture and economics meet.
Quote:Marxism is a set of ideas, a way of seeing and anlysing the world, so it is entirely a set of cultural phenomena.
See above.
What is analyzed in Marxism is the system of allocation of resources, a restricted subset of culture. Which is why the phony subject of "cultural Marxism" is invented by the Right, as cover for their 'survival of the fittest' impulses.
Quote:"In the transition from Marx to Marxism, and in the development of mainstream Marxism itself, ......
Demonstrating the process of obfuscation - on the postulated path from Marx to "Marxism" - as cover for survival of the fittest/
natural individual rights Libertarian delusions.
Quote:"...the proposition of the determining base and the determined superstructure has been commonly held to be the key to Marxist cultural analysis."
Waffle;the result of trying to work out why men consciously (against natural
survival of the organism instincts) want
economic justice, even though Western "freedom values" ideologues insist on
every man for himself... aka neoliberal free markets, with a poverty-level 'safety net' (dole) to prevent social revolution.