Cultural Marxism Is Real
Jan 4, 2019Allen MendenhallAllen Mendenhall
Samuel Moyn, a Yale law professor, recently asked, “What is ‘cultural Marxism?’†His answer: “Nothing of the kind actually exists.†Moyn attributes the term cultural Marxism to the “runaway alt-right imagination,†claiming that it implicates zany conspiracy theories and has been “percolating for years through global sewers of hatred.â€
Alexander Zubatov, an attorney writing in Tablet, countered that the “somewhat unclear and contested†term cultural Marxism “has been in circulation for over forty years.†It has, moreover, “perfectly respectable uses outside the dark, dank silos of the far right.†He concluded that cultural Marxism is neither a “conspiracy†nor a “mere right-wing ‘phantasmagoria,’†but a “coherent intellectual program, a constellation of dangerous ideas.â€
In this debate, I side with Zubatov. Here’s why.
https://www.jamesgmartin.center/2019/01/cultural-marxism-is-real/