On Fri, Nov 7, 2025 at 09:53 AM, Charles wrote: > > Then Marcuse found himself darling of the flower-child culture in the > 1960s.
But why stop there? From the 1970s onward, Herbert Marcuse became the chief bogeyman of the far right, culminating in the conspiracy theory of " Cultural Marxism ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Marxism_conspiracy_theory ) " "Political Correctness" and "Woke Ideology." I must preface my coverage of this episode with the disclaimer that I am no Marcuse apologist. Following the Oslo terrorist mass murder by Anders Breivik in July of 2011, I began an inquiry into the "Cultural Marxism" conspiracy theory that Breivik cited in his manifesto as motivation for his crimes. The first thing I discoverd is that Breivik had plagiarized extensively in his "manifesto" from William S. Lind's “Political Correctness:” A Short History of an Ideology. The Wikipedia article on the Cultural Marxism conspiracy theory ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Marxism_conspiracy_theory ) is actually quite good. My posts on "cultural marxism" go much deeper into the history and ideology. I am not going to summarize them here other than to reiterate that Herbert Marcuse served as the chief bogeyman for the far right going back to the late 1960s and Eliseo Vivas's focus on Marcuse as prime enemy of civilization. From many posts over a decade, I will just mention two, Deep Structures of the Cultural Marxism Myt ( https://econospeak.blogspot.com/2017/08/deep-structures-of-cultural-marxism-myth.html ) h and Unreading Marcuse's "Repressive Tolerance." ( https://econospeak.blogspot.com/2019/04/unreading-marcuses-repressive-tolerance.html ) I guess I could summarize my thesis as that what we see in MAGA and Trumpism is a sort of motivated misreading and inversion of Marcuse's critique of repressive tolerance. There are many posts in which I develop this theme but I don't have the time right now to catalog them. I may do if there is interest. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#39159): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/39159 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/116120596/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
