Alexander Stern: What the Frankfurt School has to stay about bureaucratic progressivism
What the Frankfurt School has to stay about bureaucratic progressivism
“Cultural Marxism” is often invoked by some on the right to
explain the rise of “woke” politics in universities, newsrooms, and
corporations. According to this well-rehearsed line of criticism, the fixation
on race and gender, the erosion of free speech, and the high-pitched frenzy of
political correctness and cancellation, are nothing less than a communist plot.
But while the heavy-handed conflation of progressivism with Marxism should be
recognizable to anyone familiar with the history of red baiting, this account
mangles an intellectual legacy that actually has the resources to resist the
distorted form of progressivism currently gaining influence.
One prominent version of the right-wing critique goes something like this. The thinkers of the Frankfurt School, a group of Marxian philosophers, sociologists, and critics prominent in Germany and the United States at mid-century, despaired of the failure of proletarian subjects to develop the class consciousness that would enable revolution. Led by Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno, these critical theorists turned their attention instead to cultural institutions. They reasoned that Marxism needed to take root in the culture before it could mount its political challenge. Fast-forward seventy odd years and their masterplan, we’re told, is near completion. This story is deeply flawed....
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Society
of the Spectacle / 'इमेज' - 'Image': A Poem on Deaths in the Age of
Covid
Ravi
Bhoothalingam: Coronavirus and the Mandate of Heaven
Gastón
Gordillo: Nazi Architecture As Affective Weapon
Tanya Gold - How materialism makes
us sad
Beware the destruction of the state!
An interview with Timothy Snyder
Can
Capitalism and Democracy Coexist?
Andrew Calcutt: The surprising
origins of ‘post-truth’ – and how it was spawned by the liberal left
A pre-history of post-truth, East
and West. By MARCI SHORE
Michiko Kakutani - The death of
truth: how we gave up on facts and ended up with Trump
Farewell to reality - WHY WE’RE
POST-FACT by Peter Pomerantsev
How capitalism created the
post-truth society — and brought about its own undoing. By Keith Spencer
Helen Pluckrose: Postmodernism and
its impact, explained
Why can’t we agree on what’s true
any more? By William Davies
Alexander
Klein: The politics of logic
Walter
Benjamin: Capitalism as Religion (1921)
Didier Fassin: The blind spots of
left populism
What happened to democracy in 2020?
My Correct Views on Everything:
Leszek Kolakowski's correspondence with E.P. Thompson
Ivan Turgenev on Hamlet and Don
Quixote // The madness in Hamlet and Don Quixote
Salman Rushdie: how Cervantes and
Shakespeare wrote the modern literary rule book
Nikolai Berdyaev: The Religion of Communism (1931) // The Paradox of the Lie (1939)
Praveen Swami: This Op-Ed Is Dead
Charlie
Hebdo - Letter to the Left Leaning
The Manifesto of the Anti-Fascist
Intellectuals: Written by Benedetto Croce (1925)
Ordinary people. The courage to say
NO
The Aporias of Marxism / Archaism
and Modernity. By Enzo Traverso
Richard Evans: the film Denial
‘shows there is such a thing as truth’. By Harriet Swain
Pratap Bhanu Mehta: The Age of
Cretinism
Alexandre
Koyré The Political Function of the Modern Lie
Book
Review: Lost Enlightenment: Central Asia’s Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to
Tamerlane
A Hunger Artist - by Franz Kafka
(1922)
The Almond
Trees by Albert Camus
Susan Neiman - Evil in Modern
Thought // Lecture: 'Hannah Arendt's Disruptive Truth Telling'
Kwame Appiah's review of Moral
Clarity
