Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

cultural marxism

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.33 in modern English

Syllables: cul-tur-al -marx-ism
IPA

28

Scrabble Score

15

Letters

5

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Marxist analysis applied to culture and cultural phenomena.

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noun

A form of Marxism perceived as subsumed by capitalism and thus as unauthentic by its critics (usually other Marxists).

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noun

Umbrella term for the idea, in right-wing conspiracy theories, of a Marxism that controls modern progressive politics, mass media, and academia, typically with the purported goal of deconstructing Western civilization.

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noun

Alternative form of cultural Marxism.

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Example Sentences

"Both cultural Marxism and symbolic anthropology can, in retrospect, be seen to be part of a general movement towards the 'linguistic turn' within the humanities, with its focus upon the semiotic dimensions of human culture (the subject of the next chapter)."
"Nothing illustrates Orwell's ambivalence towards cultural Marxism more powerfully than his writings on literature."
"A student of youth subcultures, Hall crossbred the increasingly influential cultural Marxism, exemplified by E. P. Thompson, with the French structuralism of the anthropologist Claude LéviStrauss, which burst onto the intellectual scene in the 1960s and soon enjoyed international prestige."
"These people have certainly done their homework when it comes to cultural Marxism—how the left has learned to dominate culture and how the right now needs to copy their techniques. If I’d had to drink a shot every time some speaker cited Herbert Marcuse or Antonio Gramsci, I’d be dead of alcohol poisoning."
"She said: “We are engaging in many battles right now. As Conservatives we are engaged in a battle against cultural Marxism, where banning things is becoming de rigueur, where freedom of speech is becoming a taboo, where our universities – quintessential institutions of liberalism – are being shrouded in censorship and a culture of no-platforming.”"
"A Conservative MP has claimed the UK’s low birthrate is the most pressing policy issue of the generation and is caused in part by “cultural Marxism” stripping young people of any hope, at the start of a populist-tinged conference in London."

Etymology

Coined by Trent Schroyer's The Critique of Domination: The Origins and Development of Critical Theory (1973). In the more recent (US) politics sense mirroring the older cultural Bolshevism used in Nazi Germany.

Usage

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Phrases

cultural Bolshevism cultural Marxist Jewish Bolshevism Judeo-Bolshevism Marxist cultural analysis multicultural Marxism neo-Marxism racial Marxism

Frequently Paired Words

cultural Bolshevism cultural Marxist Jewish Bolshevism Judeo-Bolshevism Marxist cultural analysis multicultural Marxism neo-Marxism racial Marxism

Questions

What does cultural marxism mean?: Marxist analysis applied to culture and cultural phenomena.
Where does cultural marxism come from?: Coined by Trent Schroyer's The Critique of Domination: The Origins and Development of Critical Theory (1973). In the more recent (US) politics sense mirroring the older cultural Bolshevism used in Nazi Germany.

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