I lose more interest when people throw buzz words like cultural Marxism around. Ignoring the problematic origins of such terms (I do not think bpg is using it for this purpose, but there are those that still do), it just seems to be jargon aimed to sound intellectually strong, but doesn’t have much meaning behind it for many. For one, many of the people slammed as ‘cultural Marxist’ are not Marxists. I wouldn’t be surprised if bpg sees me as a ‘cultural Marxist’, yet I have no yearning for Marxism or any kind of far-left ideology. I am no fan of communism and am fully aware of the totalitarianism associated with it. I do not think we are at risk of it now either.
You’re right, we hear a lot of “Marxism” these days in the media depsite the fact that Marxists are powerless, disorganised, hopelessly split and widely derided politically. It’s as absurd as basing a political project around the suppsed evils of the Monster Raving Loony Party. Their vote in by elections regularly trounces those of the CPGB or one of the other Heinz57 political groupuscules on the far left.
The idea that Jeremy Corbyn- the sort of guy who plays the kindly Modern Studies teacher in a Ken Loach film- was some sort of dangerous “Marxist” and threat to British society was absolutely laughable. He was many notches to the right of Michael Foot’s manifesto of 1983, let along Attlee’s manifesto of ’45 that built the Welfare State the Tory party has been dismantling enthusiastically.
