Etymology

cultural marxism

Today it means: Marxist analysis applied to culture and cultural phenomena. Full definition →

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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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