English Explanatory Dictionary

cultural Marxism

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Marxist analysis applied to culture and cultural phenomena.
  2. A form of Marxism perceived as subsumed by capitalism and thus as unauthentic by its critics (usually other Marxists).
  3. 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.
noun
  1. Alternative form of cultural Marxism.

Pronunciation

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Word forms

cultural Marxism

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.

Related words

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