The Phantom Enemy of the Culture War
The postwar decline of the West was not sabotage, it was conviction slowly unwound in the face of horror.
Joseph Zeller
· 9 min read
Marxism
A collection of 11 posts
Marxism: The Idea That Refuses to Die
Its ability to churn out plausible sounding explanations for historical and social phenomena is part of Marxism’s core appeal. But its grand theoretical framework simply does not hold up.
Tibor Rutar
· 13 min read
This Is Not Late-Stage Capitalism
Automation, artificial intelligence, and robotics are set to redefine the relationship between labour, capital, and production.
John Aziz
· 7 min read
DEI Without the Dogma
A business-communications coach reflects on the connections between her college-era Marxist beliefs and the identity-based fixations that have come to dominate her industry.
Evelina Silveira
· 13 min read
Podcast # 193: Understanding Wokeness as a Make-Work Strategy for the Privileged Class
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Swedish Marxist Malcom Kyeyune, who argues that nominally progressive theories of race and gender are actually aimed at securing influence, employment, and prestige for underemployed university graduates.
Quillette
· 1 min read
PODCAST 105: Yoram Hazony on the Challenge of Marxism
Yoram Hazony, author of The Virtue of Nationalism, talks about the why liberal institutions like the New York Times have proved so vulnerable to capture by the hard Left. He wrote about this recently for Quillette.
Quillette, Yoram Hazony
· 1 min read
The Challenge of Marxism
For a generation after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, most Americans and Europeans regarded Marxism as an enemy that had been defeated once and for all. But they were wrong.
Yoram Hazony
· 22 min read
Marx Deserves Better Critics
In his opening statement in the debate with Žižek, Peterson said that Marx’s solution to the ills of capitalism was “bloody violent revolution.” That’s not quite right.
Ben Burgis
· 8 min read
What My Days as a Marxist Taught Me About Modern Political Cults
Parsing these texts becomes an obsession for generations of true believers. The rapture, that bloody apocalyptic end of days, is replaced with revolution.
C.K. Ryan
· 9 min read
The Frankfurt School and Postmodern Philosophy
The claim that the work of postmodern philosophers is a continuation of Marxism by other means is quite strange, both philosophically and politically.
Matt McManus
· 9 min read
Man of Yesterday: Karl Marx and His Place in History
Marx endures not for his relevance, but because his dense writings offer endless material for academic sermonising.
Robert Darby
· 9 min read