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"#GabrielRockhill’s polemic against #WesternMarxism seeks to condemn a set of postwar left-wing intellectuals such as #HerbertMarcuse. Heavy on innuendo but light on evidence, the result is more like a show trial than a serious political indictment."

#RussellJacoby's withering review of #WhoPaidThePipersOfWesternMarxism

https://jacobin.com/2026/04/review-rockhill-western-marxism-cold-war/
#Marxism #FrankfurtSchool #NewLeft #snitchjacketing #hacks #campism #Rockhill #books @bookstodon

Die Philosophin Nancy Fraser und die verzweifelten Hoffnungen der Linken in den USA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vj1fu4bBfKk

#Identitätspolitik #NeuePartei #Demokraten #NancyFraser #GavinNewsom #Identity #IdentityPolitics #Classes #ClassPolitics #Philosophy #Democracy #Left #Right #MAGA #MEGA #Trump #Trumpism #Sortition #Losdemokratie #Progress
#Democratization #State #Power #Violence #Money #Macht #Gewalt #Staatsgewalt #Gewaltmonopol #Zivilgesellschaft #Ohnmacht #Plan #Democracy #NewLeft

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....Marcuse engaged in a wide ranging discussion of the critical theory of the Frankfurt School and of his own work in an interview with Bryan Magee for the BBC series Men of Ideas:

The Frankfurt School - Herbert Marcuse & Bryan Magee (1977)
https://youtu.be/U23Ho0m_Sv0?si=DIXaREhZhMS9Q3zc

Of course Marcuse's claims can be questioned, but more than half a century later his ideas and those of his Frankfurt School colleagues remain a vital resource for critical engagement with society.

#Philosophy #CriticalTheory #Marcuse #HerbertMarcuse #PoliticalTheory #Marxism #NewLeft

"[A] famous movie, Exodus .. tells the story essentially as a US western, and so basically makes #Israel into a Gary Cooper film, where they're out in the desert taking on the indigenous people heroically.."

#BenjaminBalthaser discusses evolving Jewish American perceptions of Zionism & his new book #CitizensOfTheWholeWorld: The #AmericanJewishLeft and Cultures of #AntiZionism

https://youtu.be/sYvhWfiuFjg
#Palestine #PalestineQuestion #USLeft #AmericanLeft #CPUSA #NewLeft #USpol #books @palestine