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Read Replies (1) | Respond to "I think the Cultural Marxism of the left is a far bigger threat to the American way of life"" Cultural Marxism " in modern usage refers to a conspiracy theory which sees the Frankfurt School as part of an ongoing movement to take over and destroy Western culture . [55] cultural studies , where it refers to a form of anti-capitalist cultural critique which specifically targets those aspects of culture that are seen as profit-driven and mass-produced under capitalism. [56] As an area of the Frankfurt School's discourse, "cultural Marxism" has commonly considered the industrialization and mass production of culture by the culture industry as having an overall negative effect on society, an effect which can mislead an audience away from perceiving a more authentic sense of human values. [57] [58] British theorists such as Richard Hoggart of the Birmingham School developed a working class sense of "British Cultural Marxism" which objected to the "massification" and "drift" away from local cultures, a process of commercialization Hoggart saw as being enabled by tabloid newspapers, advertising , and the American film industry . [59] paleoconservatives as part of an ongoing culture war in which it was argued that the very same theorists who were analysing and objecting to the " massification " and mass control via commercialization of culture were in fact working in a conspiracy to control and stage their own attack on Western society, using 1960s counterculture , multiculturalism , progressive politics and political correctness as their methods. [60] [61] This conspiracy theory version of the term is associated with American religious paleoconservatives such as William S. Lind , Pat Buchanan , and Paul Weyrich ; but also holds currency among the alt-right , white nationalist groups, and the neo-reactionary movement . [62] en.wikipedia.org
