[aussenseiter]

Originally Posted by Sadre Spinegnawer [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Yeah. I've decided to help Patrece out.

1. Communism is totally diff from the social justice movement.
2. Communism implies major structural changes that are incompatible with capital economics.
3. Communism scared Corporate America in the first half of the 20th century.
4. Corporate America then invented identity politics as a distraction from more radical ideas..
5. They won't hire a communist, but they will show how enlightened they are by doing social justice things with hiring, policy, etc. They will close a plant in a state to show they dislike the Confederacy, and so forth.
6. Historically, the social justice movement is a classic distraction move. The real threat is indeed the terribly bad ideas of communism. But communism has been dead for around 40 years, as an idea.
7. What has replaced it is "social justice," which by unspoken rule *never* brings up major communist-scale systemic changes to how capitalism works.

Clear? You hashed together two things whose history is not as tidy as you assume. I know some serious Marxists. To refer to aussenseiter, they hate this con the left has fallen for. HR revolutions? lol. Changes nothing, from a Marxist perspective.

Critical theory is a variant of Post Marxism.

I'm helping too!! 🙃