Cultural Marxism is the incremental indoctrination of the youth through propaganda and psychological-social archetypes (behaviors). This is kind of indoctrination works off the Pavlovian, Skinner box, conditioning of 20th century behaviorism. Of course, behaviorism is an advanced science now, so cultural Marxism is now tritely familiar, full of popular-culture-conceptions. The article you quote/link, frame the perspective of cultural Marxism as a byproduct of right-wing paranoia.
That is a misconception, cultural Marxism is a critical thinking application, used for subversive behavior modification. Marxist tropes use popular culture to dispel or excite popular opinion. Unfortunately, the far left is lost in the ether, so is the far right, they are smoke and mirrors, playing word games... Trying to break the common peoples will power, or at least influence it. Incrementalism, if you will, is a subtle way of nudging the general populace's perception of reality.
What kind of pseudo-intellectual platform do you stand on?
2. Technocracy does not necessarily equate to a capitalist mode of production.
Yes, because Capitalism and Marxism will be simultaneously destroyed once the machines obtain control over our biological world. Why are you stuck in the 19th century, TIG? If you study genetics, you would see how influential technology can be, considering the field of epigenetics especially. You're under the impression that nature produces conclusions... It doesn't produce conclusions. Life is a process, and the conclusion is your ego's interpretation of existential phenomena. If you/we think Marxism is 'real,' it will become real. If you project capitalism as the dominant operating system, it will dominate the system of human consciousness. However, We're biological beings, right? Therefore, the social theory that mimics biological happening will naturally achieve primacy over the other social theories that wish to change nature to its intellectual liking or arbitrary optimal conditions. In order to achieve pure Marxism, an entire body of beings must reject their biological urges and succumb to a bureaucratic lobotomization. Such an unethical outcome would permanently hinder the human race from evolving past the conceited conclusion Marxism produces.
Capitalism is a problem today because it has removed ethics from its operation. Now, I'm not calling for religious, or prejudice ethics; I'm calling for scientific ethics, a form of ethics that says-
'hey, stop creating cancer causing chemicals just because you can make a quick (reductionist) profit,' or
'you really should stop buying ABC-XYZ product, because it is harming your neighbors and the planet,' etc. The problem with free market capitalism is not necessarily its finance system, it's the unscientific and unethical profit margins which arise through collective organizations we call corpse-iterations. Corporations are whispered into existence byway of legal doctrine. Corporations engage in unethical profit chase. The fictitious super-entities, or egregores (collective thought forms), create unnatural capital. See, individuals, proprietors, may not be 'potent' enough to destabilize a populace and its culture, but corporations can and will decimate biological environments just to stack contemporary currency.
Technocracy is the answer to the never ending cusp of change. For technology is the present incarnate, it only knows tomorrow, yet it's the sum of yesterday. When a social technology overlaps our physical/biological environment, causality happens all at once, and we're immediately involved in the technological translation of 'being human.' Communism will never occur through the Marxist critique of capitalism. Communism will occur through the technological reinterpretation of mankind. Again, the smartphone revolution was far more peaceful and successful than any Marxist revolution.