Wellsy wrote:Are you talking about James Connolly? The Irish republican and socialist?
Me thinks you refer specifically to TheImmortalGoon in that reference of orthodox Marxists. Others exist besides him but it seems your exposure to Connolly comes from TIG.
And I’m confused by James Connollys mentioned amidst all this about cultural marxism. It seems a separate and irrelevant point with how it sits within the whole post.
Apologies for my misspelling.
I'm aware that Immortal Goon had a particular fondness for Connolly, but no the support focus, even obsession of British Marxists with Irish Republicanism is something I was well aware of before I came across IG. Most of the far left groups in Britain, Trotskyist, Stalinist, Maoist and even Anarchist supported the Provisional IRA.
There was a Guardian or Independent article I came across recently that I never got around to posting. Anyway it said Cultural Marxism started as a Far Right Conspiracy, implicitly excepting that it is no longer a conspiracy theory. Cultural Marxism is the best term I've come across to describe the strategies, movements and ideologies from Marxists, or people related to and steeped in Marxism where the focus on the International proletariat is replaced by another supposedly oppressed / disadvantaged group or groups. Where I have perhaps made unique contribution is demonstrating how this phenomena started well before the Frankfurt School.
Hitler in his last days in the bunker didn't feel he had failed the German people, he felt that the German people had failed him. Similarly from the beginning of the twentieth century we start to see the beginnings of disillusionment amongst middle and upper class leftists with the working class. This disillusionment with the working class was arrested and reversed by the October revolution and the growth of the Third international after World War. It was only after WWII that this disillusionment with the Working class started to grow again.