Heterodox
Most of the posts are Mises Daily are looney (in my opinion), but this one takes the cake. Huge claims, zero references.Why am I posting this for reference? Because "cultural Marxism" is a very influential meme on the right that is used to attack "social justice warriors," "political correctness" and "identity politics" as "Communists."Propaganda and persuasion (think marketing and advertising, for example) operates largely by creating memes that dominate the narrative and capture it....
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Jeet Heer has posted a timely and excellent essay at New Republic titled "Trump's Racism and the Cultural Marxism Myth." In his essay, Heer recounts much of the background to the Higgins memo that I have documented here, here and here. Heer credits William S. Lind as the major popularizer of the myth, as have I in my blog posts. What I'm posting here extends the analysis and reveals significant background about personnel and timelines to the story.... There is a subtext to this that one...
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