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Jordan Peterson prefers the term “postmodern neo-Marxism” and condemns it as dangerous – for which he is targeted in the media and accused of preaching “patriarchy, misogyny, and illiberal politics.”

Senator Rand Paul sees cultural
Marxism as the driving force behind grievance politics – groups
identifying as victims of exploitation to gain moral prestige and
political advantage.

Liberals don’t bother to debate what the term means.  They deny that it means anything at all.  Recently, Salon dismissed cultural Marxism as “a hoax concept.”  The Daily Dot denounced it as “little more than a racist dog whistle.”  Even the libertarian magazine Reason ridiculed the concept as an invention of “the conspiratorial right.”

In
our own day, this has led to the extremist conclusion that individuals
are little more than mouthpieces for communities based on race, class,
sex, ethnicity, and sexual identity.

Sound
familiar?  Every community is said to have its “own” truth, based on
its unique experience and perspective – which cannot be judged by anyone
outside the community.  This ghettoized vision reduces individuals to
puppets of social forces: they hold beliefs not because they have good
reasons, but because they are black or white, a man or a woman, Asian or
Hispanic, or whatever.

Yet,
ironically, while neo-Marxists treat everyone else’s beliefs as
relative to social conditions, they treat their own beliefs as objective
and universally true.

Midterms Bring Out the Marxists