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Origin

The term “cultural Marxism” is believed to have been coined by American sociology professor Trent Schroyer in his 1973 The Critique of Domination: The Origins and Development of Critical Theory, in which the author identifies the Frankfurt School’s critical theory, a school of thought focusing on reflective assessment and cultural critique through application of social sciences, as the origin of a “culture industry” that imposes “socially unnecessary constraints of human freedom” and ultimately, the social domination of the individual.

“As advanced industrial societies developed, the individual was more integrated into and dependent upon the collectivity and less able to utilize society for active self-expression.”

In the following decades, Schroyer’s critique of the Frankfurt School as the origin of postwar liberal agendas and destruction of individualism was further expounded upon by other mainstream academics, most notably Richard Weiner’s Cultural Marxism and Political Sociology (1981) and Michael Minnicino’s New Dark Age: Frankfurt School and ‘Political Correctness’ (1992).

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However, during the late 1990s, the meaning behind “cultural Marxism” became increasingly diluted and detached from its original context as many right-wing and neoconservative commentators, such as William S. Lind and Pat Buchanan, began using the term as a catch-all for left-wing cultural criticism in their commentaries. During the first half of the 2000s, this trend continued to gradually spread across other conservative think tanks, most notably the Schiller Institute.

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