[aexq36]

Cultural Marxism is not a conspiracy theory. It's simply a name for a strategy of advancing leftist political causes by using cultural institutions such as academia and the media; undeniably, there are leftists who do this, and they have openly stated that they do this. It would be a category error to refer to a strategy of political action as a "conspiracy theory", since no organized conspiracy is being proposed.

Saying that using the term "Cultural Marxism" is "antisemitism at worst" is nothing more than an attempt to preemptively scare off people from investigating the idea.

[dragonwriter]

> Cultural Marxism is not a conspiracy theory. It's simply a name for a strategy of advancing leftist political causes by using cultural institutions such as academia and the media

Were that true, it would still be poisoning-the-well through guilt-by-association in naming, since Marxism and leftism are not equivalent, and Marxism (largely, though not entirely, as a result of guilt-by-association with Leninism) has strong emotional loading in most of the West, particularly the US.

It would be like calling the same thing on the Right (which absolutely does exist, also: everyone with a viewpoint they are trying to advance uses cultural institutions in that effort to the extent they are able) cultural Fascism.

[aexq36]

Are you not aware that there are thousands and thousands of active Marxists in the US who proudly call themselves Marxists and who engage in political action for explicitly Marxist ends? Feel free to pop on over to /r/socialism or /r/communism to get acquainted with them (the type of anarchism espoused at /r/anarchism is also a very close ideological relative of Marxism, although strictly speaking, they are not Marxists). It's not poisoning the well to call someone a term that they voluntarily adopt for themselves.

To make it clear, I'm not a Marxist, but I don't think that it's inherently evil or outlandish to be a Marxist either. It's simply a philosophical position that I disagree with. So, there's no emotion when I (and many others) use the term, it merely denotes an ideological position like "liberal" or "conservative" does.