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>>12474028

Gramsci is too theoretical and complex to contemporary leftist brainlets.

Their instruction manual nowadays is Laclau.

>>9885086
Might as well blame Argentines.

While the author is right, the transition wasn't so quick, though.

It went on more or less like this:

>Karl Marx: "the proletariat is the revolutionary class and they will overthrow capitalism and establish communism according to the scientific laws of historical materialism"
>Vladimir Lenin: "the proletariat is the revolutionary class but there is the need of a vanguard party to overthrow capitalism and bring communism"
>Gyorgy Lukacs and Antonio Gramsci: "the proletariat is the revolutionary class and they will overthrow capitalism once intellectuals imbue them with class consciousness"
>Herbert Marcuse: "the proletariat isn't the revolutionary class anymore, but the intellectuals can still imbue revolutionary class consciousness in other groups like blacks, gays, women and radical students so they overthrow capitalism"

And finally

>Ernesto Laclau: "there is no revolutionary class, only the revolutionary movement, that creates political coalitions at will according to its needs, the only thing it needs to care about is cultural hegemony"

>>9740988
>What has a neoliberal "social justice" movement got to do with a leftist economic system?

>>9501872
Identity politics is meant to unify different disaffected groups in an united front against the elite. The managerial elite who thinks they are in control will soon be surprised.

And it's not me saying it, it's Marxist intellectuals themselves.

>>9325104
Identity politics is adopted by some leftists because they realize relying on the working class to be the revolutionary class won't take them nowhere.

Pic related.

>>6552029
>they'll first try telling you about Cultural Marxism

There is nothing wrong in talking about Cultural Marxism.

Talking about Cultural Marxism without knowing Gramsci and Laclau is retarded, though, which is what most people are doing. Pic related, this book tells exactly what SJWs are doing and what they want, if Gamergaters readed it, they would understand their enemy much better.