Tag Archives: cultural marxism

Some notes on social Marxism

Posted on June 25, 2018 by J. B. Aitken

I am going to call it social marxism rather than Cultural Marxism, and for a few reasons.  Cultural Marxism is a specific subset of Critical Theory that draws from Marcuse and Fromm.  Most of the hucksters today aren’t actually peddling … Continue reading →

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Review: Thinking in Tongues

Posted on March 5, 2018 by J. B. Aitken

This is from James KA Smith’s earlier days, before he became NPR’s token Christian thinker.  This book is actually good, which pains me to say.  Smith seems unbalanced in many ways since writing this book.  I think it is Trumpphobia … Continue reading →

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Review: The Devil’s Pleasure Palace

Posted on January 19, 2018 by J. B. Aitken

What is the Christian Response to Cultural marxism? While everyone is morally obligated to fight a war to the death against the Frankfurt School, that doesn’t mean every effort is equally good.  Most, in fact, are not. Walsh’s book is … Continue reading →

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Review: Reason and Revolution

Posted on February 21, 2017 by J. B. Aitken

by Herbert Marcuse Marcuse outlines Hegel’s thought and suggests how it informed the later rise of social theory and critical theory. The book is a fine exposition of Hegel and Marx. It suffers, however, by rarely attaching the two. Therefore, … Continue reading →

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Eros and Civilization (Marcuse)

Posted on May 19, 2016 by J. B. Aitken

Marcuse reworks Freud’s categories from the individual to society. To paraphrase Henry van Til, Marcuse is Freud externalized. There is a dialectic between the Eros principle and the Thanatos principle. In order for civilization to thrive, it has to suppress … Continue reading →

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