Neo-Marxism
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- Neo-Marxism
- 20th C
- Tried to explain the survival of capitalism in Europe
- 'Frankfurt School'
- Herbert Macuse
- Max Horkheimer
- Frankfurt School
- Gramsci's: 'cultural hegemony'
- Capitalism affects the arts, media & education
- Vindicated Marx's belief in revolution
- Rejected evolutionary socialism (rejected Euro-communism)
- Revolution was needed to smash false consciousness
- But Marcuse argued Gramsci was wrong to assume that culture could change the economics of a society
- Gramsci's: 'cultural hegemony'
- Ralph Miliband
- On socialist governments in W.Europe
- 'parliamentary road' to socialism is impossible
- All confronted by state-sponsored anti-socialist forces
- Revolutionary overthrow by 'spontaneous' TU action
- 'The State in Capitalist Society.' (1973|)
- Sought to demolish the idea of gradual socialism
- Argued socialist governments had always diluted their agenda
- Marx had argued the existing state would always support the dominant economic class
- On socialist governments in W.Europe
- 20th C
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