Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism explores why so much “radical” theory in the West feels strangely safe, polite, and totally disconnected from actual revolutionary movements.
It’s a forensic breakdown of how the CIA, the State Department, and big capitalist foundations actively funded, promoted, and shaped the kind of Marxism that became acceptable in Western academia.
@yogthos
Thanks, it looks fascinating.
@yogthos Apologies for the YT link but The Deprogram had Rockhill on recently and the full video is available...
@yogthos why are Stalinists so obssessed with trying to blame ghosts instead of just leaving the corpse rest.
@rhizomancer some people actually care about history, the real question is why so are western 'leftists' so obsessed with rewriting history and guzzling burger reich propaganda
@yogthos I care about history as well, I just notice a pattern between him and Losurdo in trying to whitewash both the USSR and Stalin to an absurd level. "Rockhill’s book elucidates how the intellectual world war on the socialist alternative has sought to shore up and promote a “compatible left” intelligentsia while misrepresenting, maligning, and trying to destroy the revolutionary left"; yeah, post-structuralism made the Soviet Union collapse.
@rhizomancer very telling how you refer to historical honesty as whitewashing, I also love how you intentionally misinterpret the quote which refers to the left in the west as a reference to USSR. Try to be a little less transparent in your trolling in the future.
