Why did these videos get made? Was it an honest attempt at social justice? A grift? Clickbait? Why were they so disliked? As Marxists I think we can get to the bottom of this.
Why did these videos get made? Was it an honest attempt at social justice? A grift? Clickbait? Why were they so disliked? As Marxists I think we can get to the bottom of this.
Well, yeah. It's the alternative to the Soviet model. All the other tendencies kinda spring from the post war second international/Frankfurt school which developed critical theory as being explicitly critical of both the USSR and capitalism.
Just because it's a continuation of Marxism doesn't mean it's good, but it does mean that the parts that contain systemic analysis and dialectical reasoning will have some amount of predictive power.
The implicit problem I'd say then is critical theory seems absorbed with tackling problems with capitalism as some kind of intellectual puzzle to solve, rather than a political issue to mobilize around. That just makes it dead before it even starts and deliberately relegated to circular fights between already isolated academics.