You know how "neonazi" actually means something, like, specifically people who have never been members of the German Nazi Party but identify with the fascist tenets of it and venerate its aesthetics? Well, Jorpy knows "neonazi" is bad, but he's not mad at nazis, he's mad at communists. Using his big smooth brain, he stripped the "neo-" off "neonazi" and then taped it onto "marxist". Voila! Neomarxists must be as bad as neonazis!
Jordan Peterson didn’t invent the term neo-Marxism, he simply didn’t understand what it means and applied it to the wrong context.
I took a course in Critical Theory long before Peterson was even a thing, and neo-Marxism was definitely used in the texts, typically refering to Marcuse, Adorno, Horkheimer et al. (Frankfurt School) in the 1960s who were disillusioned with Marxism-Leninism (they believed what happened to the USSR was bad) and believed that a new form of philosophy combining the post-structuralist/post-modernist tradition (though with some reservations about post-modernist thoughts) was the way forward for the emancipation project of human societies.
Neo-Marxism refers to leaving behind Marxism and forming a “new” school of thought, not unlike how neo-classical economics leaves behind the entire classical economics tradition (Smith, Ricardo, Marx) and calling themselves the “new classicals” who are replacing the older school of thought.
You know how "neonazi" actually means something, like, specifically people who have never been members of the German Nazi Party but identify with the fascist tenets of it and venerate its aesthetics? Well, Jorpy knows "neonazi" is bad, but he's not mad at nazis, he's mad at communists. Using his big smooth brain, he stripped the "neo-" off "neonazi" and then taped it onto "marxist". Voila! Neomarxists must be as bad as neonazis!
Jordan Peterson didn’t invent the term neo-Marxism, he simply didn’t understand what it means and applied it to the wrong context.
I took a course in Critical Theory long before Peterson was even a thing, and neo-Marxism was definitely used in the texts, typically refering to Marcuse, Adorno, Horkheimer et al. (Frankfurt School) in the 1960s who were disillusioned with Marxism-Leninism (they believed what happened to the USSR was bad) and believed that a new form of philosophy combining the post-structuralist/post-modernist tradition (though with some reservations about post-modernist thoughts) was the way forward for the emancipation project of human societies.
Neo-Marxism refers to leaving behind Marxism and forming a “new” school of thought, not unlike how neo-classical economics leaves behind the entire classical economics tradition (Smith, Ricardo, Marx) and calling themselves the “new classicals” who are replacing the older school of thought.
All of that would be news to jorpy