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.
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