Or is it a phrase cons made up to scare boomers?

  • star_wraith [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Well, it's not really a coherent viewpoint and obviously just totally misunderstands Marxism, but here's my understanding of how Peterson sees it:

    Marxism means everyone and everything is equal. Nothing and no one is better than anyone else. Cultural Marxism means we can't say one culture's viewpoint is superior to another's. So for example, Peterson probably endorses the Christian view of gender roles. He can probably spout a bunch of BS as to why this is the right way to view gender. But then cultural Marxism says "who are you to impose your view on other people, these other views on gender are equally valid".

    So in the end he's only calling it "Marxism" because he does that chud thing of thinking that Marxism means everyone should be forced to be equal. Exactly what you'd expect from someone who's only ever spent 5 minutes skimming The Communist Manifesto.

    • garbology [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      spent 5 minutes skimming The Communist Manifesto

      I thought he admitted to Zizek that he hadn't even done that.