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>How in fuck did Western Marxism
People will tell you a lot of things, but it was mostly the commodification of Marxism/Socialism as a brand that did it. I think the specific term for it is Champaign Socialism. For a while the Federal Government was mortified of Socialists, Marxists, and they would capture people, arrest people, survey actors, artists, intellectuals in university, for communist sympathetic thought, and this in turn cultivated a really powerful anti-authoritarian counter culture. Nowadays they just give them rainbow Oreos and make sure Hasan Piker doesn't get banned off of Twitch. The whole social process has very much been outsourced and astroturfed to "others", in an almost pornographic fashion insomuch that the individual doesn't feel any desire to actually do anything: they watch a streamer, they donate a dollar to some "ethical company", and then they move on with their lives - or until they get upset again.