Cultural Materialism and the anti-Western movement


	Cultural Materialism and the anti-Western movement

willhelm

12-9-2007 9:27 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/0c091b08-af90-4840-b24c-cdf618d245ce/767E316D-1E9D-4344-A5C8-1515642123E2/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.academia.org/lectures/lind1.html" href="http://www.academia.org/lectures/lind1.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.academia.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.academia.org/lectures/lind1.html">the Marxists’ had a problem. And two Marxist theorists
went to work on it: Antonio Gramsci in Italy and Georg Lukacs in Hungary.
Gramsci said the workers will never see their true class interests, as
defined by Marxism, until they are freed from Western culture, and particularly
from the Christian religion – that they are blinded by culture and religion
to their true class interests. Lukacs, who was considered the most brilliant
Marxist theorist since Marx himself, said in 1919, "Who will save us from
Western Civilization?" He also theorized that the great obstacle to the
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when the home grown Bolshevik Bela Kun government is established in Hungary
in 1919, he becomes deputy commissar for culture, and the first thing he
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