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Neo-Marxism

Summary

Neo-Marxism refers to 20th and 21st century intellectual movements that extend classical Marxist economic analysis to culture, identity, and power relations. Associated with the Frankfurt School, Gramsci, and later critical theory, it shifted Marxism from purely economic class analysis to cultural hegemony.

Core Contribution

Extended Marxist analysis beyond economics to culture, race, gender, and identity; provided the theoretical basis for Critical Theory and later woke ideology.

Key Spikes & Highlights

  • Marxism
  • cultural theory
  • critical theory
  • identity politics

Historical Influences

Marx Hegel Frankfurt School

Intellectual Lineage

Marx Frankfurt School Gramsci

Contemporaries & Peers

Critical Theory Cultural Marxism

Minds Influenced

Critical Theory cultural studies identity politics

Intellectual Posterity

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