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The Marxist Roots of DEI - Session 1: Equity | James Lindsay

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The Diversity Industry Is Not About Marxism

Neo-Marxism is a branch of philosophy that's not nearly as well known as it needs to be. It developed primarily from the 1930s through the early 1970s and neo-Marxism has come straight down the track from 1930s Max Horkheimer to whoever you listened to on MSNBC this morning. They became in the 1960s very aware that corporate capitalism had solved many of the problems of exploitation mostly by breaking up trusts which is a huge problem again now in new sectors financial sector, tech sector there's a big problem. The working class have been stabilized they've been made conservative we have to look somewhere else according to Herbert Marcuse. He said where do you find the know

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