30. Another Conspiracy Theory about Marxists w/ Richard Gilman-Opalsky

30. Another Conspiracy Theory about Marxists w/ Richard Gilman-Opalsky

Wecoming back my first return guest, philosopher and union activist Richard Gilman-Opalsky, for a deep dive into the viral controversy surrounding Gabriel Rockhill's new book Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism?

Rockhill's thesis, in its simplest form, is that the smartest left intellectuals you've heard of were bought by capital to function as controlled opposition. So Richard and I work through the Frankfurt School's origins, French theory's disillusionment with actually existing socialism, Herbert Marcuse's gifts and compromises, and Richard's core challenge to Rockhill: the concept of the enemy. Who are we actually fighting? The ruling class, or each other?

SOURCES

Institute for Social Research, Goethe University Frankfurt

Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno, Dialectic of Enlightenment — Stanford University Press

Theodor W. Adorno, The Culture Industry — Routledge

Gabriel Rockhill, Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism?

Richard Gilman-Opalsky, review of Rockhill — Marx and Philosophy Review of Books

Richard Gilman-Opalsky, The Communism of Love — AK Press

Herbert Marcuse papers — UC San Diego Library

Angela Y. Davis official site

Vivian Gornick, The Romance of American Communism — Verso Books

Vladimir Lenin, "Left-Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder" — Marxists Internet Archive

Alexandra Kollontai Archive — Marxists Internet Archive

Emma Goldman, My Disillusionment in Russia — Marxists Internet Archive

University of Illinois faculty union strike coverage — Chicago Tribune

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