Western Marxism

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20th-century philosophy Marxist tradition intellectual movement philosophical current

Western Marxism is a 20th-century current of Marxist thought, associated with theorists like Herbert Marcuse, that emphasizes culture, philosophy, and critical theory over traditional economic determinism.

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All labels observed (16)

Label	Occurrences
Western Marxism canonical	61
Austro-Marxism	2
Italian Marxism	2
Cultural Marxism (original academic sense)	1
European Marxism	1
French Marxism	1
French theory	1
Hegelian Marxism	1
Marxism and Philosophy	1
Marxist aesthetics	1
Neo-Marxism	1
Second International Marxism	1
Western Marxist cultural theory	1
Western Marxist tradition	1
neo-Marxism	1
structural Marxism	1

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	20th-century philosophy ⓘ Marxist tradition ⓘ intellectual movement ⓘ philosophical current ⓘ
analyzes	art ⓘ bureaucracy ⓘ everyday life ⓘ literature ⓘ mass media ⓘ state power ⓘ
associatedWith	Antonio Gramsci ⓘ Ernst Bloch ⓘ Franz Jakubowski ⓘ Fredric Jameson ⓘ György Lukács ⓘ surface form: Georg Lukács Henri Lefebvre ⓘ Herbert Marcuse ⓘ Jean-Paul Sartre ⓘ Jürgen Habermas ⓘ Karl Korsch ⓘ Louis Althusser ⓘ Lucio Colletti ⓘ Maurice Merleau-Ponty ⓘ Max Horkheimer ⓘ Nicos Poulantzas ⓘ Perry Anderson ⓘ Slavoj Žižek ⓘ Theodor W. Adorno ⓘ Walter Benjamin ⓘ
coreConcept	alienation ⓘ critical consciousness ⓘ culture industry ⓘ dialectics ⓘ hegemony ⓘ ideology ⓘ praxis ⓘ reification ⓘ totality ⓘ
critiques	Stalinism ⓘ economic determinism ⓘ empiricism in social science ⓘ mass culture ⓘ positivism ⓘ
developedIn	20th century ⓘ
developedInRegion	North America ⓘ Western Europe ⓘ
developedThrough	academic philosophy ⓘ left-wing political movements ⓘ university institutions ⓘ
differsFrom	Second International Marxism ⓘ Soviet Marxism ⓘ orthodox Marxism ⓘ
emergedAfter	World War I ⓘ
emphasizes	superstructure over economic base ⓘ
hasMainFocus	critical theory ⓘ culture ⓘ philosophy ⓘ
influenced	New Left ⓘ Western sociology ⓘ critical theory ⓘ cultural studies ⓘ literary theory ⓘ media studies ⓘ political theory ⓘ post-Marxism ⓘ
influencedBy	Friedrich Engels ⓘ G. W. F. Hegel ⓘ surface form: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Hegelian Marxism ⓘ Immanuel Kant ⓘ Karl Marx ⓘ Lukácsian Marxism ⓘ Max Weber ⓘ Sigmund Freud ⓘ Western philosophy ⓘ existentialism ⓘ phenomenology ⓘ
language	English ⓘ primarily French ⓘ primarily German ⓘ primarily Italian ⓘ
methodologicalApproach	dialectical ⓘ historical ⓘ interdisciplinary ⓘ
relatedTo	Frankfurt School ⓘ Western Marxism self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: French Marxism Western Marxism self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Hegelian Marxism Western Marxism self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Italian Marxism Western critical theory ⓘ
seeksTo	integrate culture into Marxist analysis ⓘ preserve revolutionary potential of Marxism ⓘ rethink Marxism in light of modern capitalism ⓘ

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Herbert Marcuse → movement → Western Marxism ⓘ

Marxism → subschool → Western Marxism ⓘ

this entity surface form: Cultural Marxism (original academic sense)

Theodor W. Adorno → movement → Western Marxism ⓘ

Walter Benjamin → movement → Western Marxism ⓘ

Frankfurt School → influencedBy → Western Marxism ⓘ

Frankfurt School → movement → Western Marxism ⓘ

this entity surface form: neo-Marxism

One-Dimensional Man → philosophicalTradition → Western Marxism ⓘ

Reason and Revolution → influenced → Western Marxism ⓘ

Counterrevolution and Revolt → philosophicalTradition → Western Marxism ⓘ

Institute for Social Research → influenced → Western Marxism ⓘ

An Essay on Liberation → philosophicalTradition → Western Marxism ⓘ

Western Marxism → relatedTo → Western Marxism self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Italian Marxism

Western Marxism → relatedTo → Western Marxism self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: French Marxism

Western Marxism → relatedTo → Western Marxism self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Hegelian Marxism

Karl Polanyi → influencedBy → Western Marxism ⓘ

this entity surface form: Austro-Marxism

The Accumulation of Capital → philosophicalTradition → Western Marxism ⓘ

Anti-Dühring → influenced → Western Marxism ⓘ

this entity surface form: Second International Marxism

Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosophy → influenced → Western Marxism ⓘ

Antonio Gramsci → movement → Western Marxism ⓘ

this entity surface form: Neo-Marxism

Douglas Kellner → movement → Western Marxism ⓘ

The Decomposition of Marxism → philosophicalTradition → Western Marxism ⓘ

György Lukács → movement → Western Marxism ⓘ

Museum of Society and Economy, Vienna → associatedWith → Western Marxism ⓘ

this entity surface form: Austro-Marxism

Luxemburg → influenced → Western Marxism ⓘ

subject surface form: Rosa Luxemburg

Max Horkheimer → movement → Western Marxism ⓘ

Didier Eribon → movement → Western Marxism ⓘ

this entity surface form: French theory

Susan Buck-Morss → movement → Western Marxism ⓘ

Fredric Jameson → movement → Western Marxism ⓘ

Dialectic of Enlightenment → philosophicalTradition → Western Marxism ⓘ

Aesthetic Theory → philosophicalTradition → Western Marxism ⓘ

Prisms → hasInfluenceFrom → Western Marxism ⓘ

critique of instrumental reason → associatedWith → Western Marxism ⓘ

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Theses on the Philosophy of History → philosophicalTradition → Western Marxism ⓘ

The Origin of German Tragic Drama → philosophicalTradition → Western Marxism ⓘ

A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud → philosophicalTradition → Western Marxism ⓘ

Hegel and the Rise of Social Theory → philosophicalTradition → Western Marxism ⓘ

Freudo-Marxism → influencedBy → Western Marxism ⓘ

Hegelian dialectics → influenced → Western Marxism ⓘ

Nonindifferent Nature → influencedBy → Western Marxism ⓘ

this entity surface form: Marxist aesthetics

Friedrich Pollock → movement → Western Marxism ⓘ

Karl Korsch → movement → Western Marxism ⓘ

Karl Korsch → notableWork → Western Marxism ⓘ

this entity surface form: Marxism and Philosophy

Karl Korsch → influenced → Western Marxism ⓘ

Nicos Poulantzas → movement → Western Marxism ⓘ

this entity surface form: structural Marxism

Perry Anderson → hasWrittenOn → Western Marxism ⓘ

Henri Lefebvre → movement → Western Marxism ⓘ