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.

Aliases (8)

Austro-Marxism ×2
Cultural Marxism (original academic sense) ×1
French Marxism ×1
Hegelian Marxism ×1
Italian Marxism ×1
Neo-Marxism ×1
Second International Marxism ×1
neo-Marxism ×1

Statements (91)

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 → 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 → 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 → French Marxism → Hegelian Marxism → Italian Marxism → Western critical theory →
seeksTo	integrate culture into Marxist analysis → preserve revolutionary potential of Marxism → rethink Marxism in light of modern capitalism →

Referenced by (27)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Antonio Gramsci → Antonio Gramsci ("Neo-Marxism") → Douglas Kellner → Frankfurt School → Frankfurt School ("neo-Marxism") → György Lukács → Herbert Marcuse → Theodor W. Adorno → Walter Benjamin →	movement
Anti-Dühring ("Second International Marxism") → Institute for Social Research → Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosophy → Reason and Revolution → Rosa Luxemburg →	influenced
An Essay on Liberation → Counterrevolution and Revolt → One-Dimensional Man → The Accumulation of Capital → The Decomposition of Marxism →	philosophicalTradition
Western Marxism ("Italian Marxism") → Western Marxism ("French Marxism") → Western Marxism ("Hegelian Marxism") →	relatedTo
Frankfurt School → Karl Polanyi ("Austro-Marxism") →	influencedBy
Marxism → Marxism ("Cultural Marxism (original academic sense)") →	subschool
Museum of Society and Economy, Vienna ("Austro-Marxism") →	associatedWith