Soviet Marxism: A Critical Analysis

Because of course, it wasn't just Steinem who was recruited by the CIA.

This was part of a much larger operation that was spelled out in a very important book called The Cultural Cold War by Francis Stonor Saunders.

This book is based on detailed archival research into something called the Congress for Cultural Freedom.

This was an organization that was created and funded by the CIA during the First Cold War in order to spread propaganda around the world and in the US to convince everyone that the US was actually a force for progress, and that the Soviet Union, the socialist countries, were all evil.

Now, some people may have heard of the Congress for Cultural Freedom because of its support for famous artists.

She was very racist against Black Americans.

And this again is why the CIA funded Hannah Arendt's work.

I'm reading here from the book Cultural Cold War by Francis Stonor Saunders.

In his written works, he criticized capitalism, modern technology, Soviet communism, and popular culture, arguing that they rep- that they represented new forms of social control.

Between '43 and '50, Marcuse worked in the US government service for the OSS, Office of Strategic Services, which is the, if people don't know, precursor to the s- CIA, where he criticized the ideology of the Communist Party of the Soviet U- of the Soviet Union in the book Soviet Marxism: A Critical Analysis, released in 1958.

In the '60s and '70s, he became known as the pre-eminent theorist of the New Left and the student movements of West Germany, France, and the United States.

Some consider him the father of the New Left.

Oh, man.

I- i- isn't it amazing that once, you know, i- if you're one of those people who's on social media all the time, and you're like, "Oh, this is what I..." You know, uh, uh, "I learned about communism from a meme." You know, or, "I learned about socialism from a meme.

I learned about Marxism from a meme." Once you start reading it, you know, "I learned about critical theory from a meme." Once you start reading it, you're like, it's just like reading Marx.

Oh, fr- he, he's, he's got it figured out.