We are all Marxists, now: Part I

Kellner explores the effects of historical crises of capitalism and Marxism on critical theory and reflects on the continued relevance or obsolescence of Marxism and critical theory. Kellner writes, "As we move into the 1990s critical theory might help produce theoretical and political perspectives which could be part of a Left Turn that could reanimate the political hopes of the 1960s, while helping overcome and reverse the losses and regression of the 1980s."

The above summary pits the Reagan Revolution (the "1980's") against the socialist/Marxist advances of the JBJ days and a supposed return to political socialism beginning in the 1990.  It would be more accurate to assert the return of national socialism as beginning with the big government ideas of George Bush,  ideas and policies that have laid the foundation for the radical Marxism we see in the Obama Regime.   There are no pointie-headed Harvard academics who are not familiar with Kellner and his book.  Kellner is/was a socialist professor at Columbia University and, now, at UCLA.  Columbia is  the same college Obama spent 12 summers teaching "Constitutional law."  The two undoubtedly knew each other. . . . . .


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After notes: 

Critical theory is an approach that insists that knowledge is not simply factual,  but,  instead,  is biased.  The approach uses a rewrite of accepted history to further (especially) the view point of Karl Marx.  

Marxism: is a social/economic theory that pits the have's against the have nots,  and in so doing,  enslaves those who are the workers,  while benefiting the political class.  Of course,  a communitist/socialist would never give this definition,  but it is true none the less.  It fact,  this definition is not debatable.  
Modernity:  having to do with a post feudalism capitalism as its primary social/economic philosophy.  

Schools of thought under the broad banner of "critical theory."  Note the Left Leaning nuance to each category:  

• Constructionism and Constructivism: Building worlds in your head.
• Conventionalism: We tend to conform to conventions.
• Deconstruction: Dismantling binary opposites.
• Ethnicity: And the full panoply of variation.
• Empiricism: Truth comes only from direct experience.
• Hermeneutics: The exploration of meaning
• Idealism: Our experience of the world is, for us, the world.
• Feminism: Challenging the source of female identity.
• Phenomenology: Objective exploration of experience.
• Positivism: Only provable fact is valid knowledge.
• Postmodernism: Holistic, anti-deconstructionist viewpoint.
• Post-structuralism: Structuralism is seen as too simplistic.
• Postmodernism: Things are not as simple as they seem.
• Rationalism: The use of pure thought.
• Realism: Things exist, whether or not anyone is thinking of them.
• Semiotics: The study of signs.
• Structuralism: A thing is the sum of its parts and their relationships.
• Utilitarianism: People seek to optimize value.

List taken from:  http://changingminds.org/explanations/critical_theory/schools/schools.htm