Opinion of Cultural Marxism

[traininthedistance]

I was an English major!  And look where I am now.  Posting on Atlas.

Don't let your kids grow up to be English majors.

Is this the right place to complain about Theodor W. Adorno's truly ridiculous degree of elitism for somebody who was supposedly a Marxist, and the profoundly unfortunate views of women inherent in the Minima Moralia's analysis of relationships and marriage?

I'm always down for complaining about his exaltation of dodecaphony as The One True Marxist Music, and the associated slander of golden great Igor Stravinsky.

[traininthedistance]

I still don't get what could possibly be so great about Mahler if one presumes that folk and popular musical forms are all degenerate and false consciousness-inducing products of the 'culture industry'. Guess there's some things I'll just never understand.

Adorno's views on culture are, deep down, not really all that different than the silliness that is Ayn Rand trying to prove that Rachmaninoff was objectively the best composer.