Who Paid The Pipers Of Western Marxism? by Gabriel Rockhill
Using archival evidence and historical analysis, the book argues that much of what became known as Western Marxism was shaped and constrained by covert and overt sponsorship from state and corporate foundations during the Cold War; this funding helped form institutions, journals, and careers that redirected Marxist thought away from revolutionary politics toward cultural, managerial, and academic forms of critique, producing a depoliticized, domesticated Marxism that served to contain and neutralize radical movements. The work calls for a critical reexamination of intellectual history and for reclaiming Marxist theory as a tool for emancipatory political practice rather than institutional accommodation.
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