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Who Paid
the Pipers of Western Marxism? offers a crash course in the history of
imperialist propaganda, as well as in the Marxist method for analyzing
culture and ideology. Author Gabriel Rockhill demonstrates the explanatory
and transformative superiority of a dialectical and historical materialist
approach, while elucidating how the world of ideas is a crucial site of class
struggle. He then engages in a meticulous counter-history of the Frankfurt
School—which made a foundational contribution to Western Marxism—by situating
it within the global relations of class struggle and the imperialist war on
actually existing socialism. With the explicit and direct backing of powerful
elements in the capitalist ruling class and the world's leading imperialist state,
the Frankfurt School developed a widely promoted form of compatible critical
theory as an ersatz for dialectical and historical materialism. The volume
concludes by bringing to the fore the positive project that serves as the
guiding methodological framework for the work as a whole: a thoroughly
anticolonial and anti-imperialist Marxism dedicated to building socialism in
the real world. Drawing on extensive archival research to pull back the
curtain on ruling class machinations, Rockhill's book elucidates how the
intellectual world war on the socialist alternative has sought to shore up
and promote a "compatible left" intelligentsia while misrepresenting,
maligning, and trying to destroy the revolutionary left.
