The impact of Cultural Marxism is not confined to the United States but many within India’s intellectual elite look to the West for inspiration, potentially resulting in the widespread adoption of those ideas within Indian society, according to Kausik Gangopadhyay, Professor of Economics, Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode.
He was delivering the Dr. B.S. Harishankar (archaeologist and historian) Memorial Lecture on the topic ‘Cultural Marxism - a Critical Look’, organised by the Bharatheeya Vichara Kendram here on Thursday.
Prof. Gangopadhyay said Cultural Marxism, also called neo-liberalism, left-liberalism, or progressivism by the adherents, had emanated from the work of Antonio Gramsci, a communist leader from Italy who applied the ideas of Marx to the cultural domain. Gramsci’s application of Marxist ideas to the cultural sphere is what scholars like James Lindsay commonly refer to as Cultural Marxism, he said.
