{"product_id":"9781685901349","title":"Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism? : The Intellectual World War, Marxism vs. the Imperial Theory Industry by Gabriel Rockhill","description":"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.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56369126211957,"sku":"9781685901349","price":22.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781685901349.jpg?v=1763552174","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781685901349","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}