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[–] veriodd 3 points -3 points (+0|-3) ago 

"What happened? What might account for this strange disappearance of capi- talism from social movement studies? Here, we can only speculate, but we would argue that this transformation is the result of several linked factors, including the waning of Marxism in the social sciences after the 1970s, the so-called ‘cultural
turn’ in academia, and a growing emphasis on micro- and meso-level analysis
– including framing and network analysis – in social movement studies proper.
(It is also possible that some scholars in the USA have avoided the conceptual
vocabulary, if not the concerns, of Marxist political economy for fear of not
being published or tenured.) Our aim, here, is not to criticise cultural, framing,
or network analysis, but simply to point out that these have efffectively – and
unnecessarily – ‘crowded out’ a concern with political economy in the fijield. As
a result, a number of promising causal mechanisms linked to the dynamics of
capitalism are no longer even considered worthy of attention by movement- scholars."

https://as.nyu.edu/content/dam/nyu-as/faculty/documents/Strange_Disappearance_of_Capitalism.pdf

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[–] veriodd 3 points -3 points (+0|-3) ago 

The first rule of Cultural Marxism club is don't talk about Cultural Marxism club.