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“Attacks on Communist Ideology Using Marxist Terminology”: Gabriel Rockhill’s book on the emergence of the “compatible” intellectual left in Western countries
The idea emerged early on—specifically, for example, in the Psychological Strategy Board (PSB), which reported to the National Security Council—that the fight against the world communist movement and the Soviet Union should no longer be waged solely through “hard” anti-communist propaganda, but, as a 1953 PSB paper states, also through “long-term intellectual movements, which will appeal to intellectuals, including scholars and opinion-forming groups.”
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Review: Requiem for French Theory–Transatlantic Funeral Dirge in a Marxist Key
During the 1960s and 1970s, it was an oft-repeated quip that the European left was long on theory and short on practice, while the North American left was strong on action, but allergic to theory.