The CIA created the New Left

Here's a long X thread on how and why western intelligence agencies created a New Left focused on cultural issues to divert attention away from Class Warfare.

Authors/Books Mentioned:

Hauke Ritz

Who Paid The Piper by Frances Stonor Saunders

The Death of the Left

"The Ghost In The Machine" substack essay by Ryan Perkins (highly recommended).

The End of Ideology by Daniel Bell

I'll Burn That Bridge When I Come To It by Norman Finkelstein

le Capitalisme de la Seduction by Michel Clouscard

Who Paid The Pipers of Western Marxism by Gabriel Rockhill

Funny I didn't see any mention of the Frankfurt School of Critical Marxism in the X thread (but it is brought up in the Perkins essay).  That goes way back and was infamously enabled by western intelligence in various ways.

One of the key features of the New Left, Frankfurt School, and so on was the focus on subjectivity, as compared to the materialism of Marx's Marxism.  As Ryan Perkins says in The Ghost In The Machine:

The constant fragmenting of group identity and the downward spiral of subjectivity has created an atomised society of isolated and disempowered individuals inoculating society against solidarity.