Why did the socialist and communist left pivot from class war to environmentalism, feminism, race war, minorities, etc... ?
Marcuse, Gramsci, Mouffe... it wasn't initially a "plan" but an intellectual current that saw the diminishing returns of classic marxist propaganda and suggested a diversification.
However after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the full might of institutional socialism adopted the strategy and pushed it hard. They funded it, they propagandised it and they taught it in schools and universities.
This book is one of many that advocated this shift.
Hegemony and Socialist Strategy: Towards a Radical Democratic Politics.
