From Spandrell: here, here, and here are three posts outlining an idea — “Bioleninism” — that seeks to explain the steady movement leftward of political systems, and the shift, beginning in the 1960s or so, from economic to cultural Marxism as the vehicle for that movement.
The model seems coherent and plausible. It also has considerable overlap with the analysis of mass movements presented by Eric Hoffer in The True Believer (which I consider to be a point strongly in its favor).
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