Cultural Marxism

Cultural Marxism is associated with the Institute of Social Research and is often referred to as the Frankfurt School as it was first housed at the Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany.

Seminal authors in this field include:

Antonio Gramsci
Eric Fromm
György Lukács
Herbert Marcuse
Jürgen Habermas
Karl Korsch
Max Horkheimer
Theodor Adorno
Walter Benjamin

For a brief primer on the evolution of Marxist discourse from an economic to a cultural focus, I recommend reading: In the Tracks of Historical Materialismand Considerations on Western Marxism by Perry Anderson.

For a brief primer on the transmutation of Marxist discourse into post-structuralist and postmodernist subjects of inquiry, I recommend reading Logics of Disintegration: Poststructuralist Thought and the Claims of Critical Theory by Peter Dews.

Castrochavismo

Castrochavismo is not associated with any particular research institution.

Seminal authors in this field include:

Alain Badiou
Angela Davis
Antonio Negri
Arundhati Roy
Boaventura de Sousa Santos
Brian Dingledine
Chico Whitaker
David Graeber
Eduardo Galeano
Enrique Dussel
Immanuel Wallerstein
João Pedro Stedile
Mark Fisher
Manuel Castells
Michael Alpert
Michael Hardt
Michel Foucault
Naomi Klein
Noam Chomsky
Richard Wolff
Slavoj Žižek
Subcommandante Marcos
Tariq Ali
Vijay Prashad
Walden Bello

For a very brief primer on it’s evolution recommend Constructing the ‘Anti-Globalization’ Movement by Catherine Eschle.

For a longer primer on the evolution of anti-globalization authors and activists, I recommend reading The World Social Forum: Challenging Empires.