Caminhos para uma revisão sistemática crítica na literatura marxista: A relação ‘marxismo cultural’ e educação superior

Abstract

“Cultural Marxism” has been used as a justification for the attack on critical social thought around the world. Higher education, as a place of knowledge production, has not been left out of this attack and has been targeted in recent years in Brazil with greater force since the beginning of the Bolsonaro government. Thus, this article aims to present a proposal for a Critical Systematic Review on the relationship between 'cultural Marxism' and higher education. This is a systematic critical review of the literature on the topic present in Marxist journals. We opted for the systematic review method, adapting its steps to the area of ??Marxist scientific knowledge. Thirty-two recognizably Marxist scientific journals were identified. The "primary free terms" used to create a search strategy were 'higher education', 'cultural Marxism' and 'culture warfare' and the "secondary free terms" used were 'Frankfurt School, 'Bolshevism' and 'conservatism'. As a result, 563 publications were obtained. After using the PRISMA flowchart, 35 articles were included for review. The analysis of the data extracted from the 35 articles included will be carried out through Critical Content Analysis and the interpretation will be made by the method of dialectical historical materialism. In this adaptation, it was necessary to consider the different internal search systems of each journal and their limitations. One hypothesis is that these difficulties may be due to the interest that Marxist knowledge is out of the debate, and one way to do this is to make it difficult to retrieve it on the internet. We think that the search path presented in this article can help other researchers interested in the Marxist debate to find journals and use a systematic way to facilitate the reproducibility of the path to be followed.