I'm unconvinced that 'Marxism' is the right term for seeing society in terms of oppressor & oppressed groups & prioritising this. People have done this long before Marx because groups have oppressed other groups. What matters is whether their perception is rooted in reality.https://twitter.com/clairlemon/status/1004636732514430976 …
Well, yes. Marxism is the one which did that and so shouldn't be conflated with every other form of social analysis which sees oppression by powerful groups.
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A large part of the contemporary left (esp. in academia) holds that the only (!) lens through which to see society is the lens of group oppression (e.g. intersectionality). This is different from the moderate left which looks at indiv. cases of oppression on a case by case basis.
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Yes. This is the difference between identity-based politics and universal liberalism.
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Right, and this shows that identity politics is heavily based on the Marxist conception of history. They both have in common the reductive focus on group struggle. That's why it's correct to call identity politics neo-Marxist.
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No. You can just say they have in common the reductive focus on group struggle and then look at how postmodernism actually works in order to combat it.
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Well, calling it neo-Marxist is a way of "saying they have in common the reductive focus on group struggle". The "neo-" indicates it's substantially different from Classical Marxism but still heavily based on some of the fundamental and innovative claims of Marxism.
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Try not to do that. We cannot possibly tackle postmodernism if we do not address its underlying ideology.
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Sure, I didn't mean we should ignore the unique claims of pomo in which it radically differs from Marx. But calling attention to its political basis in Marxism is also part of "addressing its underlying ideology". That's why
@clairlemon called it "neo-Marxist post-modernism".
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