I like Marxists much better than postmodernists. They tend to be polite & consider me misguided rather than evil & they make arguments. However, they also tend to set enormous amounts of homework before you can engage them on their terms & I do not have the interest in economics.
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I would really like them to engage the postmodernists more visibly but they generally feel there is little point in this as they are not using reasoned arguments, rarely address class & know very little about economics. They're probably right but I still wish they would.
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at least Postmodernism didn't kill tens of Millions of people
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Insofar as it's nihilism, it's killing them with alcohol and heroin
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you're correct but nihilists don't come together in mobs to slaughter the bourgoisie
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It's hard to get them to do shit, really
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Send them Popper's "The Poverty of Historicism."
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In my experience there plenty of people who believe both in marxism and identity politics.
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That's certainly possible, but it's hard to subscribe to the grand narrative of marxism and simultaneously be a postmodernist. Put differently, not all identity politics is postmodern.
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You're probably right. I was just wondering who "The Marxists" were.
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@HPluckrose It was a serious question...
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Delighted to hear it!


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Postmodernism is correct in its critique of Marxism, and Marxism is correct in its critique of postmodernism. Both are correct in their critique of centrists and vice versa. Ideologies have to keep the others in check.
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lol....
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Postmodernism is the last blast of late capitalism.
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How? The point of capitalism is making things work. That is antithetical to postmodernism.
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Postmodernism - when you are so rich you don't need to worry about things working for other people.
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They're all driven by resentment...
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They'll be plenty of time for getting your homework done at Re-Education camp. If you fail though, its off to the Cobalt mines for you!
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