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Editor @AreoMagazine Secular, liberal humanist. Mother. Doglover. Writing book about epistemology & ethics on the academic left Helen.pluckrose@areomagazine.com

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    1. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Oct 17

      The Marxists are very happy with me for having attacked postmodernism in grievance studies but concerned that I am still not a Marxist. I am now being sent much reading on how overcoming postmodernism should lead society to embracing socialism.

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    2. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Oct 17

      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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      Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Oct 17

      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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        2. MENoone‏ @MENoone5 Oct 17
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          There was a piece in the Weekly Worker, the newspaper of the Communist Party of GB, that was arguing for a stronger, less polite, pushback against Intersectional Left. https://weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1206/intersectionality-is-a-dead-end/ …

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        3. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Oct 17
          Replying to @MENoone5

          Helen Pluckrose Retweeted SEP (US)

          Yep. And they were positive about our project.https://twitter.com/SEP_US/status/1051608664740638725 …

          Helen Pluckrose added,

          SEP (US) @SEP_US
          Helen Pluckrose, James A. Lindsay and Peter Boghossian have struck a well-timed blow against postmodernism, a reactionary obstacle to the development of scientific socialist consciousness #psuedoleft #fakeleft #fakesocialists https://twitter.com/SEP_US/status/1051097586113896448 …
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        2. Chris Baker‏ @Zacnaloen Oct 17
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          Marxists vs Postmodernists is the battle for our future we all need to see. Wrong vs More Wrong

          3 replies 1 retweet 15 likes
        3. Helen Dale‏Verified account @_HelenDale Oct 17
          Replying to @Zacnaloen @HPluckrose

          ‘Wrong and Wronger’

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        2. Ralph Leonard‏ @buffsoldier_96 Oct 17
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          If you want to read a Marxist critique of postmodernism I would recommend Against Postmodernism: A Marxist Critique by Alex Callinicos (old book though)

          2 replies 1 retweet 5 likes
        3. Chris Baker‏ @Zacnaloen Oct 17
          Replying to @buffsoldier_96 @HPluckrose

          perfectly named though. clear and concise. The good old days.

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        2. Dark‏ @Jovangnr Oct 17
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          If so, one thing that puzzles me, is why then, when postmodernism seems to have supremacy in the humanities' faculty, do the humanity students tend to come out demanding communism and socialism, usually with the former group's support?

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        3. Dark‏ @Jovangnr Oct 17
          Replying to @Jovangnr @HPluckrose

          *humanities students

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        4. BasilBrush‏ @sacredcowpats Oct 19
          Replying to @Jovangnr @HPluckrose

          Here's a controversial "blue sky" question: If there were huge advances in behaviour economics and policy research, could communism work in the foreseeable future? As @harari_yuval says on recent @SamHarrisOrg show, some ideas (democracy) have technological preconditions.

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        5. Dark‏ @Jovangnr Oct 19
          Replying to @sacredcowpats @HPluckrose and

          well, advanced behavior economics would hone in on human nature better than communism, so wouldn't they provide different conclusions. outcomes and methods?

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        6. BasilBrush‏ @sacredcowpats Oct 19
          Replying to @Jovangnr @HPluckrose and

          Yeh I guess I'm using "socialism" here as shorthand for an increased role for government and regulation (but that actually works).

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        2. Carious‏ @Carious1 Oct 17
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          The best form of government is having good intelligent people in office and a mixture of socialism, democracy and capitalism.

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        1. Stephan Brun‏ @tibfulv Oct 18
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          Marxist economics is a contradiction in terms, lol.

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        1. (((g)))‏ @QRandom Oct 17
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          My observation has been that there are very, very few non-postmodernist Marxists. Their allegiance to anarchistic economic theories makes conversation with them, albeit more pleasant, not much worthwhile. There's nothing to be learned because "pure" Marxism has never been tried.

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