yet many are Marxists? I'm not talking about state socialism, but the end goal
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Replying to @Jovangnr
Postmodernists? No. Anti-Marxism is central. One of the things it reacted against. Marxists oppose them hugely too.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
so academia dominated by postmodernist stances, say in social sciences, humanities as it is today is in general anti Marxist?
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Replying to @Jovangnr
Yes. See how the intersectionals go for the radfems? And the Marxist left attacks identity politics left?
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Replying to @HPluckrose
This is interesting, are there examples of Marxist academics attacking identity-pol left?
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Replying to @KipIsLekkerME
http://www.communistvoice.org/15cPostmodern.html … http://www.fifthinternational.org/content/marxism-versus-postmodernism … https://www.amazon.co.uk/Against-Postmodernism-Critique-Alex-Callinicos-x/dp/0745606148 … Also see Nick Cohen's What's Left.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @KipIsLekkerME
Postmodernists, particularly Lyotard, attacked Marxism specifically. It was a main target. However, re: 'academics' important to note...
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Replying to @HPluckrose @KipIsLekkerME
... a central criticism of PoMo by Marxists is that it enabled an intellectual elite to dominate Leftism rather than working class thinkers
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Replying to @HPluckrose @KipIsLekkerME
Before this, Leftist thought was not centred in the universities. The version that exists there now, they say, is bourgeois pseudo-leftism.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Very interesting, I'll look more into this. Thank you very much!
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@icarianne2 knows most about Marxist criticism of postmodernism and might be able to recommend some good sources. :)
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