There are two far-lefts. The identity politics branch is inspired by Postmodernism. The radical branch by Marxism.They often hate each otherhttps://twitter.com/Igroki/status/884083082575233024 …
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...they take a lot more from the PoMos who attacked Marxism as a simplistic meta-narrative with naive ideas of reality & science.
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The Marxists retain respect for objective reality & science & accuse PoMos of taking Leftist thought away from working class & into academia
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which is essentially bourjeois & elitist & also nuts. Marxists are more Utopian & foreward looking. PoMos nihilistic & all over the place.
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The Marxists think things can be fixed if you stick to principles & get it right this time. PoMos think not & were originally often playful.
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Deconstruct things to show everything meaningless & turn things on their head to show how culturally constructed it all was.
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Which pissed off the Marxists. Then the PoMos had a second wave in critical theory & got all intersectional, postcolonial & queer.
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So now they are quite revolutionary too but don't really have a coherent plan apart from to find everything problematic.
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