And 2) the right-wing academics who want to make it all an expansion of Marxism and blur over the denial of objective knowledge.
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This enables them to combine two enemies at once & also benefit from society not being too rigorous about how to establish what is true.
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There seems to be a symbiotic relationship though... An enemy of my enemy and such. Don't you think?
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I mean Marxism, identity politics all seem to come from universities. Current day Marxists also seem to have assimilated some Pomo stances
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There can be some overlap & PoMos will pay lip-service to hating capitalism but Marxists loathe PoMos coz they stole the left with nonsense
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Took it away from the working class & into the universities and fucked with it. They're realists tho not necessarily realistic.
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How then do we explain the promiscuity of academia with groups like antifa, student unions, who are overtly self proclaimed Marxists?
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I don't know. Marx wouldn't know them. It's antithetical & they simply don't prioritise the needs of the working class.
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I am hoping to write a thing about this at some point. In the meantime, here is a Marxist critique of postmodernism. http://www.communistvoice.org/15cPostmodern.html …
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Marxism was one of the first things the PoMos attacked. Nick Cohen's What's Left describes the shift well.
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Also at Conatus News you find the kind of radical lefties who consistently criticise both capitalism and PoMo.
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They are just radically different schools of thought.
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