The two biggest challenges to addressing postmodern thinking are 1) the left-wing academics who say it's already over.
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They don't see they've internalised the worst of it. Subjective knowledge. Cultural relativity. Group identity defined by power.
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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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Are both groups cynical and taking advantage of each other?
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Not as far as I can see. The Marxists hate the PoMos. Some PoMos claim to be Marxist as part of their intersectionality.
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I don't know what they are. I have never known them to write a coherent break-down of their theoretical underpinnings.
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