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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Replying to @HPluckrose
There seems to be a symbiotic relationship though... An enemy of my enemy and such. Don't you think?
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Replying to @Jovangnr
Not really. They conflate Marxism with postmodernism - say its just expanded to other groups- which means they miss the epistemic relativity
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Aren't current day Marxists using pomo concepts like valuing lived experience over objet reality, extreme skepticism of science and reason?
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Replying to @Jovangnr @HPluckrose
And I'm talking about self proclaimed marxists
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But they are not. That isn't Marxism.
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So in essence, current day self proclaimed Marxists have assimilated pomo concepts and can't see the disconnect?They're a third group then?
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Replying to @Jovangnr @GabeBlessing
Other way round. PoMos have assimilated some Marxist ideas but its a kind of window dressing. They don't focus on economics & working class.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @GabeBlessing
They took oppressor/oppressed narrative. It is antithetical to pomo stance of rejecting metanarratives though, ie original critic of marxism
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Yes, they share a belief in oppressed and oppressor classes but then activists do.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @GabeBlessing
Yes but the specific metanarrative that it explains all human interactions was started by marx no? you were either exploiter or exploited?
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