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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Their aims don't even seem coherent.
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Marxists are coherent, just not realistic.
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That's wut I'm saying. Antifa wouldn't fit in orthodox marxism because of its pomo influences. They still call themselves marxists
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Ir I think they even believe they're Marxists.
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Quite possibly.
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It's very clear that Marx believed in an objective reality. Heck, he believed history was an inevitable process of progress. I would say...
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.. that the "no objective reality" part of PoMo is applied inconsistently and ingored when inconvenient. Despite being the premise of PoMo,.
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..it seems to be a tenet that can be applied flexibly if the pragmatic goals demand it. Which is why I would argue that what we're dealing..
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.. with now isn't PoMo, at best a hybrid outgrowth thereof.
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But that problem existed, even originally. Inconsistency seems to be An inherent part of Pomo
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IMO it is possible to have a consistent version of PoMo, it's just not something one could feasibly apply to real life in any sense.
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It breaks down on itself, valuing consistency, even just an attempt at it would already be a bias and compliance to a metanarrative.
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"the importance of consistency is a social construct"
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