Nor do I deny that Postmodernism filled a gap left by the waning of confidence in Marxism & incorporated some of its revolutionary tropes.https://twitter.com/CondenserMick/status/926078885917347842 …
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Replying to @HPluckrose
all of the pomos were at some point marxists (not the same as saying all marxists became pomos) 1/
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i.e.the motivation for the pomo project was political from the start: the relativism was necessary to deny reality of marxism in practice 2/
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the traditional "oppressor / oppressed" narrative was reconfigured from rich / poor to apply instead to privileged / marginalized
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from a liberal perspective, doesn't matter if we are arguing with woolly jumper marxists or crazy pomos, both deny reality and ignore facts
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There is a big difference between being wrong and having a philosophical commitment to there being no right or wrong answers.
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that's why relativism and subjectism are (to a point) important; there are shades of grey. but there things that we can say are true
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And the Marxists believe in objective truth and science. That's part of why the PoMos attacked them.
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