Maybe this is because the original postmodernists (e.g. the French ones) were not heavily political, or at least not explicitly. They thought the most subversive thing to do to Western modernity was to poke holes in some of its philosophical underpinnings.
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It was only their American disciples on campus that (re-)fused this literary subversion with politics more heavily. After all Foucault and Lyotard had dismissed Marxism as a "grand narrative" and therefore thoroughly pre-postmodern.
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