Postmodernism & socialism are incompatible as sets of ideas for the reason given - rejection of metanarratives. This is why PoMo made Marxism one of its first targets - saw it as naive modernism. (1 of many) https://twitter.com/jdietz224/status/940405336468611072 …
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It is tempting to conflate postmodernism with Marxism for two reasons. It makes a neat package of your enemies if you are right-wing. It saves having to understand postmodernism which is pretentious & pointless, whoever you are.
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I don't mean that people who conflate the two are necessarily being dishonest or even unconsciously using motivated reasoning. Postmodernism is difficult to understand and spending the time necessary to understand it is seldom worthwhile.
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It's frankly a relief to have a straightforward, graspable explanation but we can't properly oppose postmodernism unless we understand its conception of knowledge, reason, truth & it is poles apart from the Marxist one.
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