I'm very glad to hear it because I have 2 coming up which address these points. 1) What critics of postmodernism are and and are not criticising - also addresses the claim that postmodernism is dead or never really existed. 2) Why postmodernism is not 'cultural Marxism'. (FFS)https://twitter.com/ExotericArlvy/status/955935098062430219 …
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Part of the issue is that there is a complex Venn Diagram of terms that no one has articulated very well for those who cannot read dozens of volumes of French philosophy or track its time evolution in US, etc.
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If JP is misrepresenting authors that is useful to point out, but the masses relate to his articulation of a modern phenomena they intuit to be occurring but couldnt articulate.
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These trackbacks to their origins are dense and define too many terms w other terms or "writings of X" or "Y school of thought." For outreach, it is inpenetrable.
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If that's how you define 'cultural marxism', sure, but it;s unclear why that is the definition when it so different to Marxism and Marxists hate it so much.
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Not good enough. Dismantling oppressive systems in society is what liberals do but the significant thing is whether they are systems which need dismantling and how they go about doing that. Feudalism, slavery patriarchy, theocracy - all great ones to dismantle.
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When it comes to Marxism vs postmodernism, we have a very different mentality and we see this on the level of epistemology. We have being straightforwardly wrong whilst believing in objective truth and science (Marxism) vs believing there is no right and wrong and not (PoMo)
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