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 …
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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We can't call everything which sees oppressed and oppressor classes 'Marxism' just because they saw it in social class. I am going to write a thing which honestly acknowledges that PoMo stepped into the place of Marxism, fulfils same moral foundations & uses some of its ideas.
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But we have to look at postmodernism and related SocJus as it really is - understand the epistemology & politics underlying it, recognise that it has abandoned class issues & the working class and taken the left into bourgeois academic elitism.
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But Marxism abandoned class issues too. That's what cultural Marxism means.
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Huh? Then how is it Marxism?
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It's still revolutionary. It just no longer sees class difference as the instrument of revolution.
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Yes. The revolutionary aspect has moved on from class issues (Marxism) to identity & language issues (postmodernism)
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'Marxism' is not synonymous with 'dismantling perceived structural oppression' or with 'revolution'. That drive can be targeted at anything from slavery to patriarchy to feudalism to theocracy to liberalism. Marxism did it with class.
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If Marxism abandons class issues, it's not Marxism. In the same way, if feminism abandoned women's rights, it just wouldn't be feminism. And if vegetarians start eating meat, they're no longer vegetarians. This isn't a no true scotsman. Those words mean something.
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