I am finishing an essay I have been working on for some time and I am finally happy with it. You all knew you wanted a follow-up to my PoMo piece which looked at how it evolved through successive waves of critical theory and into activism & mainstream society, didn't you?
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Yes, Marxists are deeply materialist. Pomo are very sceptical of materialism and empiricism.
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Some activists/students do use tools from both movements. As they don't understand why they contradict themselves doing it. Or conveniently ignore the contradiction because of the usefulness of those tools.
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Yes, it's the cry of agony of the last 'rebels'. It's the surrender of any meaningful transformation of political institutions for the obsession of changing culture. It's not by chance that modern activists are obsessed by culture, they think it's the basis of society.
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