No, that's not it. We absolutely do need to fear bad ideas that gain great cultural currency & become a dominant in society. We need to reason with our own moral tribes when they become infected by this in both intellectual & political thought. https://twitter.com/cultofdusty/status/970414858045968387 …
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But liberals & academics are not being infected with white nationalism but with postmodernism. The best way to beat the populist far-right which is being infected with white nationalism is to fix our own side so it becomes sane & electable again.
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Postmodernism is at most associated with the problem. The problem being a particular ideology and partisan politics related to the excesses of a dominant left. An ideology which has come to amount to a majority vs minority Marxism (intersectionality)
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No, Marxism has very little, but not nothing to do with postmodernism. Intersectionality explicitly draws on postmodernism but makes class the least relevant characteristic.
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The class system in intersectionality being the cis straight white heterosexual western English speaking supremacist oppressors, verses all other demographics
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OK, that's not Marxism tho. That was about economics. Marxists were universalists and also believed in objective truth and science.
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Much of the same dynamics, replacing economic class struggle of oppressor-oppressed with the kyriarchal demographic classes. Even drawing from much of the same source of Marxism itself, in Hegel
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I'm writing a thing about this soon. This is overstated. I'll acknowledge the links but Marxism can't reduce to 'oppressor/oppressed class'. Oppressor & oppressed classes exist & there are good & bad analyses of them.
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