The vast majority of postmodernists have no idea what post modernism is, or that they are believers in it.
This is commonly accepted. Few westerners realise how much influence Augustine had on western ways of thinking. They can uphold those ideas even if they have never heard of him. This was being recognised long before Gramsci. Do you know where all your ideas came from?
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I feel like postmodernist arguments are relatively distinctive (words have power, knowledge and social position are intersubjective constructs etc) and only 70 years old, which is different than Augustine. People using these arguments should know their origin IMO
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They often don't for reasons I gave in the essay I linked. The ideas have evolved and also been condensed and made user friendly and tagged onto positive movements like the Civil Right's Movement, Gay Pride and 2nd Wave Liberal Feminism. This obscures their origins.
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If this is true, then it is a chicken & egg problem. Its not that PM originated w/leftist thinkers, but leftist movements have been the ones to activate these ideas. In this sense, Peterson might be "right" but he has the causl arrow backwards
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It's both.
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I'm questioning the second bit. We were talking about postmodernists, not the left. We are currently fighting for the soul of the left. This couldn't happen if we'd all been taken over by postmodern ideas. They do have a lot of institutional power tho.
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