Not to Marx. He was a Utopian. He thought it could be got right. To postmodernists, yes. They targetted big, cohesive systems which explained a lot - metanarratives. Lyotard who coined the term (in this context) targetted Christianity, Marxism & science on those grounds.https://twitter.com/SteveMundie/status/991061752388472833 …
A counterview. He did have a vision of a solution and a better society, tho? He wasn't like the postmodernists who were generally aimless and committed to thinking there would always be knowledge constructed by powerful discourses?
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I think this objection is a bit like the objection to calling intersectional feminists 'radical' because 'Radical Feminism' is the name of a branch of it. I know Socialists divided into Utopian and Scientific but they still both worked for a goal they thought could be achieved.
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I don't think that having a vision for a better society is enough to make one a utopian. Sounds like a definition is in order.
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My comment was probably pedantic, unnecessary. I agree that Marxism & PoMo are quite different (w/r/t teleology & epistemology, etc.). Marx was quixotic & vague, yes. But I wouldn't say utopian.
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