I find the widely cited concept of a "postmodern Marxist left" intellectually incoherent, mostly a right-wing canard flung by ppl who have read no Marx or pomo. Foucault & Fredric Jameson would surely agree. If you are a postmodern Marxist, please contact me.
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Indeed! I have a piece in the works entitled 'Why postmodernism isn't cultural Marxism.' It makes no sense. Marxism was a primary target of the postmodernists & Marxists hate them. It's just an easy conflation of 2 enemies by the right or, more charitably, something easy to grasp
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I agree with this in principle - and yet I've spent a good part of my career as a freelance editor for Verso, a publisher in which the two coexist in quite a comradely fashion, often within the same text. Not saying I don't find that baffling, but it's a fact-on-the-ground.
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(Though I need to read your piece, obvs.)
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I think the key is that they're ideologically incompatible in principle, but suspended together in an emulsion produced by the necessity of solidarity on the part of groups that regard themselves as edgy and marginalised?
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I don't think there is any solidarity between them. Much mutual loathing. But postmodernists do pay some lip-service to anti-capitalism and Marxists have been known to bring some intersectionality in there. Politically divided as radical left and identitarian left.
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Well, all I can say is that I was at an event when the Sokal/Bricmont book first came out, sitting next to a decidedly Marxist (SWP, as it happens) Verso firebrand whose loathing for the speakers, and in defence of Derrida, was forcibly expressed.
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Did you find out how he reconciled that with Marxism? Particularly Derrida's Spectres of Marxism?
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Oh, no. But there is a level on which it's all about tactics - the good old Gramscian "war of position" - which means that intellectual consistency can take a back seat in a pinch.
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But that doesn't make any sense. The PoMos could certainly see it that way but the Marxists tend to see the PoMos as their usurpers and also as conservative.
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