Having said that... Standpoint theory, for example, isn't postmodernist. It's Marxist originally. Lukacs-->Hartsock. Actually, Twitter is hopeless for this sort of thing, so I'll shut up! 


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Replying to @PhilosophyExp @HPluckrose
You are completely correct, Jeremy. Standpoint epistemology has roots in Marxism. It is associated with socialist feminists.Those such as Hartsock accept an objective view. Postmodernist feminist epistemology doesn't. More traditional feminist epistemology (consciousness raising)
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Replying to @MacDworkin @PhilosophyExp
I don't think people are criticising the radfems much right now tho. It isn't them doing what people are criticising under the name of 'postmodernism' tho some like to throw 'neo-Marxism' and 'cultural Marxism' in there wrongly. They mean the whole 'diversity' 'ID politics' thing
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Replying to @HPluckrose @PhilosophyExp
I'm not sure I agree with you. When you say "people", who do you mean? The rad fems have their own critique of postmodernism. This paper by MacKinnon is where I would start. https://scholarship.kentlaw.iit.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3210&context=cklawreview …
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Replying to @MacDworkin @PhilosophyExp
I mean people opposed to identity politics generally. Left-liberals, centrists, conservatives (tho they're inclined to conflate Marxism & postmodernism), libertarians. Nonfeminists or liberal feminists. My readership, essentially. I'm not talking abt radfems.
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Replying to @MacDworkin @PhilosophyExp
Yep, I am aiming this at my twitter following. Apparently, its only about 1/4 academics and politically diverse but not too far from centre and mostly concerned about problems on the intersectional left, often because they are left and think it is going wrong. Some radfems!
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Replying to @HPluckrose @PhilosophyExp
I think you waste too much time on the Twitterati. ;)
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Replying to @MacDworkin @PhilosophyExp
I think I do most good here! I'm trying to get people to be more liberal and less polarised and some tell me I have. I am addressing the ideas affecting political culture & activism & they come from intersectionality, postcolonialism, queer theory & critical race theory mostly.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @PhilosophyExp
Yes, they are more likely to be inclined to postmodernism. An odd bunch.
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Very much so. When I was a liberal feminist, I used to argue with the radfems and the Marxists. Now this current insanity has arisen and is drawing on postmodern intersectional feminism and identity-based fields which draw on postmodernism, we often find ourselves in alliance.
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