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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Sorry are you calling pomos identitarian? Foucault, butler et al. would reject identity politics as a normative meta narrative
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Yes, they would but their ideas evolved and it is hard to see how they could have done anything else, given the roots of it. Crenshaw explicitly criticised this but used their ideas anyway.https://areomagazine.com/2018/02/07/no-postmodernism-is-not-dead-and-other-misconceptions/ …
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