Just FYI, Postmodernism usually means the old philosophical movement based around the idea that all narratives are constructed (though not all “equally valid”). It’s a reaction to the strict narratives in various modernist philosophies, and has no inherent political character.
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Replying to @mediocre_danny @KEEMSTAR and
Really? You mean it isn't just a repackaged version of Marxism, created after the reality of what communism had done to the Soviet people finally got through to French intellectuals so they needed a new framework to justify their beliefs.
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Replying to @simon_enefer @KEEMSTAR and
No lol, Postmodernism is literally at odds with Marxism. Marxism has a strict narrative and notion of progress, like damn near all political philosophies. You know Marxists are still just... Marxists, right? Like, Marxism never went away
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Replying to @OhNoIts2016 @KEEMSTAR and
A few questions as you are an informed source. Who first postulated Postmodernist? What were their previous political beliefs? What is the objective or goal of postmodernism? Does postmodernism accept that objective truth/facts exist?
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Replying to @simon_enefer @KEEMSTAR and
(1/3) Well I don’t think there was a founder— an obscure critic named J.M. Thompson coined the term in 1914 to describe a trend in skepticism he observed/identified with. Its origins are debated, but it *was* later popularized by French post-structuralists...
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Replying to @mediocre_danny @simon_enefer and
(2/3)Like Foucault (Marxist before, but essentially abandoned politics for more personal philisophy), Lyotard (Post-Marxist throughout), and Derrida (anti-Communist and essentially a Libertarian through the 80s as I understand it, then embraced Marxism AFTER the Berlin Wall fell)
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Replying to @OhNoIts2016 @KEEMSTAR and
I think you will find Derrida wa a Marxist too, at least in the sixties. Post-modernism is a reaction by Marxist to the failures of Marxism and Maoism. George Orwell put it best " They (socialist) don't love the poor they hate the rich".
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Replying to @simon_enefer @KEEMSTAR and
Er, George Orwell was an *extremely* ardent socialist (https://www.biographyonline.net/socialism-george-orwell/ …), Ann Coulter was the one who said that. Orwell was an actual communist revolutionary in Spain, he just loathed Stalinism (in part bc Stalinists invaded Catalonia) and totalitarianism.
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Replying to @mediocre_danny @simon_enefer and
I read just a bit about Derrida’s political views, but Marxism was VERY popular w/his ilk in the 60s, it’s at least an influence. I just know he hated the French Communist Party, was called a “libertarian pessimist” in the 80s, & acted SUPER pro-Marx once the US was unchallenged
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Replying to @mediocre_danny @KEEMSTAR and
Anyone who supported Marxism after the 1920s is as suspect as someone whi supports national socialism post 1945. They are branches of the same philosophical/political tree. If anything Marxismis worse. Responsible for at least 4 times as many deaths and untold misery.
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You might not like hearing this, but... capitalism is responsible for many more deaths than could be attributed to Marxism. It’s been used to justify genocide since the Age of Exploration, all deaths caused by artificial scarcity (and by Nestlé and Chiquita), and so much more.
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Replying to @mediocre_danny @simon_enefer and
That being said, modern Marxists don’t support the policies that led to so many deaths, bc they aren’t needed by socialism— the biggest tragedies were just bad agriculture No specific course of gov’t action is *needed* for socialism beyond the state not suppressing labor anymore
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