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 @KEEMSTAR and
The quote is from The road from Wigan Pier. The best description of the psychology of Post-modernism is in Mary Renault "Bull from the Sea". Thesus considering Menthesus. Read the whole book, it's beautifully written otherwise the passage is in the last two chapters.
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Replying to @simon_enefer @KEEMSTAR and
TRtWP is extremely pro-socialism, describing it as “common sense” and “the only remedy” to the ills of society. Orwell does refer to the “socialism of fools,” the support of the idea by naïve elitists who just hate the “hoggishly rich,” but argues they’re not “real” socialists.
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Replying to @mediocre_danny @KEEMSTAR and
How could a feeling person not sympathise with the sights Orwell saw. My family is working class, my father was working at 14. Materially we are infinitely better off, but there are real tragedies around us ever day. My experience homelessness in the UK shocked me beyond words
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Replying to @simon_enefer @KEEMSTAR and
Ofc— that sympathy is what pointed him towards socialism. In a modern, developed country, “socializing” property has the added benefit of ending homelessness, since it eliminates the paywall to acquiring a house. Some Leninist states & Finland have had success with that idea.
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Replying to @mediocre_danny @KEEMSTAR and
And how was property in Lennist states allocated? By need or given to good party members first? In the UK Unions leaders earning £70k plus live subsidized social housing whilst families earning less than £20k wait. How many homes did Castro, Stalin and Mao have?
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It varies from state to state, it’s usually been handled by some sort of state bureaucracy with all sorts of restrictions. Which I still think is a crappy, broken system, but less crappy and broken than the housing market. They still housed non-party members.
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Replying to @mediocre_danny @simon_enefer and
Pretty sure Castro only had one really nice, high-security (thanks, CIA) house, at least in Cuba. Wouldn’t surprise me if he had to move a bunch, though.
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