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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Replying to @simon_enefer @KEEMSTAR and
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 @KEEMSTAR and
No one understood how infectious diseases work so how could they use them to to wipe out populations? Has China had a famine since it adopted capitalism? Lenin wanted to abandon collectivisation see New Economic Plan but died before he could do so.
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Replying to @simon_enefer @KEEMSTAR and
They haven’t had a famine since the neoliberal reforms, but they also didn’t have famine in the decades between the Great Leap Forward and then. All it took was them knowing not to kill all the sparrows again.
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Correct after the great leap forward that their were in major famines, but if you murder 10% of your population that does tend to reduce demand.
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Replying to @simon_enefer @KEEMSTAR and
The GLF wasn’t murder, it was a disaster. The murder part came before and after.
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