Re:Chomsky – The Machine, the Ghost and the Limits of Unders...
by alecco on Sunday March 14, 2021 @08:58AM
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Chomsky says once the atrocities of Mao and USSR were known in the 70s, the millions murdered, these intellectuals morphed into Posmodernism. He stated it's the same people. He even gives the specific names. Watch the interviews and lectures from the 80s and early 90s.
Re:Chomsky – The Machine, the Ghost and the Limits of Unders...
by sudosysgen on Sunday March 14, 2021 @09:53AM
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Go ahead, give me specific names.
There were a lot of people that after the atrocities of the USSR and Mao simply stopped being hard-line Marxists and became Postmodernists. Others became revionist Marxists to attempt to learn from those disasters. That doesn't mean being both at the same time, and Postmodernism itself is quite a ways older than them.
Indeed, postmodernism itself was a reaction to the perceived failure of Marxism (the failure of liberalism was already accepted in most academic circles), and the two are violently opposed.
Attempts to somehow liken the two are generally motivated by classical liberals trying to guilt-by-association all post-liberal ideologies and critical frameworks.