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Re:Chomsky – The Machine, the Ghost and the Limits of Unders... by tsimionescu on Sunday March 14, 2021 @08:41AM (#26454844)
Can you find a single marxist-leninist who is also a postmodernist??

Postmodernism rejects any theories of the world that have any kind of absolute structure, while marxism is explicitly about defining such absolutes. In marxism, all people are either workers or capitalists (or outside the system); any good has an intrinsic value, and any work has an intrinsic plus-value; and on and on.

You can also see this in the art favored by countries which liked to claim to be marxist-leninist (though they weren't). Far from being post-modern, it was in fact traditionalist and realist.

Re:Chomsky – The Machine, the Ghost and the Limits of Unders... by abalone on Sunday March 14, 2021 @03:13PM (#26457951)
Re:Chomsky – The Machine, the Ghost and the Limits of Unders... by tsimionescu on Sunday March 14, 2021 @03:39PM (#26458211)
As far as I can tell, she is a postmodernist who started out as a Marxist, but has later abandoned it. At the very least, it doesn't seem to have had any prominence in her works, which are focused on personal psychology and feminist theory.

I do admit that I may be completely off base, I know very little of her beyond what I could find on Wikipedia (which does list her as Marxist, but provides no further insight on why) and a handful of scholarly articles.

Note: a much better example you could have given was Slavoj Žižek, to which I have no answer..