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What is Postmodernism?

The Principles and Themes of Postmodernism

Two principles: (1) Radical skepticism exists about whether truth (objective knowledge) can be known. Rather, a commitment is made to ‘cultural constructivism’. That is, whatever it is we call truth is nothing more than a construct of the culture. One exception, however, is the recognition that our identity is by social groups; and, oppression exists based on these groups. This is treated as a known truth. (2) Politics:  Society is formed of systems of power and hierarchies, which decides what can be known and how it can be known.

Four key themes of postmodern thought: (1) Blurring of boundaries.  Distinctions and categories like ‘male’ and ‘female’ don’t exist. The emphasis is on fluidity, ambiguity, and indefinability.  (2) Power of language.  Words are both powerful and dangerous, resulting in verbal violence, microaggressions, triggering, and a need for safe spaces. (3) Cultural relativism.  The West is the pinnacle example of an oppressive power structure in terms of both (a) how knowledge is produced, recognized, and taught and (b) its adoption of moral principles. (4) Loss of the individual and the universal.  The focus is on identity categories and identity politics. This means that the individual and what is assumed to be universal is devalued. The ‘individual’ in applied postmodernism is something like the sum total of the identity groups to which a person belongs.   — The above was adapted from the book Cynical Theories, by Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay, Pitchstone Publishing, 2020, pp 59-61.

A Deep Dive – What is Socialism Today

The following is an except from an article by Dinesh D’Souza in The Epoch Times, June 11-17 issue. To see the full article (The Philosopher of Antifa) click here. Note: you need to be a subscriber to see the whole article. Click here for subscription information:

“The typical socialist today is not a union guy who wants higher wages; it’s a transsexual eco-feminist who marches in Antifa and Black Lives Matter rallies and throws cement blocks at her political opponents.”

“We see it in the riots and looting sweeping the country in the aftermath of the George Floyd killing. The socialist left today is concerned less with worker exploitation by the bourgeoisie and more with the race, gender, and transgender grievances of identity politics. I call it identity socialism.”

“Today’s socialists want an America that integrates the groups seen as previously excluded while excluding the group that was previously included. ‘If you are white, male, heterosexual, and religiously and/or socially conservative,’ writes blogger Rod Dreher, ‘there’s no place for you’ on the progressive left. On the contrary, it should now be expected that in society ‘people like you are going to have to lose their jobs and influence.’”

“In other words, for identity socialists and for the left more generally, blacks and Latinos are in; whites are out. Women are in; men are out. Gays, bisexuals, transsexuals, together with other, more exotic types are in; heterosexuals are out. Illegals are in; native-born citizens are out. One may think this is all part of the politics of inclusion, but to think that is to get only half the picture. The point, for the left, is not merely to include but also to exclude, to estrange their opponents from their native land.”

“How did we get here? To understand identity socialism, we must meet the man who figured out how to bring its various strands together, Herbert Marcuse.”

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