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I don't think Lindsay ever claimed that the nutcases running things now are pure Marxists though (I could be wrong, I only follow the podcast). From what I understand he believes they've taken up some Marxist and communist ideals, most from China rather than Russia, added post-structuralism crazy, and have created something new and far more dangerous and effective than either ever were. He's always saying we live in Herbert Marcuse's world, not in Marx's. Either way, I think 'Identity Marxism' is a somewhat useful designation for what's going on, as most people know of Marx but not of Marcuse or Freire. Maybe not necessarily a sign of intellectual dishonesty rather than marketing.ah yes, the postmodern project at its core is to dismantle logos, the word & to distort history through a "subjective" lens. i'm afraid to write more b/c if Sierra checks this she might get some insight into the last 50 years of subversion within the academy.
she was taught this through her gender studies courses, which dismantled women's studies, imo purposefully. it's funny people cry and whine about "communists". James Lindsay thinks they're the same people (ok Foucault was not a communist bro, he needed to queer things so that he could make excuses for his trips to tunisia). so yeah, i don't think he's very intellectually honest.
postmodernism is not marxism. marxism is a material analysis of oppression and the other is a subversion of the material to "transform" society. they are not the same thing. we are living through the postmodern project, which actually dovetails nicely into technocracy ie :the dismantling of the western project to obliterate democracy and install a "new form of government". it could be called corporate or Fabian Socialism, but it aint Marx. I'm not even a fucking marxist or a communist, but i know enough about what has been going on in the academy and the destruction of culture wholesale is more about postmodernism (post structuralist) than Marx. if the postmodern project succeeds we are looking at the erasure of Karl fucking Marx as well.
my apologies for my political sperging.
And no worries, how can we not sperg politically when Exulansic is so fond of it?
That said, she's been keeping rather quiet and she's just making new videos on her Odyssey. Maybe she learned something from the last few months. Or she got scared Karen was finally gonna blow.