☭ Sup Marxists? ☭

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I made this its own topic, but I guess I could have just as easily posted it here:

Op-ed on the "surprising" leftist origins of "Post-Truth"

In short, Calcutt blames critial theory for the current state of affairs, via Lyotard’s The Postmodern Condition. Whereas I have yet to read that book I have read quotes from it and feel that I can confidently say that it was critical and not prescriptive! The author makes no effort to explain how they conflate observation of this trend in academia with their supposed “enabling” of it in political movements to harness populist sentiment such as can be seen with Brexit and Trump. So I pretty mu…