The coming Glorious Revolution

christian11 at mindspring.com christian11 at mindspring.com
Wed Apr 4 06:22:06 PDT 2001



>But your orignal statement "no postmodernists = no postmodernism" seems to denegrate the actuality of postmodern ideas and relegate them to just bad theory. This is not helpful.

What is the "actuality of postmodern ideas"? For whom are they actual?


>The specific political problem that creates the need called the postmodern is the failure of the left and the incapacity of the generation of intellectuals from 60s 70s , now in positions of socal responsiblity, to honestly account for it.

So those who can't understand the recent history of capitalist metropoles invent pomo theory? It makes the whole enterprise sound a bit narcissistic--like a great theoretical ediface has been invented to salve some psychic wound. In those conditions, why would anyone expect such theory to be good or useful?

Christian



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