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if everyone here voted enough times we could stop fascism for good

as someone who regrettably didn't vote the last time the ch*eto got into office, i'm making up for it this year by throwing in several votes for hillary

From a Norwegian tabloid, "Russian shrimp salad changes name [to 'rustic' salad]" (22 Feb 2024)

it's so joever for putin

we need to sanction the biden regime

so what, I should support Iran because they support the Palestinian people?

yes

essential communist-core:

• medabots
• digimon episodes with patamon in them

Sure! Fredric Jameson's Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (1989) is probably the go-to book for a Marxist critique of postmodernism and the so-called 'linguistic turn' within Western philosophy (i.e. the obsession with text, sign, signifiers and so on). That, and maybe David Harvey's The Condition of Postmodernity (1989).

For a more recent look at the state of academia, the introduction to Jason Josephson Storm's Metamodernism: The Future of Theory (2021) gives a decent overview of some of the discourses and practices postmodernism has produced (like the separation within the sciences; the tendency to favor 'micro' histories over larger narratives; the distrust of reason/knowledge etc.)

I also recently came across this article from a didactics study that's quite good (it summarizes some of the core arguments made by Jameson and other Marxist in the 90s):

"Brosio, A. Richard. 1994. "Postmodernism as the Cultural Skin of Late Capitalism: Educational Consequences.."

Some quotes from Brosio on the concept of totality:

Many postmodernist thinkers do not believe it is possible to employ intellectual activity to unmask oppression and injustice, partly because of their fear that all forms of inquiry merely refer persons from one authority to another, therefore adding to the perpetuation of authoritarianism. . . . How convenient this is to those who exercise real power.

One must add that writers in France and elsewhere in the West successfully have represented totalism as a dangerous Leftist concept that allegedly leads inevitably to the gulag, instead of as a description of global capitalism and its current hegemony that makes radical change seem not only unattractive to most but impossible because of the very nature of things

It would be fair to say that the consequence of giving up the concept of totalization is to repudiate the possibilities for theoretically informed collective action

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This is not the place, however, for us to show how division of labour seizes upon, not only the economics, but every sphere of society, and everywhere lays the foundation for that specialisation, that development in a man of one singular faculty at the expense of all others...."

p. 474 in my penguin edition

I've been reading a lot of jameson lately, and this is a point he repeatedly emphasises in his critique of postmodernism — how "postmodern" philosophers, in their rejection of grand narratives and totalizing theories, have completely failed to grasp the social reality produced by capitalism or something like that

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