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    What Is The Difference Between Post-Modernism and Marxism

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    Post-modernism emerged in critique of modern ideologies like Marxism. Modernity is associated with the period from the Renaissance to the 1970s characterized by "grand systems" thinking from the Enlightenment like progress and evolution. Marxism is a thoroughly modern ideology. Post-modernism rejects grand narratives and universal truths, viewing power as complex discursive relationships rather than economic classes. It offers no overarching struggle or end goal for systemic change, focusing on issues like gender, sexuality, and race.

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    Post-modernism emerged in critique of modern ideologies like Marxism. Modernity is associated with the period from the Renaissance to the 1970s characterized by "grand systems" thinking from the Enlightenment like progress and evolution. Marxism is a thoroughly modern ideology. Post-modernism rejects grand narratives and universal truths, viewing power as complex discursive relationships rather than economic classes. It offers no overarching struggle or end goal for systemic change, focusing on issues like gender, sexuality, and race.

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    Post-modernism emerged in critique of modern ideologies like Marxism. Modernity is associated with the period from the Renaissance to the 1970s characterized by "grand systems" thinking from the Enlightenment like progress and evolution. Marxism is a thoroughly modern ideology. Post-modernism rejects grand narratives and universal truths, viewing power as complex discursive relationships rather than economic classes. It offers no overarching struggle or end goal for systemic change, focusing on issues like gender, sexuality, and race.

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    Post-modernism emerged partly from a critique of Marxism and, in fact, all “modernist” ideologies.

    Modernity is the period associated with the late Renaissance that extends up to some vaguely defined
    period (often pegged in the 1970s) where modernity ends and post modernity picks up.

    Modern thinking is seen as “grand systems” thinking. The Enlightenment is the philosophical
    underpinning of modernist ideas and contains, inherently, the idea of “progress” and “evolution”. The
    industrial revolution is the material basis of this ideology.

    Marxism is a thoroughly modern ideology in every way and is rooted entirely in “modern” questions.

    Post-modernism is an intellectual rebellion against the Enlightenment. Its material basis is post-
    industrialism and this is important because one of the first ruptures between Marxism and post-
    modernism was the Marxist narrative that predicted industrial capitalism creating its own destruction by
    producing a huge industrial working class that would overthrow the system. Post-modernism tossed out
    this narrative.

    Post-modernism, in fact, came to systematically reject every one of the main propositions of Marxism.
    Post-modernism tejects, or at least casts serious doubt on, the concept of “universal truth” and rejects
    all “grand narratives” and ideologies. Power is not characterized anymore by an economic-based
    dialectic between capital and labour, but rather by a complex web of discursive relationships.

    Rather than Marx’ fairly simple solution of “get rid of class, establish socialism, and all oppressive
    hierarchies will melt away” post-modernists offer no grand struggle, no socialist end goal, no real
    program for systemic change. Gender, sexuality, race and other issues that reveal inequalities in social
    power are the main focus of post modern approaches and Marx’ economic focus is tossed out almost
    completely. To the extent capitalism is critiqued at all, it is only in a kind of Freudian, psychological way.

    Many people like to point to Western intellectual Marxism, especially the Frankfurt School and, more
    absurdly, Gramsci, to try to claim that post-modernism is “cultural Marxism” but this is absolutely
    incorrect. In fact, this is rather like calling Marx a “classical economist” because he learned his
    economics from Adam Smith and David Ricardo. The Western Marxists applied Marxist analyses to
    culture but (and this is crucial) they were still Marxist analyses rooted in the Marxian modernist
    narrative. People like Adorno and Horkheimer were firmly rooted in the idea of the class struggle even if
    they mostly wrote about ideology and mass psychology. They were not post-modernists, even if some of
    their ideas would end up in the post-modern toolkit.

    Even Marcuse, who did break with Marx’ narrative to reject class struggle, simply adapted the narrative
    (rather poorly) to place the “new social movements” at the head of the arrow of history.

    Most post-modernists took ideas, even whole concepts from the body of work produced by Frankfurt
    scholars but they only took what they wanted and tossed out the rest. This is, of course, the most
    natural thing in the world of ideas.

    In any case, neither Marxism nor post-modernism are political parties, they are both broad, quite
    diverse schools within which numerous scholars and activists contend. They are intellectual movements,
    not single theories and this is something I wish people would realize.

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