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Occam's Banana
That is an excellent analogy.
A lot of people seem to think that Critical Theory (CT) and wokeness are inherently Marxist, or that they are some kind of new-fangled version of Marxism.
But they aren't. Post-modernism (of which CT is an outgrowth) rejected Marxism just as sternly as it rejected capitalism.
As @wokal_distance points out below (and which James Lindsay has also said elsewhere). the only thing CT takes from Marxism is Marxism's "theory of conflict." CT does not endorse any particular economic system, Marxist or otherwise. Critical Theorists may adopt the rhetoric or Marxism as and when it suits their purposes, but it is a big mistake to think that their end goal is the institution of "state socialism" or what-have-you. Their objective is to acquire as much money and institutional/social power as they can, by whatever means.
As a result, Critical Theory is presently a much more fundamental and insidious threat than Marxism is even close to being.
https://twitter.com/wokal_distance/s...09917809934336
https://twitter.com/wokal_distance/s...10841743777792
Interesting - for some reason I've been operating under the presumption that postmodernism is a neo-Marxist movement... or more precisely that it has been co-opted to be a neo-Marxist movement. I'm going to have to look back to see where possibly I picked up that notion.
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