Cynical Theories How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity―and Why This Harms Everybody

And then I go back as much as I can to the source documents including Foucault and I think Andera down they think they said they were Marxists that seems like you know proof and the entire intellectual milieu at that time in France was Marxist including people who should have known better like John Paul Sartre so it's like that was the that was the water in which which those particular fish swam and the postmodernists when they themselves say that they're what would you say that their intellectual effort is tending in the Marxist direction or as an extension of Marxism I'm pretty much inclined to believe them and so I don't understand how this notion that those two two concepts are separate has come about do you have any any idea about that

And academics hyper focus on these distinctions and they say look I see I see they say just like you say well they say that they're Marxists that looks like proof they say well they said we're criticizing Marx so that's proof that they're different in the neo-Marxist or no exception

So there's a level of analysis at which these I think your genus and species metaphor is a good one so there's a there's a level of analysis at which these are all variations on a theme and there's another level of analysis where that well no they're distinctly different which is exactly what does happen in academic microarguments right

Well I think part of it's just the attempt to sow confusion as well