/lit/ - Literature

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>If you look at modern day liberals and many ideas floating around the far right you notice a strange pattern.
Ideas move around a lot. I heard a description of ideas once as like streams of water. They're constantly moving from left to right, and right to left, and from the center outwards and from the fringes to the center, and in all sorts of other ways.

To use another example, think about the postmodernists who were reading Heidegger (who was a Nazi) and Nietzsche. Or Foucault who supported the Islamic Revolution in Iran because of its anti-modernism and that it challenged the Enlightenment which the postmodernists were all about overturning. But he wouldn't have lasted three days there during the revolution because he was gay. There was also Paul de Man who was a notable postmodern literary critic who caused a scandal when it turned out he had been a fascist. I'm not even saying any of these people are bad or they're unintelligent, it's to just illustrate a point.

As far as the authoritarian personalities of so-called tankies, there are some who will say they reject postmodernism, or they see the modern left as being enthralled by this stuff, but to me they often come across as postmodernists to me in their thinking. The ones who read Dugin or defend the Islamic Republic of Iran, they might agree with Foucault. And the postmodern "liberal" leftists to them are the usurpers of "true" communism, and their pseudo-rebellion is directed against them. I've seen some complaining in that direction.