I expect that Peterson and McManus would enjoy each other’s company just as Peterson enjoys conversing/debating with Harris who is perhaps his greatest opponent. Careers “offering relative autonomy from corporate domination,” as in “academia, many of the service professions, the public sector” offer far fewer opportunities now than they did half a century ago, compared to “careers requiring direct subordination to corporate priorities.” Young men who might have studied History, Philosophy, English Literature, Sociology, or Art History in the 1960’s, when such fields seemed almost endlessly open, now must “swallow their curiosity” and study Accounting– or perhaps Computer Programming or Software Design. These were major themes of American life and culture in the first half of the 20th century–but largely “lost steam” after the 1950’s and 1960’s, with fewer and fewer Americans defining themselves in opposition to “greenhorn” or small-town parents. Here is Michel Foucault explaining why the proletariat engage in class warfare: If interracial marriage or dating was still rather “edgy” a half-century ago, it was nevertheless still more common and more acceptable in academia, publishing, “highbrow journalism, and the arts than in most other sectors of mid 20th century American society–while inter-ethnic and inter-religious dating and marriage between young men and women of different “white” groups were quite commonplace and “no big deal”–very few if any eyebrows were censoriously raised in academia, publishing, or “quality” journalism by an Irish boy falling head-over-heels over a Jewish girl, or a Jewish boy marrying a “shiksa,” or a WASP girl dating a Polish or Italian boy. On Petersons ‘Postmodern Neo-Marxism’ Proclaimed as “the most influential public intellectual in the western world” by economist Tyler Coen. “White” people make more money, and enjoy better lives, it must be the result of prejudice and bias. Ultimately, whether Marxian or postmodern, progressivism is obsessed with critiques of superstructures built on exploitative relationships between groups, sustained by false consciousness by way of ideology and/or discourse. Bill” expansion of educational opportunity for white male Americans, led to increasingly fewer and fewer occasions for bitter inter-generational conflicts between rural, small-town, or immigrant parents and their newly “emancipated” and “sophisticated” college-educated sons and daughters. Taoism; Follow the Path of Least Resistance to Overcome Any Obstacle, I Just Discovered the Most Underrated Way of Life. Social justice movements like Black Lives Matter and #MeToo owe something of an unspoken debt to Marx through their unapologetic targeting of the “eternal truths” of our age. It rips apart literature, movies, art, politics, and culture, and looks at its base components, before continuing its analysis. :=) :=). Schools Don’t Have to Adopt Critical Education Theory to be Inclusive or Just. Peterson serves them as a guru in their no-alternative (so it seems) task of adjusting to permanent life in “Middle America,” and even learning to like it. His conclusion is that both channels of this river lead to the same bloody place in the end. Intersectionality was explained to me by a dear lefty friend, as the belief that all people have characteristics, like race, color, creed, sexuality, gender expression, and ability. At least for young non-Hispanic white students, these cultural and demographic shifts of the last few decades have significantly reduced the once often quite large cultural gap between young America college students’ family, neighborhood, or home-town environments and mainstream modern American society as represented on campus. The rise of Rush Limbaugh and the Gingrich Revolution of 1994 afford perhaps the first transparent glimpses of what Matt McManus, following Peter Lawler, calls “postmodern conservatism”—not as a form of resistance against a neoliberal zeitgeist gone awry, but against a “war of position,” which has been waged since the sixties and which gained momentum when the west no longer had victory in the Cold War as a unifying objective. McManus has repeatedly smeared Peterson with the usual half truths, misrepresentations, and outright lies. What modern Marxists, neo-Marxists, have done is hidden the old economic arguments behind arguments with a post-modern twist. Half a century ago, it was precisely the career fields described by Barbara Ehrenreich as most impacted by the 1970’s economic downturn–academia, publishing, “quality” journalism–that offered the most day-to-day personal latitude to educated young Americans, the least day-in-day-out pressure to “shape up,” the fewest tongue-clucking raised eyebrows at harmless unconventionalities or irregularities–certainly on comparison yo most of the business world, or banking, or real estate, or even grade-school teaching. Postmodernism is a ‘de facto’ continuation of Marxism which in itself was an arm of the Catholic Church. They pit women against men, blacks against whites, gays against straights. “neo Marxism” is a meaningless noise, which is where Corey Mohler slips in a mickey. Now before you dismiss Marxism as a purely economic critique, most of the Postmodern thinkers I mentioned earlier, were at the very least leftist, and quite a few, admitted Marxists. But are Jordan B … They have shifted from economics to power and framed it in terms of group identity politics. I’ve posted this repeatedly in the comment section on this site, and, to be frank, the Left simply do not want to admit McManus is a partisan hack.». dangerous people are teaching your kids Postmodernism is a philosophical movement with fuzzy boundaries encompassing a variety of philosophers (the later Heidegger, Derrida, Foucault, etc. Modern postmodernists are lying (for now…), Postmodernism equally affects what are assumed to be opposite ends of the political spectrum, because they aren’t opposite. Thank you. After World War II and the revelations about Stalin's crimes, academic Marxists began migrating from traditional, economic Marxism to a culture-based version, even dropping the Marxist name. Richard R. Weiner, 1981. Right/Left is irrelevant. Engage fully with the fundamental precepts of dialectical materialism, live long enough to understand a bit about life and draw your own conclusions. Other college-educated young Americans “crowded into the most vocationally promising areas” like “medicine, law, management,” but “those too became hazardously overpopulated.” According to “recent studies” (as of 1984) of the ”disappearing middle class,” she noted, the “erstwhile middle-class majority” was “tumbling down and out (both because of a lack of jobs and because those that remain have not held their own against inflation),” while a “minority” was “scrambling up to become the new high-finance, high-tech gentry.” Our “new men,” Ms. Ehrenreich concluded, were “mainly in the latter category,” or “at least holding on by their fingernails.” [Barbara Ehrenreich, “A Feminist’s View of the New Man,” *The New York Times Magazine*. He has been both ridiculed and defended for his invocation of lobster social and sexual hierarchies to justify similar human hierarchies, and for his attack on compulsory transgender pronouns as supposedly a prelude for Stalinist-type gulags. Dennis L. Dworkin, 1997. All in all post modern neo marxism is a stupid term used by stupid people to describe people two ticks to … I would make this «long historical arch» even longer. My understanding is that the term "postmodern neo-Marxism" is a term used by Jordan Peterson as a catch-all for the ills of the contemporary cultural left, including stuff like using gender-neutral pronouns and the movie Frozen. His books, videos, and public lectures enjoy enormous popularity among college-age youth–mostly among young white men, it’s often pointed out–while his *12 Rules for Life* became a major 2018 self-help best-seller. At the same time, those campus liberals have totally forgotten Dale Carnegie’s warning 80+ years ago that you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar. It just plain FEELS far less realistically possible these days than it maybe did 40 or 50 years ago, I think, for a plumber’s, electrician’s, or truck driver’s son (or daughter) to rise someday to become Chairperson of the Yale or Harvard English department or associate editor of “Harper’s” or “The Atlantic”! Postmodern Neo-Marxism is real, stop pretending it isn’t. Campus liberals and leftists are thus no longer felt to be allies, inspirations, or role-models for youthful rebellion against parental, religious, or community restrictions and prejudices, but rather as adversaries to be opposed or circumvented, their liberalism or leftism no longer an alluring temptation but rather a nuisance and a “turn-off”! Just like atheism, it is not a codified belief, but rather an uncodified lack of belief. Indeed, a careful interpretation of various texts associated with critical theory and postmodern philosophy—some of which I have analyzed here, here, here and here—demonstrates that Peterson does not fully appreciate the many subtleties of postmodern philosophy. No, Helen, give us more McManus. Released Dec 15th, 2020.Ranked 17,797 of 238,867 with 4 (0 today) downloads. Ehrenreich and Biskind first noted the shrinking post-1960’s career opportunities for educated young men in their 1980 *Socialist Review* discussion of “Machismo and Hollywood’s Working Class,” analyzing the 1970’s popularity of films like *Saturday Night Fever*, *Rocky*, *Rocky II*, and *Bloodbrothers* with blue-collar protagonists. Jordan Peterson | Post-Modernism vs. Modernism at the Toronto Action Forum. But much postmodern thought has challenged the idea that any one class, structure or factor can single-handedly explain history or bring about change. Masturbatory self indulgence at its finest. Jordan Peterson is a colossal ass — an ignoramus who has become a professor of psychology and uses his tiny sliver of specific knowledge to grant him the authority to pontificate on every other field, about which he … !, and a dedication to the avid activism they are prepared to do to bring about utopia. Peterson’s diatribes against “postmodern neo-Marxism” may obscure the subtle differences between Marxism and postmodern philosophy, but he is not wrong in tracing a long historical arc from Marxist agitation to the postmodern epistemic skepticism that galvanizes Social Justice activism in particular, and progressive activism in general. She first. But this has spawned such simplistic and irrational thinking in the populace, it borders on absurd. Regardless of what one might think about Jordan Peterson’s views or arguments, about “cultural Marxism” or anything else, I’ve sort of tentatively come to a sociological theory about the reasons for Peterson’s great popularity among college-age young Americans these last few years. I’ve posted this repeatedly in the comment section on this site, and, to be frank, the Left simply do not want to admit McManus is a partisan hack. >A thorough examination and analysis of the tensions between political sociology and the culturally oriented Marxism that emerged in the 60s and 70s is presented in this volume. Now, however, those liberals seem just as oppressive, restrictive, and killjoy as the old cultural authorities once might have seemed, or even more so! In other words, it’s far harder these days for such kids to become “eager strivers” and young recruits to “upper Bohemia” than it was half a century ago! “It means they think if ‘I were in Stalin’s position I would have ushered in the damn utopia instead of the genocidal massacres, because I understand the doctrine of Marxism and everything about me is good’.”. Is empiricism the only way to view the world? Hitler and Mussolini were not exactly the same, but during WWII that distinction was not really what we needed to worry about. I dont know warped concept of communism it is that you hold in your head but I suggest you do a little reading around the topic. It is not intended to represent Jordan Peterson or his views. Aside from the progressive Americanization of vast numbers of European immigrants, the first few decades of the 20th century also saw a literary “Revolt From the Village,” as Carl van Doren called it in his 1921 “Nation” article by that title, with writers like H.L. However, I failed to discuss a significant demographic shift in the past half-century that has greatly reduced the number of young Americans who quite fit the particular social and cultural profile of Riesman and Glazer’s mid-20th century “eager strivers.”. In the 1970’s and 1980’s, she noted, the “professional-managerial middle class, which is the breeding ground for social ideals like the new man or new woman,” had “become an embattled group.” In the 1950’s and 1960’s, she nostalgically recalled, “young men of this class could look forward to secure, high-status careers, provided only that they acquired some credentials and showed up for work.” Professional-level job slots were increasing in the first two post-World War II decades, together with “the expansion of corporate and governmental administrative apparatuses,” while “jobs in higher education increased to keep pace with the growing demand for managerial and ‘mental’’ workers.”, Then, Ms. Ehrenreich continued, “came the long economic downturn of the 1970’s,” as America’s supposedly endless postwar boom faded out, in what University of Nebraska economist Wallace Peterson (no relation of Jordan) would later (in 1993) call the post-1973 “Silent Depression,“ and “whole occupations–from public administration to college history teaching–closed their ranks and lost ground.” A “whole segment of formerly middle-class, educated youth” now “drifted downward to become taxi drivers, waiters or carpenters,” she observed. In their 1955 article “The Intellectuals and the Discontented Classes” analyzing the social bases of Senator Joseph McCarthy’s popular appeal, sociologists Riesman and Glazer noted that many of post-World War II America’s “newly prosperous” rejected the “traditional cultural and educational leadership of the enlightened upper and upper-middle classes.” However, Riesman and Glazer continued, those same “newly prosperous” had also “sent their children to college as one way of maintaining the family’s social and occupational mobility.” Some of those children had become “eager strivers for cosmopolitanism and culture, rejecting the values now held by the discontented classes,” while many others however had rather “acquired…and helped their families learn, a half-educated resentment for the traditional intellectual values” of “some of their teachers and schoolmates.”. Catholicism itself is a philosophy of the absurd which preaches the impossible resurrection of a physical body. Followers of Marxism later modified it into Communism that takes a … It’s odd that you say the “Soviet Union was a system of state administered capitalism from the word go” when the early years were the most faithful application of Marx’s ideas, reducing their productivity down to about 10% of what it was in 2 years. Though he may not have a Trump-size Twitter following, Peterson is not easily dismissed, given his stature as a well-respected psychologist and highly influential public intellectual. It exhibited the core generic features that define capitalism -the accumulation of capital, the profit motive (enshrined in the 1936 constitution) . Often, conservative critics can be heard to blame left-wing ‘postmodern neo-Marxists’ and ‘cultural Marxism’ for the emergence of a vitriolic identity politics that eschews a commitment to truth, reason, and dialogue. It no longer seems necessary for them to fight the “up-tight” old-world or fundamentalist parental restrictions on normal youthful fun and games that loomed so large for collegiate youth in earlier decades. The attempt to conflate Marxism and post-modernism under the label of “cultural Marxism” is, at the very least, highly problematic. In the 1950’s and 1960’s, as Ms. Ehrenreich noted in 1984, liberally-educated young college graduates could confidently expect “secure, high-status careers, provided only that they acquired some credentials and showed up for work.” Professional-level job slots were increasing in post-World War II America, “along with the expansion of corporate and governmental administrative apparatuses.” Jobs in “higher education,” too, “increased to keep pace with the growing demand for managerial and ‘mental’’ workers.” Such secure, high-status academic, professional, and administrative jobs almost seemed to be the natural, guaranteed reward for majoring in liberal-arts fields like History, English, and Philosophy in mid-20th century America. I don’t think it’s because he doesn’t understand the differences. These are linked philosophies, with similar formulas, and similar goals. All this, however, Ms. Ehrenreich noted, ended with “the long economic downturn of the 1970’s,” with America’s seemingly endless postwar boom giving way to what University of Economist Wallace Peterson later (1994) called our continuous post-1973 “Silent Depression.” From the early and mid 1970’s on, “whole occupations–from public administration to college history teaching–closed their ranks and lost ground.” Particularly hard-hit were fields like “academia, many of the service professions, the public sector” with “relative autonomy from corporate domination,” as opposed to “careers requiring direct subordination to corporate priorities”–and, we might add, often also with stricter demands for “bourgeois” propriety. The “kids” themselves, too, often experienced their new-found perspectives as a joyously liberating revelation. https://books.google.com/books/about/Cultural_Marxism_and_Political_Sociology.html?id=4G0XAAAAIAAJ&redir_esc=y. Postmodern Marxists. That’s the fundamental claim. The longstanding institutions of our society support this hierarchy, and people of good conscience should unite to tear down these structures, and form a socially egalitarian nation. The positive consequence is that most modern Americans view their fellow citizens as equals under the law, regardless of race, color, creed, sexuality, or gender expression. Also quite important in the basically economic and structural reasons underlying Jordan Peterson’s appeal is the fact that most of the careers that have progressively dried up since the 1970’s have been exactly those ones–e.g., in College History,. Relax Steve. The post-World War II “G.I. Shoutouts: Comrade Alphabot, ZH, ZW, DV, JO, TPM, and people just like you DISCLAIMER: The text on this website is algorithmically generated, for purposes of satire. Are people shackled by their gender roles? Society chooses winners and losers based on these characteristics both purposefully, and subconsciously. Conservative pundits have embraced him as an eloquent, erudite spokesman for traditional values and scourge of “cultural Marxism,” “political correctness,” and “postmodernism,” while leftists excoriate him as a reactionary, sexist, racist, or even fascist, who in any case completely misunderstands both Marxism and postmodernism. One concise way to explain Jordan Peterson’s popularity might be that it reflects a decline of David Riesman and Nathan Glazer’s mid-20th century “eager strivers for cosmopolitanism and culture,” their term for the college-educated children from upward-mobile working or lower-middle class homes questioning what they had come to consider their families’ less “hip,” “sophisticated” or “enlightened” assumptions. «What “communism”»? White Supremacy: How Big, How Bad and How Come? He was a genius. Don’t denounce Matt, just refute him. And yet so quick after the event to claim “that wasn’t real XXX-ism” and that it would have gone fine “if only…”. 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