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That's an incidence of correlation. Postmodernism isn't inherent to Marxism, and Karl Marx didn't preoccupy his work with transgenderism.
You aren't going to sway educated people with specious arguments that are upside-down.
Lol, be less stupid. Postmodernism and the left have their roots in Marxism. Sorry it is too difficult of a concept for you to understand they just swapped the proletariat and bourgeoisie (sp?) for X majority group and Y minority group.
Postmodernism has its roots in Marxism. I will trust the words of a pretty highly respected behavioral psychologist over yours. I am just regurgitating what Peterson said.
You are not going to sway anyone with your feelings.
But here are some facts, and you continue with your feelings. Shit, I guess Derida also knows fuckall about postmodernism.....Oh, and look at the big ass text and see if it matches up to what Peterson is saying (and I am regurgatating).
"A Postmodernist approach to history in some ways mimics Marxism, which is understandable since the fountainheads of Postmodernism have Marxism in their intellectual genealogies. A distinct residue of Marxist critique remains in their work, providing them with the dichotomizing perspective so blatant in the Marxist vision of class struggle. Derrida admits that his deconstruction is a radicalization “within the tradition of a certain Marxism, in a certain spirit of Marxism.”1
Specifically the Postmodern historian mimics Marxist understanding of the ideological nature of writing history. While Marxists focus on the proletariat rising against the bourgeoisies, Postmodernists focus on one gender, race, or socially identifiable group in a struggle for dominion over another. Gene Veith explains, “Post-Marxist radicalism constructs new revolutionary ideologies by replacing Marx’s concern for the oppressed working class with other oppressed groups (blacks, women, gays). Status and moral legitimacy come from being ‘excluded from power.’ The victim has the favored role....To be black, female or gay is to enjoy a sort of secular sainthood. But even these categories are segmenting into ever-smaller sects of victim hood.”2 Such an approach does little to draw society together toward harmonious civility. Rather, it engenders a new tribalism, pitting every group against the other in an attempt to gain moral standing by becoming the greatest victim."
http://www.allaboutworldview.org/postmodern-history-marxist-derivatives-and-departure-faq.htm