The Anti-Marxist Left
The US Left today is postmodern, not Marxist
The U.S. Left today often is characterized as Marxism or Cultural Marxism. Such a characterization is based on a complete misunderstanding of what Marxism is. In reality, today’s U.S. Left is not Marxism, but postmodernism.
In today’s commentary, I would like to begin with the observation that Marxism, properly understood, is a threat to the global elite, because it seeks to take political power (control of the state) from the national elite and place it in the hands of the delegates of the people, so that the state can direct national economies in accordance with the needs of the people, instead of the interests of the elite. Marxism, however, is not a threat to human civilizations; its goal is the bringing of the Western Enlightenment to a more advanced global stage, thus founding a renewal of human civilizations.
Postmodernism, in contrast to Marxism, is not a threat to the elite, because it takes from the people the power of the objective meaning of words, sendin…