Re: [Marxism] absolute truth and marxisms: a few points

[wrobert@xxxxxxx]

It's been my experience that "postmodernist" simply means someone who you
don't particularly like.  I still hold that the term doesn't really mean
anything.

                        Robert Wood

> Herein lies the problem with the term postmodernism. Nietzsche was no
> more of a post-modernist than Marx. Both advance radically anti-
> foundationalist philosophies. Nor is Nietzsche an irrationalist. No
> one who cries out 'the world has been a mad house for too long' is an
> irrationalist. But, indeed, Nietzsche did not share Marx's faith in
> 'progress' nor did he appear to believe in the capacity of humankind
> to liberate itself, though he affirmed the need at every turn.
> Nietzsche's concept of resentment with respect to oppressed peoples
> is well known and yet widely misunderstood and caricatured. The
> problem of the oppressed becoming the oppressor is real enough; it's
> a historical fact. That doesn't mean that we shouldn't side with the
> oppressed.
> Louis



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