Fr. Philip Powell, OP in a rare political post starts off:
Many of my friends from my days as a Marxist-feminist-postmodernist ideologue have been asking me lately how I can resist supporting an Obama presidency.
My answer–much to their horror–has been simple: “Because I used to be a Marxist-feminist-postmodernist ideologue, and I understand the party-line of the movement:
He then explains his reasons for opposing Sen. Obama.
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Is this guy serious in his use of the term Marxist-feminist-postmodernist or are they just epithets?
Marxism doesn’t really work and no-one does it, so the word seems to get slapped on centre-left policy instead.
Feminism isn’t necessarily a bad thing. It has a loony fringe but so does just about every movement ever.
Postmodernism… the word gets thrown around a lot, i wonder how many people even understand what it is. My guess its it’s just a colossal in-joke amongst academics and philosophers…
Stoo,
Trust me: I was a card-carrying Marxist: materialist historical progress; public ownership; class-warfare…Feminist: western culture must be destroyed b/c it is poisoned by testosterone, racism, classism…and Postmodernist: Logic, God, etc. are all oppressive meta-narratives that need to be replaced by liberationist notions like identity.
Now, I didn’t particularly care that Marxism is a form of Idealism and embraced metanarratives like History (a position opposed by postmodernism) or that feminism also tended to essentialist categories like Gender (also opposed by postmodernism). All I knew and all I wanted to know is that all three of these seemed to lead to us all to what I thought best for us all: radical socialism.
Fr. Philip