Post #1581596
2025-08-06 17:46 UTC
Proponents of "antirealism", from the postmodernists in the subcultural scene around Semiotext(e) in NYC to a handful of relativist sociologists and philosophers, often packaged their positions as antifascist, anti-authoritarian, even "anarchist"—*while* they repeatedly denounced actual anarchists.
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@rechelon@mastodon.social 2025-08-06 17:46
Figures like Richard Rorty & Paul Feyerabend shot to international attention and acclaim by appropriating the trappings of antiauthoritarianism & "anarchism" for their position, while studiously rejecting political anarchism for the authoritarianism of liberalism. Anarchists were NOT HAPPY WITH THIS