Michael Rectenwald, formerly a professor at New York University, spent his life as a leftist - a self-described Marxist, in fact.
He knows everything there is to know about postmodernism, deconstruction, and all the rest of it.
He knows these folks and their ideas inside and out.
"Three years ago I was writing critiques about the terminal decadence of capitalism," he told me in one of his appearances on the Tom Woods Show, "And now I'm talking about the terminal decadence of Marxism from a libertarian perspective." In response to the Marxist slogan "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need," Recentwald observes: "We know what that means: if you need a bullet in the head, you'll get that." As it happens, I operate a libertarian dashboard university at LibertyClassroom.com, so I asked Michael: since you know leftism inside and out, create a course for me on postmodernism, cultural studies, and critical theory.
Tracing the history of Critical Theory takes us back to the theorists of the Frankfurt School, the group of intellectuals who founded the Frankfurt Institute for Social Research at Frankfurt University in 1923, then fled Nazi Germany ten years later.
Max Horkheimer, Theodor Adorno, and Herbert Marcuse emigrated to the United States and took refuge at Columbia University and later at U.C. Berkeley and elsewhere.
The invasion of the institutions of U.S. higher education by French cultural, gender, linguistic, literary, and social theory, later known collectively as postmodernism, began in the late 1970s, with the key figures being Jacques Derrida, Jean-François Lyotard, Jean Baudrillard, and Michel Foucault.
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2022/04/thomas-woods/rectenwalds-course/
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