297. Andrew Doyle — How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World
The Michael Shermer Show
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Is the New Puritan Social Justice Movement a Derivative of Neo Marxism?
I think often the critical social justice movement in its current form is a perversion of postmodernist ideas, rather than an enactment of them. I trace the way in which those ideas that germinated within the 1960s French postmodernists also to a degree elements of the Frankfurt School. These have informed and now underpin the present Critical Social Justice movement but they are not a direct derivative of neo Marxism or postmodernism. And can we get back to the original intent of postmodernism, which is good? We're on the right side of history. That's our meta narrative. It's certainly their power is tied up in their, you know, what else are they doing?
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