Why is it that the leading postmodern thinkers are Left in their politics—in most cases, far Left? And why is it that that prominent segment of the Left—the same Left that traditionally defended its positions on the modernist grounds of reason, science, fairness for all, and optimism—is now voicing themes of anti-reason, anti-science, all’s-fair-in-love-and-war, and cynicism?
Because we have labelled them as such. The left-right spectrum is not of much help anymore. Left used to mean liberal enlightenment ideas, now that is right... see what I mean?
