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I've really been trying to understand the underlying psychology of postmodernism and its relationship

with Neomarxism and then the spread of that into the universities and the effect on the

culture and what I would like to start with is a description of your understanding of that

because I've presented to the people who are listening to me my understanding of it.

I interviewed Stephen Hicks recently and he wrote an interesting book called Explaining

Postmodernism which I liked quite a bit.

It's been criticized for being too right-wing although I don't think he's right-wing at all.

I think maybe you could characterize him as middle of the road conservative but I would

say he's more like a classic liberal but I'm really curious about your views about well

what postmodernism is first of all.

I know you've identified it with the general tricksters, Derrida and Foucault and Foucault

and predictor you've talked about but I'd like to know what you think about postmodernism

and also why you think it's been so attractive to people.

Well my explanation is that there is no authentic 1960s point of view in any of the elite universities

but rather the most liberated minds of my generation when 1960s did not go on to graduate

school.

I witnessed this with my own eyes.

I saw genuine Marxists at my college which was the State University of New York at Binghamton

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