Additions to the page include recent publications, a debates section, and a new-to-me criticism of my Explaining Postmodernism by sociology lecturer Matt McManus, who takes issue with my use of a quotation from Lyotard’s Postmodern Fables. (The quotation in question and my take on it can be read here.)
Related: Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault.
Which Hicks interprets to mean that Hussein is a “victim and spokesman for victims of American imperialism the world over.”
Should the quotes be used here?
To Founding Father:
Re: “Should the quotes be used here?”
Yes. Here is the full quotation from Lyotard’s *Postmodern Fables*:
“Saddam Hussein is a product of Western departments of state and big companies, just as Hitler, Mussolini, and Franco were born of the ‘peace’ imposed on their countries by the victors of the Great War. Saddam is such a product in an even more flagrant and cynical way. But the Iraqi dictatorship proceeds, as do the others, from the transfer of aporias [problems] in the capitalist system to vanquished, less developed, or simply less resistant countries.” (pp. 74-75).
My gloss: https://www.stephenhicks.org/2022/09/16/lyotard-channeling-lenin/.