Thread by @GabrielRockhill

1/11 This @CTW_ATC discussion outlines my book on how the Western intelligentsia of the global theory industry has helped consolidate the "compatible" Left (i.e. compatible w capitalism & imperialism). 🧵
#FrenchTheory #Postmodernism #FrankfurtSchool

2/ I explain the work of #Derrida w "anti-totalitarian" dissidents funded by the NED (a CIA cutout), while rehabilitating an unrepentant Nazi (Heidegger), collaborating w a Nazi collaborator (De Man) & foreclosing any analysis of "context."
#PostStructuralism #Postmodernism

3/ I've provided detailed scholarly accounts of #Derrida's idealist misreadings of philosophic history in these two books, which demonstrate that even his 'internal analyses' leave much to be desired:
editions-hermann.fr/livre/97827056…
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-intervent…
@EditionsHermann @EdinburghUP

4/ #Foucault was also an anti-communist supporter of "dissidents" who claimed that "everything that this socialist tradition has produced in history is to be condemned.”
#Genealogy
See details @Philosoph_Salon @LAReviewofBooks:
thephilosophicalsalon.com/foucault-the-f…

5/ #Foucault is just one of the thinkers in the anti-communist pantheon promoted by the global theory industry. Others include #Ranciere #Hardt #Negri #Badiou #Zizek, who invoke communism as an "idea" or "desire" to better denigrate is as a practice.
thephilosophicalsalon.com/foucault-anti-…

6/ On the profound problems in the work of #Ranciere, as well as other prominent thinkers promoted by the global theory industry, see the detailed studies in these books.
@EdinburghUP @ColumbiaUP
editions-hermann.fr/livre/97827056…
cup.columbia.edu/book/radical-h…

7/ #Foucault, like #Derrida, didn't only wildly mis-characterize the international history of socialism, he also flagrantly misread Western philosophic history, as I've argued in detail regarding his accounts of #Nietzsche #Kant & #Descartes.
academia.edu/41790411/Fouca…

8/ What #Foucault & the other luminaries of #FrenchTheory had to offer was exactly what the #CIA wanted, according to the Agency itself: anti-Marxist theory that's hostile to actually existing #socialism.
thephilosophicalsalon.com/the-cia-reads-…

9/ The #FrankfurtSchool similarly rose to prominence in the global theory industry by taking anti-communist positions promoted by the capitalist class, imperialist states & their intelligence services.
#Adorno #Horkheimer
thephilosophicalsalon.com/the-cia-the-fr…

10/ From #Adorno & #Horkheimer to #Habermas #Honneth & #Fraser, Frankfurt School #CriticalTheory has been openly hostile to the revolutionary, anti-colonial theory & practice of socialist liberation.
academia.edu/73739017/Criti…

11/ I'm excited to be co-authoring the intro to #Losurdo's "Western Marxism," which is one of the major works to date that really diagnosed these problems & offered concrete alternatives. It should be out in early 2023 via 1804 Books!
@PeoplesForumNYC
1804books.com/collections/bo…