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Originally Posted by Archaea
Why is Marx not considered existentialistic at all?
It seems some of his stuff though not post-modernistic could be aligned with such.
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Sartre tried to put existentialism and Marxism together. There are some fundamental contradictions, though: Existentialism would have us responsible for our choices while Marxism chalks up quite a bit to inherited economic circumstances.
More than a few versions of post-modernism have been put forward by disenchanted Marxists. Typically (and I'm being way too fast and loose here), postmodernists of this sort have rejected all grand narratives, including Marx's grand narrative (historical materialism culminating in communism). One might argue that their grand narrative is that there are no grand narratives. They've forgone discussions of "dominant ideology" for "discourse" and "micropower." Enter the Focaultians (and others).