Kromo...: "Your bandying around of terms like 'postmodernism', 'postmarxism', 'poststructuralism' is a little embarassing"
My apologies for embarrassing you. The reason I have introduced postmarxism is to explain how the Left has changed. After 1989 it had to find a new path, the Left did indeed become post-men.
The British Left has always been far more extreme than the media has reported. Jack Jones, General Secretary of the TUC was a paid Soviet spy, almost all of New Labour were far left Trotskyists and Stalinists - Jack Straw even wrote a letter to the Guardian admitting proudly that he was a Stalinist. This is all a matter of public record, not wild accusations - see The Roots of New Labour
http://pol-check.blog...ts-of-new-labour.html
After 1989 the Left could no longer dream of Global Communism. The class struggle had failed because it could not sustain a continuing revolution. Left wing philosophers such as Derrida (poststructuralist) and Lyotard (postmodernism) had been applying Marxist materialism to general philosophical issues during the seventies and eighties and this approach gave rise to the political philosophy of postmarxism. There is an excellent review of postmarxism by Meyerson at:
http://clogic.eserver.org/2009/Meyerson.pdf
Postmarxism shifts the polarising factor necessary for revolution from setting classes onto one another to stirring up racial differences. This is perfectly clear from postmarxist texts.
The new Left are either heavily influenced by postmarxism or fully postmarxist - as I pointed out above, every other political debate on a wide range of subjects now has race dragged into it. The Labour Party is run by a small clique who are selected from university left wing groups and groomed within the administration of unions. Their political philosophy has always been highly academic and far to the left of what is acceptable to the voting public (again, this is a matter of public record, not a conspiracy theory).
That Kromo... believes the readers of this forum might not appreciate being introduced to the real motivations of those who imported millions of people from overseas in the past decade and a half, or find the explanation of these motivations "arrogant", is perhaps giving the readers too little credit.