Debunking Postmodernism: exposing the lie
Postmodernism is an intellectual disease that strikes that the very heart of Western democracy. It was founded by the cynical French intellectual Jacques Derrida, an old-school Marxist who realised that, in the era of Stalin, when he was writing, truth itself was dangerous.
This was because Stalin, and after him Mao and every significant Communist leader, had embarked on a campaign of bloodthirsty political cleansing soon after they took power. Some historians estimate that Stalin and Mao killed at least 125 million between them, but this is conservative. Martin Malia puts Stalin's personal body count as high as 100 million.
Hardship
These figures do not include deaths brought about by privations caused by hardship -- the direct result of living under this wholly unnatural system. Nor do they include consequential death, for example amongst the so-called 'boat people' of Vietnam, who were forced to take to the sea to escape the Communist regime there. If we add these in,
Roger Scruton would appear to agree with you, so you are in excellent company. One simple example: “The nihilistic art of our time is delivered to the British people as a rebuke, which they are to accept in all humility, and in a spirit of apology for having wanted something “higher.” There is nothing higher — that is the lesson to be gleaned from Young British Art, and from the heaps of nonsensical garbage that it has delivered to our museums and galleries. We can understand the human condition, it tells us, only if we adopt a posture of rudeness and confrontation, and if we let those tongues stick out.” downloaded at https://spectator.org/39655_defending-beauty/