Michel Foucault, one of the key founders of postmodern thought, started his career as a Marxist, joined the French Communist Party, broke with them, became a Maoist during the Chinese Cultural Revolution, and later, in the late 1970s, openly supported the Islamic Revolution in Iran.

Foucault’s journey shows how much of the radical left gradually replaced Marx’s economic revolution with cultural revolution, and then, when that failed to produce meaning, began romanticizing movements that stood against the West altogether.

Foucault wasn’t alone. Jean-Francois Lyotard, Jacques Derrida, and Richard Rorty, the main voices of postmodernism and deconstruction, all rejected the idea of absolute truth.

They taught generations of students that morality, reason, and reality itself are “social constructs.” That’s the foundation of relativism: no truth, no objective good or evil, just “perspectives.”

Once you destroy truth, you destroy moral hierarchy. And once there’s no hierarchy, the West can no longer claim its values, democracy, freedom, women’s rights, human dignity, are better than any other system.

That’s how postmodernism opened the door for a strange and dangerous alliance: the radical left and Islamic movements suddenly found common ground.

They share a common enemy, Western civilization. The left attacks it as oppressive, colonial, and racist. Islam attacks it as godless and corrupt.

Both want to dismantle it, though for different end goals.

Communism failed to destroy the West economically. Postmodernism eroded it philosophically. Islam now exploits that moral vacuum ideologically.

The result is what we see today, a generation that waves the rainbow flag and the Hamas flag at the same protest, not realizing the contradiction, because postmodernism taught them contradictions don’t matter.

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