1. Against Post-Modernism
   A Marxist Critique
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1982
   Callinocos argues that the relativism preached by post-modernist leaves us with no objective criteria by which to reject those who would falsify the past.
2. Anarchism vs. Marxism: A few notes on an old theme
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 1978
   Anarchist critiques of Marxism typically reveal a lack of knowledge of what Karl Marx actually wrote, resulting in sterile denunciations of a straw-man opponent.
3. Deconstruction and the Interests of Theory
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1988
   
4. Deconstruction: Theory and Practice
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1982
   
5. Descent into Discourse
   The Reification of Language and the Writing of Social History
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1990
   Critique of postmodernist and poststructuralist approaches in history.
6. Harter's Precept: Review of The Social Misconstruction of Reality: Validity and Verification in the Scholarly Community
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 1997
   Hamilton gives three major examples of erroneous theses that gained the status of fact in social science despite the absence of evidentiary support: (1) Max Weber's thesis that the Protestant Ethic spurred the advance of capitalism; (2) the widely accepted thesis that Hitler's main electoral support came from the lower middle classes (the despised petit bourgeoisie of Marxism); and (3) Michel Foucault's thesis that the modern prison evolved not as a more humane alternative to the cruel physical punishments of earlier centuries, but as part of a wide-ranging scheme by sinister forces to enforce a pervasive social conformity.
7. The Illusions of Postmodernism
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1996
   Eagleton explores the origins and emergence of postmodernism, revealing its ambivalences and contradictions. His primary concern is less with the more intricate formulations of postmodern philosophy than with the culture or milieu of postmodernism as a whole. Above all, he speaks to a particular kind of student, or consumer, of popular "brands" of postmodern thought.
8. In the Tracks of Historical Materialism
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1984
   
9. Logics of Disintegration
   Post-Structuralist Thought and the Claims of Critical Theory
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1987
   
10. Nothing Mat(t)ers: A Feminist Critique of Postmodernism
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1992
    An explanation of the foundation of recent post-modern theory which also criticises the misogynist and patriarchal work of Jacques Lacan, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Jean Baudrillard and Jean-Francois Lyotard.
11. Postmodernism and the Left
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1997
    Barabara Epstein provides an overview of the approach and subculture of postmodernism and how they relate to, or conflict with, leftwing ideas.
12. Rationality/Science
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1995
    Chomsky writes: "It strikes me as remarkable that the left today should seek to deprive oppressed people not only of the joys of understanding and insight, but also of tools of emancipation, informing us that the "project of the Enlightenment" is dead, that we must abandon the "illusions" of science and rationality--a message that will gladden the hearts of the powerful, delighted to monopolize these instruments for their own use."
13. SDS
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1974
    
14. The Social Misconstruction of Reality
    Validity and Verification in the Scholarly Community
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1996
    Analyzes erroneous theses that gained the status of fact in social science despite the absense of evidentiary support, and examines why this happened.
15. Transforming Ourselves Transforming the World
    An Open Conspiracy for Social Change
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1999
    Addresses society's pessimism about social change and provides a theoretical means and practice to overcome this fatalism.
16. Where Do Postmodernists Come From?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1995
    Eagleton argues that left intellectuals have adopted postmodernism out of a sense of having been badly defeated, a belief that the left as a political tendency has little future. Culturalism, he argues, involves an extreme subjectivism combined with a deep pessimism, a sense that it isn't worth the effort to learn about the world, to analyze social systems, for instance, because they can't be changed anyway.

Experts on Ideology in the Sources Directory

1. Connexions Library/Archive
2. Marxists Internet Archive