There is some good stuff in postmodernism such as Deleuzian territorialization or Virilio's accident, even Foucault's power analysis is almost entirely correct. Postmodernism is actually old hat though. The world is post-postmodernist as new metanarratives inevitably and simultaneously emerged alongside attempts to reject metanarratives, so no one attempts complete rejection anymore. Mark Fisher is a great example of a post-postmodernist, for lack of a better word.
The Hegelian dilectic is inescapable because attempting to refute or reject it is necessarily engaging in the dialectical process. Marx tried to flip the Hegelian dialectic on its head when he reduced it to profane material conditions, which ended poorly for everyone involved.
There is some good stuff in postmodernism such as Deleuzian territorialization or Virilio's accident, even Foucault's power analysis is almost entirely correct. Postmodernism is actually old hat though. The world is post-postmodernist as new metanarratives inevitably and simultaneously emerged alongside attempts to reject metanarratives, so no one attempts complete rejection anymore. Mark Fisher is a great example of a post-postmodernist, for lack of a better word.
The Hegelian dilectic is inescapable because attempting to refute or reject it is necessarily engaging in the dialectical process. Marx tried to flip the Hegelian dialectic on its head when he reduced it to profane material conditions, which ended poorly for everyone involved.
You lost me at utopianism.
Maybe he just meant Fabian socialists are in constant pursuit of some kind of utopia.