Calling new social movements postmodern is a tautology without critical force

Evidence

That the “new social movements” are postmodern, insofar as they are effects and consequences of “late capitalism,” is however virtually a tautology which has no evaluative function. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 714

Categorization

• QUESTION: This bears on the reader’s falsifiability question: if everything under late capitalism is postmodern by definition, what would count as evidence against the cultural-dominant thesis?
• XREF: connects to: Jameson describes postmodern life but rarely calibrates the political effects of movements — Perry Anderson, The Origins of Postmodernity, 301; Micropolitics and identity-group organizing are themselves postmodern phenomena — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 694; Poststructuralism is essentially a discourse of modernism, not postmodernism — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism: A Marxist…, 285 (+3 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Jameson describes postmodern life but rarely calibrates the political effects of movements — Perry Anderson, The Origins of Postmodernity, 301; Micropolitics and identity-group organizing are themselves postmodern phenomena — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 694; Poststructuralism is essentially a discourse of modernism, not postmodernism — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism: A Marxist…, 285 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Postmodernism is a tendency within late modernism, not its successor #complicates (0.80) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 236
• So-called postmodern trends merely continue capitalist processes begun under modernism #complicates (0.74) — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism, 574