Each position on postmodernism can be politically progressive or reactionary.

Evidence

The architectural debates, however, the inaugural discussions of Postmodernism as a style, have the merit of making the political resonance of these seemingly aesthetic issues inescapable and allowing it to be detectable in the sometimes more coded or veiled discussions in the other arts. On the whole, four general positions on Postmodernism may be disengaged from the variety of recent pronouncements on the subject; yet even this relatively neat scheme, or combinatoire, is further complicated by one’s impression that each of these possibilities is susceptible of either a politically progressive or a politically reactionary expression (speaking now from a Marxist or more generally left perspective). — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 176

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: What was progressive in one era can become politically backward in another — Davis, Angela Y, Are Prisons Obsolete, 130; Postmodern pluralist philosophies politically uphold the very liberal system they claim to critique — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 2394; Progressive movements can push political figures leftward in the present (+3 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: What was progressive in one era can become politically backward in another — Davis, Angela Y, Are Prisons Obsolete, 130; Postmodern pluralist philosophies politically uphold the very liberal system they claim to critique — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 2394; Progressive movements can push political figures leftward in the present (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Postmodernism’s transgressive features have been absorbed into official Western public culture. #complicates (0.78) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 43