The Truth and Post-Truth about Slavery

Jacques Derrida was perhaps the most influential anti-Enlightenment postmodern thinker, apart from Antonio Gramsci, on the development of the contemporary Left, when he introduced the idea of “post-truth” (anti-empiricism) in his book De la grammatologie (1967). This work formed the basis of his theory of deconstructionism particularly in relation to the Platonic concept of “true forms in the written word”, upon which the four pillars of the Enlightenment rest—meaning, truth, reason and knowledge. Deconstructionism is a rejection of these forms and is selectively used by the Left, not only to silence the scientific community, and any empirical critique of the Left’s ideology and objectives, but to reject the validity of the scientific method. Deconstructionism, has, over several decades, attached itself like a parasite to the syllabi of the Social Sciences and Humanities departments of Western universities, where it has also embraced contemporary Marxist theory, which…