I drew the first draft of this chart in 1997, when I began writing up my notes for what became Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault. The flowchart is from the end of Chapter 5 and summarizes the argument developed in that chapter. Click the image to enlarge.
About those question marks at the bottom: How has the far left evolved since then? Four developments, I think.
1. Fewer true believers.
2. Left environmentalism (especially the overtly anti-humanist versions) more on the defensive.
3. Multicultural leftism is pretty much dead and replaced by balkanized group warfare.
4. Resurgence of physicalist-violence groups.
[The chart is Stephen Hicks’s Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault (Scholargy Publishing, 2004, 2011). Available in hardcover or e-book at Amazon.com or in this audio-book edition:
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