It’s a halfway thing; reactionaries love post-modernism, implicitly, when it comes to epistemological relativism but hate it when it comes to moral relativism. So I don’t think post-modernism set out to be reactionary but it ended up with an unintended consequence of being useful for reactionaries as they can turn the logic back around on itself. Go too far down the rabbit hole, post-modernism ends up being a ouroboros eating its own tail.
It’s a halfway thing; reactionaries love post-modernism, implicitly, when it comes to epistemological relativism but hate it when it comes to moral relativism. So I don’t think post-modernism set out to be reactionary but it ended up with an unintended consequence of being useful for reactionaries as they can turn the logic back around on itself. Go too far down the rabbit hole, post-modernism ends up being a ouroboros eating its own tail.
Judging by its origins, it seems that it was reactionary from the get-go. The academic journals during the 70s and 80s picked up on it pronto.