Post Modernism and Communism

[Capitalist Octopus]

Im surely going to do my own research in to this, but can someone provide a simple definition of what post modernism is and what it encompasses?

Also, is it compatible with the rev left? Does it compliment it, oppose it? If it opposes it, why? If compatible, why?

I've come on to the topic after seeing Chomsky discussing it, and denouncing it. Also denouncing the French intellectuals who switched to it after being the last ones to abandon Stalinism and Maoism in the 1970's. Any help is great!

[NewLeft]

Post modernism has a couple of definitions.. The only one that I'm familiar with is the one that defines it as practically anything that followed Fordism.. so wide scale globalization, exponential growth of information technology and even neoliberalism. That resulted in fragmentation, a dystopian outlook and political apathy. So who benefits from political apathy? Definitely not any worker.

Noam Chomsky is critiquing it as a philosophy.. Talking about the authors that fall in the "post-structuralism" camp. They don't really care about the enlightenment for starters..