Anti-disciplinary critique of Marxism applies equally to socialist feminism

Evidence

Said first speaks derisively of ‘the self-policing, self-purifying communities erected even by Marxist, as well as other disciplinary, discourses’, and then goes on to specify what he considers to be a key project that needs to be posed against the ‘disciplinary’ character of Marxism, etc.: ‘to restore the nonsequential energy of lived historical memory and subjectivity to tell other stories than the official sequential or ideological ones produced by institutional power’ I am not quite sure what this last formulation actually means, but it would not, I think, be unfair to say that the sense in which Marxism is said to be ‘self-policing, self-purifying’, as well as ‘disciplinary’, ‘institutional’ and ‘ideological’, applies inescapably to particular tendencies - notably the socialist tendencies - within feminism too. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 838

Categorization

• XREF: Relevant to the reader tracking whether the anti-foundationalist (and anti-materialist) pivot claimed against Marxism undermines movements — including socialist feminisms — that need collective bearers. — connects to: One can criticize Marxist orthodoxy without abandoning Marxist tools — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity…, 984; Material anti-sexist organizing is legitimate feminism — Elizabeth Grosz, Criticism, Feminism and the…, 134; Treating ideology seriously in its own terms strengthens rather than dilutes Marxist analysis — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 335 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Treating ideology seriously in its own terms strengthens rather than dilutes Marxist analysis #corroborates (0.80) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 335
• One can criticize Marxist orthodoxy without abandoning Marxist tools #corroborates (0.78) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 984
• Cutting-edge Marxism in this period grew by self-critique of its own orthodoxy #corroborates (0.78)
• Material anti-sexist organizing is legitimate feminism #corroborates (0.75) — Elizabeth Grosz, Criticism, Feminism and the Institution, 134
• Attacks on vulgar economism are often mistaken for critiques of Marxism itself #qualifies (0.72)