Claims to supersede Marxism often regress to pre-Marxian humanism dressed in new vocabulary.

Evidence

Henri De Man. Au dela du Marxisme , Paris, 1924. The title “Beyond Marxism” is deceptive. As Gramsci points out, De Man’s book is little more than a return to pre-Marxian humanism, with positivistic accretions and propped up by reference to the “psychological and ethical values” of the working class movement (MS, pp. 110-114. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 2396

Categorization

• DEFINE: Gramsci’s usage of ‘beyond Marxism’ as a pejorative label for reformist retreat into psychological and ethical values rather than structural analysis.
• XREF: Connects forward to critical-theory critiques of culturalist or humanist revisions of materialist analysis that recur in postcolonial and Islamophobia scholarship. — connects to: Market discourse displaces the Marxian model by shifting from production to circulation — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 597; A subtle terminological inversion reveals ideology’s work in interpretation. — Fredric Jameson, The Political Unconscious, 1725; Marxist theory has itself ossified into the popular prejudice it critiqued — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1407 (+2 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Market discourse displaces the Marxian model by shifting from production to circulation — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 597; A subtle terminological inversion reveals ideology’s work in interpretation. — Fredric Jameson, The Political Unconscious, 1725; Marxist theory has itself ossified into the popular prejudice it critiqued — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1407 (+2 more)