Classical Marxism needs modification to grasp postcolonial social formations

Evidence

This paper’s interest in certain new approaches to these problems, from within a substantially new application of Marxist protocols of analysis, arises precisely from a concern to indicate where and how these new emphases are beginning to develop. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 600

Categorization

• DEFINE: Uses “protocols” as a term for Marx’s analytical procedures applied across contexts.
• XREF: connects to: Marxism in colonized formations rejects both the nation-culture equation and tradition-modernity binary — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 50; Postcolonial thinkers had to deconstruct Eurocentric prejudices within Marxism itself; Classical Marxism treated capitalist colonialism as historically necessary for non-Western development — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity…, 681 (+13 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Marxism in colonized formations rejects both the nation-culture equation and tradition-modernity binary — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 50; Postcolonial thinkers had to deconstruct Eurocentric prejudices within Marxism itself; Classical Marxism treated capitalist colonialism as historically necessary for non-Western development — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity…, 681 (+13 more)

Broader Connections

• Marxism’s dismissal of culture left it unequipped for nationalism #exemplifies (0.93)
• Classical Marxism illegitimately generalizes European developmental forms to other societies #expands (0.92) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 37
• Rejecting Marxism foreclosed self-critique, so poststructuralism replaced rather than corrected nationalism #complicates (0.80) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 70
• Marxism reads social formations as overdetermined unities with relatively autonomous levels #complicates (0.78)
• Post-Marxism is built on abandoning the dialectic as a mystification #complicates (0.75) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 742
• Marxism absorbed and incorporated preexisting national modes of thought rather than displacing them #complicates (0.72)