Derrida claimed his philosophy was politically oppositional from 1980 on.

Evidence

Nevertheless Derrida himself is concerned to establish the politically oppositional character of his philosophy. Thus, reflecting in 1980 on his intellectual trajectory, he declared: ‘I have been increasingly preoccupied with the necessity of making a fresh start on questions said to be classically institutional.’ — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism, 317

Categorization

• XREF: Becomes a connection point with the book’s wider argument: if Derrida himself claimed an oppositional political stance, then the Marxist dismissal of postmodernism as inherently depoliticizing is overly blunt. — connects to: Derrida’s politics lack rational grounding because his language philosophy denies discourse-world relations.