Dialectical legacy can be salvaged from a class’s decline and decay

Evidence

It is not only in the revolutionary rise of a class or in its period of flowering, but also in its decline and in the various contents set free by its decay that a dialectically useful `legacy’ can be found. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 209

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies Bloch’s concept of ‘legacy’ (Erbe) as usable content recoverable even from decay.
• XREF: connects to: Dialectical models must ultimately abolish themselves and redissolve into history — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 644; Notes on Dialectics rescued Marxism when Lenin’s legacy threatened its relevance — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1322; Dialectical analysis must regress to origin then progress to synthesis — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 452
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Dialectical models must ultimately abolish themselves and redissolve into history — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 644; Notes on Dialectics rescued Marxism when Lenin’s legacy threatened its relevance — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1322; Dialectical analysis must regress to origin then progress to synthesis — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 452