Difference and otherness must be integral, not added on, to Marxist analysis

Evidence

1 The treatment of difference and ‘otherness’ not as something to be added on to more fundamental Marxist categories (like class and productive forces), but as something that should be omni-present from the very beginning in any attempt to grasp the dialectics of social change. The importance of recuperating such aspects of social organization as race, gender, religion, within the overall frame of historical materialist enquiry (with its emphasis upon the power of money and capital circulation) and class politics (with its emphasis upon the unity of the emancipatory struggle) cannot be overestimated. — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 2205

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines how a renovated historical materialism should treat difference and otherness — as omnipresent rather than supplementary categories.
• XREF: connects to: Marxism is not economic reductionism and requires attending to ideas in their own terms; Marxist theory lacks an adequate theory of representation to constitute ideology as a region; Treating ideology seriously in its own terms strengthens rather than dilutes Marxist analysis — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 335 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Marxist theory lacks an adequate theory of representation to constitute ideology as a region #responds-to (0.85)
• Treating ideology seriously in its own terms strengthens rather than dilutes Marxist analysis #expands (0.85) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 335
• Marx conceived social unity as constructed out of difference, not identity #exemplifies (0.85)
• Marxism is not economic reductionism and requires attending to ideas in their own terms #expands (0.80)
• Marxist theory lacks an adequate theory of representation. #responds-to (0.80)
• Marxism must be supplemented to account for racial oppression #expands (0.80) — Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism, 307