Discourse theory is politically responsible but historically ungrounded.

Evidence

However, it is still fair to say that at base, that is at its epistemological substratum, Marxism is a Western construction—a conceptualization of human affairs and historical development that is emergent from the historical experiences of European peoples mediated, in turn, through their civilization, their social orders, and their cultures. Certainly its philosophical origins are indisputably Western. But the same must be said of its analytical presumptions, its historical perspectives, its points of view. This most natural consequence though has assumed a rather ominous significance since European Marxists have presumed more frequently than not that their project is identical with world-historical development. Confounded it would seem by the cultural zeal that accompanies ascendant civilizations, they have mistaken for universal verities the structures and social dynamics retrieved from their own distant and more immediate pasts. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 114 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Discourse theory’s claim that nothing exists outside discourse is reductionism upward; Universalizing discourse silences the specific wounds of the colonized.; European Marxists mistook their localized structures for universal historical truths — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 114 (+1 more)

Related

• Marx’s own theory anticipated its eventual negation as historical ideology (similarity 0.80)
• Discourse theory’s claim that nothing exists outside discourse is reductionism upward (similarity 0.80)
• Discourse theory merely relocates contradiction from structure to the unconscious. (similarity 0.79)
• European Marxists mistook their localized structures for universal historical truths (similarity 0.79)
• Discourses persist beyond their origins and carry unexamined assumptions forward. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Discourse theory’s claim that nothing exists outside discourse is reductionism upward #expands (0.60)
• European Marxists mistook their localized structures for universal historical truths #exemplifies (0.55) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 114
• Universalizing discourse silences the specific wounds of the colonized. #exemplifies (0.50)