Fidelity to Marxism means advancing the dialectical process, not preserving it.

Evidence

Adorno establishes their position as follows: ‘Everyone says that Marxism is finished. We reject this: not only is Marxism not finished, the point is to stay faithful to it’ – at the moment of its demise, so to speak – for ‘[t]o really stay faithful is to further advance the dialectical process’. — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1035

Categorization

• DEFINE: Spells out Adorno/Horkheimer’s mid-century definition of faithfulness to Marxism as active dialectical advancement rather than doctrinal preservation.
• XREF: Directly counter-evidence against the ‘pessimistic cul-de-sac’ reading — shows a manifest political program as late as 1939. — connects to: Marxism’s dialectic predicts its own corruption into dogma and certainty; One can criticize Marxist orthodoxy without abandoning Marxist tools — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity…, 984; Marxist theory has itself ossified into the popular prejudice it critiqued — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1407
• SEED: Essay angle: rescuing the 1939 manifestos from the Collected Works editorial framing that buried their political urgency.

Broader Connections

• One can criticize Marxist orthodoxy without abandoning Marxist tools #corroborates (0.80) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 984
• Marxist theory has itself ossified into the popular prejudice it critiqued #expands (0.80) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1407
• Marxism’s dialectic predicts its own corruption into dogma and certainty #expands (0.78)