Fragmented identity makes classical Marxist alienation obsolete.

Evidence

A number of consequences follow from the domination of this motif in postmodernist thought. We can no longer conceive of the individual as alienated in the classical Marxist sense, because to be alienated presupposes a coherent rather than a fragmented sense of self from which to be alienated. It is only in terms of such a centred sense of personal identity that individuals can pursue projects over time, or think cogently about the production of a future significantly better than time present and time past. — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 362

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies why postmodernism’s fragmented subject dissolves the coherence assumption underpinning Marxist alienation — key for the rival-periodization comparison.
• XREF: connects to: Nazi disruption and exile eroded the productivity of orthodox Marxist émigrés. — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 479; Collective identities erode rather than vanish, losing their former social and explanatory stability.; Marxism reads social formations as overdetermined unities with relatively autonomous levels (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Collective identities erode rather than vanish, losing their former social and explanatory stability. #corroborates (0.82)
• Capitalism never became a coherent objective system because race and nation fragmented it #corroborates (0.78) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 123
• Marxism reads social formations as overdetermined unities with relatively autonomous levels #complicates (0.75)
• Marxism conceives society as overdetermined relatively autonomous levels, not a simple unity #complicates (0.75)
• Marx conceived social unity as constructed out of difference, not identity #corroborates (0.74)
• Marxism’s theoretical elegance required discarding race, gender, and culture. #complicates (0.72)