Heterodox critics exposed real weaknesses in orthodox Marxist applications.
Evidence
Rex’s arguments may not be entirely satisfactory in themselves, but undoubtedly they win effective ground from what he calls “simple Marxism”—as Wolpe is obliged to concede. These represent real theoretical gains, against some of the weaknesses and lacunae in what has become the dominant form in which the classical Marxist paradigm has been applied. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 600
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
- XREF: Fits Hall’s general project of rescuing Marxism from its reductionist orthodox forms, as elsewhere in his corpus.
Related
- One can criticize Marxist orthodoxy without abandoning Marxist tools (similarity 0.82)
- Hall accepts anti-foundationalism yet rejects full relativism and deconstruction (similarity 0.81)
- Formalist criticism and Marxism are compatible, not opposed (similarity 0.81)
- Post-Marxist theory emerged to correct Marxism’s economism and reductionism (similarity 0.80)
- Treating ideology seriously in its own terms strengthens rather than dilutes Marxist analysis (similarity 0.79)
- Hall embraced Marxism selectively, rejecting economic reductionism for counterreductionist versions (similarity 0.79)
- Serious attention to ideology in its own terms strengthens rather than weakens Marxism. (similarity 0.79)
- Hall’s Marxism was always heterodox, never economically reductionist. (similarity 0.78)