Intellectuals kept Maoist categories after renouncing organized Maoism

Evidence

The power of chis terminology would have declined, one would have thought, with the general decline of explicitly political Maoism which began in the mid 1970s, but that power remained. A great many intellectuals who renounced their formal ties with organized Maoism nevertheless continued to function through those same categories of thoughtnow as ‘independents’; by the early 1980s, quite a few of them were joining what now came to be known as ‘social movements’ The upshot was chat while the politics of-Maoism declined, irs social and cultural impact among the middle-class intelligentsia remained, in many versions. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 1319

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Maoist categories persist as an unexamined political unconscious in global Left discourse — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Nations, Classes, Literatures, 580; Marxism absorbed and incorporated preexisting national modes of thought rather than displacing them; The Internet’s architecture was Maoist dispersion applied to communications. — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration: A New Theory of…, 544

Broader Connections

• Maoist categories persist as an unexamined political unconscious in global Left discourse #corroborates (0.95) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 580
• Marxism absorbed and incorporated preexisting national modes of thought rather than displacing them #expands (0.75)