Maoist categories persist as an unexamined political unconscious in global Left discourse

Evidence

The reason why those of us who came of age in the late 1960s or the early 1970s need to come to terms with this prehistory of our own intellectual and ideological formation is that this prehistory has endowed us with vocabularies and styles of thought which are so global in their dispersion, so much a part of what one might call the modern Leftist common sense, that we absorb them on a daily basis, without giving them so much as a thought. Not all of us are equally gripped by it, but at least some elements of it – some variant of the Three Worlds Theory, mostly in the Maoist reformulations – are inscribed now, sometimes despite ourselves, in the political unconscious of all we write, think, say about the global dispersion of powers and cultures. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 580

Categorization

• DEFINE: Names ‘political unconscious’ as a concept: ideological categories absorbed without thought, inscribed despite ourselves.
• XREF: connects to: Intellectuals kept Maoist categories after renouncing organized Maoism — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 1319

Related

• Intellectuals kept Maoist categories after renouncing organized Maoism (similarity 0.86)