Marx includes Hegel, and literary criticism serves political education.

Evidence

I have taken the position here that in reality Marx includes Hegel, but I can well understand, at the same time, that such elaborate conceptual equipment may seem disproportionate to the daily work of literary criticism and to the individual texts themselves. This is, however, to misjudge the role of literary criticism as such in the process of political education. — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 22

Categorization

• XREF: ‘Marx includes Hegel’ anticipates Jameson’s own later defense of dialectical criticism and connects to Lukács’s totality and to the reader’s Adorno/Benjamin lineage concerns. — connects to: Marxism functions as the ultimate precondition for any literary comprehension — Fredric Jameson, The Political Unconscious, 1730; Literary criticism’s relevance varies with the historical and ideological moment — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 790
• SEED: The claim that literary criticism is a form of political education — with conceptual equipment that seems disproportionate — is a defensible framing for an essay on why dialectical reading matters.

Broader Connections

• Marxism functions as the ultimate precondition for any literary comprehension #expands (0.82) — Fredric Jameson, The Political Unconscious, 1730
• Literary criticism’s relevance varies with the historical and ideological moment #qualifies (0.75) — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 790