Marxism’s academic US entry produced eclectic, de-politicized theory.

Evidence

Given the absence of any real socialist movement outside the university, this was usually a very academic kind of Marxism; and, given the absence of a preceding Marxist cultural tradition, this new Marxism was frequently and fashionably combined with all sorts of other things, in all kinds of eclectic and even esoteric ways. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 258

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Marxism absorbed and incorporated preexisting national modes of thought rather than displacing them; Academic translation of Marxism blunts its revolutionary force into generalized abstraction — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 198

Broader Connections

• Academic translation of Marxism blunts its revolutionary force into generalized abstraction #corroborates (0.92) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 198
• Marxism absorbed and incorporated preexisting national modes of thought rather than displacing them #expands (0.85)