Marxism functions as the ultimate precondition for any literary comprehension

Evidence

For better or for worse, however, as I warned in the Preface, this obvious next step is not the strategy projected by the present book, which rather seeks to argue the perspectives of Marxism as necessary preconditions for adequate literary comprehension. Marxist critical insights will therefore here be defended as something like an ultimate semantic precondition for the intelligibility of literary and cultural texts. — Fredric Jameson, The Political Unconscious, 1730

Categorization

• DEFINE: States the book’s methodological core: Marxism as ‘ultimate semantic precondition’ rather than one interpretive option among others.
• XREF: connects to: Marx includes Hegel, and literary criticism serves political education. — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 22