Marxism in colonized formations rejects both the nation-culture equation and tradition-modernity binary

Evidence

By contrast, the principal trajectories of Marxism as they have evolved in the imperialized formations have sought to struggle - with varying degrees of clarity or success, of courseagainst both the nationl culture equation, whereby all that is indigenous becomes homogenized into a singular cultural formation which is then presumed to be necessarily superior to the capitalist culture which is identified discretely with the ‘West’, and the tradition/modernity binary, whereby each can be constructed in a discrete space and one or the other is adopted or discarded. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 50

Categorization

• XREF: The two ‘enabling fictions’ Ahmad names — the nation/culture equation and the tradition/modernity binary — are precisely the two poles the reader’s strategic-essentialism question turns on; Marxist struggle against both is the materialist counter-position to discourse-first identity performance. — connects to: Classical Marxism needs modification to grasp postcolonial social formations; Classical Marxism illegitimately generalizes European developmental forms to other societies — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity…, 37; Cultural nationalism can smuggle in obscurantism merely by inverting the traditionmodernity binary — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 49

Broader Connections

• Cultural nationalism can smuggle in obscurantism merely by inverting the traditionmodernity binary #qualifies (0.78) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 49
• Classical Marxism needs modification to grasp postcolonial social formations #corroborates (0.75)
• Classical Marxism illegitimately generalizes European developmental forms to other societies #corroborates (0.72) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 37