Marxism itself varies by the socio-economic system it reflects

Evidence

For it is perfectly consistent with the spirit of Marxism—with the principle that thought reflects its concrete social situation—that there should exist several different Marxisms in the world of today, each answering the specific needs and problems of its own socio-economic system: thus, one corresponds to the postrevolutionary industrial countries of the socialist bloc, another—a kind of peasant Marxism—to China and Cuba and the countries of the Third World, while yet another tries to deal theoretically with the unique questions raised by monopoly capitalism in the West. It is in the context of this last, I am tempted to call it postindustrial, Marxism that the great themes of Hegel’s philosophy—the relationship of part to whole, the opposition between concrete and abstract, the concept of totality, the dialectic of appearance and essence, the interaction between subject and object—are once again the order of the day. A literary criticism which wishes to be diagnostic as well as descriptive will ignore them only at the price of reinventing them. — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 27

Categorization

• XREF: This is the ‘Marxism reflects its own situation’ principle — homologous to the way Jameson later defends postmodernism as the cultural logic of late capital rather than a mere style. Also the genealogy of postindustrial Marxism as a distinct branch. — connects to: The problem of mediation links psychological, social, and economic levels — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 20; Class in Marxism is a differential, relational concept rather than an isolated substance — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 738; Marxism and existentialism govern wholly different, non-intersecting realities — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 423 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Marxism absorbed and incorporated preexisting national modes of thought rather than displacing them #exemplifies (0.85)
• Classical Marxism illegitimately generalizes European developmental forms to other societies #exemplifies (0.82) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 37
• The Second International enshrined reductive economic determinism as official Marxism #exemplifies (0.80)