Marxist dogma arises from organizational demands, not theoretical limitations

Evidence

Dogma, certainty, and facticity are social and political phenomena. In Marxism they have emerged out of a context of specific organizational demands and definite collective and individual needs framed by particular historical and political dynamics. And it was with respect to these phenomena as they had manifested themselves in the American Communist Party organization in the late 1920s and early 1930s that Du Bois focused his work on revolutionary theory. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 979

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: Dogma, certainty, and facticity are not intellectual errors but social phenomena — this reframes the entire orthodox/Marxist split as organizational rather than theoretical.
• XREF: connects to: Marxist categories still explain contemporary multinational and media capitalism — Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on…, 48