Modernism’s insistence on West-versus-rest difference makes Marxism itself a modernism

Evidence

As always, however, we have every interest in separating out the levels and distinguishing from each other cognate topics that in the postmodern often seem generically to fold back into each other. For one thing, a very crucial feature of the topic of difference is foregrounded by the modernist version of it, which insisted on the radical break between the West and the rest, between the modern and the traditional, as we shall see later on (this is the feature according to which Marxism can be said itself to be one of the modernisms — perhaps the only one). — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 743

Categorization

• XREF: The claim that Marxism is itself a modernism (perhaps the only one) connects to the reader’s task of periodizing styles and to critiques of universalist frameworks. — connects to: Structural analogy between Marx and Freud ironically conserves a European-centered Marxism — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader: Selected Works of…, 935; Modernism emerged from a specific industrial-capitalist conjuncture that postwar capitalism destroyed — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism: A Marxist…, 562
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Structural analogy between Marx and Freud ironically conserves a European-centered Marxism — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader: Selected Works of…, 935; Modernism emerged from a specific industrial-capitalist conjuncture that postwar capitalism destroyed — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism: A Marxist…, 562