Older-generation Marxist scholars held pre-dialectical orthodox views

Evidence

Born in igoo in Vienna, Borkenau was active in the Communist Party and the Comintern from 1921 until his disillusionment in 1929. … He had, however, absorbed his Marxism in the years when Engels’s and Kautsky’s monistic materialistic views prevailed. He remained firmly committed to this interpretation and thus largely unsympathetic to the dialectical, neo-Hegelian materialism of the younger Institut members. — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 126

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: One can criticize Marxist orthodoxy without abandoning Marxist tools — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity…, 984; Post-Marxism is built on abandoning the dialectic as a mystification — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 742

Broader Connections

• One can criticize Marxist orthodoxy without abandoning Marxist tools #qualifies (0.75) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 984
• Post-Marxism is built on abandoning the dialectic as a mystification #expands (0.75) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 742