One can criticize Marxist orthodoxy without abandoning Marxist tools

Evidence

So because I’m never an orthodox Marxist, I don’t feel the whole edifice is put at issue by questioning this or that about it. I don’t feel I have destroyed the whole. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 984

Categorization

• XREF: Sets up the selective non-orthodox engagement the reader will need to recognize in Hall’s own framework and in downstream Islamophobia theory readings that borrow Marx selectively. — connects to: The Institute abandoned orthodox Marxist ideology critique by the forties — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 779; Marxist cultural criticism must be class struggle waged within theory itself — Fredric Jameson, The Political Unconscious, 115; Marxist meta-theory functions as fallible open-ended inquiry, not total truth — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An…, 2208 (+6 more)