Post-Marxist theory emerged to correct Marxism’s economism and reductionism

Evidence

What I have tried to do in this paper is to document the emergence of a new theoretical paradigm, which takes its fundamental orientation from the problematic of Marx, but which seeks, by various theoretical means, to overcome certain of the limitations—economism, reductionism, “a priorism,” a lack of historical specificity—which have beset certain traditional appropriations of Marxism and which still disfigure the contributions to this field by otherwise distinguished writers, leaving Marxism vulnerable and exposed to effective criticism by many different variants of economistic monism and sociological pluralism. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 631

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Relates to the essay collection’s overall arc, but more directly this frames Hall’s intellectual project of rescuing Marxism for cultural/racial analysis.
• XREF: Connects to Gramsci’s concept of hegemony and Althusserian anti-economism that would be familiar from Hall’s other essays and post-Marxism debates with Laclau.