Poststructuralist concepts drop the ideological dimension that social analysis needs.

Evidence

I still talk about ideology, whereas Foucault talks about the discursive which has no ideological dimension to it. Perhaps I am in these respects a dinosaur or a recidivist, but I find it very difficult to understand contemporary society and social practice giving up those orienting points. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 722

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s economic-thought thread: Hall retains ideology/language as orienting points that economic analysis also still needs. — connects to: Post-structuralism questioned rather than affirmed the reduction of everything to language. — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader: Selected Works of…, 2389; Detaching Marxist concepts from their political praxis distorts them into decorative analytics. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 31; Poststructuralist theory reduces politics by condemning totalizing knowledges — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 281