The ‘post’ in post-Marxism means working within but beyond an established problematic

Evidence

SH : I am a “post-Marxist” only in the sense that I recognize the necessity to move beyond orthodox Marxism, beyond the notion of Marxism guaranteed by the laws of history. But I still operate somewhere within what I understand to be the discursive limits of a Marxist position. And I feel the same way about structuralism. My work is neither a refusal nor an apologia of Althusser’s position. I refuse certain of those positions, but Althusser certainly has had an enormous influence on my thinking, in many positive ways that I continue to acknowledge, even after he has gone out of fashion. So “post” means, for me, going on thinking on the ground of a set of established problems, a problematic. It doesn’t mean deserting that terrain but rather, using it as one’s reference point. So I am, only in that sense, a post-Marxist and a poststructuralist, because those are the two discourses I feel most constantly engaged with. They are central to my formation and I don’t believe in the endless, trendy recycling of one fashionable theorist after another, as if you can wear new theories like T-shirts. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 753

Categorization

• DEFINE: Hall offers a precise, personal definition of ‘post-Marxism’ as continuing on the terrain of Marxism rather than deserting it.
• XREF: Connects to the reader’s study of how the Frankfurt School defined its own relation to Marx after orthodoxy failed. — connects to: The prefix ‘post’ in post-truth means truth is eclipsed, not past — Lee McIntyre, Post-Truth, 40