The Marxist will to master history remains indispensable even in the postmodern moment

Evidence

Yet, leaving the gender of the verb out of it, we all do want to “master” history in whatever ways turn out to be possible: the escape from the nightmare of history — the conquest by human beings of the otherwise seemingly blind and natural “laws” of socioeconomic fatality — remains the irreplaceable will of the Marxist heritage, whatever language it may be expressed in. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 739

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes ‘the escape from the nightmare of history’ from Joyce’s Ulysses via Fredric Jameson’s earlier work, and dovetails with the reader’s goal of locating their own position in the world system. — connects to: The Institute’s cultural turn stayed within its earlier Marxist political commitment. — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 653