The term metanarrative was originally aimed squarely at Marxism

Evidence

It was here that he first formulated the idea of meta-narratives that was to figure so prominently in The Postmodern Condition, and made its real target crystal-clear. Just one ‘master narrative’ lay at the origin of the term: Marxism. Fortunately, its ascendancy was now at last eroded by the innumerable little tidings from the Gulag. It was true that in the West there existed a grand narrative of capital too; but it was preferable to that of the Party, since it was ‘godless’ — ‘capitalism has no respect for any one story’, for ‘its narrative is about everything and nothing’. — Perry Anderson, The Origins of Postmodernity, 71

Categorization

• XREF: Strongly contradicts the common reading of Lyotard’s ‘incredulity toward metanarratives’ as a neutral epistemic claim rather than a targeted anti-Marxist polemic. — connects to: Marxist meta-theory functions as fallible open-ended inquiry, not total truth — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An…, 2208
• SEED: Article angle: the genealogy of ‘metanarrative’ as a term with an anti-communist genealogy, obscured by later academic usage.