On criticizing identity thinking as the ideological premise of Modernism

in re-evaluation of Marxian thinking as critique

Abstract

What we have here started out as an attempt to characterize Marxain thinking as critique essentially deconstructing the post-modernism. As is generally acknowledged, the mode of thinking that took form in the aftermath of structuralism has enjoyed primacy undeservedly in journalistic terms, with the result that it found a way into the academic circles, seemingly overshadowing the Marxian legacy as critique, together with the ill-born Marxism that proved to misrepresent Marx at crucial point.
As it is, the post-structuralism in its ideologized form is to be found typical in its emphasis on difference as against identity and is seen as being caught again in the dualistically-oriented thinking, on a further plane, which it identified as typically modernistic and set out to overcome, ironically.
And it is here that Marxian thinking takes over and begins to deconstruct the very mode of thinking where difference and identity tend to form a static duality. And it goes on to deconstruct even the Hegelian premise of coherence that presupposes quite circularly antagonism between identity and difference, amounts at best to yet another form of metaphysics.
And it remains for us to see in the following thesis how Marxian thinking as critique holds valid in the present situation which has come to be referred to as post-modern.