There is, suggests Jameson a kind of winner loses logic about it, the more one tries to define what is characteristically postmodern the less characteristic it turns out to be. ... In this sense postmodernism is defined in relation to modernism and specifically the high modernism of the inter- war years. ... I should, perhaps, point out that the problem for Marxists with the notion of postmodernism, particular in the second sense in which I defined it above, as a new economic and social order, is that at a stroke it abolishes Marxism's founding premise. Marxism, along with psychoanalysis...

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