1. The remainder of the quote runs “apart from the fake ones of conferences, congresses etc,” Jean-Luc Nancy, introduction to Who Comes After the Subject?, ed. Eduardo Cadava, Peter Connor, and Jean-Luc Nancy (New York and London: Routledge, 1991), 2.
2. Jean-François Lyotard, Political Writings, trans. Bill Readings and Kevin Geiman (London: UCL Press, 1993), 114.
3. He also cites Berle, who described Marx’s political economy as out-worn and refuted, and Raymond Aaron who wrote that Marxism no longer holds a place in the culture of the West. Ernest Mandel, Marxist Economic Theory (London: Merlin Press, 1977), 13.
4. Michèle Barrett, Women’s Oppression Today: The Marxist Feminist Encounter (London: Verso, 1988), xxxiv.
5. William Dowling, Jameson, Althusser, Marx: An Introduction to the Political Unconscious (London: Methuen, 1984), 12.