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=== Criticism from Marxists === In a paper entitled ''Ghostwriting'',<ref name="Spivak 1995">{{cite journal |last1=Spivak |first1=Gayatri Chakravorty |title=Ghostwriting |journal=Diacritics |volume=25 |issue=2 |pages=64–84 |year=1995 |jstor=465145 |doi=10.2307/465145}}</ref> [[Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak]]—the translator of Derrida's ''De la grammatologie'' (''Of Grammatology'') into English—criticised Derrida's understanding of Marx.{{How|date=April 2025}}<ref>{{cite book| editor1-last=Sprinker| editor1-first=Michael| author=Jacques Derrida| title=Ghostly Deamarctations: A Symposium On Jacques Derrida's "Specters of Marx"| year=2008| publisher=Verso | location=London| isbn=9781844672110| chapter=Chapter 10: Marx & Sons| page=223| chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g7zGmaggvesC}}</ref> Commenting on Derrida's ''Specters of Marx'', [[Terry Eagleton]] wrote "The portentousness is ingrained in the very letter of this book, as one theatrically inflected rhetorical question tumbles hard on the heels of another in a tiresomely mannered syntax which lays itself wide open to parody."<ref>{{cite book | editor1-last=Sprinker| editor1-first=Michael| author=Terry Eagleton| title=Ghostly Deamarctations: A Symposium On Jacques Derrida's "Specters of Marx"| year=2008| publisher=Verso | location=London| isbn=9781844672110| chapter=Chapter 5: Marxism without Marx| pages=83–87| chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g7zGmaggvesC}}</ref>
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