While critical theorists have been frequently defned as Marxist intellectuals,

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their
tendency to denounce some Marxist concepts and to combine Marxian analysis with
other sociologic and philosophic traditions has resulted in accusations of revisionism
by lassical, !rthodox, and "nalytical Marxists, and by Marxist#$eninist
philosophers% Martin &ay has stated that the frst generation of critical theory is best
understood as not promoting a specifc philosophical agenda or a specifc ideology,
but as 'a gad(y of other systems'