The History Of All Hitherto Existing Marxism Is The History Of The Use Of The Word Hitherto

Is there some unwritten code of Marxist discourse that, following Marx and Engel’s fondness for the word, one must use the word hitherto as much as is possible? This is especially the case when one is summarising one’s argument, for example, in an abstract. Is this very much like the way in which Pauline scholars insist on throwing “by no means!” into every chapter a few times, an irksome habit recalled from my undergraduate days?

Suggestions as to similar tropes in other discourses will be taken. However, those refering to those of postmodernism, particularly to those of high academic postmodernism, will be ignored and deleted – shooting fish in a barrel.