While McLaren adopted the term, critical postmodernism, or resistance postmodernism, to describe his work up until the late 1990s, he recognized that he needed to engage the work of Marx and Marxist thinkers.
Dok je McLaren usvojio termin kritički postmodernizam ili postmodernizam otpora, da bio opisao svoj rad sve do kasnih devedesetih godina, shvatio je da treba uključiti Marxa i marksističke mislioce.