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Article: Left out? Marxism, the new left and cultural studies.
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- Arena Journal
- Article date:
- September 22, 2002
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While the spectre that haunted Europe in 1848 seems to have been exorcised, at least for the moment and at least from the eastern half of the continent, its theoretical counterpart--marxism as distinct from communism--still haunts the crossroads of international cultural studies, a ghostly Laius to the latter's Oedipus. (1) Thirty years ago it would have been merely truistic to call attention to the marxist origins of the new proto-discipline, but those origins have been progressively occluded in most subsequent histories, especially those centred on categories such as 'culturalism', 'structuralism' and 'post-structuralism', which powerfully inform the collective wisdom ...