Includes index.

Introduction: Mediating Marxism -- Part I Theoretical Readings -- Marx's Notes on Method: A "Reading" of the "1857 Introduction" -- Re-thinking the "Base and Superstructure" Metaphor -- The "Political" and the "Economic" in Marx's Theory of Classes -- The Problem of Ideology: Marxism without Guarantees -- Discussion of the Part I Writings -- Part II Thematic Overviews -- Subcultures, Cultures and Class: A Theoretical Overview (with John Clarke, Tony Jefferson, -- and Brian Roberts) -- Black Crime, Black Proletariat (with Chas Critcher, Tony Jefferson, John Clarke, and Brian -- Roberts) -- Variants of Liberalism -- Discussion of the Part II Writings -- Part III Points of Departure -- Nicos Poulantzas: State, Power, Socialism -- In Defence of Theory -- Authoritarian Populism: A Reply to Jessop et. al. -- When Was "the Post-colonial"? Thinking at the Limit -- The Centrality of Culture: Notes on the Cultural Revolutions of Our Time -- Discussion of the Part III Writings

"Selected Writings on the Question of Marxism focuses on Stuart Hall's relationship with Marxism and exemplifying his distinctive interpretations of Marxist concepts and debates. Editor Gregor McLennan's three-part structure brings out the different styles and formative questions at work in Hall's engagement with Marxism. In his introduction to the volume and in the discussions following the Hall writings in each part, McLennan offers in-depth textual and contextual guidance, together with fresh interpretations of Hall's thought and of his distinctive mode as an intellectual"-- Provided by publisher.

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