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ulture Makes a Difference
Hall has described himself this period, the Centre
as always remaining within focused on "structural
"shouting distance of Marx". Marxism". In the early 1980s,
However, in the late 1950s Hall was writing about a
and early 60s, he rejected "Marxism without
Marxism in favour of "an guarantees". In the late
urgent sense of engaging 1980s and early 90s, the
with the contemporary". This "Marxist element" was
changed in the 1970s when "more or less abandoned".
Marx was hauled back: "We
chose as a coherent theory However, despite his
... not previously analysed, ambiguous relationship with
that of Karl Marx." During Marxism, Hall has never
accepted that the class
struggle explains and
determines everything.
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