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British cultural studies has also been accused of being Marxism in
disguise - "a 'cover' for a revised and qualified Marxism". This
criticism is justified in the sense that Marxism has influenced
cultural studies in two specific ways. First, the assumption of
cultural studies that industrial capitalist societies are unequally
divided along class, gender and ethnic lines is drawn from
Marxism. But cultural studies goes further in contending that
culture is the main arena where this division is established and
fought for, where subordinate and marginalized groups resist the
imposition of meanings which reflect the interests of the dominant
groups.
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