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Stuart Hall proposes bears little or no relation to the caricatured,
teleological religion of marxism which—legitimately in my view—is
pilloried by the Post. A marxism without guarantees is a marxism which
has suffered a sea change. It is a marxism which has ‘gone under’ in a
succession of tempests that include the smoke and fire of 1968 and the
shrinkage of imaginative horizons in the monetarist ‘new realism’ of the
1980s and yet it is a marxism that has survived, returning perhaps a little
lighter on its feet, (staggering at first), a marxism more prone perhaps to
listen, learn, adapt and to appreciate, for instance, that words like
‘emergency’ and ‘struggle’ don’t just mean fight, conflict, war and death but
birthing, the prospect of new life emerging: a struggling to the light…

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