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• Archive: John Hutnyk – Bad MarxismCultural Studies commonly claims to be a radical discipline.
• This book thinks that's a bad assessment.
• Cultural theorists love to toy with Marx, but critical thinking seems to fall into obvious traps.
• After an introduction that explains why the 'Marxism' of the academy is unrecognizable and largely unrecognized in anti-capitalist struggles, Bad Marxism provides detailed analyses of Cultural Studies' cherished moves by holding fieldwork, archives, empires, hybrids, and exchange up against the practical criticism of anti-capitalism.
• Engaging with the work of key thinkers: Jacques Derrida, James Clifford, Gayatri Spivak, Georges Bataille, Homi Bhabha, Michael Hardt, and Toni Negri, Hutnyk concludes by advocating an open Marxism that is both pro-party and pro-critique, while being neither dogmatic nor dull.