Marxism, Intellectuals and Politics

What ought the political role of the intellectual to be? What challenges does the post-structuralist project present for Marxist accounts of the intellectual? This text, which includes important contributions from authors such as Montag and Sayers, considers different attempts by Marxist and post-Marxist writers to theorize these questions.

Introduction: Marxism, Intellectuals and Politics; D.Bates Marx and Intellectuals; P.Blackledge Lenin, Trotsky and the Role of the Socialist Intellectual in Politics; I.D.Thatcher Gramsci and the Intellectuals: Modern Prince Vs Passive Revolution; P.Thomas "Unhappy Consciousness": Reflexivity and Contradiction in Jean-Paul Sartre''s Changing Conception of the Role of the Intellectual; L.Cuthbertson Althusser: Intellectuals and the Conjuncture; W.Montag T.W. Adorno as a Critical Intellectual in the Public Sphere: Between Marxism and Modernism; G.Delanty Analytical Marxism and the Academy; J.Edwards Philosophy and Ideology: Marxism and the Role of Religion in Contemporary Politics; S.Sayers Intellectual Labour and Social Class; D.Bates Critical Intellectuals and the Academic Labour Process; F.Worthington Mediated Intellectuals: Negotiating Social Relations in Media; L.Salter Enduring Echoes: Feminism, Marxism and the Reflexive Intellectual; J.Raisborough & D.S.Jones