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[Commlist] New book - Wars of Position? Marxism Today, Cultural Politics and the Remaking of the Left Press, 1979-90

Wed Jan 19 14:46:58 GMT 2022




H. F. Pimlott is pleased to announce the publication of my book,*_“Wars of Position? Marxism Today, Cultural Politics and the Remaking of the Left Press, 1979-90”_*, last month (December 2021) by Brill Academic Publishers in the Historical Materialism Book Series (No. 248).

“Inspired by Raymond Williams’ cultural materialism, H.F. Pimlott explores the connections between political practice and cultural form through _Marxism Today_’s transformation from a Communist Party theoretical journal into a ‘glossy’ left magazine. _Marxism Today_’s successes and failures during the 1980s are analysed through its political and cultural critiques of Thatcherism and the left, especially by Stuart Hall and Eric Hobsbawm, innovative publicity and marketplace distribution, relationships with the national UK press, cultural coverage, design and format, and writing style. _Wars of Position?_ offers insights for contemporary media activists and challenges the neglect of the left press by media scholars.”

He added that the book also draws upon some of the insights and critiques that Raymond Williams’s offered during this period that were larger overlooked or ignored on the left.

The book also includes a series of images of the changes in_Marxism Today_’s design.

https://brill.com/view/title/21878 <https://brill.com/view/title/21878>

The hardback and e-book costs make this book more suitable as a purchase by a University Library.

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Table of Contents

·Introduction The Left, Cultural Form and Political Practice <https://brill.com/view/book/9789004503434/BP000001.xml>

·Chapter 1  Marxism Today’s Story: An Historical Narrative of a Cultural Form <https://brill.com/view/book/9789004503434/BP000002.xml>

·Chapter 2 From ‘New Left’ to ‘New Labour’: Marxism Today’s ‘Political Project’ and the ‘Retreat from Class’ <https://brill.com/view/book/9789004503434/BP000003.xml>

·Chapter 3 ‘The Party Line versus the Bottom Line’? The Political Economy of Radical Magazine Production <https://brill.com/view/book/9789004503434/BP000004.xml>

·Chapter 4 ‘From the Party Line to the Politics of Design’: Marxism Today’s Cultural Transformation <https://brill.com/view/book/9789004503434/BP000005.xml>

·Chapter 5 ‘From the Margins into the Mainstream’: Publicity, Promotion and Distribution in the Marketplace of Ideas <https://brill.com/view/book/9789004503434/BP000006.xml>

·Chapter 6 ‘Write Out of the Margins’: Communist Ideology and Accessibility, Rhetoric and Writing Style <https://brill.com/view/book/9789004503434/BP000007.xml>

·Chapter 7 ‘W(h)ither the Party Paper’? What Lessons for the Left Press? <https://brill.com/view/book/9789004503434/BP000008.xml>

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