A Note on the Text  vii Acknowledgments  ix Editor's Introduction: Mediating Marxism  1 Part I. Theoretical Readings 1. Marx's Notes on Method: A "Reading" of the "1857 Introduction" [1974]  19 2. Rethinking the "Base and Superstructure" Metaphor [1977]  62 3. The "Political" and the "Economic" in Marx's Theory of Classes [1977]  91 4. The Problem of Ideology: Marxism without Guarantees [1983]  134Editor's Discussion of the Part I Writings  158 Part II. Thematic Overviews 5. Subcultures, Cultures and Class: A Theoretical Overview (with John Clarke, Tony Jefferson, and Brian Roberts) [1975]  179 6. Black Crime, Black Proletariat (with Chas Critcher, Tony Jefferson, John Clarke, and Brian Roberts) [1978]  199 7. Variants of Liberalism [1986]  227Editor's Discussion of the Part II Writings  247 Part III. Points of Departure 8. Nicos Poulantzas: State, Power, Socialism [1980]  261 9. In Defence of Theory [1981]  273 10. Authoritarian Populism: A Reply to Jessop et al. [1985]  282 11. When Was "the Post-colonial"? Thinking at the Limit [1996]  293 12. The Centrality of Culture: Notes on the Cultural Revolutions of Our Time [1997]  316Editor's Discussion of the Part III Writings  335 Index  351 Place of First Publication  363

“Brilliantly revising Marxism to incorporate the cultural turn, Stuart Hall not only created critical cultural studies, but he helped construct the intellectual world within which a cultural sociology could emerge.”