Marxism Today

And he's turning to Gramsci's southern question in his conjunctural analysis, and basically adapting Gramsci's theory of fascism as a product of the uneven development of capitalism to describe a new form of authoritarianism that he's calling authoritarian populism that he's saying specific to the conjuncture.

The last thing I'll say quickly about this, Sasha, is that You know, while Hall was reticent to describe Powellism, as he termed it, or he introduced the term Thatcherism in one of his essays in Marxism Today to describe the authoritarian politics of Margaret Thatcher, we need to also modify and adapt Hall.

that we need not necessarily accept his conclusions about a different conjuncture.

And I think if Stuart Hall was here, though he passed in 2014, he would not have it, us to just say, well, as Stuart Hall said about the 70s, we can just adapt uncritically about the 20s.

It's 1998.

Tony Blair has just secured his landslide, and a bunch of thinkers associated with the publication Marxism Today are having a series of seminars in London's then fashionable Stoke Newington.

And you, Michael Gove, are one of the star attendees.

Now, none of the assembled lefties are under any illusions that you're a fellow traveler.

They sound like alibis.

Mm.

And I think that Michael Gove, who wrote for Marxism Today, and certainly the Michael Gove I used to read in Times-

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It's 1998.

Tony Blair has just secured his landslide, and a bunch of thinkers associated with the publication Marxism Today are having a series of seminars in London's then fashionable Stoke Newington.

And you, Michael Gove, are one of the star attendees.

Now, none of the assembled lefties are under any illusions that you're a fellow traveler.

They sound like alibis

Mm

And I think that Michael Gove, who wrote for Marxism Today, and certainly the Michael Gove I used to read in Times-

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I mean, as th- as I think I've said on the show before, right up to, you know, the fact that they were actually...

They were still f- the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was still f- giving money to Marxism Today, which was the magazine that popularized the ideas of Stuart Hall in the 1980s.

And it really is difficult to know how you're going to, um, uh, overcome all that.

Of course, some people hope that China, the rise of China will play a sig- a similar comparable role, although there is no question, I think there is no chance basically of us getting into a world in which the Chinese Communist Party is actively supporting socialist and communist movements around the world.