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“A Whole Way of Struggle?”: Western Marxisms, Social Movements, and Culture

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Conceptualizing Culture in Social Movement Research

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The literature on “Marxism and culture” is forbiddingly large, covering many of the key cultural theorists of the past century, and could hardly be covered in a single chapter except as a very casual overview.1 That on “Marxism and social movements” might appear smaller, although there is more activist and academic reflection on the topic, if not always tagged with the phrase “social movement”, than might be thought.2

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Cox, L. (2014). “A Whole Way of Struggle?”: Western Marxisms, Social Movements, and Culture. In: Baumgarten, B., Daphi, P., Ullrich, P. (eds) Conceptualizing Culture in Social Movement Research. Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137385796_3

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