A nonessentialist, conjuncturalist Marxism enabled political analysis without predetermined outcomes

Evidence

Central to Stuart’s work during that period was the development of a nonessentialist form of “Marxism without guarantees,” which enabled him, working from a theoretical base developed from his encounter with Althusser and Gramsci, to produce a conjuncturalist form of political analysis and intervention. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 25

Categorization

Category: Definitional Content

• DEFINE: Defines ‘Marxism without guarantees’ and ‘conjuncturalist’ analysis — key vocabulary the Islamophobia field’s hegemony arguments inherit from Gramsci.
• XREF: Conjunctural analysis and ‘Marxism without guarantees’ are the theoretical machinery behind assimilationist/anti-essentialist readings of race Hall later applies.

Related

• Hall’s nonessentialist ‘Marxism without guarantees’ enabled conjuncturalist analysis of Thatcherism (similarity 0.88)
• Conjunctural analysis of concrete situations defines mature Marxist method (similarity 0.79)
• Marxism conceives society as overdetermined relatively autonomous levels, not a simple unity (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Marxism conceives society as overdetermined relatively autonomous levels, not a simple unity #expands (0.95)
• Marxism reads social formations as overdetermined unities with relatively autonomous levels #expands (0.95) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 336