Cultural Studies and Marxism never had a perfect theoretical fit

Evidence

There never was a prior moment when Cultural Studies and Marxism represented a perfect theoretical fit. From the beginning (to use this way of speaking for a moment) there was always already the question of the great inadequacies, theoretically and politically, the resounding silences, the great evasions of Marxism—the things that Marx did not talk about or seem to understand which were our privileged object of study: culture, ideology, language, the symbolic. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 241

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s broader interest in how Hall positions himself within economic thought — the split between culture and the Marxist economic base is a theme resonant with other critical-theory readings. — connects to: Cultural studies arose from Marxist disappointment rather than from academic progress — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 117