Hall’s nonessentialist ‘Marxism without guarantees’ enabled conjuncturalist analysis of Thatcherism

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. … This is represented most prominently in Stuart’s massively influential analysis of the emerging forms of authoritarian populism—and specifically of Thatcherism—which came to dominate British politics from the 1980s onward. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 25

Categorization

• DEFINE: Pins down ‘Marxism without guarantees,’ ‘conjuncturalist analysis,’ and ‘authoritarian populism’ as named concepts — precisely the field vocabulary the reader is assembling.
• XREF: ‘Conjunctural analysis’ and ‘authoritarian populism’ are the same analytic machinery the Islamophobia field later applies to racialized moral panics; also connects forward to Hall’s Policing the Crisis treatment of the mugging panic.