ABSTRACT
The right attitude towards such bulky artefacts as the Marxist tradition is not one of dutiful conservation but of ruthless recycling. There is nothing wrong, therefore, in chopping up unwieldy lumps, in discarding stultifying mental pollutants, in using the latest intellectual technology to reshape - sometimes beyond recognition — dislocated parts, nor in letting the rest rot into oblivion. This is, at any rate, the attitude I shall adopt, both in discussing Chris Brown’s and Kurt Hiibner’s chapters, and in widening the landscape beyond the aspects of the Marxist heritage on which they have focused their attention.
