ABSTRACT
Marx was a restless, creative thinker, whose works exploded in different directions. Marx’s ideas had, and continue to have, a major impact across the Humanities. The challenges he set out have influenced all the major critical approaches, including structuralism, post-structuralism, feminism, postcolonialism, critical race studies, deconstruction, historicism, Marxism, and post-Marxism. Marx’s wide-ranging interest in literature and culture, along with his theorisations of their political and philosophical importance, is of immense importance to those in English studies. Marx is the greatest analyst of capitalism. He spent his entire life criticising the operations that sustained it, the concepts that enabled it, and the theories that supported it. In the period after the Second World War, particularly in France, Marxism was influenced by structuralism. In contemporary culture, Marxist critical approaches remain open and plural, constantly seeking to enrich our understanding of literature and culture as vital sources of experience while risking ever-greater exposure to new and ever-developing fields of knowledge.
