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“Everything from A to C.”

More seriously, reading these writers is really basic stuff for any humanities graduate curriculum...and the book under review is authored by a well-known Oxford don.

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For what it’s worth not a lot of Marxists themselves have read Marx, and a guy like Gramsci wasn’t that popular outside of Italy and a few select circles until not that long ago. It baffles me though why people still spend time reading Bourdieu, he reminds me of “champagne socialism”.

I wasn't aware of the term "champagne socialism", thanks for sharing that.

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