Cultural Studies and Political Crisis
Cultural Studies and Political Crisis
This chapter examines Stuart Hall’;s work on Thatcherism, which responded to a historical moment in which Americans can recognize a distant mirror of the early years of the twenty-first century. For Hall, Thatcherism involved serious intellectual and organizational work. Indeed, his analysis of Thatcherism offered a significant critique of New Right racism, authoritarianism, and scorched-earth economic libertarianism. However, it also identified a certain entrenched and counterproductive habit of mind on what Hall called the “hard left” or the “fundamentalist left.” Moreover, Hall’;s analysis and the rise of the British New Right offered a series of rebukes to left orthodoxy that renewed the initial New Left break of 1956.
Keywords: Stuart Hall, Thatcherism, New Right racism, authoritarianism, economic libertarianism, hard left, fundamentalist left, British New Right, left orthodoxy, New Left
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