Marxism and Form

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Summary: A Must for Marxism
Review: If you are looking to begin reading in Marxist theory and cultural critique, you MUST begin with Jameson's magesterial "Marxism and Form." It moves amazingly through the entire Western Marxist tradition, and gives a very nice introduction into each thinker. The book argues throughout that Marxist cultural criticism has hitherto only focused on the content of cultural texts but has ignored the form. Therefore, a properly dialectical analysis MUST account for the form of these texts. Jameson then conludes by offering his theory of a dialectical analysis that synthesizes all the theorists he introduces with his own theory of form.