...determination of consciousness by social being because it is itself part of social being. We cannot therefore decode political language to reach a primal and material...grievance and aspiration within political languages themselves. We need to map out these successive languages of radicalism, liberalism, socialism etc.,...

...moving away from a Marxist analysis. As he himself maintains in his introduction, "We cannot therefore decode political language to reach a primal and material...which conceives and defines interest in the first place."17 Can such a radical displacement of the Marxist agenda still be considered Marxist? The challenge...

...determination of consciousness by social being because it is itself part of social being. We cannot therefore decode political language to reach a primal and material...grievance and aspiration within political languages themselves.5 As Joan Scott has remarked, Stedman Jones himself fails to pay sufficient attention to...

...determination of consciousness by social being because it is itself part of social being. We cannot therefore decode political language to reach a primal and material...grievance and aspiration within political languages themselves."13 This tentative foray into (Saussurian) linguistic theory was intended as a challenge...

...Studies in English Working Class History, 1832-1982 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983), p. xx: "We cannot . . . decode political language to reach...grievance and aspiration within political languages themselves." 66. "A ceux qui nous accuseront d'être exclusifs, de faire de la question des femmes...

...expressions cannot be decoded in order to arrive at a primary essence since, as Gareth Stedman Jones argues, 'it is the discursive structure of political language...conceives and defines interest in the first place'.« Theatrical medievalism does not, I contend, manifest the essentialized political interests of unitary...

...You-Know-Where', New Left Review 148. November-December 1984. pp. 22-3. expression.'2 His response is that 'We cannot . . . decode political language to reach...which conceives and defines interest in the first place.'3 Now let us see what these propositions mean. Let us, for the sake of argument - and neither...

...Stedman Jones on the relationship of ideas and discourse to material interest: "We cannot therefore decode political language to reach a primal and material...conceives and defines interest in the first place;" Jones, Languages of Class: Studies in English Working Class History, 1832-1982 (Cambridge, 1983), 22....

...determination of consciousness by social being because it is itself part of social being. We cannot therefore decode political language to reach a primal and material...political language which conceives and defines interest itself. (StedmanJones 1983: 2 If.) Clearly, Stedman-Jones's definition of how interests and communal...

...prefiguring Scott's feminist critique of "experience," Stedman Jones wrote that "we cannot therefore decode political language to reach a primal and material...the discursive structure of political language which conceived and denned interest in the first place," a point that sounded the trumpet for the conceptual...