Books Received

I explore the relationship between ideology as a focus of analysis, class warfare as its presupposition in Marxist theory, and problems that arise when, on the one hand, Marxists lack a sufficiently nuanced conception of ideology and, on the other hand, non or anti-Marxists appropriate Marx-inspired theories of ideology without accepting fundamental Marxist presuppositions or carry on residual cold-war polemics to avoid the "taint" of Marxism. After sketching my version of a properly Marxist conception of ideology, I examine and critique the work of two Marxists, G. E. M. de Ste. Croix and Ellen Meiksins Wood, and two non/anti-Marxists, Josiah Ober and Clifford Ando.