DAVID BATES is Senior Lecturer in Social Science at Canterbury Christ Church University, UK, and Programme Director in Politics. His research explores contemporary and classical Marxism, the sociology of class, the sociology of knowledge and the political economy of intellectual labour.

• Introduction: Marxism, Intellectuals and Politics; D.Bates Marx and Intellectuals; P.Blackledge Lenin, Trotsky and the Role of the Socialist Intellectual in Politics; I.D.Thatcher Gramsci and the Intellectuals: Modern Prince Vs Passive Revolution; P.Thomas "Unhappy Consciousness": Reflexivity and Contradiction in Jean-Paul Sartre's Changing Conception of the Role of the Intellectual; L.Cuthbertson Althusser: Intellectuals and the Conjuncture; W.Montag T.W. Adorno as a Critical Intellectual in the Public Sphere: Between Marxism and Modernism; G.Delanty Analytical Marxism and the Academy; J.Edwards Philosophy and Ideology: Marxism and the Role of Religion in Contemporary Politics; S.Sayers Intellectual Labour and Social Class; D.Bates Critical Intellectuals and the Academic Labour Process; F.Worthington Mediated Intellectuals: Negotiating Social Relations in Media; L.Salter Enduring Echoes: Feminism, Marxism and the Reflexive Intellectual; J.Raisborough & D.S.Jones

"Marxism, Intellectuals, Politics is a significant collection of essays, not only as a reflection on the relation of theory and practice, but also as a possible signpost for contemporary left." -Bogdana Koljevic, The New School