Research On The Working-class Cultural Studies Of British Cultural Marxism

This paper palced working-class cultural studies in the historical evolution of British Marxism,taking this problem as the core to discuss British scholars' essential position and viewpoint on the major issue of Marxism,which included the relationship between class and class consciousness,culture and ideology,the subjective initiative and social structure and so on,in order to highlights its theory characteristics and value,discusses its theoretical shortcomings and defects.Overall,the working-class cultural studies of British Cultural Marxism kept basic consistent with the Brithish Marxism,both of them experienced a dialectical development in the fundamemtal trend.In the early days of working-class cultural studies,the researchers againsted that standpoint which ignored the individual strength and dogmatized Marxism with the purpose to critic economic determinism and prove the culture which palyed a very important role in the class struggle was significantly different from mass culture by using empirical method.The British cultural marxism entered the stage of Structuralistic Marxism that had important influence on the working-class cultural studies with the the change of the social reality and the defects of Frist new left were exposed day by day.Since then,the working-class culture was not viewed as the spontaneous creation of individual strength that became the images of the ruling class ideology.The Reason of this studies also began to change which from prove the existence of the class culture to critic the working-class culture that as false ideology.At this stage,the Birmingham' s school go in for the practice of working-class cultural studies and made the beneficial exploration for the combine the subject with the structure by the analysis of the youth subculture and the media problems.In the late 1970 s,both sides of the debate profoundly pointed out the serious shortage of each other in understanding the culture of class culture with the increasingly fierce arguements.On this premise,the British cultural marxism began using the gramsci's theory to analysis of the working-class cultur,which pointed out that the working-class culture was neither a true sense of the expression nor the mechanical reaction to the domination of ruling class ideology,but the main from of class struggle in the relatively history stage.At the same time,the British marxism also suffered from political suppression and the deadly impact from postmodern theory which resulted in the research that presents two developments: On the one hand,the researchers denied the existence of class culture from emphasis on cultural heterogeneity within the working-class;On the other hand,the researchers began departs from political economic theoretical framework which resuluted in the fight of culture falls Symbolic guerrilla warfare.It marked the British marxism went to political conservatism in essentially.Combined the theoretical paradigm and research practice,the paper analyzed the changes and constant structural characteristics of working-class cultural studies of British cultural marxism in historical contexts,showed the developments and backwards of the British cultural studies to the Marxism,and on this basis,providing some beneficial reference for our country to get a better understanding of Marxist.