The Research On British Cultural Marxism

British Cultural Marxism is one of foreign Marxism Ideological trends Represented by Richard Hoggart,Thompson,Williams after World War II. British Marxist shows a view different from the traditional elite cultural viewpoint by interpreting of popular culture and understanding the class culture. Mode of production as an important method of class analysis is core values of traditional Marxist theory of class. Class consciousness as a deep-seated cultural connotation is placed to an important position of class analysis by the cultural Marxists. That Cultural Marxists absorbed Lukacs, Gramsci’s ideas for its theoretical foundation, combined with historical experience to reconstruction Marxist class consciousness of cultural connotation,At the same time,they took Laclau and Mouffe’s "political body"of discursive turn as the latest development trends,which reflected the knowledge picture and political background in British cultural studies. The British Cultural Marxism reconsitution the class-for-itself and try to extend the revolutionary pathway, pursuit the status of body equal in the culture field, plan for the beautiful ideal of human’s freedom development, which presented the Cultural Marxism’s theoretical value and thinking trends.British Marxist set a precedent of analysis class with Marxist theory,which reconsitution the scope of class from diversity factors as the economic, politic, culture. It is the extension of historical materialism in cultural field.The British Cultural Marxism re-interpretation the core values of Marxism,and this theoretical light the real life.But it attempted to follow non-economic tendency, deviated from the original ideas of Marxism, accidentally slid into the morass of Marxism. It attempt to establish a new political body to clear up crisis of modern class. But the appeals of inability and the power of pale, eventually becoming a theoretical grandstanding.Digging up the roots of class material’s formation,only become a theory of making theoretical try, and can not achieve practical results.Though it still provides the certain reference value to examining class and cultural construction in the process of modern socialist construction in our country.