Marx in Kansas:

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" Marx in Kansas: "
Mitchell, Mandy Erin Warnke, Georgia

Document Type	:	Latin Dissertation
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	914522
Doc. No	:	TL4gd119vn
Main Entry	:	Mitchell, Mandy Erin
Title & Author	:	Marx in Kansas:\ Mitchell, Mandy ErinWarnke, Georgia
College	:	UC Riverside
Date	:	2010
student score	:	2010
Abstract	:	Thomas Frank's What's the Matter with Kansas identifies some of the more incoherent aspects of American political conservatism, which continues to cause puzzlement among thinkers on the Left. I argue that Frank and others on the Left are attempting to understand a complex movement in terms of a simplistic version of Marxism. I explicate a contemporary alternative to orthodox Marxism: the Postmarxism of Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe, the centerpiece of which is their theory of hegemony. I demonstrate the explanatory value of their theory by means of two applications: first, I describe Stuart Hall's hegemonic analysis of Thatcherism in Great Britain; and second, I apply the theory to American conservatism--both to the phenomena that Frank describes, and to the recent health care debates.
Added Entry	:	Warnke, Georgia
Added Entry	:	UC Riverside