![]() ![]() ![]() That was true, for example, of Nicos Poulantzas, as much as of Edward Thompson. Our critics replied to us as-better-Marxists. How far are these compatible, not only with the historical evidence of the time, but with the contemporary pattern of events since? It is this continuing question, however, which forms the real testing-bed for a review of our successive surmises today. Thus Edward Thompson roundly rejected the picture of the hegemonic bloc within English society in the epoch of its world supremacy that we had drawn, and sketched in his own alternative to it-just as he no less vigorously refused the image of the subordinate class to be found in our essays, in favour of another vision of them.īut he did not address himself to the central problem at stake-the origins of the present crisis-at all. In the controversies set off by these claims, the structure of the argument itself often tended to be forgotten. The agrarian and aristocratic stamp of English rulers in the era of the Pax Britannica, the subordination of bourgeois manufacturers and mill-owners to them, with all the consequences-economic, political and cultural-that followed from the cadet role of industrial capital in the Victorian age, were the explanans. Intellectually, the explanandum was the malady of the capitalist order in the uk. They were designed to offer an explanation of the pervasive crisis of British society in the mid sixties. The set of hypotheses then developed in this review had a clearly stated purpose. ![]() If it seems an appropriate moment to reconsider them today, it is necessary to begin with a reminder. These were the historical issues most hotly contested at the time, and since. T he debates aroused by a number of theses on Britain, published in New Left Review some twenty years ago, had at their centre a dispute over the character of the dominant class in Hanoverian and Victorian England, and the nature of the state over which it presided. ![]()
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