What ought the political role of the intellectual to be? What challenges does the post-structuralist project present for Marxist accounts of the intellectual? This book considers different attempts by Marxist and post-Marxist writers to theorize these and other related questions.

Taking inspiration from David McLellan's impressive body of work, the contributors engage directly with the relationship between Marx, ideology and religion in order to further scholarly debate and discussion on these three major themes of contemporary domestic and international politics.