Reflections: Intellectuals

This concluding chapter offers reflections on the class location of Morton as a Communist intellectual and the associated ways his work has been both remembered and forgotten in scholarship. Particular attention is paid to the significance of Terry EagletonEagleton, Terry’s influential, polemical, and dismissive treatment of pre-1970s Marxist literary criticism, notably that associated with the CPGBCommunist Party of Great Britain (CPGB).