“…It is, therefore, surprising as well as refreshing that we are today, in the context of the thorough downplaying of class and salience of anti-humanism (or post humanism), hearing more and more explicit appeals for sociology in general and cultural sociology in particular to explore anew how a critical or revised humanism and, more to the point, humanist Marxism might contribute to contemporary debates (e.g. Chernilo 2016;Durkin 2014;Maher 2016;Porpora 2015;Sayer 2011;Stevenson 2016; also, from a non-Marxian viewpoint, Brereton 2011; Smith 2010). Such humanism or humanist Marxism, certainly not adopted uncritically, is said to be helpful especially in relation to the most urgent is-sues posed by today's truly global (and crisis-ridden) capitalism, the place and workings of culture it partly shapes, and the ever-present, if weak, resistance it inevitably provokes.…”