When i did my degree in politics which was 10 years after this book was published, reading it was a window in how to dismantle a "consensus of common sense". It let me have an left perspective that avoided falling into revolutionary cant of the middle class student(all too often on the start of a journey to the thatcherite right). It is dated now but remans a classic view of how Marxism can be rescued from the Marxists. And we can make for a fairer society. ( )