ABSTRACT
The Marxist interest in and connection to sf is longstanding and well known, but also highly complex, uneven, and mediated. Like its counterparts in feminist, postcolonial, queer, and ethnic literary and cultural theory, Marxist theory is always connected in both spirit and practice to objectives that range beyond a specic literary text, and thus employs cultural analysis in the interests of social and political praxis. The rst and longest section of this chapter will outline fundamental Marxist theoretical concepts and concerns with relation to sf; the second identies representative theorists and studies; the third surveys some signicant sf works of ction and lm that have been of interest to Marxist critics.
