 Furthermore, its resolutely "post-Marxist" self-definition marks it as one of the first major texts associated with this disciplinary development.A new edition was published in 2001, which included a preface by the authors in which they reaffirmed their commitment to the arguments made in 1985.The concept had a great influence on the theory of social movements and post-colonial research and marked the emergence of post-Marxism in the social sciences.