I've done a lot of cultural Marxism. Used to sit there in Edinburgh, and it was like the Bible. And we'd all reverentially go through it line by line. So I am in this slightly interesting situation where I'm immersed in this type of stuff but simultaneously very critical of it. But I also think it gets a very, some of the so-called postmodern stuff gets a very bad rap and is profoundly misunderstood. If there's ever another revolution with the Ayatollahs, my book might be waved to the streets of Tehran. You don't know how your work’s going to be used. The idea that you use some of their ideas as guidance

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