Perhaps most notably, Stuart took this cultural analysis of politics forward in his collaboration with Martin Jacques and the members of the Marxism Today collective in producing his pathbreaking analysis of the emergence of the form of politics which from the late 1970s came to dominate the British landscape for the next generation. He and his coauthors argued that any model that used the concept of false consciousness to explain away working-class support for these forms of conservative politics was utterly inadequate. What was needed, he claimed, was an understanding of the capacity of political ideologies such as this to articulate an effective appeal to the lived experience of subordinate groups. 34 In his closing remarks to a British Sociological Association conference in May 1978, Stuart insists that while racism is certainly an ideology which serves the function of refracting quite other problems onto the question of race, it is not “a set of phoney conspiracies in the heads of the ruling class.” He argues that it is not to be seen (and cannot usefully be opposed) simply as a set of “false … or … mistaken … perceptions” but rather that it has its roots “in real … material conditions of existence … and arises because of the concrete problems of different classes and groups in the society … especially in an economy in recession.… [It] has these authentic, material conditions at its roots … involv[ing] the real problems of the people.” 35