Marx For Today

Author : Marcello Musto
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135700478

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Marx for Today by Marcello Musto Pdf

Since the onset of global crisis in recent years, academics and economic theorists from various political and cultural backgrounds have been drawn to Marx's analysis of the inherent instability of capitalism. The rediscovery of Marx is based on his continuing capacity to explain the present. In the context of what some commentators have described as a "Marx renaissance", the aim of this book is to make a close study of Marx's principal writings in relation to the major problems of our own society, and to show why and how some of his theories constitute a precious tool for the understanding and critique of the world in the early twenty-first century. The book brings together varied reflections on the Marxian oeuvre, drawing on different perspectives and fields, and argues its case in two different parts. The first will encompass such diverse areas and themes as political thought, economics, nationalism, ethnicity, post-capitalist society, freedom, democracy, emancipation, and alienation, showing in each case how Marx has still today an invaluable contribution to make. The second presents a complete and rigorous account of the dissemination and the reception of Marx’s work throughout the world in the last decade. Both parts make a significant contribution to the current research on Marx and Marxisms. This book was originally published as a special issue of Socialism and Democracy.

Author : Jonathan Wolff
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2003-08-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191622311

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Why Read Marx Today? by Jonathan Wolff Pdf

'All too often, Karl Marx has been regarded as a demon or a deity - or a busted flush. This fresh, provocative, and hugely enjoyable book explains why, for all his shortcomings, his critique of modern society remains forcefully relevant even in the twenty-first century.' Francis Wheen, author of Karl Marx In recent years we could be forgiven for assuming that Marx has nothing left to say to us. Marxist regimes have failed miserably, and with them, it seemed, all reason to take Marx seriously. The fall of the Berlin Wall had enormous symbolic resonance: it was taken to be the fall of Marx as well as of Marxist politics and economics. This timely book argues that we can detach Marx the critic of current society from Marx the prophet of future society, and that he remains the most impressive critic we have of liberal, capitalist, bourgeois society. It also shows that the value of the 'great thinkers' does not depend on their views being true, but on other features such as their originality, insight, and systematic vision. On this account too Marx still richly deserves to be read.

Author : Frederick Harry Pitts
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 3319873601

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Critiquing Capitalism Today by Frederick Harry Pitts Pdf

This book critically introduces two compelling contemporary schools of Marxian thought: the New Reading of Marx of Michael Heinrich and Werner Bonefeld, and the postoperaismo of Antonio Negri. Each stake novel claims on Marx’s value theory, the first revisiting key categories of the critique of political economy through Frankfurt School critical theory, the second calling the law of value into crisis with reference to Marx’s rediscovered ‘Fragment on Machines’. Today, ‘postcapitalist’ conceptualisations of a changing workplace excite interest in postoperaist projections of a crisis of measurability sparked by so-called immaterial labour. Using the New Reading of Marx to question this prospectus, Critiquing Capitalism Today clarifies complex debates for newcomers to these cutting-edge currents of critical thought, looking anew at value, money, labour, class and crisis.

Author : Ryszard Panasiuk,Leszek Nowak
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Communism
ISBN : 9042005610

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Marx's Theories Today by Ryszard Panasiuk,Leszek Nowak Pdf

Author : Barbara C. Foley
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Literature
ISBN : 0745338844

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Marxist Literary Criticism Today by Barbara C. Foley Pdf

In the first introduction to Marxist literary criticism in decades, Barbara Foley argues that Marxism continues to offer the best framework for exploring the relationship between literature and society. She lays out in clear terms the principal aspects of Marxist methodology--historical materialism, political economy, and ideology critique--as well as key debates about the nature of literature and the goals of literary criticism and pedagogy. Examining a wide range of texts through the empowering lens of Marxism--from Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice to E. L. James's Fifty Shades of Grey, from Frederick Douglass's 'What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?' to Annie Proulx's 'Brokeback Mountain'--Foley provides a clear and compelling textbook of Marxist literary criticism.

Author : J. Sitton
Publisher : Springer
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2010-12-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230117457

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Marx Today by J. Sitton Pdf

This book provides, in one volume, primary sources by Marx and critical commentary which relates Marxism to contemporary social and political topics. It includes six brief works by Marx and ten articles by scholars, sympathetic to, but critical of, Marxism. For example, the author includes the classic essay by Heidi Hartmann which criticizes Marxism for misunderstanding gender oppression, "The Unhappy Marriage of Marxism and Feminism." No previous anthology of Marx has combined both brief works by Marx and multiple critical essays elaborating on his themes or engaging the shortcomings of his arguments.

Author : Eric Aarons
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2009-03-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134039456

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Hayek Versus Marx by Eric Aarons Pdf

The author provides a thorough examination of the theories of Marx and Hayek in the belief that the work of these two thinkers, in their commonalities and differences, successes and failures, contain important indicators of the content of a social philosophy suited to today’s conditions.

Author : Chronis Polychroniou,Harry R. Targ
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1996-03-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105018327242

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Marxism Today by Chronis Polychroniou,Harry R. Targ Pdf

Early in the 20th century, revolutionary socialism was not only gaining momentum but appeared destined to conquer the world. By mid-century, the red flag flew over capitals in Eastern Europe, Russia, China, Southeast Asia, Africa, and Central America; by the 1970s over one-third of the world's population lived under socialist regimes. All that has changed. With the 20th century drawing to a close, the political map of the globe looks very different: most socialist states have collapsed, revolutionary movements have been abandoned, and the United States stands as the world's lone superpower. This unique volume examines these changes—the defeat of Marxism—and suggests that the present historical juncture is but a temporary setback in the march of the working class. The authors propose that Marxism remains the most useful approach in understanding and explaining contemporary capitalism and its decay, as well as the only path toward the liberation of society from class exploitation.

Author : Ingo Schmidt,Carlo Fanelli
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
ISBN : 0745399738

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Reading Capital Today by Ingo Schmidt,Carlo Fanelli Pdf

150 years after the publication of Marx's Capital, this edited collection explores the book's relevance today.

Author : Paul Zarembka,Radhika Desai
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781780522555

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Revitalizing Marxist Theory for Today's Capitalism by Paul Zarembka,Radhika Desai Pdf

Amidst a capitalist crisis that has upturned mainstream orthodoxies, this title underscores the importance of historical and materialist understandings of capitalist economies. It exposes the limitations of neoclassical economics' endogenous growth theory and how it, in fact, gropes for understandings well established within Marxism.

Author : William Clare Roberts
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780691180816

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Marx's Inferno by William Clare Roberts Pdf

Marx’s Inferno reconstructs the major arguments of Karl Marx’s Capital and inaugurates a completely new reading of a seminal classic. Rather than simply a critique of classical political economy, William Roberts argues that Capital was primarily a careful engagement with the motives and aims of the workers’ movement. Understood in this light, Capital emerges as a profound work of political theory. Placing Marx against the background of nineteenth-century socialism, Roberts shows how Capital was ingeniously modeled on Dante’s Inferno, and how Marx, playing the role of Virgil for the proletariat, introduced partisans of workers’ emancipation to the secret depths of the modern “social Hell.” In this manner, Marx revised republican ideas of freedom in response to the rise of capitalism. Combining research on Marx’s interlocutors, textual scholarship, and forays into recent debates, Roberts traces the continuities linking Marx’s theory of capitalism to the tradition of republican political thought. He immerses the reader in socialist debates about the nature of commerce, the experience of labor, the power of bosses and managers, and the possibilities of political organization. Roberts rescues those debates from the past, and shows how they speak to ever-renewed concerns about political life in today’s world.

Author : Marcello Musto
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107117921

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The Marx Revival by Marcello Musto Pdf

An international set of eminent scholars examine the contemporary relevance and continuing contribution of Marx's work. This indispensable volume presents Marx's theories in a new light, both for specialists who might think they already know everything about Marx and for a new generation of readers who are approaching his work for the first time.

Author : Marshall Berman
Publisher : Verso
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1859843093

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Adventures in Marxism by Marshall Berman Pdf

Citing a lifelong engagement with Marxism, critic and writer Marshall Berman reveals the movement's positive points and suggests a new beginning for Marxism may be on the horizon with its recent 150th anniversary attention.

Author : Alex Callinicos
Publisher : Haymarket Books
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781608461653

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The Revolutionary Ideas of Karl Marx by Alex Callinicos Pdf

An accessible introduction to the author of Capital and coauthor of The Communist Manifesto, with a focus on his relevance in today’s world. Few thinkers have been declared irrelevant and out-of-date with such frequency as Karl Marx. Hardly a decade has gone by since his death in which establishment critics have not announced the death of his theory. And yet, despite their best efforts to bury him, Marx’s specter continues to haunt his detractors more than a century after his passing. As the boom and bust cycle of global capitalism continues to widen inequality around the world, a new generation is discovering that the problems Marx addressed in his time are remarkably similar to those of our own. In this engaging and accessible introduction, Alex Callinicos demonstrates that Marx’s ideas hold an enduring relevance for today’s activists fighting against poverty, oppression, environmental destruction, and the numerous other injustices of the capitalist system.

Author : Ben Fine,Alfredo Saad-Filho
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Marxian economics
ISBN : 1783719745

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Marx's 'Capital' - Sixth Edition by Ben Fine,Alfredo Saad-Filho Pdf

Fully revised and updated sixth edition of the internationally established guide to Marx's Capital.