Marx for Today

ISBN-13: 9780415721707 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 256 str.

Marcello Musto

Opis

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.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  Part 1: Re-reading Marx in 2010  2. Not Just Capital and Class: Marx on Non-Western Societies, Nationalism and Ethnicity  3. The Myth of Twentieth-Century Socialism and the Continuing Relevance of Karl Marx  4. Change the System, Not Its Barriers  5. Emancipation in Marx’s Early Work  6. Revisiting Marx’s Concept of Alienation  7. Marx and the Politics of Sarcasm  8. The “Lesser Evil” as Argument and Tactic, from Marx to the Present  9. In Capitalist Crisis, Rediscovering Marx  10. Universal Capitalism  Part 2: Marx’s Global Reception Today  11. Marx in Hispanic America  12. Marx in Brazil  13. Marx in the Anglophone World  14. Marx in France  15. Marx in Germany  16. Marx in Italy  17. Marx in Russia  18. Marx in China  19. Marx in South Korea  20. Marx in Japan

O autorze

Marcello Musto teaches political theory at the Department of Political Science of York University (Toronto, Canada) and is the editor of Karl Marx’s Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy 150 Years Later (Routledge, 2008).