The Legacy of Marxism: Contemporary Challenges, Conflicts, and Developments

ISBN-13: 9781441103499 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 208 str.

Matthew Johnson

Opis

Marx's influence is evident in a range of often incompatible and contradictory political movements and intellectual approaches. With a number of those movements now discredited by the experience of really existing socialism', and the academic left gravitating towards approaches which eschew authoritarian', essentialist' and ethnocentric' elements of orthodox Marxism, the relevance of Marx has been called into question.

Featuring chapters by Norman Geras, Joseph Femia, Alan Johnson, Paul Bowman, Ronaldo Munck, Lawrence Wilde, Mark Cowling, Chengyi Peng, Terrell Carver, Oliver Harrison and Stuart Sim, this book is an attempt to examine means by which the left can make real, substantive and positive contributions to contemporary debate. The collection examines such topics as: the meaning of Marxism and pluralism within the left; Marxism's scientific credentials; i ek, revolution, democracy and cultural studies; the politics of development; the relationship between Marxism and global capitalism; the global justice debate and Marx's rejection of moral discourse; the analysis of crime and criminal justice; Chinese society and constitutional diversity, and the relationship between Marxism and post-Marxism."

Spis treści

Acknowledgements Contributors Introduction Matthew Johnson Chapter 1: What does it mean to be a Marxist? Norman Geras Chapter 2: An Image in a Curved Mirror: Pareto's Critique of Marxist Science Joseph V. Femia Chapter 3: Slavoj Žižek's Theory of Revolution: A Critique Alan Johnson Chapter 4: How to Not Read Žižek Paul Bowman Chapter 5: Marxism and Development: A Search for Relevance Ronaldo Munck Chapter 6: Progress, Anti-isms and Revolutionary Subjects: The Importance of Transcending Liberalism Matthew Johnson Chapter 7: Marx, Morality, and the Global Justice Debate Lawrence Wilde Chapter 8: Can Marxism Make Sense of Crime? Mark Cowling Chapter 9: Sinicized Marxist Constitutionalism: Its Emergence, Contents, and Implications Andrew (Chengyi) Peng Chapter 10: Varieties of Constitutionalism: A Response to 'Sinicized Marxist Constitutionalism' by Chengyi (Andrew) Peng Terrell Carver Chapter 11: 'Revolutionary subjectivity in post-Marxist thought: the case of Laclau and Badiou' Oliver Harrison Chapter 12: 'Post' or 'Past'?: Does Post-Marxism Have Any Future? Stuart Sim