Intense debates in recent decades have provoked major new directions in Marxist theory. Earlier reductionist notions of knowledge, dialectics, contradiction, class, and capitalism have been challenged and profoundly transformed.
Intense debates in recent decades have provoked major new directions in Marxist theory. Earlier reductionist notions of knowledge, dialectics, contrad...
Over the last twenty-five years, Stephen Resnick and Richard Wolff have developed a groundbreaking interpretation of Marxian theory generally and of Marxian economics in particular. This book brings together their key contributions and underscores their different interpretations.
In facing and trying to resolve contradictions and lapses within Marxism, the authors have confronted the basic incompatibilities among the dominant modern versions of Marxian theory, and the fact that Marxism seemed cut off from the criticisms of determinist modes of thought offered by post-structuralism...
Over the last twenty-five years, Stephen Resnick and Richard Wolff have developed a groundbreaking interpretation of Marxian theory generally and o...
This text looks at the entire history of the Soviet Union and presents a new kind of analysis of the history of the USSR: examining its birth, evolution and death in class terms. Utilizing the class analytics they have developed since 1970, Resnick and Wolff formulate an economic theory of communism and use that theory to answer the question: did communism ever exist in the USSR and if so, where, why and for how long? Their initial, and controversial, conclusion is that Soviet industry never established a communist class structure.
This text looks at the entire history of the Soviet Union and presents a new kind of analysis of the history of the USSR: examining its birth, evoluti...
This text takes an ambitious look at the entire history of the Soviet Union and presents a different kind of analysis of the history of the USSR: examining its birth, evolution, and death in class terms. Utilizing the class analytics they have developed over the last three decades, Resnick and Wolff formulate the most fully developed economic theory of communism now available, and use that theory to answer the question: did communism ever exist in the USSR and if so, where, why and for how long? Their initial, and controversial, conclusion: Soviet industry never established a communist class...
This text takes an ambitious look at the entire history of the Soviet Union and presents a different kind of analysis of the history of the USSR: exam...