Marx Matters

Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-90-04-50476-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 215, 368 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 755 g

Reihe: Studies in Critical Social Sciences

Choice Award 2022: Outstanding Academic Title

Marx Matters is an examination of how Marx remains more relevant than ever in dealing with contemporary crises. This volume explores how technical dimensions of a Marxian analytic frame remains relevant to our understanding of inequality, of exploitation and oppression, and of financialization in the age of global capitalism. Contributors track Marx in promoting emancipatory practices in Latin America, tackle how Marx informs issues of race and gender, explore current social movements and the populist turn, and demonstrate how Marx can guide strategies to deal with the existential environmental crises of the day. Marx matters because Marx still provides the best analysis of capitalism as a system, and his ideas still point to how society can organize for a better world.

Contributors are: Jose Bell Lara, Ashley J. Bohrer, Tom Brass, Rose M. Brewer, William K. Carroll, Penelope Ciancanelli, Raju J. Das, Ricardo A. Dello Buono, David Fasenfest, Ben Fine, Lauren Langman, Alfredo Saad-Filho, Vishwas Satgar, and William K. Tabb.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Fasenfest, David

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Marxismus, Kommunismus
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Gesellschaftstheorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS

1. The Once and Future Marx

David Fasenfest

2. What Marx Anticipated That Is, or Should Be, Central to Political Economy Today

William K. Tabb

PART I: MARX’S POLITICAL ECONOMY FOR THE PRESENT

3. From Marxist Political Economy to Financialization or Is It the Other Way About?

Ben Fine

4. Value, Capital, and Exploitation in Marx

Alfredo Saad-Filho

5. Social Oppression, Class Relation, and Capitalist Accumulation

Raju J Das

6. The Power of Money

Penelope Ciancanelli

7. Great Replacement and/as the Industrial Reserve: Populism or Marxism?

Tom Brass

PART II: MARX AND A CHANGING SOCIETY

8. Emancipatory Thought in Latin America: The Enduring Legacy of Carlos Marx

R.A. Dello Buono and Jose Bell Lara

9. Marx, the Commons and Democratic Eco-Socialism

Vishvash Satgar

10. Marx Matters, in Theory and Practice: Reflections from the Corporate Mapping Project

William Carroll

11. The Capitalist Racial State and Black Lives in Struggle

Rose M. Brewer

12. Marxism and Intersectionality: A Critical Historiography

Ashley J. Bohrer

13. Marxism, Peasants, and the Cultural Turn: The Myth of a ‘Nice’ Populism

Tom Brass

14. Marx on Social Mobilizations: Left and Right

Lauren Langman

INDEX

Über Autor(innen)

David Fasenfest (PhD 1984, University of Michigan), is Associate Professor of Sociology at Wayne State University. He is the editor of the Critical Sociology journal (Sage), and the Studies in Critical Social Science (Brill) and New Scholarship in Political Economy book series (Brill). He is the author of many articles and book chapters, most recently "Constructing the Conceptual Tools for the Global South” in Constructing the Research Object in Social Science (Brill, 2021), “Neoliberalism, Urban Policy and Environmental Degradation” in Urban Emergency (Mis)Management and the Crisis of Neoliberalism (Brill, 2020) and “Emergency Management in Michigan: A Misguided Policy Initiative” in Community Development and Public Administration Theory: Promoting Democratic Principles to Improve Communities (Routledge, 2018).