In this combative, controversial book, Terry Eagleton takes issue with the prejudice that Marxism is dead and done with. Taking ten of the most common objections to Marxism-that it leads to political ...tyranny, that it reduces everything to the economic, that it is a form of historical determinism, and so on-he demonstrates in each case what a woeful travesty of Marx's own thought these assumptions are. In a world in which capitalism has been shaken to its roots by some major crises,Why Marx Was Rightis as urgent and timely as it is brave and candid. Written with Eagleton's familiar wit, humor, and clarity, it will attract an audience far beyond the confines of academia.
Marx's Inferno Roberts, William Clare
2016, 2016., 20161220, 2016-12-20
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Marx's Infernoreconstructs the major arguments of Karl Marx'sCapitaland inaugurates a completely new reading of a seminal classic. Rather than offering a critique of classical political economy, ...William Roberts argues thatCapitalwas primarily a careful engagement with the motives and aims of the workers' movement. Understood in this light,Capitalemerges as a profound work of political theory. Placing Marx against the background of nineteenth-century socialism, Roberts shows howCapitalwas ingeniously modeled on Dante'sInferno, and how 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 from the past, showing how they speak to ever-renewed concerns about political life in today's world.
Deleuze, Marx and Politics Thoburn, Nicholas
2003, 20030902, 2004-03-09, 2003-09-02, 20030101, Volume:
38
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A critical and provocative exploration of the political, conceptual and cultural points of resonance between Deleuze's minor politics and Marx's critique of capitalist dynamics, engaging with ...Deleuze's missing work, The Grandeur of Marx . This book explores the core categories of communism and capital in conjunction with a wealth of contemporary and historical political concepts and movements - from the lumpenproletariat and anarchism, to Italian autonomia and Antonio Negri, immaterial labour and the refusal of work. This book will serve as an introduction to Deleuze's politics and the contemporary vitality of Marx for students and will challenge scholars in the fields of social and political theory, sociology and cultural studies.
1. Introduction: The Grandeur of Marx 2. Minor Politics: The Styles of Cramped Creation 3. The Lumpenproletariat and the Proletarian Unnamable 4. The Social Factory: Machines-Work-Control 5. The Refusal of Work 6. Conclusion: The Strange Joy of Politics
Nicholas Thoburn teaches in the Department of Sociology at the University of Manchester.
Marx Matters Fasenfest, David
01/2022, Volume:
215
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In Marx Matters noted scholars explore the way a Marxian political economy addresses contemporary social problems, demonstrating the relevance of Marx today and outlining how his work can frame ...progressive programs for social change.
Marxism and the Oppression of Women opens up an original direction in the Marxist-feminist theorisation of gender and capitalist reproduction. This edition elaborates Lise Vogel's unique contribution ...via a new introduction and Vogel's 2000 article "Domestic Labor Revisited.".
Metafísica de la mercancía Gil Claros, Mario Germán
Revista de filosofía de la Universidad de Costa Rica,
05/2023, Volume:
62, Issue:
163
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El presente texto, destaca su atención en la primera parte del primer tomo del Capital. Vol. 1. (1977) titulado mercancía y dinero, la naturaleza metafísica de la mercancía, en el que se devela su ...mundo místico en el entorno social y que de una u otra manera oculta sus orígenes reales en el trabajo humano vivo, fuente de riqueza y de explotación de las sociedades contemporáneas.
