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 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.
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.
Through examining Marx's methods of critique and abstraction, this book presents a series of problems in conventional social thought and the alternatives Marx's approach poses. It demonstrates how ...sound social science abstraction cannot but have political, often radical, implications.
Presents an account and technical assessment of Marx's economic analysis in Capital, with particular reference to the transformation and the surplus-value doctrine, the reproduction schemes, the ...falling real-wage and profit rates, and the trade cycle. The focus is on criticisms that Marx himself might have been expected to face in his day and age. In addition, it offers a chronological study of the evolution of that analysis from the early 1840s through three 'drafts': documents of the late 1840s, the Grundrisse of 1857–1858, and the Economic Manuscripts of 1861–1863. It also provides three studies in application, focusing on Marx's 'evolutionary' orientation in his evaluation of the transition to communism and his rejection of 'egalitarianism' under both capitalist and communist regimes; his evolving perspective on the role of the industrial 'entrepreneur'; and his evolving appreciation of the prospects for welfare reform within capitalism.
Circling Marx Beilharz, Peter
2020, Volume:
222
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Marx circles us, and we him. These essays approach Marx through three circles - the source; the legacy into the twentieth century; and the developments since the postwar boom. This work represents a ...lifetime's engagement with Marx and his legacy.
Es decir, podemos entrar en la intimidad del "laboratorio de Marx", como reza el título de una de las obras mencionadas, para ahondar en elementos que nos permiten aclarar el sentido de lo ...desarrollado en El Capital, pero más importante, para ir más allá. Siguiendo con estos desarrollos, en el cuarto capítulo, "La crisis del capital en los Grundrisse" escrito por Lucas Manuel Villasenin, se muestra como el desarrollo capitalista lleva necesariamente a crisis sucesivas, pero que no implican sí o sí su superación, sino que en la mayoría de las veces lleva a que expanda la escala en la que predomina su lógica, subsumiendo mayor cantidad de territorios. Sin embargo, no se la plantea como una tendencia mecánica e inexorable, sino como un proceso con contratendencias que es solo observable a largo plazo y tomando al capital de conjunto. Para concluir, se plantean una serie de posibilidades y expectativas en torno a un capitalismo, donde el trabajo no esté alienado (o enajenado, en términos de El Capital) y pueda ser organizado de manera más libre, democrática y racional.
Brudney traces post-Hegelian thought from Feuerbach through Bauer to Marx's work of 1844 and his Theses on Feuerbach, and ends with an examination of The German Ideology. He shows how Marx attempted ...to reveal humanity's nature and a notion of the good life, while polemicizing against any concern with metaphysics and epistemology.