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Choice Award Outstanding Academic Title 2022
Despite being repeatedly declared out of touch and outdated, Karl Marx's ideas have never mattered more.
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 analysis remain relevant to our understanding of inequality, of exploitation and oppression, and of financialization in the age of global capitalism. Contributors to this important volume 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.
David Fasenfest is Associate Professor of Sociology at Wayne State University. He is the editor of the Critical Sociology journal, and the Studies in Critical Social Science and New Scholarship in Political Economy book series. 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, 'Neoliberalism, Urban Policy and Environmental Degradation' in Urban Emergency (Mis)Management and the Crisis of Neoliberalism and 'Emergency Management in Michigan: A Misguided Policy Initiative' in Community Development and Public Administration Theory: Promoting Democratic Principles to Improve Communities.
List of Figures
Notes on 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 1
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 2
Marx and a Changing Society
8 Emancipatory Thought in Latin America The Enduring Legacy of Carlos Marx
Ricardo A. Dello Buono and Jose Bell Lara
9 Marx, the Commons and Democratic Eco-socialism
Vishwas Satgar
10 Marx Matters, in Theory and Practice Reflections from the Corporate Mapping Project
William K. 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 Movements Left and Right
Lauren Langman
Index