While there has been renewed interest in Marx recently, we cannot simply apply his more than 170-year-old texts to today's world. Across the disciplinary boundaries of philosophy, sociology, literary and cultural studies, this volume reworks Marxist critique for the twenty-first century. Capitalism, after all, has not only taken on new shapes, but, in the age of climate and care crisis, police violence, mass incarceration and global migration, it has also found new ways of exploiting and fragmenting the global workforce. The book’s key contribution is to link the embodied experiences of those fragmented workers – Marx’s Black, feminist, trans and queer »others« – with the pressing challenge of creating and mobilizing a political subject under the current iteration of capitalism.
Price: $35.00
Pages: 120
Publisher: transcript publishing
Imprint: transcript publishing
Publication Date:
11 March 2025
Trim Size: 8.86 X 5.83 in
ISBN: 9783837668353
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
»For many decades, the left has been plagued by the false choice between class politics and countering oppression. Luckily, more and more academics and activists are refusing this choice. The contributors to Marx’s Others develop unique and innovative ways of thematizing the conjunctions of race, gender, sexuality, identity, subjectivity, and capitalism. It is an indispensable volume for anyone interested in understanding the current conjuncture – and especially for those who wish to change it.«
»A rich, polyphonous, transdisciplinary collection of academic, activist, and artistic voices.«
Edith Otero Quezada is a PhD candidate in InterAmerican Studies and research associate at the Interdisciplinary Center for Gender Research (IZG) at Universität Bielefeld. She was a scholarship holder of the German Foundation Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung (2017-2020). Her research interests are feminist epistemologies, political subjectivity, guerrillas and social movements, especially in Central America and Latin America.
Vanessa Lara Ullrich is a PhD candidate in political theory and the history of ideas and research associate at the Interdisciplinary Center for Gender Research (IZG) at Universität Bielefeld. She studied psychology and politics at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt (B.Sc.) and the University of Oxford (M.Sc.). Her main research interests are critical theory and social philosophy. She also writes for newspaper outlets such as »Jacobin« or »Zeit Online«.
