Rethinking Alternatives with Marx
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This book presents a Marx that is in many ways different from the one popularized by the dominant currents of twentieth-century Marxism. The dual aim of this edited volume is to contribute to a new critical discussion of some of the classical themes of Marx's thought and to develop a deeper analysis of certain questions to which relatively little attention has been paid until recently.
Contributions of globally renowned scholars, from nine countries and multiple academic disciplines, offer diverse and innovative perspectives on Marx's points of view about ecology, migration, gender, the capitalist mode of production, the labour movement, globalization, social relations, and the contours of a possible socialist alternative.
The result is a collection that will prove indispensable for all specialists in the field and which suggests that Marx's analyses are arguably resonating even more strongly today than they did in his own time.
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"These essays, skillfully assembled by Marcello Musto, demonstrate the resilient power of Marxist ideas in contemporary contexts of battles over gender equality, migrant rights, and saving the environment of our planet. Much recommended."- M ike D av i s , author of City of Quartz"This important volume expands our notions of Marx and of the present crisis with probing and luminous treatments of gender and the family; environmental destruction and capitalism; dispossession, migration, and nativism in relation to authoritarianism; and the communist alternative."
- Kevin B. Anderson , author of Marx at the Margins
"In this book Marcello Musto has brought together prestigious scholar-activists who guide us through the frontiers of struggle for our times, from gender and race to migration and the climate crisis. We learn to theorize capital's predation and can therefore recommit ourselves to its undoing."
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Marcello Musto is Professor of Sociology at York University, Toronto, Canada. He is author of Another Marx: Early Manuscripts to the International (2018), and The Last Years of Karl Marx: An Intellectual Biography (2020). Among his edited books there are The Marx Revival: Key Concepts and New Interpretations (2020), and Karl Marx's Writings on Alienation (2021). His writings - available at www.marcellomusto.org - have been published worldwide in more than twenty languages.
Content
1. The Factory and the Family as Spaces of Capital (Himani Bannerji).- 2. Marx on Gender, Race, and Social Reproduction: A Feminist Perspective (Silvia Federici).- 3. Capital as a Social Relation: Form Analysis and Class Struggle (Bob Jessop).- 4. Commodity and the Postmodern Spectacle (Alfonso Maurizio Iacono).- 5. Primitive Accumulation as the Cause of Economic and Ecological Disaster (Kohei Saito).- 6. Marx and Environmental Catastrophe (Gregory Claeys).- 7. Finding a Way Out of the Anthropocene: The Theory of 'Radical Needs' and the Ecological Transition (Razmig Keucheyan).- 8. Accumulation and Its Discontents: Migration and Nativism in Marx's Capital and Late Manuscripts (David Norman Smith).- 9. Marx on Migration and Industrial Reserve Army: Not to Be Misused! (Pietro Basso).- 10. Globalisation, Migrant Labour, and Capitalism: Past and Present (Ranabir Samaddar).- 11. The Experience of the Paris Commune and Marx's Reflections on Communism (Marcello Musto).- 12. Communism as Probability and Contingency (Álvaro García Linera).- 13. Uniting Communism and Liberalism: An Unsolvable Task or a Most Urgent Necessity? (Michael Brie).