Rethinking Alternatives with Marx: Economy, Ecology and Migration (Marx, Engels, and Marxisms)

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About the Editor
Preface
Acknowledgements
Contents
Note on the Text
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
Part I Capitalism, Gender and Social Relations
1 The Factory and the Family as Spaces of Capital
	1.1 Introduction
	1.2 Spaces of Capital: Mode of Production and Class
	1.3 On Transition
	1.4 Conclusion
	References
2 Marx on Gender, Race, and Social Reproduction: A Feminist Perspective
	2.1 For a Feminist Reconstruction of Marx’s Critique of Capitalism
	2.2 Marx on the ‘Gender’ Question
	2.3 Marx on the Question of Slave Labour and ‘Race’
	2.4 Feminist Reconstructions
	References
3 Capital as a Social Relation: Form Analysis and Class Struggle
	3.1 The Capitalist Mode of Production
	3.2 The Historical Specificity of the CMP
	3.3 Form Analysis
	3.4 Class-Analysis (Classes and Class Struggle)
	3.5 Alternatives to Capitalist Formations
	References
4 Commodity and the Postmodern Spectacle
	4.1 The Dancing Tables
	4.2 The Immateriality of Value
	4.3 Postmodernism and the Bonaventura Hotel in Los Angeles
	References
Part II Environmental Crisis and the Struggle for Nature
5 Primitive Accumulation as the Cause of Economic and Ecological Disaster
	5.1 Introduction
	5.2 Separation Between Humans and Nature as the Uniqueness of Capitalism
	5.3 Marx’s Concept of ‘Wealth’
	5.4 Paradox of Wealth Continued
	5.5 The Negation of the Negation Revisited
	References
6 Marx and Environmental Catastrophe
	6.1 Introduction
	6.2 Marx
	6.3 Consumption in the USSR
	6.4 The Problem Today
	6.5 Conclusion
	References
7 Finding a Way Out of the Anthropocene: The Theory of ‘Radical Needs’ and the Ecological Transition
	7.1 Introduction: A New Type of Crisis
	7.2 Ecological Marxism
	7.3 André Gorz and Agnes Heller in Context
	7.4 The First Paradox of ‘Radical Needs’
	7.5 Between Nature and History
	7.6 The Second Paradox of ‘Radical Needs’
	7.7 A Revolutionary Ecological Transition
	References
Part III Migration, Labour and Globalization
8 Accumulation and Its Discontents: Migration and Nativism in Marx’s Capital and Late Manuscripts
	8.1 Introduction
	8.2 Accumulation by Forced Migration
	8.3 Force and Fetishism
	8.4 Accumulation Mania
	8.5 Nomads of the Proletariat
	8.6 Powers of Resistance
	8.7 Egypt Dispossessed
	8.8 Resistance, Empire, Terror
	8.9 Chinese and Nativist Workers in California
	8.10 Nativism and Caesarism
	8.11 Outrage and Right-Wing Rebellion
	References
9 Marx on Migration and the Industrial Reserve Army: Not to Be Misused!
	9.1 A Key Contradiction That Is Insoluble
	9.2 Migrant Workers and Industrial Reserve Army Are Not the Same Thing
	9.3 Emigrants as the Vanguard of the Working Class
	9.4 Italian ‘Social Nationalist’ Demagogy
	9.5 Germany: The Case of Aufstehen
	9.6 Marx Saw Very Far Ahead
	References
10 Globalization, Migrant Labour, and Capitalism: Past and Present
	10.1 Introduction: Migration as a Crucial Factor in the Global History of Capitalism
	10.2 Variegated Forms of Migrant Labour
	10.3 Labour Migration and Forced Migration
	10.4 Refugee and Immigrant Economy in Global Capitalism: Some Theoretical Reflections
	References
Part IV Communism as a Free Association
11 The Experience of the Paris Commune and Marx’s Reflections on Communism
	11.1 The Transformation of Political Power
	11.2 The Commune as Synonym of Revolution and Social Reforms
	11.3 The International After the Paris Commune
	11.4 The Civil War in France and Marx’s Reflections on Communism
	References
12 Communism as Probability and Contingency
	12.1 Probability and Contingency
	12.2 Communism as an Idea and as Real Movement
	12.3 Four Basic Components of the Communist Movement–Idea
	References
13 Uniting Communism and Liberalism: An Unsolvable Task or a Most Urgent Necessity?
	13.1 The Great Socialist Transformation of the Twentieth Century That Never Was
	13.2 Marx’s Attempts at  a Communist Solution of the Fundamental Contradiction of Complex Societies
	13.3 The Strengths and Limits of Capitalism
	13.4 The Communist Foundations, the Liberal Elements and the Socialist Mediation Forms of Sustainable Societies
	References
Index