The Marx Revival: Key Concepts and New Interpretations

Cover
Half-title page
Title page
Copyright page
Contents
About the Editor
List of
Contributors
Preface
Acknowledgements
Note on the Text
1 Capitalism
	1.1 Capitalism and Its History
	1.2 Capitalism: What Is in a Word?
	1.3 The Basic Features of Modern Capitalism
	1.4 Value, Money, Competition
	1.5 Exploitation and Accumulation
	1.6 The Historical Emergence and Development of Capitalism
	1.7 Marx’s Critique of Modern Capitalism
2 Communism
	2.1 Critical Theories of the Early Socialists
	2.2 Equality, Theoretical Systems, and Future Society: Errors of the Precursors
	2.3 Where and Why Marx Wrote about Communism
	2.4 The Limits of the Initial Formulations
	2.5 Communism as Free Association
	2.6 Common Ownership and Free Time
	2.7 Role of the State, Individual Rights, and Freedoms
3 Democracy
	3.1 Marx’s Critique of Democracy
	3.2 The Changing Meanings of Democracy
	3.3 Marx on ‘Bourgeois Democracy’
	3.4 From Politics to Political Economy
	3.5 The Political Limits of Capitalist Democracy
4 Proletariat
	4.1 The Revolutionary Subject
	4.2 Defining the Proletariat
	4.3 Excluding the Lumpenproletariat
	4.4 Excluding Chattel Slaves
	4.5 Problematic Consequences
	4.6 A Final Word
5 Class Struggle
	5.1 Genealogy
	5.2 Theoretical Articulation
	5.3 Politics
	5.4 Assessment
6 Political Organization
	6.1 The Philosophical Basis of Marx’s Concept of Organization
	6.2 Marx on Political Organization before and during the 1848 Revolutions
	6.3 Capital, the First International, and the Paris Commune
	6.4 Two Concepts of Organization: Marx versus Lassalle on the Party
	6.5 Marx versus Post-Marx Marxism on Organization
7 Revolution
	7.1 Revolutionary Praxis: The Early Writings
	7.2 Revolution as Self-Emancipation: The First International and the Paris Commune
	7.3 The Late Marx: Germany and Russia, Centre and Periphery
	7.4 After Marx
8 Work
	8.1 Work as a Vital Human Activity
	8.2 Labour as an Alienated Activity
	8.3 Labour, Value-Theory, Fetishism, and Associated Work
	8.4 Work Today
9 Capital and Temporality
	9.1 Reconceptualizing Marxism
	9.2 History and Domination
	9.3 Critique and Historical Specificity
	9.4 The Dialectic of Temporal Mediation
	9.5 The Dual Crisis of Capital
	9.6 An Adequate Critical Theory for Today
10 Ecology
	10.1 Marx and the Earth
	10.2 Western Marxist Criticisms of Marx on Nature
	10.3 The Rediscovery of Marx’s Ecology
	10.4 The Emergence of Marxian Ecological Praxis
11 Gender Equality
	11.1 Marx, Gender, and Feminism
	11.2 Marx’s Early Writings on Gender Equality and Emancipation
	11.3 Political Economy, Gender, and the Transformation of the Family
	11.4 The Dialectics of the Pre-capitalist Family
	11.5 The Importance of Dialectical Intersectionality
12 Nationalism and Ethnicity
	12.1 Refuting a Legend
	12.2 Poland and the European Democratic Revolution
	12.3 Race, Class, and Slavery during the American Civil War
	12.4 Ireland: Struggling against both National and Ethnic Oppression
	12.5 Reflections for the Twenty-First Century
13 Migration
	13.1 The Forced Emigration of Rural Producers
	13.2 The Slave Trade and the Super-Exploitation of Black Slaves in the Colonies
	13.3 Migration in and from Europe
	13.4 Global Labour Market and Industrial Reserve Army
	13.5 A Process That Is Not Natural but Social-Historical
	13.6 British Proletarians and Irish Proletarians
	13.7 Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow
14 Colonialism
	14.1 Capitalism as a World Force and Colonialism
	14.2 Capitalism, Colonialism, Transition
	14.3 Colonial Relations, Class Question, and the Peasantry
	14.4 Slavery
	14.5 The Colonized as the Political Subject
15 State
	15.1 Are There Essential, Permanent, Stable Elements?
	15.2 Three Essential Theories of the State and State Power
	15.3 The State as a Social Relation
	15.4 Marx and State Theory Today
16 Globalization
	16.1 Globalization in Marx’s Words
	16.2 The Dialectics of Progress
	16.3 The World Market and Critique of Political Economy
	16.4 The World Market and the State
	16.5 Uneven and Combined Development on a World Scale
	16.6 International Value and Exploitation
	16.7 World Market Crisis
	16.8 From World Market to World Revolution
17 War and International Relations
	17.1 A Belated Discovery
	17.2 The General Problem of International Relations in Marx’s Thought
	17.3 The Early Wager: The Universalization of Capitalism
	17.4 From Logic to History: The Impact of 1848 and the Crimean War
	17.5 Historicism as Theory
18 Religion
	18.1 Marx’s Engagement with Religion
	18.2 Marx’ Left-Hegelian Critique of Religion
	18.3 Towards a Materialist Interpretation of Religion
	18.4 The Marxian Political Attitude on Religion
19 Education
	19.1 Marx’s Contribution on Education
	19.2 The Political Economy of Education
	19.3 Education, the State, and Society
	19.4 Marx’s Curriculum
	19.5 Teachers and Their Work
	19.6 Marx and Education Today
20 Art
	20.1 Art and Alienation
	20.2 Art and the Critique of Political Economy
	20.3 The Contemporary Relevance of Marx’s Analysis of Art
21 Technology and Science
	21.1 Science and Technology in Marx’s Research
	21.2 Communist Machines in the Grundrisse
	21.3 Technology and Contradiction in Capital
	21.4 The Use of Marx’s Account of Technology
22 Marxisms
	22.1 Different Versions of Marxism
	22.2 Engels’ Marxism
	22.3 Soviet Marxism
	22.4 US Hegemony and the Cold War
	22.5 The World Revolution of 1968
	22.6 Collapse of the Communisms
Index