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Book SynopsisChoice Award 2022: Outstanding Academic Title 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 analytic frame remains relevant to our understanding of inequality, of exploitation and oppression, and of financialization in the age of global capitalism. Contributors 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.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements 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 José 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
