Reading ''Capital'' Today - Marx After 150 Years

Informationen zum Autor Ingo Schmidt is academic co-ordinator of the Labour Studies Program at Athabasca University, Canada. His research focuses on international political economy and labour movements. His recent books include Reading 'Capital' Today (Pluto, 2017), The Three Worlds of Social Democracy (Pluto, 2015) and Rosa Luxemburg's Accumulation of Capital (VSA Verlag, 2013). Carlo Fanelli teaches in the Department of Politics and Public Administration, Ryerson University, Canada. He is the author of Megacity Malaise (Fernwood Publishing, 2016) and editor of Reading 'Capital' Today (Pluto, 2017). He also edits the journal Alternate Routes. Klappentext Recent years have seen a surge of interest in Marxian political economy, particularly evident by the resurgence of readers picking up Marx's most famous work, Capital . Now 150 years after its original publication, there are still fresh interpretations of Capital that can help readers find new pathways to progressive or revolutionary change. Marking the 150th anniversary of its publication, Reading "Capital" Today offers a wide range of leading thinkers' reflections on this influential text--its political legacy, its limitations, and its continuing relevance in our world. Highlighting issues such as ecology, gender, race, labor, communism, the Third World, and imperialism, contributors also identify the connections between Capital and various socialist projects of the past, drawing lessons from those experiences that might contribute to the reinvention of socialist politics today. Zusammenfassung 150 years after the publication of Marx's Capital! this edited collection explores the book's relevance today.

Product details

• Authors: Ingo Schmidt, Ingo Fanelli Schmidt
• Assisted by: Carlo Fanelli (Editor), Fanelli Carlo (Editor), Ingo Schmidt (Editor), Schmidt Ingo (Editor)
• Publisher: Pluto
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.04.2017
• EAN: 9780745399713
• ISBN: 978-0-7453-9971-3
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Sociology, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Economic Policy, Political Economy, Revolutionary groups & movements, Far-left political ideologies and movements, Marxism & Communism, Revolutionary groups and movements