Oxford Handbook of Karl Marx

List of contents

• Introduction


• 1. The Enduring Relevance of Karl Marx


• Paul Prew, Tomas Rotta, Tony Smith, and Matt Vidal


• Part I. Foundations


• 2. Historical Materialism


• Paul Blackledge


• 3. Class and Class Struggle


• Henry Heller


• 4. Forces of Production and Relations of Production


• David Laibman


• 5. The Eight Steps in Marx's Dialectical Method


• Bertell Ollman


• 6. Ideology as Alienated Socialization


• Jan Rehmann


• 7. Marx's Conceptualization of Value in Capital


• Geert Reuten


• 8. Value and Class


• Alan Freeman


• 9. Money


• Leda Maria Paulani


• 10. Capital


• Andrew Kliman


• 11. Capital: A Revolutionary Social Form


• Patrick Murray


• 12. The Grammar of Capital: Wealth in-against-and-beyond Value


• John Holloway


• 13. Work and Exploitation in Capitalism: The Labor Process and the Valorization Process


• Matt Vidal


• 14. Capital in General and Competition: The Production and Distribution of Surplus-Value


• Fred Moseley


• 15. Reproduction and Crisis in Capitalist Economies


• Deepankar Basu


• 16. The Capitalist State and State Power


• Bob Jessop


• 17. Capitalist Social Reproduction: The Contradiction between Production and Social Reproduction under Capitalism


• Martha E. Gimenez


• 18. Marx, Technology, and the Pathological Future of Capitalism


• Tony Smith


• 19. Alienation, or Why Capitalism Is Bad for Us


• Dan Swain


• 20. The Commodification of Knowledge and Information


• Tomás Rotta and Rodrigo Teixeira


• Part II. Labor, Class, and Social Divisions


• 21. Labor Unions and Movements


• Barry Eidlin


• 22. Migration and the Mobility of Labor


• Nicholas De Genova


• 23. Race, Class, and Revolution in the Twenty-First Century: Lessons from the League of Revolutionary Black Workers


• Walda Katz-Fishman and Jerome Scott


• 24. Nationalism, Class, and Revolution


• Kevin B. Anderson


• 25. Hegemony: A Theory of National-Popular Class Politics


• Mark McNally


• Part III. Capitalist States and Spaces


• 26. Capitalist Crises and the State


• Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin


• 27. European "Integration"


• Magnus Ryner


• 28. The Urbanization of Capital and the Production of Capitalist Natures


• Erik Swyngedouw


• Part IV. Accumulation, Crisis, and Class Struggle in the Core Countries


• 29. Stages of Capitalism and Social Structures of Accumulation: A Long View


• Terrence McDonough


• 30. Geriatric Capitalism: Stagnation and Crisis in the Atlantic Postfordist Accumulation Regime


• Matt Vidal


• 31. Sociopoiesis: Understanding Crisis in the Capitalist World-System through Complexity Sciences


• Paul Prew


• 32. Towards a Marxist Theory of Financialized Capitalism


• Jeff Powell


• 33. Metabolic Rifts and the Ecological Crisis


• Brett Clark, John Bellamy Foster, and Stefano B. Longo


• Part V. Accumulation, Crisis, and Class Struggle in the Peripheral and Semi-Peripheral Countries


• 34. Global Capital Accumulation and the Specificity of Latin America


• Guido Starosta


• 35. The Unresolved Agrarian Question in South Asia


• Debarshi Das


• 36. Asia and the Shift in Marx's Conception of Revolution and History


• Chun Lin


• 37. Analyzing the Middle East


• Gilbert Achcar


• 38. Primitive Accumulation in Post-Soviet Russia


• David Mandel


• Part VI. Alternatives to Capitalism


• 39. Marx's Concept of Socialism


• Peter Hudis


• 40. Democratic Socialist Planning


• Pat Devine


• 41. The Continuing Relevance of the Marxist Tradition for Transcending Capitalism


• Erik Olin Wright

About the author

Matt Vidal is Reader in Sociology and Political Economy, Loughborough University London, Institute of International Management. His work has been published in Contexts, Critical Sociology, Organization Studies, Socio-Economic Review, Work, Employment & Society, and others. He is author (with David Kusnet) of Organizing Prosperity (EPI) and editor (with Marco Hauptmeier) of Comparative Political Economy of Work (Palgrave). Matt is working on a book, under contract with Oxford University Press: Management Divided: Contradictions of labor management in American capitalism. He is editor-in-chief of "Work in Progress," a public sociology blog of the American Sociological Association on the economy, work and inequality.

Tony Smith is the author of 6 books and over eighty articles on Marx, the critical theory of technology, and issues in normative social theory. His works include The Logic of Marx's Capital: Replies to Hegelian Criticisms; Globalisation: A Systematic Marxian Account; and Beyond Liberal Egalitarianism: Marxism and Normative Social Theory in the Twenty-First Century.

Tomás Rotta is Senior Lecturer in Economics in the International Business & Economics department at the University of Greenwich in London, UK, and member of the Greenwich Political Economy Research Center (GPERC). He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA, an MS in Economic Development and a BA in Business Management from the University of São Paulo, Brazil. He specializes in Political Economy.

Paul Prew specializes in Marxist theory and environmental sociology. He has forthcoming chapters summarizing the work of Karl Marx in Reaktion and Routledge Presses and prior publications include the topics of critical pedagogy, perceptions of police misconduct, and the effect of the world-economy on carbon-dioxide emissions. At Minnesota State University, Mankato, he teaches courses in graduate and undergraduate theory, indigeneity and environment, globalization, and introduction to sociology. Dr. Prew is also the treasurer for the Marxist section of the American Sociological Association as well as the local non-profit, Mankato Area Fair Trade Town Association. At his university, he has received the Global Citizen, Diversity Champion, and the Kessel Peacemaker Awards.

Summary

Karl Marx is one of the most influential writers in history. Despite repeated obituaries proclaiming the death of Marxism, in the 21st century Marx's ideas and theories continue to guide vibrant research traditions in sociology, economics, political science, philosophy, history, anthropology, management, economic geography, ecology, literary criticism, and media studies.

Due to the exceptionally wide influence and reach of Marxist theory, including over 150 years of historical debates and traditions within Marxism, finding a point of entry can be daunting. The Oxford Handbook of Karl Marx provides an entry point for those new to Marxism. At the same time, its chapters, written by leading Marxist scholars, advance Marxist theory and research. Its coverage is more comprehensive than previous volumes on Marx in terms of both foundational concepts and state-of-the-art empirical research on contemporary social problems. It is also provides equal space to sociologists, economists, and political scientists, with substantial contributions from philosophers, historians, and geographers.

The Oxford Handbook of Karl Marx consists of six sections. The first section, Foundations, includes chapters that cover the foundational concepts and theories that constitute the core of Marx's theories of history, society, and political economy. This section demonstrates that the core elements of Marx's political economy of capitalism continue to be defended, elaborated, and applied to empirical social science and covers historical materialism, class, capital, labor, value, crisis, ideology, and alienation. Additional sections include Labor, Class, and Social Divisions; Capitalist States and Spaces; Accumulation, Crisis, and Class Struggle in the Core Countries; Accumulation, Crisis, and Class Struggle in the Peripheral and Semi-Peripheral Countries; and Alternatives to Capitalism.

Product details

• Authors: Matt (Reader in Sociology and Political Eco Vidal
• Assisted by: Paul Prew (Editor), Tomás Rotta (Editor), Tony Smith (Editor), Smith Tony (Editor), Matt Vidal (Editor), Vidal Matt (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.05.2019
• EAN: 9780190695545
• ISBN: 978-0-19-069554-5
• No. of pages: 864
• Series: Oxford Handbooks
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Sociology, Business & Economics / General, Economics, finance, business & management, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Politics & government, Social issues & processes, Politics and government, Social and ethical issues, Economics, finance, business and management