Marxism
Marxism

Author: Christian Fuchs

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-11-21

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 1000744116

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This introductory text is a critical theory toolkit on how to how to make use of Karl Marx’s ideas in media, communication, and cultural studies. Karl Marx’s ideas remain of crucial relevance, and in this short, student-friendly book, leading expert Christian Fuchs introduces Marx to the reader by discussing 15 of his key concepts and showing how they matter for understanding the digital and communicative capitalism that shapes human life in twenty-first century society. Key concepts covered include: the dialectic, materialism, commodities, capital, capitalism, labour, surplus-value, the working class, alienation, means of communication, the general intellect, ideology, socialism, communism, and class struggles. Students taking courses in Media, Culture and Society; Communication Theory; Media Economics; Political Communication; and Cultural Studies will find Fuchs' concise introduction an essential guide to Marx.

Key Elements of Social Theory Revolutionized by Marx
Key Elements of Social Theory Revolutionized by Marx

Author: Paul Zarembka

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2020-09-25

Total Pages: 287

ISBN-13: 9004432701

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Marx's oeuvre is vast yet with key elements to an evolving social theory, even including state conspiracies. Deep confrontation with Ricardian economics is an expression, including with accumulation of capital. Luxemburg was the most significant contributor to Marxism, post-Marx.

Marx and Education
Marx and Education

Author: Jean Anyon

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2011-05-15

Total Pages: 129

ISBN-13: 1136816569

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This concise, introductory book by internationally renowned scholar Jean Anyon centers on the ideas of Marx that have been used in education studies as a guide to theory, analysis, research, and practice.

The Ideas of Karl Marx
The Ideas of Karl Marx

Author: Stefano Petrucciani

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-09-10

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 3030523519

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This book offers a complete presentation of the most important themes of Marx’s thought, following the development of Marx’s theory from the beginning to his death and offering a reconstruction and analysis that covers the whole of Marx’s life and works. Each chapter presents one of the central topics of Marx’s reflection: the confrontation with the Hegelian theory of the State (1843); the critique of political liberalism in the “On the Jewish Question”; the discovery of Political Economy in the Manuscripts of 1844; the new theory of history developed in The German Ideology; the political theory and the revolution of 1848; the critique of political economy from the Grundrisse to Capital; and the political thought of the last Marx (the Paris Commune and the critique of the German Social Democratic Party).Stefano Petrucciani is Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy.

The Marx Revival
The Marx Revival

Author: Marcello Musto

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020-06-18

Total Pages: 431

ISBN-13: 1107117925

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An international set of eminent scholars examine the contemporary relevance and continuing contribution of Marx's work. This indispensable volume presents Marx's theories in a new light, both for specialists who might think they already know everything about Marx and for a new generation of readers who are approaching his work for the first time.

The Essential Marx
The Essential Marx

Author: Karl Marx

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2006-07-21

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 048645116X

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Shortly before he was assassinated in 1940, Leon Trotsky — one of Marx's most devoted converts and a key figure in the Russian Revolution — made this selection from Capital, to which he appended his own lengthy and insightful introduction. Compact and fascinating, this invaluable work not only presents Marx's thoughts in his own words but also places them in the swirling context of the 20th century. A critical analysis of ideas that have influenced millions of lives for well over a century, this book will be an important addition to the libraries of students and instructors of economics, history, government, and Communist thought.

Understanding Marxism
Understanding Marxism

Author: Geoff Boucher

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-09-03

Total Pages: 237

ISBN-13: 1317547462

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Marxism as an intellectual movement has been one of the most important and fertile contributions to twentieth-century thought. No social theory or political philosophy today can be taken seriously unless it enters a dialogue, not just with the legacy of Marx, but also with the innovations and questions that spring from the movement that his work sparked, Marxism. Marx provided a revolutionary set of ideas about freedom, politics and society. As social and political conditions changed and new intellectual challenges to Marx's social philosophy arose, the Marxist theorists sought to update his social theory, rectify the sociological positions of historical materialism and respond to philosophical challenges with a Marxist reply. This book provides an accessible introduction to Marxism by explaining each of the key concepts of Marxist politics and social theory. The book is organized into three parts, which explore the successive waves of change within Marxist theory and places these in historical context, while the whole provides a clear and comprehensive account of Marxism as an intellectual system.

Main Currents of Marxism
Main Currents of Marxism

Author: Leszek Kołakowski

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 1324

ISBN-13: 9780393060546

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The commanding study of Marxism, now in one masterful volume with a new preface and epilogue by the author.

Why Read Marx Today?
Why Read Marx Today?

Author: Jonathan Wolff

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2003-08-28

Total Pages: 137

ISBN-13: 0191622311

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'All too often, Karl Marx has been regarded as a demon or a deity - or a busted flush. This fresh, provocative, and hugely enjoyable book explains why, for all his shortcomings, his critique of modern society remains forcefully relevant even in the twenty-first century.' Francis Wheen, author of Karl Marx In recent years we could be forgiven for assuming that Marx has nothing left to say to us. Marxist regimes have failed miserably, and with them, it seemed, all reason to take Marx seriously. The fall of the Berlin Wall had enormous symbolic resonance: it was taken to be the fall of Marx as well as of Marxist politics and economics. This timely book argues that we can detach Marx the critic of current society from Marx the prophet of future society, and that he remains the most impressive critic we have of liberal, capitalist, bourgeois society. It also shows that the value of the 'great thinkers' does not depend on their views being true, but on other features such as their originality, insight, and systematic vision. On this account too Marx still richly deserves to be read.

Marx and Modernity
Marx and Modernity

Author: Robert Antonio

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2008-04-15

Total Pages: 423

ISBN-13: 0470755431

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In this illuminating and concise collection of readings, Karl Marx emerges as the first theorist to give a comprehensive social view of the birth and development of capitalist modernity that began with the Second Industrial Revolution and still exists today.