Marx Matters

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 The Capitalism As A System, And His Ideas Still Point To How Society Can Organize For A Better World-- The Once And Future Marx / David Fasenfest -- What Marx Anticipated That Is, Or Should Be, Central To Political Economy Today / William K. Tabb -- From Marxist Political Economy To Financialization Or Is It The Other Way About? / Ben Fine -- Value, Capital And Exploitation In Marx / Alfredo Saad-filho -- Social Oppression, Class Relation, And Capitalist Accumulation / Raju J Das -- The Power Of Money / Penelope Ciancanelli -- Great Replacement And/as The Industrial Reserve Populism Or Marxism? / Tom Brass -- Emancipatory Thought In Latin America : The Enduring Legacy Of Carlos Marx / Ricardo A. Dello Buono And José Bell Lara -- Marx, The Commons And Democratic Eco-socialism / Vishwas Satgar -- Marx Matters, In Theory And Practice : Reflections From The Corporate Mapping Project / William K. Carroll -- The Capitalist Racial State And Black Lives In Struggle / Rose M. Brewer -- Marxism And Intersectionality : A Critical Historiography / Ashley J. Bohrer -- Marxism, Peasants, And The Cultural Turn : The Myth Of A 'nice' Populism / Tom Brass -- Marx On Social Movements : Left And Right / Lauren Langman. Edited By David Fasenfest. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.