In this Book
- Marxisms in the 21st Century: Crisis, critique and struggle
- Book
- 2013
- Published by: Wits University Press
- Series: Democratic Marxisms
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
summary
The current resurgence of Marxism is based on new sources of inspiration and creativity from movements that seek democratic, egalitarian and ecological alternatives to capitalism. The Marxism of many of these movements is neither dogmatic nor prescriptive, but rather, open, searching, utopian. It revolves around four primary factors: the importance of democracy for an emancipatory project; the ecological limits of capitalism; the crisis of global capitalism; and the learning of lessons from the failures of Marxist-inspired experiments. Marxisms in the Twenty-First Century challenges vanguardist Marxism featured in South Africa and beyond. Featuring leading thinkers from the Left, the book offers provocative ideas on interpreting our current world and serves as an excellent introduction to new ways of thinking about Marxism to students and scholars in the field. Many anti-capitalist traditions and themes - including democracy, globalisation, feminism, critique and ecology inform and shape the contributions in this volume.Indexed in Clarivate Analytics Book Citation Index (Web of Science Core Collection)
Table of Contents

- Acknowledgements
- p. iv
- Introduction
- pp. 1-14
- Part One: Democratising and globalising Marxism
- Chapter 2: Marxism after Polanyi
- pp. 34-52
- Part Two: Marxism and left politics
- Chapter 4: Notes on critique
- pp. 84-115
- Part Three: Crises of Marxism in Africa and possibilities for the future
- Chapter 8: Socialism and southern Africa
- pp. 196-219
- Conclusion
- pp. 281-286
- Contributors
- pp. 287-288
Additional Information
ISBN
9781868147540
Related ISBN(s)
9781868147533, 9781868148462
MARC Record
OCLC
1016601254
Pages
304
Launched on MUSE
2018-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
Yes
Creative Commons
CC-BY-NC-ND
Copyright
2013