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Christianity and Marxism: A Philosophical Contribution to Their Reconciliation

Andrew Collier — 2008-06-02T00:48:34-00:00

(24 May 2001)

Christians and Marxists have co-operated in various forms of political work in recent decades, and, after earlier years of antagonism, thinkers on both sides have come to take the other seriously. The aim of this book is to get Christianity and Marxism to meet on terrain on which they might seem most opposed: their philosophical positions; and to do so without watering either down, but taking then full strength.

Marxism and Christianity

Alasdair Macintyre — 2008-06-02T00:48:01-00:00

(27 April 1995)

This volume explores the common ground between Marxism and Christianity. It argues that Marxism shares in good measure both the content and functions of Christianity and does so because it inherits it from Christianity. It details the religious attitudes and modes of belief that appear in Marxism as it developed historically from the philosophies of Hegel and Feuerbach, and as it has been carried on by its latter-day interpreters from Rosa Luxemberg and Trotsky to Kautsky and Lukacs. It sets out to show that Marxism, no less than Christianity, is subject to the historical relativity that affects all ideologies. This new edition has been updated to take account of the collapse of Communism in the former Eastern bloc and whether Marxism, in particular, is still relevant to those who seek a changed social order today.

Anti-capitalism: A Marxist Introduction

2008-06-01T15:49:48-00:00

(05 December 2002)

The Politics of Thatcherism

2008-06-01T15:37:54-00:00

The Hard Road to Renewal: Thatcherism and the Crisis of the Left

Stuart Hall — 2008-06-01T15:37:04-00:00

(10 November 1988)

Spaces of Global Capitalism: A Theory of Uneven Geographical Development

David Harvey — 2006-01-10T12:14:34-00:00

(15 May 2006)

Capitalism, Socialism and Radical Political Economy: Essays in Honor of Howard J.Sherman (New Directions in Modern Economics)

2008-06-01T13:02:06-00:00

(20 December 2000)

This volume of new, original essays reflects the lifelong concerns and writings of the person they honor, Professor Howard Sherman. Sherman wrote on a wide range of topics: the causes of recessions, depressions and mass unemployment under capitalism; the difficulties and challenges of establishing viable democratic planning systems under socialism; the down-to- earth realities of economic life in the United States, the Soviet Union and elsewhere; and the theoretical traditions he drew upon to inform these empirical studies, i.e. Keynesianism, institutionalism and, most especially, Marxism. The contributors follow in Sherman's tradition through their careful analysis of topics such as: the long-term trends in contemporary global capitalism; the relationship between Marxism and institutionalism; debates over the usefulness of class analysis; the political economy of financial liberalization; lessons from the demise of socialism in the Soviet Union and China; and the possibilities for advancing a workable egalitarian economic agenda. This book demonstrates the continued vibrancy and relevance of radical political economy as a mode of social scientific analysis. Scholars and students in economics, sociology, history, philosophy and political science will find the essays thought-provoking and informative.

The Cancer Stage of Capitalism: And Its Cure

John Mcmurtry — 2008-06-01T10:11:00-00:00

(14 December 1998)

Unequal Freedoms: The Global Market as an Ethical System

John Mcmurtry — 2008-06-01T10:10:41-00:00

"_Lays bare the foundations of a new economics ... bids well to become a classic._" --William Krehm, Committee on Monetary and Economic Reform *Covers a broad spectrum of themes developed by important thinkers including John Locke, Karl Marx, Peter Drucker, and Robert Reich *Unearths a range of issues including human need, environmental crises, consumerism, and citizenship This is the intelligent citizen’s complete guide to the theory and practice of the global market, with clear and direct applicability to everyday life- experiences and emerging controversies and debates. This moral philosopher offers a step-by-step analysis of the global order as an ethical system, employing easy-to-follow arguments and focused analyses that are intelligible and interesting to students, scholars, and anyone attempting to come to grips with the crises of the contemporary world.

Realistic spatial abstraction? Marxist observations of a claim within critical realist geography

John Roberts — 2008-05-31T16:24:41-00:00

Prog Hum Geogr, Vol. 25, No. 4. (1 December 2001), pp. 545-567.

Critical realism has attracted substantial interest and following within social geography for a number of years. A principal reason for this popularity lies with the critical realist method of abstraction. This method seeks to abstract the underlying causal powers of an object for social analysis at different levels of abstraction. The theoretical movement from the underlying reality of an object to its contingent and everyday appearance therefore enables geographers to explore different spatial scales of the same concrete object of analysis. This ability to take seriously an underlying reality' also enables geographers to spatialize, and embed themselves within, a radical heritage beginning with Marx. In this paper I wish to question the methodological power of critical realism for social geographical thought. By recourse to Hegel, Marx and Lefebvre, I want to show that critical realists and critical realist geographers in fact pursue different methodological projects to that of Marxism. Whereas Marxists seek to explore the self-movement of a contradictory essence, critical realists and critical realist geographers seek to explore the external and relational connection between causal powers. I argue that within this critical realist exploration there is a tendency to present a rather static account of essence, or causal powers, because of the non-dialectical and dualist assumptions about the world that such an account encourages. It is an account, moreover, which can lead to a somewhat impoverished radical social theory. 10.1191/030913201682688931

New Departures in Marxian Theory (Economics as Social Theory)

Stephen Resnick — 2008-05-31T16:05:21-00:00

(08 June 2006)

Over the last twenty-five years, Stephen Resnick and Richard Wolff have developed a groundbreaking interpretation of Marxian theory generally and of Marxian economics in particular. This book brings together their key contributions and underscores their different interpretations. In facing and trying to resolve contradictions and lapses within Marxism, the authors have confronted the basic incompatibilities among the dominant modern versions of Marxian theory, and the fact that Marxism seemed cut off from the criticisms of determinist modes of thought offered by post-structuralism and post-modernism and even by some of Marxisms greatest theorists.

Spaces of Hope (California Studies in Critical Human Geography, 7)

David Harvey — 2006-07-16T03:23:45-00:00

(29 March 2000)

As the twentieth century drew to a close, the rich were getting richer; power was concentrating within huge corporations; vast tracts of the earth were being laid waste; three quarters of the earth's population had no control over its destiny and no claim to basic rights. There was nothing new in this. What was new was the virtual absence of any political will to do anything about it. Spaces of Hope takes issue with this. David Harvey brings an exciting perspective to two of the principal themes of contemporary social discourse: globalization and the body. Exploring the uneven geographical development of late-twentieth-century capitalism, and placing the working body in relation to this new geography, he finds in Marx's writings a wealth of relevant analysis and theoretical insight. In order to make much-needed changes, Harvey maintains, we need to become the architects of a different living and working environment and to learn to bridge the micro-scale of the body and the personal and the macro-scale of global political economy. Utopian movements have for centuries tried to construct a just society. Harvey looks at their history to ask why they failed and what the ideas behind them might still have to offer. His devastating description of the existing urban environment (Baltimore is his case study) fuels his argument that we can and must use the force of utopian imagining against all who say "there is no alternative." He outlines a new kind of utopian thought, which he calls dialectical utopianism, and refocuses our attention on possible designs for a more equitable world of work and living with nature. If any political ideology or plan is to work, he argues, it must take account of our human qualities. Finally, Harvey dares to sketch a very personal utopian vision in an appendix, one that leaves no doubt about his own geography of hope.

The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change

David Harvey — 2005-08-30T03:34:14-00:00

(01 October 1989)

The Condition of Postmodernity is David Harvey's seminal history of our most equivocal of eras. What does postmodernism mean? Where did it come from? Harvey, a professor of geography and a key mover behind extending the scope and influence of the discipline of geography itself, does a thorough job here delineating the passage through to postmodernity and the economic, social, and political changes that underscored and accompanied it. As he clearly states, the rise in postmodernist cultural forms is related to a new intensity in what Harvey terms "time-space compression," but this new intensity is a qualitative rather than quantitative change in social organization, and it does not point to an era beyond capitalism as "the basic rules of capitalistic accumulation" remain unchanged. Unlike Fredric Jameson (whose equally rewarding Postmodernism stands as the twin pillar to Harvey's critique), who explicitly relies on Ernest Mandel's periodization of late capitalism, Harvey eschews a narrowly economic focus, the limits and contradictions of production that have led to the rise in the service sector, and takes a more multidisciplinary approach to his history. As comfortable discussing Manet as he is labor markets, Harvey is an excellent writer, and The Condition of Postmodernity is an exceptionally informative and enjoyable read. --Mark Thwaite, Amazon.co.uk A great deal has been written on what has variously been described as the post-modern condition and on post-modern culture, architecture, art and society. In this new book, David Harvey seeks to determine what is meant by the term in its different contexts and to identify how accurate and useful it is as a description of contemporary experience. But the book is much more than this: in the course of his investigation the author provides a social and semantic history - from the Enlightenment to the present - of modernism and its expression in political and social ideas and movements, as well as in art, literature and architecture. He considers in particular how the meaning and perception of time and space themselves vary over time and space, and shows that this variance affects individual values and social processes of the most fundamental kind. This book will be widely welcomed, not only for its clear and critical account of the arguments surrounding the propositions of modernity and post-modernity, but as an incisive contribution to the history of ideas and their relation to social and political change.

The New Imperialism (Clarendon Lectures in Geography and Environmental Studies)

David Harvey — 2006-01-10T12:12:53-00:00

(17 February 2005)

People around the world are confused and concerned. Is it a sign of strength or of weakness that the US has suddenly shifted from a politics of consensus to one of coercion on the world stage? What was really at stake in the war on Iraq? Was it all about oil and, if not, what else was involved? What role has a sagging economy played in pushing the US into foreign adventurism? What exactly is the relationship between US militarism abroad and domestic politics? These are the questions taken up in this compelling and original book. In this closely argued and clearly written book, David Harvey, one of the leading social theorists of his generation, builds a conceptual framework to expose the underlying forces at work behind these momentous shifts in US policies and politics. The compulsions behind the projection of US power on the world as a "new imperialism" are here, for the first time, laid bare for all to see.

A Brief History of Neoliberalism

David Harvey — 2007-02-27T17:48:30-00:00

(18 January 2007)

Neoliberalism - the doctrine that market exchange is an ethic in itself, capable of acting as a guide for all human action - has become dominant in both thought and practice throughout much of the world since 1970 or so. Its spread has depended upon a reconstitution of state powers such that privatization, finance, and market processes are emphasized. State interventions in the economy are minimized, while the obligations of the state to provide for the welfare of its citizens are diminished. David Harvey, author of 'The New Imperialism' and 'The Condition of Postmodernity', here tells the political-economic story of where neoliberalization came from and how it proliferated on the world stage. While Thatcher and Reagan are often cited as primary authors of this neoliberal turn, Harvey shows how a complex of forces, from Chile to China and from New York City to Mexico City, have also played their part. In addition he explores the continuities and contrasts between neoliberalism of the Clinton sort and the recent turn towards neoconservative imperialism of George W. Bush. Finally, through critical engagement with this history, Harvey constructs a framework not only for analyzing the political and economic dangers that now surround us, but also for assessing the prospects for the more socially just alternatives being advocated by many oppositional movements.

Marx After Sraffa

Ian Steedman — 2008-05-31T14:49:17-00:00

(10 November 1977)

What Does the Ruling Class do When it Rules?

Goran Therborn — 2008-05-31T14:15:19-00:00

(01 January 2008)

**The radical sociologist analyzes the practices of the elite.** "Verso's beautifully designed _Radical Thinkers_ series, which brings together seminal works by leading left-wing intellectuals, is a sophisticated blend of theory and thought. The authors whose writings are included in the series have worked tirelessly to expose the mechanisms by which culture and knowledge are manufactured, managed and controlled."—Ziauddin Sardar, _New Statesman_

Western Marxism and the Soviet Union (Historical Materialism Book Series)

Marcel Van Der Linden — 2008-05-10T20:54:08-00:00

(30 July 2007)

If the Soviet Union did not have a socialist society, then how should its nature be understood? The present book presents the first comprehensive appraisal of the debates on this problem, which was so central to twentieth-century Marxism.

Critical Companion to Contemporary Marxism (Historical Materialism Book Series) (Historical Materialism Book Series)

2008-05-10T20:51:20-00:00

(15 January 2008)

The Clash Of Globalisations: Neo-Liberalism, The Third Way And Anti-Globalisation (Historical Materialism) (Historical Materialism)

Ray Kiely — 2008-05-10T20:48:17-00:00

(30 March 2005)

This work addresses the politics of globalisation through an examination of neo-liberalism, the third way, and anti-capitalist responses and alternatives. It utilises a Marxist approach, not only to challenge the claims made by apologists for 'actually existing globalisation', but to explain, contextualise and problematise the rise of anti-globalisation politics. Central to the work is a critique of globalisation theory, neo-liberalism and the third way; an examination of the role of the state as an agent of globalisation, particularly the hegemonic US state; a theorisation of the nature of uneven development in the global order; and an examination of the political implications of these issues for progressive alternatives to neo-liberal globalisation.

Globalisation: A Systematic Marxian Account (Historical Materialism Book Series)

Tony Smith — 2008-05-10T20:46:18-00:00

(12 December 2005)

Part One of this book examines the social-state, neoliberal, catalytic-state, and democratic-cosmopolitan models of globalisation. Each necessarily tends to function in a manner contradicting essential claims made by its leading advocates. This "immanent contradiction" provides a theoretical warrant for moving to a new position, addressing the shortcomings of the previous framework. The first three chapters of Part Two are devoted to a Marxian model of capitalist globalisation, in which the irresolvable contradictions and social antagonisms of the capitalist global order are explicitly recognised. The final chapter is devoted to a Marxian model of socialist globalisation, in which those contradictions and antagonisms are overcome, bringing the systematic dialectic of globalisation to a close.

Marx's Ecology: Materialism and Nature

John Foster — 2008-05-10T20:44:00-00:00

(01 March 2000)

Progress requires the conquest of nature. Or does it? This startling new account overturns conventional interpretations of Marx and in the process outlines a more rational approach to the current environmental crisis. Marx, it is often assumed, cared only about industrial growth and the development of economic forces. John Bellamy Foster examines Marx's neglected writings on capitalist agriculture and soil ecology, philosophical naturalism, and evolutionary theory. He shows that Marx, known as a powerful critic of capitalist society, was also deeply concerned with the changing human relationship to nature. Marx's Ecology covers many other thinkers, including Epicurus, Charles Darwin, Thomas Malthus, Ludwig Feuerbach, P. J. Proudhon, and William Paley. By reconstructing a materialist conception of nature and society, Marx's Ecology challenges the spiritualism prevalent in the modern Green movement, pointing toward a method that offers more lasting and sustainable solutions to the ecological crisis.

Ecology Against Capitalism

John Foster — 2008-05-10T20:42:49-00:00

(01 February 2002)

In recent years John Bellamy Foster has emerged as a leading theorist of the Marxist perspective on ecology. His seminal book Marx's Ecology (Monthly Review Press, 2000) discusses the place of ecological issues within the intellectual history of Marxism and on the philosophical foundations of a Marxist ecology, and has become a major point of reference in ecological debates. This historical and philosophical focus is now supplemented by more directly political engagement in his new book, <ti1>Ecology against Capitalism</ti1>. In a broad-ranging treatment of contemporary ecological politics, Foster deals with such issues as pollution, sustainable development, technological responses to environmental crisis, population growth, soil fertility, the preservation of ancient forests, and the "new economy" of the Internet age. Foster's introduction sets out the unifying themes of these essays enabling the reader to draw from them a consolidated approach to a rapidly-expanding field of debate which is of critical importance in our times. Within these debates on the politics of ecology, Foster's work develops an important and distinctive perspective. Where many of these debates assume a basic divergence of "red" and "green" issues, and are concerned with the exact terms of a trade-off between them, Foster argues that Marxism<mdash>properly understood<mdash>already provides the framework within which ecological questions are best approached. This perspective is advanced here in accessible and concrete form, taking account of the major positions in contemporary ecological debate.

Natural Causes: Essays in Ecological Marxism

James O'Connor — 2008-05-10T20:42:15-00:00

(19 December 1997)

<div>Economic growth since the Industrial Revolution has been achieved at great cost both to the natural environment and to the autonomy of communities. What can a Marxist perspective contribute to understanding this disturbing legacy, and mitigating its impact on future generations? Renowned social theorist James O'Connor shows how the policies and imperatives of business and government influence--and are influenced by--environmental and social change. Probing the relationship between economy, nature, and society, O'Connor argues that environmental and social crises pose a growing threat to capitalism itself. These illuminating essays and case studies demonstrate the power of ecological Marxist analysis for understanding our diverse environmental and social history, for grounding economic behavior in the real world, and for formulating and evaluating new political strategies. </div>

Marxism and Ecological Economics: Toward a Red and Green Political Economy (Historical Materialism Book) (Historical Materialism Book)

Paul Burkett — 2008-05-10T20:41:03-00:00

(15 March 2006)

This book undertakes the first general assessment of ecological economics from a Marxist point of view, and shows how Marxist political economy can make a substantial contribution to ecological economics. The analysis is developed in terms of four basic issues: (1) nature and economic value; (2) the treatment of nature as capital; (3) the significance of the entropy law for economic systems; (4) the concept of sustainable development. In each case, it is shown that Marxism can help ecological economics fulfill its commitments to multi-disciplinarity, methodological pluralism, and historical openness. In this way, a foundation is constructed for a substantive dialogue between Marxists and ecological economists.

Criticism of Heaven (Historical Materialism Book Series)

Roland Boer — 2008-05-10T20:27:55-00:00

(30 August 2007)

Why do some of the major Marxists of the twentieth century engage extensively with theology? What is the influence on their other work? This book explores the instersections between Marxism and theology in the work of Ernst Bloch, Walter Benjamin, Louis Althusser, Henri Lefebvre, Antonio Gramsci, Terry Eagleton, Slavoj iek and Theodor Adorno.

Alasdair MacIntyre's Engagement with Marxism: Selected Writings 1953-1974 (Historical Materialism Book Series) (Historical Materialism)

2008-05-10T20:26:42-00:00

(15 March 2008)

Review: [The New Left Church]

Karl Hertz — 2008-05-09T15:39:47-00:00

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Vol. 6, No. 2. (1967), pp. 309-311.

Dissent In Economics: Making Radical Political Economics and Post Keynesian Economics, 1960-1980.

Tiago Mata — 2007-07-16T04:15:27-00:00

(2005)

On conclusion of my degree in 2005, I extended my interest in the history of 1960s radical thought to include other disciplines, such as history and sociology. In a one-year postdoctoral fellowship at the Department of Science and Technology Studies, University College London, I contrasted my findings with the literature on dissent in natural science. I have found striking similarities in dissenters' construction of identity and difference. This cultural practice is often called in science studies: "boundary work."

The Value of Marx: Political Economy for Contemporary Capitalism (Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy)

Alfredo Filho — 2008-05-03T14:45:28-00:00

(17 September 2007)

The author critically reviews the methodological principles of Marx's value analysis and the best known interpretation of his value theory. He develops an interpretation of Marx focussing primarily upon the processes and relations that regulate social and economic reproduction under capitalism. When analysed from this angle, value theory is a theory of class and exploitation. The concept of value is useful, among other reasons, because it explains capitalist exploitation in spite of the predominance of voluntary market exchanges. The most important controversies in Marxian political economy are reviewed exhaustively, and new light is thrown on the meaning and significance of Marx's analysis and its relevance for contemporary capitalism.

The Theory of the State: The Position of Marx and Engels

John Henry — 2008-05-02T16:46:12-00:00

Forum for Social Economics, Vol. 37, No. 1. (17 May 2008), pp. 13-25.

Abstract Marx and Engels developed their position on the state in the context of their attempt to understand and analyze society in general, in particular, capitalist society. Over the course of five decades of examination, their argument was refined, partly due to their historic investigations, partly due to the work of others, specifically by Lewis Henry Morgan, and partly due to political developments, in particular the Paris Commune of 1871. Essentially, their concluding statement on the substance of the state was that this socially determined arrangement was constituted by the instruments of coercion, both physical and ideological, with which the dominant economic class coerced other social classes. In developing their ideas, Marx and Engels distinguished between the state and government, though they clearly saw a symbiotic relationship between these structures in class societies. In the course of their investigations, they differentiated their position from those of liberal, anarchist, and other socialist commentators.