Marx Matters

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Half Title Series Information Title Page Copyright Page Contents Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Chapter 1 The Once and Future Marx References Chapter 2 What Marx Anticipated That Is, or Should Be, Central to Political Economy Today 1 Macroeconomic Imbalance and Secular Stagnation 2 21st Century Finance Capital 3 Bonapartism Is One Response to the Crisis of 21st Century Capitalism 4 The Knowledge Commons 5 Glimpsing the Realm of Freedom References Part 1 Marx’s Political Economy for the Present Chapter 3 From Marxist Political Economy to Financialization or Is It the Other Way About? 1 Introduction 2 From Fuzz and Buzz … 3 … To Value and Beyond References Chapter 4 Value, Capital and Exploitation in Marx 1 Introduction 2 Commodities 3 Labor 4 Capitalism 5 Wage Labor 6 Value and Surplus Value 7 Competition and Mechanisation 8 Mass Production 9 The Human Implications of Capitalism References Chapter 5 Social Oppression, Class Relation, and Capitalist Accumulation 1 The Dialectical Marx and (the Fact of) Social Oppression 1.1 Marx and the Material Reality of Oppression 1.2 Marx’s General Writings with Relevance for Understanding Oppression 2 Marxism and the Explanation of Social Oppression: Class-Mechanisms 3 Marxism and the Explanation of Social Oppression: The Fundamental Role of Capitalism 3.1 Money and Its Social Power 3.2 Value of Labor Power, Unfree Labor, and Competition in the Labor Market 3.3 Twin Methods of Exploitation of Labor, General Law of Accumulation, and Crisis 4 Conclusions and Political Implications References Chapter 6 The Power of Money 1 Introduction 2 Money Is What Money Does: The Economic Powers of Money 2.1 Economic Functions (Powers) of Money 2.1.1 Measure of Value 2.1.2 Medium of Circulation 2.1.3 Money as Money: Hoarding and Universal (Value) Equivalence 2.2 Disputed Relevance 3 Money Does What Money Is: Money as a Fetish 3.1 What the Money Fetish Is 3.2 What the Money Fetish Does 4 What’s at Stake: The Political Imaginaries for the 21st Century 4.1 Money as a Solution 4.2 Money Is the Problem References Chapter 7 Great Replacement and/as the Industrial Reserve: Populism or Marxism? 1 Introduction: The Last Taboo 2 Components of gr Discourse 2.1 White Fright, White Fight 2.2 Demography, Culture, Civilization 3 The Causes of gr 3.1 Who/What Is Responsible? 3.2 Rival Ethnicities, Rival Populisms 4 Economic Aspects of the Populism/Immigration Debate 4.1 Political Economy and/as Great Replacement 4.2 Marxism and the Industrial Reserve 5 Conclusion References Part 2 Marx and a Changing Society Chapter 8 Emancipatory Thought in Latin America: The Enduring Legacy of Carlos Marx 1 The Birth of Latin American Marxism 2 Marx and Latin American Anti-imperialism 3 The Chilean Road to Socialism 4 Latin America Revisits Bolivar 5 The Movement towards Socialism in Bolivia 6 Conclusion References Chapter 9 Marx, the Commons and Democratic Eco-socialism 1 Introduction 2 The Last Great Dispossession of the Commons 3 Marx the ‘Promethean’? 4 Towards a Marxist Ecological Theory of the Commons 4.1 The Ecological Premises of Marx’s Marxism 4.2 Marx’s Critique of Capitalism and the Defense of the Commons 4.3 Non-Capitalist Societies, the Commons and Commoning 5 The Deep Just Transition and Democratic Eco-socialism 6 Conclusion References Chapter 10 Marx Matters, in Theory and Practice: Reflections from the Corporate Mapping Project 1 Setting the Context for the Corporate Mapping Project 2 Designing and Launching a Praxis-Oriented Project 3 Marx and Gramsci in the Service of Social Engagement 4 Evolution of the Project 5 Emerging Strategies 6 Energy Democracy as a 3-D Project 7 Conclusion References Chapter 11 The Capitalist Racial State and Black Lives in Struggle 1 Introduction: Dialectic of the Capitalist Racial State and Black Struggle 2 The Kerner Commission Redux: A Capitalist Racial State Consideration 3 The Capitalist Racial State: A Black Marxist Feminist Lens 4 Making the US Capitalist Racial State 5 Slavery: State Policies and Early Racial Thinking 6 Capitalist Racial State Formation and Black Struggle: The Current Period 7 21st Century Race Craft, Whiteness, and the Patriarchal Capitalist Racial State 8 Capitalist Racial State Minnesota: The Murder of George Floyd 9 And Now, George Floyd, May 25 2020 References Chapter 12 Marxism and Intersectionality: A Critical Historiography 1 Introduction 2 Intersectionality Critiques Marxism 3 Marxism Critiques Intersectionality 4 Integrating Marxism and Intersectionality 4.1 Towards a New Historiography 4.2 Colonial Heterosexualism and the Invention of Capitalism 5 Conclusion: Toward an Intersectional Critique of Capitalism References Chapter 13 Marxism, Peasants, and the Cultural Turn: The Myth of a ‘Nice’ Populism 1 Introduction 2 Peasants, Marxism, Populism 2.1 The ‘Cultural Turn’ and/as the ‘New’ Populist Postmodernism 3 Case-Studies of the Russian and Indian Countryside 3.1 Russia Then, India Now 3.2 Old Believers? 3.3 Farmers, Peasants, Kulaks 4 A Modern/Progressive Variant of Agrarian Populism? 4.1 Old/New Agrarian Populism? 4.2 A Sense of Robust Realism? 5 Conclusion References Chapter 14 Marx on Social Movements: Left and Right 1 Introduction 2 Marx, Marxism and Movements 2.1 Alienation and Human Suffering 2.2 Marx: From Bonapartism to the Paris Commune 2.3 The German Ideology 2.4 Hegemony 2.5 Gramsci’s Organic Intellectuals and “Wars of Position” 2.6 The Interregnum 3 The Frankfurt School of Critical Theory 3.1 Adorno, Propaganda and Communication 3.2 Marcuse and the Great Refusals 3.3 Habermas: The Public Sphere, the Life World, Legitimation Crises 4 Social Movements, Old and New 4.1 Emerging Progressive Movements and a New Social Consciousness 4.2 Right Wing Mobilizations 4.3 It’s More Than the Economy, Stupid 5 Conclusion References Index