Overview
- Collects an international array of authors from multiple disciplines to offer new perspectives on key topics
- Includes the most updated philological discoveries on Marx, presenting his thought in a new light
- A novel reinterpretation and reconsideration of Marx after and beyond twentieth-century Marxism
Part of the book series: Marx, Engels, and Marxisms (MAENMA)
Access this book
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Other ways to access
Table of contents (13 chapters)
-
Capitalism, Gender and Social Relations
-
Environmental Crisis and the Struggle for Nature
-
Communism as a Free Association
Keywords
About this book
This book presents a Marx that is in many ways different from the one popularized by the dominant currents of twentieth-century Marxism. The dual aim of this edited volume is to contribute to a new critical discussion of some of the classical themes of Marx’s thought and to develop a deeper analysis of certain questions to which relatively little attention has been paid until recently.
Contributions of globally renowned scholars, from nine countries and multiple academic disciplines, offer diverse and innovative perspectives on Marx’s points of view about ecology, migration, gender, the capitalist mode of production, the labour movement, globalization, social relations, and the contours of a possible socialist alternative.
The result is a collection that will prove indispensable for all specialists in the field and which suggests that Marx’s analyses are arguably resonating even more strongly today than they did in his own time.
Reviews
“This important volume expands our notions of Marx and of the present crisis with probing and luminous treatments of gender and the family; environmental destruction and capitalism; dispossession, migration, and nativism in relation to authoritarianism; and the communist alternative."
—Kevin B. Anderson, author of Marx at the Margins
“In this book Marcello Musto has brought together prestigious scholar-activists who guide us through the frontiers of struggle for our times, from gender and race to migration and the climate crisis. We learn to theorize capital’s predation and can therefore recommit ourselves to its undoing.”
\
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Marcello Musto is Professor of Sociology at York University, Toronto, Canada. He is author of Another Marx: Early Manuscripts to the International (2018), and The Last Years of Karl Marx: An Intellectual Biography (2020). Among his edited books there are The Marx Revival: Key Concepts and New Interpretations (2020), and Karl Marx’s Writings on Alienation (2021). His writings – available at www.marcellomusto.org – have been published worldwide in more than twenty languages.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Rethinking Alternatives with Marx
Book Subtitle: Economy, Ecology and Migration
Editors: Marcello Musto
Series Title: Marx, Engels, and Marxisms
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-81764-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-81763-3Published: 30 October 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-81766-4Published: 30 October 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-81764-0Published: 30 October 2021
Series ISSN: 2524-7123
Series E-ISSN: 2524-7131
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXIII, 354
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations
Topics: Political Philosophy, Political Sociology, Sociology of Work, Social Theory