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This edited volume demonstrates the intellectual power of Marxist thought. From the vantagepoint of multiple fields and disciplines, the authors compare Marxist and non-Marxist approaches regarding a wide range of issues and articulate how being informed by a Marxist approach can produce a unique, essential and comprehensive analysis of pressing political, social, economic and ecological issues. The series of volumes of which this is the first suggests that Marxism is an important step in the development of human knowledge overall and encourages non-Marxists to view Marxism as a contribution that needs to be engaged.
Raju Das is a Professor at York University, Toronto. His research interests include Marxist political economy and social theory. His recent books are Marxist Class Theory for a Skeptical World, and Marxâs Capital, Capitalism, and Limits to the State.
Robert Latham is a Professor at York University, Toronto where he teaches Politics. His research interests include political alternatives, democracy, political economy, and information technology. His recent publications include The Politics of Evasion: A Post-Globalization Dialogue Along the Edge of the State.
David Fasenfest is an Adjunct Professor at York University. His research interests centre on urban sociology, race/class/gender, labour markets, and income inequality. His recent publications include Marx Matters.
Robert Latham is a Professor at York University, Toronto where he teaches Politics. His research interests include political alternatives, democracy, political economy, and information technology. His recent publications include The Politics of Evasion: A Post-Globalization Dialogue Along the Edge of the State.
David Fasenfest is an Adjunct Professor at York University. His research interests centre on urban sociology, race/class/gender, labour markets, and income inequality. His recent publications include Marx Matters.
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
1 Power of Marxist Thought in the World of Ideas: an Introduction
âRaju J Das, Robert Latham and David Fasenfest
part 1
2 Reason, Faith and Morality: Marxism versus Bourgeois Dualism
âMurray E.G. Smith and Tim Hayslip
3 Is Marx at Home in Ancient Rome? Or Is the Eternal City the Locus of an Eternal Capitalism?
âTom Brass
part 2
4 Political Economy in Geographic Research: Institutionalist versus Marxist Approaches
âIlia Farahani, Mads Barbesgaard and Jostein Jakobsen
5 Land Rent and Unequal Development: Non-Marxist Views and the Marxist Alternative
âPatrick Galba de Paula
6 A Marxist Critique of Informality and the Informal Economy Paradigm: the Reality of Unprotected, Irregular Labor and the New Peripheral Capitalism
âJoshua Lew McDermott
7 The Globalization of the U.S. Military-Industrial Complex: Transnational Capital and Empire in the EU, Asia and the Persian Gulf
âRonald W. Cox
part 3
8 Environmental Sociology and Ecological Marxism
âTarique Niazi
9 It Took 175 Years, but Marxist Insights into the Health Effects of Capitalism are Entering Mainstream Public Health Discourse
âDennis Raphael and Toba Bryant
10 Back to Class/Back to Marx: an Alternative Perspective on Social Reproduction
âMartha E. Gimenez
11 Marxist and Non-Marxist Approaches to Black Liberation
âJoe Pateman
12 The Political Economy of Neoliberal Fascism
âAlfredo Saad-Filho
Index
Notes on Contributors
1 Power of Marxist Thought in the World of Ideas: an Introduction
âRaju J Das, Robert Latham and David Fasenfest
part 1
2 Reason, Faith and Morality: Marxism versus Bourgeois Dualism
âMurray E.G. Smith and Tim Hayslip
3 Is Marx at Home in Ancient Rome? Or Is the Eternal City the Locus of an Eternal Capitalism?
âTom Brass
part 2
4 Political Economy in Geographic Research: Institutionalist versus Marxist Approaches
âIlia Farahani, Mads Barbesgaard and Jostein Jakobsen
5 Land Rent and Unequal Development: Non-Marxist Views and the Marxist Alternative
âPatrick Galba de Paula
6 A Marxist Critique of Informality and the Informal Economy Paradigm: the Reality of Unprotected, Irregular Labor and the New Peripheral Capitalism
âJoshua Lew McDermott
7 The Globalization of the U.S. Military-Industrial Complex: Transnational Capital and Empire in the EU, Asia and the Persian Gulf
âRonald W. Cox
part 3
8 Environmental Sociology and Ecological Marxism
âTarique Niazi
9 It Took 175 Years, but Marxist Insights into the Health Effects of Capitalism are Entering Mainstream Public Health Discourse
âDennis Raphael and Toba Bryant
10 Back to Class/Back to Marx: an Alternative Perspective on Social Reproduction
âMartha E. Gimenez
11 Marxist and Non-Marxist Approaches to Black Liberation
âJoe Pateman
12 The Political Economy of Neoliberal Fascism
âAlfredo Saad-Filho
Index
Post-graduate students and university teachers interested in understanding the power of Marxism and its relation to non-Marxist thought.