Marx @ 200: Debating Capitalism & Perspectives for the Future of Radical Theory
Repeating Marx: Introduction to the Special Issue
Christian Fuchs* and Lara Monticelli**
* University of Westminster, London, UK, christian.fuchs@triple-c.at
** Independent researcher, monticelli.lara@gmail.com
Abstract: This introduction sets out the context of the special issue “Karl Marx @ 200: De- bating Capitalism & Perspectives for the Future of Radical Theory”, which was published on the occasion of Marx’s bicentenary on 5 May 2018. First, we give a brief overview of con- temporary capitalism’s development and its crises. Second, we argue that it is important to repeat Marx today. Third, we reflect on lessons learned from 200 years of struggles for alter- natives to capitalism. Fourth, we give an overview of the contributions in this special issue. Taken together, the contributions in this special issue show that Marx’s theory and politics remain key inspirations for understanding exploitation and domination in 21st-century society and for struggles that aim to overcome these phenomena and establishing a just and fair society. We need to repeat Marx today.
Keywords: Karl Marx, capitalism, class, bicentenary, 200th anniversary, 5 May 2018, 1818
- Marx @ 200: Debating Capitalism & Perspectives for the Future of Radical Theory (combined PDF of all articles)
Christian Fuchs, Lara Monticelli - Marxist Perspectives on the Global Enclosures of Social Reproduction
Friederike Beier - Epochality, Global Capitalism and Ecology
Wayne Hope - “The History of all Hitherto Existing Society:” Class Struggle and the Current Wave of Resistance
Todd Wolfson, Peter Funke - Marx, Materialism and the Brain: Determination in the Last Instance?
Joss Hands - Karl Marx and Liberation Theology: Dialectical Materialism and Christian Spirituality in, against, and beyond Contemporary Capitalism
Peter McLaren, Petar Jandrić - Synthesis Wanted: Reading Capital After 20th Century Orthodoxies and Revisions
Ingo Schmidt - Reflections on Sven-Eric Liedman’s Marx-Biography “A World to Win: The Life and Works of Karl Marx”
Christian Fuchs - An Analysis of Marx’s Legacy in the Field of Communication Studies
Bahar Kayıhan - On the Lumpen-Precariat-To-Come
Joff P.N. Bradley, Alex Taek-Gwang Lee - Law, Marxism and Method
Paul O’Connell - Two Questions to Marxist Anthropology
Chihab El Khachab - Marx’s Philosophy of Revolution in Permanence: Its Significance for Our Time
Franklin Dmitryev, Eugene Gogol - Minding the Gap: Marxian Reflections on the Transition from Capitalism to Postcapitalism
Bryant William Sculos - Ideology, Alienation and Reification: Concepts for a Radical Theory of Communication in Contemporary Capitalism
Leila Salim Leal - Sexual Capitalism: Marxist Reflections on Sexual Politics, Culture and Economy in the 21st Century
Paul Reynolds - Thinking the ‘Culture Wars’ and the Present Political Crisis with the Young Marx (and Friends)
Ben Whitham - Marx’s Centenary (1918) in the Light of the Media and Socialist Thought
Christian Fuchs - Karl Marx
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