Marx Matters

David Fasenfest is Associate Professor of Sociology at Wayne State University. He is the editor of the Critical Sociology journal, and the Studies in Critical Social Science and New Scholarship in Political Economy book series. He is the author of many articles and book chapters, most recently "Constructing the Conceptual Tools for the Global South' in Constructing the Research Object in Social Science, 'Neoliberalism, Urban Policy and Environmental Degradation' in Urban Emergency (Mis)Management and the Crisis of Neoliberalism and 'Emergency Management in Michigan: A Misguided Policy Initiative' in Community Development and Public Administration Theory: Promoting Democratic Principles to Improve Communities.

List of Figures


Notes on Contributors


1 The Once and Future Marx

  David Fasenfest


2 What Marx Anticipated That Is, or Should Be, Central to Political Economy Today

  William K. Tabb


part 1

Marx's Political Economy for the Present

3 From Marxist Political Economy to Financialization or Is It the Other Way About?

  Ben Fine


4 Value, Capital and Exploitation in Marx

  Alfredo Saad-Filho


5 Social Oppression, Class Relation, and Capitalist Accumulation

  Raju J. Das


6 The Power of Money

  Penelope Ciancanelli


7 Great Replacement and/as the Industrial Reserve Populism or Marxism?

  Tom Brass


part 2

Marx and a Changing Society

8 Emancipatory Thought in Latin America The Enduring Legacy of Carlos Marx

Ricardo A. Dello Buono and Jose Bell Lara


9 Marx, the Commons and Democratic Eco-socialism

  Vishwas Satgar


10 Marx Matters, in Theory and Practice Reflections from the Corporate Mapping Project

  William K. Carroll


11 The Capitalist Racial State and Black Lives in Struggle

  Rose M. Brewer


12 Marxism and Intersectionality A Critical Historiography

  Ashley J. Bohrer


13 Marxism, Peasants, and the Cultural Turn The Myth of a 'Nice' Populism

  Tom Brass


14 Marx on Social Movements Left and Right

  Lauren Langman


Index