Marxism Missing, Missing Marxism: From Marxism to Identity Politics and Beyond (Studies in Critical Social Sciences) - Softcover

Brass, Tom

 
9781642597707: Marxism Missing, Missing Marxism: From Marxism to Identity Politics and Beyond (Studies in Critical Social Sciences)

Synopsis

Examining how Marxist theory is lacking but much needed in a variety of analytical contexts, this book traces the theoretical maze in which Marxism currently finds itself, and from which it is trying to exit while remaining epistemologically intact. Scholar Tom Brass cogently argues that when Marxism is stripped of any or all of its core elements―such as class formation/consciousness/struggle, and a socialist transition―it ceases to be recognizable as Marxism at all. Consequently, the book constitutes an attempt by Marxist political economy to extricate itself from mistaken attempts to conflate it with the cultural turn, identity politics, bourgeois economics, or varieties of populism and nationalism, while grappling with the danger of not mapping Marxism in relation to those discourses.

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About the Author

Tom Brass, D.Phil (1982) formerly lectured in the SPS Faculty at Cambridge University and directed studies for Queens' College. He edited The Journal of Peasant Studies for almost two decades, and has published extensively on agrarian issues and rural labour relations, including Revolution and Its Alternatives (Brill, 2019).

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9789004445772: Marxism Missing, Missing Marxism: From Marxism to Identity Politics and Beyond: 183 (Studies in Critical Social Sciences)

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ISBN 10:  9004445773 ISBN 13:  9789004445772
Publisher: BRILL, 2021
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