Karl Marx’s Life, Ideas, and Influences

Shaibal Gupta is the Founding Member Secretary of the Asian Development Research Institute, Patna, India.Marcello Musto is Associate Professor of Sociological Theory at York University, Canada.Babak Amini is a PhD Candidate in Sociology at the London School of Economics, London, UK.

• Part I On the Critique of Politics.- 1. Heinrich Heine and Marx As Essayists: On the Genesis and the Function of the Critic-Intellectuals.- 2. Marx’s Critique of German Social Democracy: From the International to the Political Struggles of the 1870s.- 3. Revolution and Radical Democracy: Marx Versus Post-Marxism.- 4. Marx’ Research Project As a Future Science for Emancipatory Action: A Delineation.- 5. The Intimations of a Post-Capitalist Society in Marx’s Critique of Political Economy.- 6. Recovering Marx: Steps Towards a Breakdance.- 7. On the Notion of “Workers’ Control” in Marx and Marxists (1871–1917): A Survey.- 8. King, Marx, and the Revolution of Worldwide Value.- 9. Fetishism and Exploitation Marx - 150 and Marx 200: What Has Changed?.- Part II On the Critique of Political Economy.- 10. Marx’s Observations on the Classical Theory of Interest.- 11. Money, Power, and Capitalism: Marx’s Theory of Money and the Contemporary State-Credit Standard.- 12. Marx as Evolutionary and Some “Revisionist” Implications.- 13. Marx’s Ideas and Conceptions of Socialism in the Twenty-First Century.- 14. Marx’s Metaphysics of Human Labour in the Light of Sraffa: Labour Theory of Value Reconsidered.- 15. Marx’s Prescient Theory of Centralization of Capital: Crises and an Nkrumahist Response.- 16. Petty Production and India’s Development.

“The book offers an open-minded, informative and thought-provoking collection of contributions that inspires in-depth discussions not only of past Marxian and Marxist legacies, but also of how we learn from them to act upon our present and future world.” (Janaína de Faria, LSE Review of Books, blogs.lse.ac.uk, December 1, 2020)