A review of Gareth Stedman Jones, Karl Marx: Greatness and Illusion (Penguin, 2016), £35 In 1972 the Cambridge historian Gareth Stedman Jones wrote a foreword to the English edition of Werner Blumenberg’s useful biography of Karl Marx. Here he criticised… Continue Reading
A review of Lucia Pradella, Globalization and the Critique of Political Economy: New Insights from Marx’s Writings (Routledge, 2014), £90 In this pioneering book Lucia Pradella examines Marx’s research notebooks that have been published for the first time in recent… Continue Reading
Abigail B Bakan and Enakshi Dua (eds), Theorizing Anti-Racism: Linkages in Marxism and Critical Race Theories (University of Toronto Press, 2014), £22.99 Significant sections of the left have argued that Marxism is an inadequate tool to discuss how racism works—often… Continue Reading
A review of Heather A Brown, Marx on Gender and the Family: A Critical Study (Brill, 2012/Haymarket, 2013), £85.29/£19.99 Heather Brown has written an important study of Marx’s writings on women’s oppression.1 She situates her book in the current… Continue Reading
A review of Thomas Piketty, Capital in the Twenty–First Century (Harvard University Press, 2014), £29.95 In January, Oxfam’s “Working for the Few” report tore apart the idea that wealth “trickles down” and revealed that just 85 billionaires now own more… Continue Reading
A review of David Harvey, The Enigma of Capital (Profile, 2010), £14.99 David Harvey ranks today among the world’s most renowned Marxist theoreticians. His fame is thoroughly deserved. Few red professors have his gift for presenting sophisticated ideas with such… Continue Reading