Marxisms in the 21st Century : Crisis, critique and struggle / / editors, Michelle Williams and Vishwas Satgar.

• Superior document: Democratic Marxism
• TeilnehmendeR: Satgar, Vishwas.; Williams, Michelle.
• Place / Publishing House: Johannesburg : : Wits University Press,, 2013.
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Democratic Marxism.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (306 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Although Marx's writings on social transformation figured prominently in the global Left imagination for more than 150 years, by the late 20th century the relevance of Marxism was under question by both the Left (including Marxists) and the Right. Its revival in the second decade of the 21st century is finding new sources of inspiration and creativity from movements that believe that ""another world is possible"" through democratic, egalitarian, and ecological alternatives to capitalism built by ordinary people. The Marxism of many of these movements is not dogmatic or prescriptive, but open,

Table of Contents

Democratising and globalising Marxism. Marxism and democracy : liberal, vanguard or direct? -- Marxism after Polanyi -- Transnationalising Gramscian Marxism -- Marxism and left politics. Notes on critique -- Marxism and feminism : 'unhappy marriage' or creative partnership? -- Marx and the eco-logic of fossil capitalism -- crises of Marxism in Africa and possibilities for the future. Retrospect : seven theses about Africa's Marxist regimes -- Socialism and southern Africa -- Uneven and combined Marxism within South Africa's urban social movements -- Critical reflections on the crisis and limits of ANC 'Marxism'.