The Marx Revival
Discussion with John Bellamy Foster & Marcello Musto
on Marx's Ideas on Ecology and Communism
Saturday, 7 May 2022
2:00 - 4:00 (Eastern Standard Time)
Organized jointly by
Marxist Education Project, Shelter & Solidarity, and Monthly Review
Marcello Musto is a professor of Sociology at York University and is acknowledged globally as one of the authors who has made significant contributions to the revival of Marx studies over the last decade. His major writings comprise Another Marx: Early Manuscripts to the International (Bloomsbury, 2018); and The Last Years of Karl Marx: An Intellectual Biography (Stanford, 2020). His writings have been published in 25 languages.
John Bellamy Foster is an editor of Monthly Review and professor of sociology at the University of Oregon. He has written widely on political economy and has established a reputation as a major environmental sociologist. His major writings include The Robbery of Nature: Capitalism and the Ecological Rift (with Brett Clark, Monthly Review Press, 2020); and The Return of Nature: Socialism and Ecology (Monthly Review Press, 2020).
The planet is in deep trouble because of capitalism, and Karl Marx, freed from the chains of “real socialism,” is being rediscovered all around the world as the thinker who provided us with its most insightful critique. The Marx Revival is the best, most complete and most modern guide to Marx’s ideas that has appeared since the fall of the Berlin Wall. Written by highly reputed international experts, in a clear form accessible to a wider public, it brings together the liveliest and most thought-provoking contemporary interpretations of Marx’s work. It presents what he actually wrote in respect of 22 key concepts, the areas that require updating as a result of changes since the late-nineteenth century, and the reasons why it is still of such relevance in today’s world. The result is a collection that will prove indispensable both for specialists and for a new generation approaching Marx’s work for the first time. For more, click here.
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