Marx for the 21st Century

by Uchida; Hiroshi

• ISBN13: 9780415305303
• ISBN10: 0415305306
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-11-10
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This groundbreaking collection surveys current research on Marx and Marxism from a variety of perspectives. Setting forward an unconventional range of questions for discussion, the book develops key ideas, such as the theory of history, controversies about justice and the latest textual scholarship on The German Ideology. Written by Japanese scholars, the volume affords western readers a glimpse for the first time, of the results of many years' debates and discussion.Following the long tradition of Japanese interest in Marx, the book draws on the relationship between that and radical changes in local political context, as well as the economic and political development represented by Japan. Over the course of the chapters, Marx is rescued from 'orientalism', evaluated as a socialist thinker, revisited as a theorist of capitalist development and heralded as a necessary corrective to modern economics. Of particular interest are the major scholarly revisions to the 'standard' historical accounts of Marx's work on the Communist Manifesto, his relationship to the contemporary theories of Louis Blanc and P.J. Proudhon, and new information about how he and Engels worked together.This landmark work opens up a world of Japanese critical engagement and lively scholarship that will appeal to anyone interested in Marx and Marxism.

Table of Contents

List of contributors	xi
Acknowledgements	xiii
Special introduction	1	(6)
TERRELL CARVER
PART I Marx for the 21st century	7	(30)
1 Marx and modernity	9	(13)
KUNIHIKO UEMURA
2 Marx's economic theory and the prospects for socialism	22	(17)
MAKOTO ITOH
PART II Contemporary problems in Marx studies	37	(70)
3 Marx's theory of history reappraised	39	(14)
HIROSHI UCHIDA
4 Marx and the future of post-capitalist society	53	(12)
MASANORI SASAKI
5 Marx and distributive justice	65	(12)
DAISUKE ARIE
6 Marx and the environmental problem	77	(12)
HIDEAKI KUDO
7 The theory of labour money: Implications of Marx's critique for the Local Exchange Trading System (LETS)	89	(20)
MAKOTO NISHIBE
PART III The reception of Marx into modern Japan	107	(56)
8 The Japanese concept of civil society and Marx's bürgerliche Gesellschaft	109	(12)
HIROSHI MIZUTA
9 Marx and J.S. Mill on socialism	121	(14)
SHOHKEN MAWATARI
10 A bioeconomic Marx—Weber paradigm	135	(13)
AKITOSHI SUZUKI
11 Japanese 'cultural eclecticism' and a reinterpretation of Marx and Keynes on the instabilities of capitalism	148	(15)
MAKOTO NOGUCHI
PART IV New horizons of Marxology	163	(38)
12 The Brussels Democratic Association and the Communist Manifesto	165	(15)
AKIHIRO MATOBA
13 Louis Blanc, associationism in France, and Marx	180	(13)
KOICHI TAKAKUSAGI
14 Editorial problems in establishing a new edition of The German Ideology	193	(8)
TADASHI SHIBUYA
Index	201