New Departures in Marxian Theory

by Resnick; Stephen

• ISBN13: 9780415770262
• ISBN10: 0415770262
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2006-07-25
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Over the last twenty-five years, Stephen Resnick and Richard Wolff have developed a groundbreaking interpretation of Marxian theory generally and of Marxian economics in particular. This book brings together their key contributions and underscores their different interpretations. In facing and trying to resolve contradictions and lapses within Marxism, the authors have confronted the basic incompatibilities among the dominant modern versions of Marxian theory, and the fact that Marxism seemed cut off from the criticisms of determinist modes of thought offered by post-structuralism and post-modernism and even by some of Marxisms greatest theorists.

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
Acknowledgments	xii
Introduction: Marxism without determinisms	1	(8)
PART I Marxian philosophy and epistemology	9	(80)
1 Marxist epistemology: the critique of economic determinism	11	(40)
2 Rethinking complexity in economic theory: the challenge of overdetermination	51	(17)
3 Althusser's liberation of Marxian theory	68	(11)
4 Althusser and Hegel: making Marxist explanations antiessentialist and dialectical	79	(10)
PART II Class analysis	89	(108)
5 Classes in Marxian theory	91	(27)
6 Power, property, and class	118	(19)
7 Communism: between class and classless	137	(22)
8 For every knight in shining armor, there's a castle waiting to be cleaned: a Marxist-Feminist analysis of the household	159	(38)
PART III Marxian economic theory	197	(56)
9 A Marxian reconceptualization of income and its distribution	199	(22)
10 Class and monopoly	221	(17)
11 Class, contradiction and the capitalist economy	238	(15)
PART IV Criticisms and comparisons of economic theories	253	(54)
12 Division and difference in the "discipline" of economics	255	(24)
WITH J. AMARIGLIO
13 Radical economics: a tradition of theoretical differences	279	(24)
14 "Efficiency": whose efficiency?	303	(4)
PART V History	307	(47)
15 The Reagan-Bush strategy: shifting crises from enterprises to households	309	(21)
16 Capitalisms, socialisms, communisms: a Marxian view	330	(11)
17 Exploitation, consumption, and the uniqueness of US capitalism	341	(13)
Notes	354	(41)
References	395	(13)
Index	408