Karl Marx (The International Library of Essays in Classical Sociology)

Marxs approach to analyzing society and especially his critique of capitalist society, continues to influence the work of a large number of scholars world-wide. Unfortunately, there are relatively few clear accounts of what this approach is and how to put it to use. And, despite the many attempts to use Marxs method to study a variety of subjects, there are relatively few that can serve as useful models. In the present volume, the internationally renowned Marxist scholar, Bertell Ollman, and the social theorist Kevin B. Anderson, have brought together a sampling of the best writings of the past hundred years that illustrate and critique Marxs method as well as explain what it is and how to put it to work. Anyone wishing to understand better Marxs dialectical method (along, of course, with the theories created with its help), or to revise this method or to criticize it, or to use it in their own work will find this collection invaluable. Part I Theory and Method: Reification and the consciousness of the proletariat, Georg Lukcs; The age of revolutions: industrial, social-political, intellectual, Raya Dunayevskaya; Putting dialectics to work: the process of abstraction in Marx's method, Bertell Ollman; The unity of science and revolution: Marxism as critique, Peter G. Stillman; Karl Marx's Enqute Ouvriere, Hilde Weiss (and Karl Marx). Part II Political Economy: From financial crisis to world slump: accumulation, financialization and the global slowdown, David McNally; Self-sourcing: how corporations get us to work without pay!, Martha E. Gimenez; The reproduction of daily life, Fredy Perlman; The rise and future demise of the world capitalist system: concepts for comparative analysis, Immanuel Wallerstein; The 'new' imperialism: accumulation by dispossession, David Harvey. Part III State and Politics: The constitution as an elitist document, Michael Parenti; The monopolistic economy: property and contract, Franz Neumann; The worldwide class struggle, Vincent Navarro; The economic and social functions of the legal institutions, Karl Renner; The problem of the capitalist state, Nicos Poulantzas; Reply to Nicos Poulantzas, Ralph Miliband; The Marxist case for revolution today, Ernest Mandel. Part IV The Individual and Society: Psychoanalysis and sociology, Erich Fromm; The uses and abuses of 'civil society', Ellen Meiksins Wood; Labor market and penal sanction: thoughts on the sociology of penal justice, Georg Rusche; The injuries of class, Michael D. Yates; Sports and cultural politics: the attraction of modern spectator sports, Sut Jhally and Bill Livant. Part V Culture and Religion: The culture industry: enlightenment as mass deception, Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno; Museum, Inc.: inside the global art world (over-the-cliff notes), Paul Werner; The cultural logic of late capitalism, Fredric Jameson; Aroma and shadow: Marx vs Nietzsche on religion, Ishay Landa. Part VI History: Exploitation, E.P. Thompson; The feudal mode of production, Perry Anderson; The decline and fall of Rome, G.E.M. de Ste Croix. Part VII Colonialism, Race and Gender: Negroes in the Civil War: their role in the second American revolution, C.L.R. James (J.R. Johnson); Race relations - its meaning, beginning and progress, Oliver C. Cox; The feminist standpoint: developing the ground for a specifically feminist historical materialism, Nancy C.M. Hartsock; Marx's late writings on non-Western and precapitalist societies and gender, Kevin B. Anderson. Part VIII Ecology: Marx's ecology in historical perspective, John Bellamy Foster; Marx's vision of sustainable human development, Paul Burkett; Name index. Machine generated contents note: pt. I THEORY AND METHOD -- 1. `Reification and the Consciousness of the Proletariat', in History and Class Consciousness, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, pp. 83-103 / Georg Lukacs -- 2. `The Age of Revolutions: Industrial, Social-Political, Intellectual', in Marxism and Freedom: From 1776 until Today, New York: Humanity Books, pp. 27-37 / Raya Dunayevskaya -- 3. `Putting Dialectics to Work: The Process of Abstraction in Marx's Method', Rethinking Marxism, 3, pp. 26-74 / Bertell Ollman -- 4. `The Unity of Science and Revolution: Marxism as Critique' (also appeared as `Marx's Enterprise of Critique'), in Roland Pennock (ed.), Marxism, New York: New York University Press, pp. 252-76 / Peter G. Stillman -- 5. 1979), `Karl Marx's "Enquete Ouvriere'", in Tom Bottomore (ed.), Karl Marx, Oxford: Basil Blackwell, pp. 172-84 / Hilde Weiss -- pt. II POLITICAL ECONOMY -- 6. `From Financial Crisis to World Slump: Accumulation, Financialization, and the Global Slowdown', presented at Historical Materialism Conference, London, 8 November 2008, pp. 133-54 / David McNally -- 7. `Self-Sourcing: How Corporations Get Us To Work Without Pay!', Monthly Review, 59, pp. 37-41 / Martha E. Gimenez -- 8. Reproduction of Daily Life, Detroit, Ml: Black and Red Books, pp. 1-24 / Fredy Perlman -- 9. `The Rise and Future Demise of the World Capitalist System: Concepts for Comparative Analysis', Comparative Studies in Society and History, 16, pp. 387-415 / Immanuel Wallerstein -- 10. `The "New" Imperialism: Accumulation by Dispossession', Socialist Register, 40, pp. 62-87 / David Harvey -- pt. III STATE AND POLITICS -- 11. `The Constitution as an Elitist Document', in Bertell Ollman and Jonathan Birnbaum (eds), The United States Constitution: 200 Years of Anti-federalist, Abolitionist, Feminist, Muckraking, Progressive, and Especially Socialist Criticism, New York: New York University Press, pp. 141-62 / Michael Parenti -- 12. `The Monopolistic Economy: Property and Contract', a selection from Behemoth: The Structure and Practice of National Socialism, 1933-1944, as reprinted in Jeffry Kaplow (ed.), Western Civilization: Mainstream Readings and Radical Critiques, New York: Knopf, pp. 353-62 / Franz Neumann -- 13. `The Worldwide Class Struggle', Monthly Review, 58, pp. 18-33 / Vincent Navarro -- 14. `The Economic and Social Functions of the Legal Institutions', in Tom Bottomore (ed.), Karl Marx, Oxford: Basil Blackwell, pp. 123-7 / Karl Renner -- 15. `The Problem of the Capitalist State', New Left Review, 58, pp. 67-87, and Ralph Miliband (1970), `The Capitalist State: Reply to Nicos Poulantzas', New Left Review, 59, pp. 53-60 / Nicos Poulantzas -- 16. `The Marxist Case for Revolution Today', in Steve Bloom (ed.), Revolutionary Marxism and Social Reality in the 20th Century: Collected Essays of Ernest Mandel, Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press, pp. 179-206 (originally appeared in Socialist Register, 25, [1989], pp. 159-84) / Ernest Mandel -- pt. IV INDIVIDUAL AND SOCIETY -- 17. `Psychoanalysis and Sociology', in Stephen Eric Bronner and Douglas MacKay Kellner (eds), Critical Theory and Society: A Reader, New York: Routledge, pp. 37-9 / Erich Fromm -- 18. `The Uses and Abuses of "Civil Society"', Socialist Register, 26, pp. 60-84 / Ellen Meiksins Wood -- 19. `Labor Market and Penal Sanction: Thoughts on the Sociology of Criminal Justice', Crime and Social Justice, 10, pp. 1-8 / Georg Rusche -- 20. `The Injuries of Class', Monthly Review, 59, pp. 1-10 / Michael D. Yates -- 21. `Sports and Cultural Politics: The Attraction of Modern Spectator Sports', Rethinking Marxism, 4, pp. 121-7 / Bill Livant -- pt. V CULTURE AND RELIGION -- 22. excerpt from `The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception', in Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, pp. 94-111, 268-9 / Theodor W. Adorno -- 23. `Museum, Inc.: Inside the Global Art World (Over-the-Cliff Notes)', pp. 1-11 / Paul Werner -- 24. excerpt from `The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism', in Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, pp. 1-16 (originally appeared in New Left Review, 146 (1984), pp. 53-64) / Fredric Jameson -- 25. `Aroma and Shadow: Marx vs. Nietzsche on Religion', Nature, Society, and Thought, 18, pp. 461-99 / Ishay Landa -- pt. VI HISTORY -- 26. `Exploitation', in The Making of the English Working Class, London: Victor Gollancz, pp. 189-212 / E.P. Thompson -- 27. `The Feudal Mode of Production', in Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism, London: New Left Books, pp. 147-54 / Perry Anderson -- 28. `The Decline and Fall of Rome', excerpts from Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek World: From the Archaic Age to the Arab Conquest, London: Duckworth, pp. 453, 497-503 / G.E.M. de Ste. Croix -- pt. VII COLONIALISM, RACE AND GENDER -- 29. 1943), `Negroes in the Civil War: Their Role in the Second American Revolution', New International, 9, pp. 338-41 / C.L.R. James -- 30. excerpts from `Race Relations -- Its Meaning, Beginning, and Progress', in Caste, Class, and Race: A Study in Social Dynamics, New York: Monthly Review Press, pp. 321-35 / Oliver C. Cox -- 31. `The Feminist Standpoint: Developing the Ground for a Specifically Feminist Historical Materialism', in Sandra Harding and Merrill B. Hintikka (eds), Discovering Reality: Feminist Perspectives on Epistemology, Metaphysics, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science, Boston: D. Reidel, pp. 283-310 / Nancy C.M. Hartsock -- 32. `Marx's Late Writings on Non-Western and Precapitalist Societies and Gender', Rethinking Marxism, 14, pp. 84-96 / Kevin B. Anderson -- pt. VIII ECOLOGY -- 33. `Marx's Ecology in Historical Perspective', International Socialism Journal, 96, pp. 71-86 / John Bellamy Foster -- 34. `Marx's Vision of Sustainable Human Development', Monthly Review, 57, pp. 34-62 / Paul Burkett. The best writings of the past hundred years on Marx's approach to analysing society and on his critique of capitalist society are brought together in this volume. The articles enable a better understanding of Marx's dialectical method and of the theories created with its help, and explain how to put his approach to use.