Marxism in the postmodern age : confronting the new world order : International conference entitled "Marxism in the new world order: crises and possibilities" : Selected papers

Diverse Marxian intellectual cultures are having important effects on political struggles over the subjects of history and knowledge, international law, television, the state, democratic theories and institutions, bodies, sexuality, masculinity, environmentalism, postmodernism, labor, the meanings of the end of the USSR, children, archaeology, the meanings of Columbus, cartography, the North American economy, welfare, NAFTA, the Gulf War, higher education, and the many other topics discussed by the contributors to this important volume. These essays show readers how Marxism's continuing vitality derives from its profound allegiance to diverse struggles for social justice. At this moment we need progressive imaginaries alternative to the tired and ineffectual ones that have left us with enormous challenges and compelling questions on every aspect of contemporary social relations. Here, well-known thinkers are joined by important new voices in exploring fruitful directions for vision, analysis, and political action. This is without question the best collection of mediations so far on postorthodox Marxian tendencies in contemporary global cultures. Selected papers from the second international conference organized by the journal "Rethinking Marxism" and the Association for Economic and Social Analysis. The conference, entitled "Marxism in the new world order : crises and possibilities", was held at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst on November 12-14, 1992 If postmodernism as critique has exhausted itself in cultural and literary circles, this result stands in direct opposition to the situation within contemporary economics. Antonio Callari, Stephen Cullenberg, Carole Biewener, Editors. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.