New Departures in Marxian Theory (Economics As Social Theory)

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 Marxism’s greatest theorists. Book Cover......Page 1 Half-Title......Page 2 Series-Title......Page 3 Title......Page 6 Copyright......Page 7 Contents......Page 8 Foreword......Page 10 Acknowledgments......Page 13 Introduction: Marxism without determinisms......Page 16 Part I: Marxian philosophy and epistemology......Page 24 1. Marxist epistemology: The critique of economic determinism......Page 26 2. Rethinking complexity in economic theory: The challenge of overdetermination......Page 66 3. Althusser’s liberation of Marxian theory......Page 83 4. Althusser and Hegel: Making Marxist explanations antiessentialist and dialectical......Page 94 Part II: Class analysis......Page 104 5. Classes in Marxian theory......Page 106 6. Power, property, and class......Page 133 7. Communism: Between class and classless......Page 152 8. For every knight in shining armor, there's a castle waiting to be cleaned: A Marxist-Feminist analysis of the household......Page 174 Part III: Marxian economic theory......Page 212 9. A Marxian reconceptualization of income and its distribution......Page 214 10. Class and monopoly......Page 236 11. Class, contradiction and the capitalist economy......Page 253 Part IV: Criticisms and comparisons of economic theories......Page 268 12. Division and difference in the "discipline" of economics......Page 270 13. Radical economics: A tradition of theoretical differences......Page 294 14. “Efficiency”: Whose efficiency?......Page 318 Part V: History......Page 322 15. The Reagan-Bush strategy: Shifting crises from enterprises to households......Page 324 16. Capitalisms, socialisms, communisms: A Marxian view......Page 345 17. Exploitation, consumption, and the uniqueness of US capitalism......Page 356 Notes......Page 369 References......Page 410 Index......Page 423 In facing and trying to resolve contradictions and lapses within Marxism, this book confronts the basic incompatibilities among the 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 Marxism's great theorists Edited By Stephen A. Resnick And Richard D. Wolff. Articles Originally Published 1982-2003. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [354]-407) And Index. This work examines the key controversies within Marxian theory and the different schools of thought that make up the Marxian community