Repeating Marx: Special Issue Karl Marx @ 200

Marx @ 200: Debating Capitalism & Perspectives for the Future of Radical Theory

Repeating Marx: Introduction to the Special Issue

Christian Fuchs* and Lara Monticelli**
* University of Westminster, London, UK, christian.fuchs@triple-c.at
** Independent researcher, monticelli.lara@gmail.com

Abstract: This introduction sets out the context of the special issue “Karl Marx @ 200: De- bating Capitalism & Perspectives for the Future of Radical Theory”, which was published on the occasion of Marx’s bicentenary on 5 May 2018. First, we give a brief overview of con- temporary capitalism’s development and its crises. Second, we argue that it is important to repeat Marx today. Third, we reflect on lessons learned from 200 years of struggles for alter- natives to capitalism. Fourth, we give an overview of the contributions in this special issue. Taken together, the contributions in this special issue show that Marx’s theory and politics remain key inspirations for understanding exploitation and domination in 21st-century society and for struggles that aim to overcome these phenomena and establishing a just and fair society. We need to repeat Marx today.

Keywords: Karl Marx, capitalism, class, bicentenary, 200th anniversary, 5 May 2018, 1818

• Marx @ 200: Debating Capitalism & Perspectives for the Future of Radical Theory (combined PDF of all articles)
  Christian Fuchs, Lara Monticelli
• Repeating Marx: Introduction to the Special Issue “Karl Marx @ 200: Debating Capitalism & Perspectives for the Future of Radical Theory”
  Christian Fuchs, Lara Monticelli
• The Powers of the Exploited and the Social Ontology of Praxis
  Michael Hardt, Toni Negri
  
• Universal Alienation
  David Harvey
• The Multiplicities Within Capitalist Rule and the Articulation of Struggles
  Michael Hardt, Toni Negri
• Universal Alienation and the Real Subsumption of Daily Life under Capital: A Response to Hardt and Negri
  David Harvey
• Universal Alienation, Formal and Real Subsumption of Society Under Capital, Ongoing Primitive Accumulation by Dispossession: Reflections on the Marx@200-Contributions by David Harvey and Michael Hardt/Toni Negri
  Christian Fuchs
• Marx and Feminism
  Silvia Federici
• The Prospects of Radical Change Today
  Slavoj Žižek
• The Continuing Relevance of the Marxist Tradition for Transcending Capitalism
  Erik Olin Wright
• Embodying Alternatives to Capitalism in the 21st Century
  Lara Monticelli
• Karl Marx & Communication @ 200: Towards a Marxian Theory of Communication
  Christian Fuchs
• Where’s the Working Class?
  Peter Goodwin
• Marxist Perspectives on the Global Enclosures of Social Reproduction
  Friederike Beier
• Epochality, Global Capitalism and Ecology
  Wayne Hope
• “The History of all Hitherto Existing Society:” Class Struggle and the Current Wave of Resistance
  Todd Wolfson, Peter Funke
• Marx, Materialism and the Brain: Determination in the Last Instance?
  Joss Hands
• Karl Marx and Liberation Theology: Dialectical Materialism and Christian Spirituality in, against, and beyond Contemporary Capitalism
  Peter McLaren, Petar Jandrić
• Synthesis Wanted: Reading Capital After 20th Century Orthodoxies and Revisions
  Ingo Schmidt
• Reflections on Sven-Eric Liedman’s Marx-Biography “A World to Win: The Life and Works of Karl Marx”
  Christian Fuchs
• An Analysis of Marx’s Legacy in the Field of Communication Studies
  Bahar Kayıhan
• On the Lumpen-Precariat-To-Come
  Joff P.N. Bradley, Alex Taek-Gwang Lee
• Law, Marxism and Method
  Paul O’Connell
• Two Questions to Marxist Anthropology
  Chihab El Khachab
• Marx’s Philosophy of Revolution in Permanence: Its Significance for Our Time
  Franklin Dmitryev, Eugene Gogol
• Minding the Gap: Marxian Reflections on the Transition from Capitalism to Postcapitalism
  Bryant William Sculos
• Ideology, Alienation and Reification: Concepts for a Radical Theory of Communication in Contemporary Capitalism
  Leila Salim Leal
• Sexual Capitalism: Marxist Reflections on Sexual Politics, Culture and Economy in the 21st Century
  Paul Reynolds
• Thinking the ‘Culture Wars’ and the Present Political Crisis with the Young Marx (and Friends)
  Ben Whitham
• Marx’s Centenary (1918) in the Light of the Media and Socialist Thought
  Christian Fuchs
• Karl Marx
  Rosa Luxemburg

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