Marx for Today

Pronounced dead at the end of the 20th century, Marx has suddenly reappeared on the stage of history. This book explains why Marx’s thought is still pertinent and useful for a critical understanding of today’s world.

This book was originally published as a special issue of Socialism and Democracy.

"An edited volume which provides not only a robust defence of the continuing relevance of Marx to our times but also new and challenging perspectives for those already accepting of such relevance." - Nick Taylor, LSE Review of Books, July 2012

"In Marcello Musto, the Marx revival has found an 'Impressario' with a range of interests and contacts, a tolerance for differences, and an exquisite taste for only the finest and most provocative of Marxist scholarship. With this volume of exceptionally astute essays (the second for Routledge after Karl Marx’s Grundrisse: Foundations of the critique of political economy 150 years later , and a third is on its way), Musto has set the gold standard for Marxological studies in the modern era. No one who wants to understand why Marx was chosen as the greatest thinker of the last millenium in a BBC poll of its listeners can afford to miss any of Musto's volumes, including his own remarkably lucid and insightful contributions to each of them. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!" - Bertell Ollman - New York University

"With the relentless globalization of capital in recent decades, a global capitalist economic crisis, and uprisings in Greece, Italy, Spain, the Occupy Movements, and the Arab Uprisings of 2011, Marx has perhaps never been as relevant for the contemporary moment as now. Marcello Musto has orchestrated a series of projects that have ignited the Marx revival and contributed his own scholarship and ideas for making Marx alive for us today. His edited book Marx for Today is an extremely important contribution to the ungoing "Marx renaissance", and shows how Marx’s work contributes to understanding and engaging key problems of today’s society, and thus how Marx contributes to projects of understanding, critique and transformation of the world in the early twenty-first century." - Douglas Kellner - UCLA

"The ruling doxa wants us to believe that Marx belongs to yesterday . The truth of the matter is that his analysis, his theories and his indignation are relevant today , as much, and perhaps more so, than in his own times. This brilliant collection of essays edited by Marcello Musto shows us why ". - Michael Löwy - CNRS (French National Center of Scientific Research)

" Marx for Today is a stimulating book that does justice to the depth and breadth of Marx's thought and which makes a strong claim for his contemporary relevance." - Tom Whittaker, Counterfire, November 2012

Marcello Musto teaches political theory at the Department of Political Science of York University (Toronto, Canada) and is the editor of Karl Marx’s Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy 150 Years Later (Routledge, 2008).