The current resurgence of Marxism is based on new sources of inspiration and creativity from movements that seek democratic, egalitarian and ecological alternatives to capitalism. The Marxism of many of these movements is neither dogmatic nor prescriptive, but rather, open, searching, utopian. It revolves around four primary factors: the importance of democracy for an emancipatory project; the ecological limits of capitalism; the crisis of global capitalism; and the learning of lessons from the failures of Marxist-inspired experiments. Marxisms in the Twenty-First Century challenges vanguardist Marxism featured in South Africa and beyond. Featuring leading thinkers from the Left, the book offers provocative ideas on interpreting our current world and serves as an excellent introduction to new ways of thinking about Marxism to students and scholars in the field. Many anti-capitalist traditions and themes – including democracy, globalisation, feminism, critique and ecology inform and shape the contributions in this volume.
Table of Content
Introduction – Michelle Williams
Chapter 1 Marxism and democracy: Liberal, vanguard or direct? – Michelle Williams
Chapter 2 Marxism after Polanyi – Michael Burawoy
Chapter 3 Transnationalising Gramscian Marxism – Vishwas Satgar
Chapter 4 Notes on critique – Ahmed Veriava
Chapter 5 Marxism and feminism: ‘Unhappy marriage’ or creative partnership? – Jacklyn Cock and Meg Luxton
Chapter 6 Marx and the eco-logic of fossil capitalism – Devan Pillay
Chapter 7 Retrospect: Seven theses about Africa’s Marxist regimes – Daryl Glaser
Chapter 8 Socialism and southern Africa – John S. Saul
Chapter 9 Uneven and combined Marxism within South Africa’s urban social movements – Patrick Bond, Ashwin Desai and Trevor Ngwane
Chapter 10 Critical reflections on the crisis and limits of ANC ‘Marxism’ 260 – Mazibuko K. Jara
Conclusion – Vishwas Satgar
About the author
Michelle Williams is associate professor in Sociology and chairperson of the Global Labour University programme at the University of the Witwatersrand.
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