1st Edition

Classical Marxism in an Age of Capitalist Crisis The Past is Prologue

By William Briggs Copyright 2019
208 Pages
by Routledge India

208 Pages
by Routledge India

208 Pages
by Routledge India

Will capitalism survive forever? Capitalism has always lived in and with crisis. Wars, revolutions, economic depression and repeated recessions, the threat of nuclear annihilation and ecological disaster have all failed to break the dominance of this economic and political system. Challenging the predominance of capitalism in a world fraught with inequalities, this book returns to... Read more

Introduction 1. Capitalist Crisis and the Relevance of Marxism 2. Learning from Marxism’s Historical Crisis 3. Validating Marxist Analysis 4. The Development of the Capitalist State 5. A Qualitative Change in Capitalism and its Implications 6. Responding to Capitalist Globalisation 7. The Promise of Marxism 8. Conclusion

Biography

William Briggs is an academic affiliated to the School of Humanities, Social Sciences, Arts and Education at Deakin University, Australia.