Old Gods, New Enigmas: Marx's Lost Theory Contributor(s): Davis, Mike (Author) |
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ISBN: 1788732162 ISBN-13: 9781788732161 Publisher: Verso OUR PRICE: $24.26 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2018 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Commentary & Opinion - Political Science | Political Ideologies - Communism, Post-communism & Socialism - Political Science | History & Theory - General |
Dewey: 335.41 |
LCCN: 2018012478 |
Physical Information: 1.2" H x 5.8" W x 8.4" (1.15 lbs) 320 pages |
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Publisher Description: Is revolution possible in the age of the Anthropocene? Marx has returned, but which Marx? Recent biographies have proclaimed him to be an emphatically nineteenth-century figure, but in this book, Mike Davis's first directly about Marx and Marxism, a thinker comes to light who speaks to the present as much as the past. In a series of searching, propulsive essays, Davis, the bestselling author of City of Quartz and recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, explores Marx's inquiries into two key questions of our time: Who can lead a revolutionary transformation of society? And what is the cause--and solution--of the planetary environmental crisis? Davis consults a vast archive of labor history to illuminate new aspects of Marx's theoretical texts and political journalism. He offers a "lost Marx," whose analyses of historical agency, nationalism, and the "middle landscape" of class struggle are crucial to the renewal of revolutionary thought in our darkening age. Davis presents a critique of the current fetishism of the "anthropocene," which suppresses the links between the global employment crisis and capitalism's failure to ensure human survival in a more extreme climate. In a finale, Old Gods, New Enigmas looks backward to the great forgotten debates on alternative socialist urbanism (1880-1934) to find the conceptual keys to a universal high quality of life in a sustainable environment. |