TEN SHORT ESSAYS ON MARXISM

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The planet is in crisis because of capitalism and Karl Marx, freed from the chains of “actually existing socialism”, is being rediscovered all around the world as the thinker who provided us with its most insightful critique. The dual aim of this short book is to contribute to a new critical discussion of some of the classical themes of Marx’s thought and to develop a deeper analysis of certain questions to which relatively little attention has been paid until recently.

Marcello Musto is Professor of Sociology at York University (Toronto-Canada) and is acknowledged globally as one of the authors who has made significant contributions to the revival of Marx studies over the last decade. His major writings comprise Another Marx: Early Manuscripts to the International (Bloomsbury, 2018); and The Last Years of Karl Marx: An Intellectual Biography (Stanford University Press, 2020). Among his edited books there are Karl Marx’s Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy 150 Years Later (Routledge, 2008); Marx for Today (Aakar 2018 & Routledge 2012); Workers Unite! The International 150 Years Later (Bloomsbury, 2014); Marx’s Capital after 150 Years: Critique and Alternative to Capitalism (Routledge, 2019); The Marx Revival: Key Concepts and New Interpretations (Cambridge University Press, 2020); Karl Marx’s Writings on Alienation (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021); Rethinking Alternatives with Marx: Economy, Ecology and Migration (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021) and Marx and ‘Le Capital’: Evaluation, History, Reception (Routledge, 2022).
His writings – available at www.marcellomusto.org – have been published worldwide in twenty-five languages. Musto is also the editor of the book series Marx and Marxisms: New Horizons (Routledge) and Critiques and Alternatives to Capitalism (Routledge).