• ISBN13: 9780745399713
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: Sociology and Anthropology
• Publisher: Pluto Press
• Publisher Imprint: Pluto Press
• Publication Date: April 20, 2017
• Pages: 224
• Original Price: GBP 15.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 282 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): Political Economy

Recent years have seen a surge of interest in Marxian political economy, particularly evident by the resurgence of readers picking up Marx's most famous work, Capital. Now 150 years after its original publication, there are still fresh interpretations of Capital that can help readers find new pathways to progressive or revolutionary change.

Marking the 150th anniversary of its publication, Reading "Capital" Today offers a wide range of leading thinkers' reflections on this influential text--its political legacy, its limitations, and its continuing relevance in our world. Highlighting issues such as ecology, gender, race, labor, communism, the Third World, and imperialism, contributors also identify the connections between Capital and various socialist projects of the past, drawing lessons from those experiences that might contribute to the reinvention of socialist politics today.

Ingo Schmidt is academic coordinator of the Labour Studies Program at Athabasca University, Canada. His books include Social Democracy after the Cold War and The Three Worlds of Social Democracy. Carlo Fanelli is an instructor in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at Ryerson University, in Ontario.