{"product_id":"marx-in-motion-a-new-materialist-marxism-9780197526477","title":"Marx in Motion: A New Materialist Marxism","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Thomas Nail\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Political\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKarl Marx is the most historically foundational and systematic critic of capitalism to date, and the years since the 2008 financial crisis have witnessed a rebirth of his popular appeal. In a world of rising income inequality, right-wing nationalisms, and global climate change, people are again looking to the father of modern socialism for answers. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs this book argues, every era since Marx's death has reinvented him to fit its needs. There is not one Marx forever and for all time. There are a thousand Marxes. As Thomas Nail contends, one of the most significant contributions of Marx's work is that it treats theory itself as a historical practice. Reading Marx is not just an interpretative activity but a creative one. As our historical conditions change, so do the kinds of questions we pose and the kinds of answers we find in Marx's writing. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis book is a return to the writings of Karl Marx, including his under-appreciated dissertation, through the lens of the pressing philosophical and political problems of our time: ecological crisis, gender inequality, colonialism, and global mobility. However, the aim of this book is not to make Marxism relevant by \"applying\" it to contemporary issues. Instead, \u003cem\u003eMarx in Motion\u003c\/em\u003e, the first new materialist interpretation of Marx's work, treats \u003cem\u003eCapital \u003c\/em\u003eas if it were already a response to the present. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThomas Nail argues that Marx was a new materialist \u003cem\u003eavant la lettre\u003c\/em\u003e. He argues that Marx did not believe history was determined, or that matter was passive, or that humans were separate or superior to nature. Marx did not even have a labor theory of value. Marxists argue that new materialists lack a sufficient political and economic theory, and new materialists argue that Marx's materialism is human-centric and mechanistic. This book aims to solve both problems by proposing a new materialist Marxism.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47889211654295,"sku":"9780197526477","price":9171.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780197526477.webp?v=1781174968","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/marx-in-motion-a-new-materialist-marxism-9780197526477","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}