"A superb achievement! This is the definitive collection dedicated to the work of Stephen Resnick and Richard Wolff, the influential scholars who, with their "Amherst School" students, changed Marxian economics forever. It includes piercing, yet appreciative evaluations of their bedrock concepts: class, Marxian knowledge, and overdetermination. The authors in this compendium are all the right commentators (former students, colleagues, and famed social theorists), and the editorsTheodore Burczak, Robert Garnett, and Richard McIntyrehave turned in the most insightful, lucid, and useful introductory essay to the work of Resnick and Wolff yet written. A must for undergraduates, graduates, scholars, and activists everywhere, for whom Marxism remains a living tradition.", Jack Amariglio, Professor of Economics, Merrimack College, USA "Nearly a half century of stagnant wages and rising inequality, and the economic crisis following the financial crisis of 2008, has brought renewed interest to Marxian economics even while undermining the credibility of orthodox economic analysis. Richard Wolff and the late-Stephen Resnick did not need this crisis to discover the importance of Marxian analysis. Through their teaching as much as their writing, they have advanced Marxian analysis beyond the simple materialism of the Second International and Stalinism. Recognizing that capitalism is rarely a total and all-encompassing system, and that there are elements of noncapitalism all around us, they have developed a Marxian political economy that recognizes the importance of multiple forms of identity and engagement where social life is interwoven with forms of exploitation and resistance. They did this by building a community of scholarship and political engagement with colleagues and students, and students who became colleagues. These students and colleagues have collected a set of essays drawing on their work, and developing a central concept in Resnick and Wolff's thought: "Marxism without Guarantees." While providing a superb introduction to Resnick and Wolff's thought, Knowledge, Class, and Economics is a set of 30 challenging, fascinating, and stimulating essays. They are a worthy return to the many scholarly gifts that Resnick and Wolff gave us all.", Gerald Friedman, Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA "History's ironies never end. The interest in Marxism is now more intense than it has been in more than three decades. This collection offers a theoretical and political invitation that deserves full consideration. It showcases the scope and depth of the innovativeness of an approach, which began its life in the work of Stephen Resnick, Richard Wolff, their students and colleagues, in an impressive range of themes at the level of epistemology and philosophy; economic and historical analysis of capitalism's different sites; and non-capitalisms in theory and practice. The essays presented in this volume all call for our attention, because they have come from an intellectual source that has breathed new life into Marxism: one 'without guarantees,' and one, which offers 'hope without guarantees.' It is one that calls for continuous reflection; it is for re-thinking Marxism indeed.", Professor Serap Aye Kayatekin, Division of Social Sciences and Humanities, American College of Thessaloniki, Greece "This incisive and wide-ranging collection does far more than commemorate the moment of the Amherst School and the possibilities of rethinking Marxism these past thirty years. It shows us what radical thinking looks like today. Knowledge, Class, and Economics will soon be required reading across the social sciences and humanities.", Andrew Parker, Comparative Literature, Rutgers University

Autorentext

Theodore Burczak is Professor of Economics at Denison University and author of Socialism after Hayek. Robert Garnett is Associate Dean and Honors Professor of the Social Sciences in the John V. Roach Honors College at Texas Christian University, USA.

Richard McIntyre is Professor of Economics and Chair of the Economics Department, University of Rhode Island, USA.

Klappentext

This book presents a broad, reflective survey of the "Amherst school" of non-determinist Marxist political economy: its elemental concepts, origins, and future prospects, and the pathways explored in its 40-year evolution. The volume's original essays reflect the range of projects and perspectives that comprise the school and it's defining ideas.

Inhalt

List of Figures and Tables

List of Contributors

Introduction: Marxism without guarantees

Richard McIntyre, Theodore Burczak, and Robert Garnett

Contributors

Part I: Knowledge, class, and economics

Chapter One

A Conversation with Rick Wolff

Richard McIntyre

Part II: Economics without guarantees

Chapter Two

Strangers in a Strange Land: A Marxian Critique of Economics

David F. Ruccio

Chapter Three

Marxian Economics without Teleology: The Big New Life of Class

Bruce Norton

Chapter Four

Class-Analytic Marxism and the Recovery of the Marxian Theory of Enterprise

Erik Olsen

Chapter Five

Uncertainty and Overdetermination

Donald W. Katzner

Chapter Six

Catallactic Marxism: Marx, Hayek, and the Market

Ted Burczak

Part III: Labor, value, and class

Chapter Seven

Class and Overdetermination: Value Theory and the Core of Resnick and Wolff's Marxism

Bruce Roberts

Chapter Eight

Wolff and Resnick's Interpretation of Marx's Theory of Value and Surplus-Value: Where's the Money?

Fred Moseley

Chapter Nine

Rethinking Labor: Surplus, Class, and Justice

Faruk Eray Düzenli

Part IV: Heretical materialism

Chapter Ten

The Last Instance: Resnick and Wolff at the Point of Heresy

Warren Montag

Chapter Eleven

Aleatory Marxism: Resnick, Wolff, and the Revivification of Althusser

Joseph W. Childers

Chapter Twelve

Process: Tracing Connections and Consequences

Yahya M. Madra

Part V: Appraising the postmodern turn

Chapter Thirteen

Marxism's Double Task: Deconstructing and Reconstructing Postmodernism

Jan Rehmann

Chapter Fourteen

Overdetermination: The Ethical Moment

George DeMartino

Chapter Fifteen

The Cost of Anti-Essentialism

Paul Smith

Chapter Sixteen

Marxism and Postmodernism: Our Goal is to Learn from One Another

Richard D. Wolff

Part VI: Postcolonial Marx

Chapter Seventeen

Global Marx?

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

Chapter Eighteen

Primitive Accumulation and Historical Inevitability: A Postcolonial Critique

Anjan Chakrabarti, Stephen Cullenberg, and Anup Dhar

Chapter Nineteen

Draining the "Blood Energy": Destruction of Independent Production and Creation of Migrant Workers in Post-Reform China

Joseph Medley and Lorrayne Carroll

Chapter Twenty

Problematizing the Global Economy: Financialization and the "Feudalization" of Capital

Rajesh Bhattacharya and Ian J. Seda-Irizarry

Chapter Twenty One

Reproduction of Noncapital: A Marxian Perspective on the Informal Economy in India

Snehashish Bhattacharya

Part VII: Capitalism and class analysis

Chapter Twenty Two

Management Ideologies and the Class Structure of Capitalist Enterprises: Shareholderism vs. Stakeholderism at Scott Paper Company

Michael Hillard and Richard McIntyre

Chapter Twenty Three

Lewis L. Lorwin's "Five-Year Plan for the World": A Subsumed Class Response to the Crises of the 1930s

Claude Misukiewicz

Part VIII: Communism without guarantees

Chapter Twenty Four

Bad Communisms

Maliha Safri and Kenan Erçel

Chapter Twenty Five

Hope without Guarantees: Overdeterminist Anti-Capitalism amidst Neoliberal Precarity

Ellen Russell

Part IX: Knowledge and class in everyday life

Chapter Twenty Six

The Work of Sex

Harriet Fraad

Chapter Twenty Seven

Homelessness as Violence: Bad People, Bad Policy, or Overdetermined Social Processes?

Vincent Lyon-Callo

Chapter Twenty Eight

Family Farms, Class, and the Future of Food

Elizabeth Ramey

Chapter Twenty Nine

A Long Shadow …