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Davis Mike - Old Gods New Enigmas Marx's Lost Theory - Paperback
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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 Mac Arthur 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.
Title: Old Gods New Enigmas Marx's Lost Theory
Author(s): Davis Mike
Publisher: Verso Books
Barcode: 9781788732178
Pages: 320 Pages
Publication Date: 10/6/2020
Category: Marxism & Communism
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 Mac Arthur 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.
Title: Old Gods New Enigmas Marx's Lost Theory
Author(s): Davis Mike
Publisher: Verso Books
Barcode: 9781788732178
Pages: 320 Pages
Publication Date: 10/6/2020
Category: Marxism & Communism
