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Karl Marx is the man of the moment

A.D. Maidansky (BelSU): Russian Leviathan and the Marxist Idea of Dying Out of the State. Farooq A Kperogi (Kennesaw State): Marxist Theory of the Media or Theory of the Media by Marxists? Reconciling Adorno with Other Marxist Media Theorists. Subir Sinha (SOAS) and Rashmi Varma (Warwick): Marxism and Postcolonial Theory: What’s Left of the Debate? Marxism, modernity and marginality: Andrew Zimmerman reviews Marx at the Margins: On Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Non-Western Societies by Kevin B. Anderson. Karl Marx, yesterday and today: The nineteenth-century philosopher’s ideas may help us to understand the economic and political inequality of our time. What Marx means in a world that has made peace with capitalism: Michael Kazin reviews Karl Marx: Greatness and Illusion by Gareth Stedman Jones.

Soho revolutionary: For the current Labour leadership, Karl Marx is the man of the moment, says Howard Davies. One of the problems with being a Marxist is that one is the subject of silly misunderstandings — here are a handful of the bad arguments against Marxism. The best time I pretended I hadn’t heard of Slavoj Zizek: One weird trick to frustrate the hell out of a Marxist bro.