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Encounters with Marx

Jacques Lezra (UC-Riverside): On the Nature of Marx’s Things. Dick Howard (Stony Brook): New Left Encounters with Marx. Dimitri Dimoulis (Sao Paulo) and Soraya Lunardi (UNESP): The Law of Capital: Functions of the Legal System from Marx’s Capital, to the European “Debt Crisis”. Michael R. Kratke (Lancaster): Marx and World History. Pete Green reviews The Unfinished System of Karl Marx: Critically Reading Capital as a Challenge for our Times, ed. Judith Dellheim and Frieder Otto Wolf. Are Marx’s Capital and Althusser’s Reading Capital still relevant today? David Harvey on why Karl Marx’s Capital is still the defining guide to understanding — and overcoming — the horrors of capitalism.

Clyde W. Barrow (UTRGV): The Dismal Science of Post-Marxist Political Theory: Is There a Future in Postindustrial Socialism? Against reductionism: Sarah Garnham on Marxism and oppression. Marxism without progress: Bruce Robbins reviews Reading Marx by Slavoj Zizek, Frank Ruda, and Agon Hamza and Old Gods, New Enigmas: Marx’s Lost Theory by Mike Davis (and more). 200 years of Karl Marx: Kathy M. Newman on some lessons on the politics of commemoration. From State of Nature, one question to leading thinkers: How has Marx influenced your thinking?