Rethinking Marxism

Legacies, Crossroads, New Directions

Bibliographic Data

ID22934110
AuthorsThe Editors The Editors, The Editors (corresponding author)
Year2010
Volume22
Issue1
Pages5-17
Publication date2010-01-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueRethinking Marxism (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0893-5696 • E-ISSN: 1475-8059
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/08935690903411511
OpenAlexW4251679230
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited20

This issue marks a transition in the life of Rethinking Marxism. David F. Ruccio steps down as the editor of the journal, and S. Charusheela steps in as editor, along with associate editors Joseph Childers, Yahya M. Madra, and Maliha Safri. Here, we reflect on the legacies and futures of the journal at this transitional moment. The transition in the journal takes place at a time of crisis in the global economy. Thus, unlike the moment of the journal's founding, we look ahead to a future in which there is much more space for Marxian discourses. We view this space as a crossroads that requires investigation into the types of approaches, themes, and issues that call for urgent response. The past two decades of the journal have given us a legacy of transdisciplinary Marxian conversations on multiple fronts and genres with a commitment to noneconomistic and nondeterministic accounts of the world. Building on this legacy, the essay provides an exploration of the current context and discusses the types of themes and issues—ranging from the raced and gendered nature of labor practices, to nationalism, to social movements for change—that we see as calling for discussion. Particularly, we highlight the dangers of lapsing back into determinist forms of Marxism in narrating the current crises and call for symposia, special issues, art, Remarx, reviews, and other submissions that take up the task of elaborating a nondeterminist and nuanced approach to the current crisis. Keywords: MarxismCapitalist CrisisOverdetermination Notes 1These themes and concerns include, for example, the mode of production controversy, the structural causality controversy, the role of ideology in social reproduction, the simultaneous critique of empiricism and rationalism, and the question of reading. 2The writings by and about Warren Montag and the special issue on “Rereading Althusser,” edited by Antonio Callari and David F. Ruccio, come immediately to mind.

Context (archaeology) · Epistemology · Futures contract · Media studies · Social science · Sociology · Space (punctuation) · Transition (genetics) · History · Marxism and Critical Theory · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism · Political theory and Gramsci

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