This reassessment of the relevance of Marxism within the social sciences decisively rebuts claims that it's been consigned to the dustbin of historical past via the cave in of communism and obvious triumph of capitalism and liberal democracy. The ebook first considers how Marxism has engaged with numerous opinions together with Postmodernism, New correct thought and Feminism earlier than assessing its carrying on with application as a framework for research of more than a few major concerns from classification and the nation to tradition, ecology and globalization.
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