The Oxford Handbook of Karl Marx

Karl Marx is one of the most influential writers in history. Despite repeated obituaries proclaiming the death of Marxism, in the 21st century Marx's ideas and theories continue to guide vibrant research traditions in sociology, economics, political science, philosophy, history, anthropology, management, economic geography, ecology, literary criticism, and media studies.

Due to the exceptionally wide influence and reach of Marxist theory, including over 150 years of historical debates and traditions within Marxism, finding a point of entry can be daunting. The Oxford Handbook of Karl Marx provides an entry point for those new to Marxism. At the same time, its chapters, written by leading Marxist scholars, advance Marxist theory and research. Its coverage is more comprehensive than previous volumes on Marx in terms of both foundational concepts and state-of-the-art empirical research on contemporary social problems. It is also provides equal space to sociologists, economists, and political scientists, with substantial contributions from philosophers, historians, and geographers.

The Oxford Handbook of Karl Marx consists of six sections. The first section, Foundations, includes chapters that cover the foundational concepts and theories that constitute the core of Marx's theories of history, society, and political economy. This section demonstrates that the core elements of Marx's political economy of capitalism continue to be defended, elaborated, and applied to empirical social science and covers historical materialism, class, capital, labor, value, crisis, ideology, and alienation. Additional sections include Labor, Class, and Social Divisions; Capitalist States and Spaces; Accumulation, Crisis, and Class Struggle in the Core Countries; Accumulation, Crisis, and Class Struggle in the Peripheral and Semi-Peripheral Countries; and Alternatives to Capitalism.

Matt Vidal is Reader in Sociology and Political Economy, Loughborough University London, Institute of International Management. His work has been published in Contexts, Critical Sociology, Organization Studies, Socio-Economic Review, Work, Employment & Society, and others. He is author (with David Kusnet) of Organizing Prosperity (EPI) and editor (with Marco Hauptmeier) of Comparative Political Economy of Work (Palgrave). Matt is working on a book, under contract with Oxford University Press: Management Divided: Contradictions of labor management in American capitalism. He is editor-in-chief of "Work in Progress," a public sociology blog of the American Sociological Association on the economy, work and inequality.

Tony Smith is the author of 6 books and over eighty articles on Marx, the critical theory of technology, and issues in normative social theory. His works include The Logic of Marx's Capital: Replies to Hegelian Criticisms; Globalisation: A Systematic Marxian Account; and Beyond Liberal Egalitarianism: Marxism and Normative Social Theory in the Twenty-First Century.

Tomás Rotta is Senior Lecturer in Economics in the International Business & Economics department at the University of Greenwich in London, UK, and member of the Greenwich Political Economy Research Center (GPERC). He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA, an MS in Economic Development and a BA in Business Management from the University of São Paulo, Brazil. He specializes in Political Economy.

Paul Prew specializes in Marxist theory and environmental sociology. He has forthcoming chapters summarizing the work of Karl Marx in Reaktion and Routledge Presses and prior publications include the topics of critical pedagogy, perceptions of police misconduct, and the effect of the world-economy on carbon-dioxide emissions. At Minnesota State University, Mankato, he teaches courses in graduate and undergraduate theory, indigeneity and environment, globalization, and introduction to sociology. Dr. Prew is also the treasurer for the Marxist section of the American Sociological Association as well as the local non-profit, Mankato Area Fair Trade Town Association. At his university, he has received the Global Citizen, Diversity Champion, and the Kessel Peacemaker Awards.

Introduction
1. The Enduring Relevance of Karl Marx
Paul Prew, Tomas Rotta, Tony Smith, and Matt Vidal

Part I. Foundations
2. Historical Materialism
Paul Blackledge
3. Class and Class Struggle
Henry Heller
4. Forces of Production and Relations of Production
David Laibman
5. The Eight Steps in Marx's Dialectical Method
Bertell Ollman
6. Ideology as Alienated Socialization
Jan Rehmann
7. Marx's Conceptualization of Value in Capital
Geert Reuten
8. Value and Class
Alan Freeman
9. Money
Leda Maria Paulani
10. Capital
Andrew Kliman
11. Capital: A Revolutionary Social Form
Patrick Murray
12. The Grammar of Capital: Wealth in-against-and-beyond Value
John Holloway
13. Work and Exploitation in Capitalism: The Labor Process and the Valorization Process
Matt Vidal
14. Capital in General and Competition: The Production and Distribution of Surplus-Value
Fred Moseley
15. Reproduction and Crisis in Capitalist Economies
Deepankar Basu
16. The Capitalist State and State Power
Bob Jessop
17. Capitalist Social Reproduction: The Contradiction between Production and Social Reproduction under Capitalism
Martha E. Gimenez
18. Marx, Technology, and the Pathological Future of Capitalism
Tony Smith
19. Alienation, or Why Capitalism Is Bad for Us
Dan Swain
20. The Commodification of Knowledge and Information
Tomás Rotta and Rodrigo Teixeira

Part II. Labor, Class, and Social Divisions
21. Labor Unions and Movements
Barry Eidlin
22. Migration and the Mobility of Labor
Nicholas De Genova
23. Race, Class, and Revolution in the Twenty-First Century: Lessons from the League of Revolutionary Black Workers
Walda Katz-Fishman and Jerome Scott
24. Nationalism, Class, and Revolution
Kevin B. Anderson
25. Hegemony: A Theory of National-Popular Class Politics
Mark McNally

Part III. Capitalist States and Spaces
26. Capitalist Crises and the State
Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin
27. European "Integration"
Magnus Ryner
28. The Urbanization of Capital and the Production of Capitalist Natures
Erik Swyngedouw

Part IV. Accumulation, Crisis, and Class Struggle in the Core Countries
29. Stages of Capitalism and Social Structures of Accumulation: A Long View
Terrence McDonough
30. Geriatric Capitalism: Stagnation and Crisis in the Atlantic Postfordist Accumulation Regime
Matt Vidal
31. Sociopoiesis: Understanding Crisis in the Capitalist World-System through Complexity Sciences
Paul Prew
32. Towards a Marxist Theory of Financialized Capitalism
Jeff Powell
33. Metabolic Rifts and the Ecological Crisis
Brett Clark, John Bellamy Foster, and Stefano B. Longo

Part V. Accumulation, Crisis, and Class Struggle in the Peripheral and Semi-Peripheral Countries
34. Global Capital Accumulation and the Specificity of Latin America
Guido Starosta
35. The Unresolved Agrarian Question in South Asia
Debarshi Das
36. Asia and the Shift in Marx's Conception of Revolution and History
Chun Lin
37. Analyzing the Middle East
Gilbert Achcar
38. Primitive Accumulation in Post-Soviet Russia
David Mandel

Part VI. Alternatives to Capitalism
39. Marx's Concept of Socialism
Peter Hudis
40. Democratic Socialist Planning
Pat Devine
41. The Continuing Relevance of the Marxist Tradition for Transcending Capitalism
Erik Olin Wright