"In response to this current political and economic climate, Teaching Marx & Critical Theory in the 21st Century defends the importance, and difficulties, of teaching Marx and critical theory-and the crucial insights of critical pedagogy-through variously original and republished chapters,...

Preface -- The sumer before the war -- Industrializing capitalism : classic works of the twentieth century -- Corresponding thoughts of Benjamin, Kafka, Bakhtin and the Prague School -- On the fringe -- Archaic money -- Life-needs and money sequences, outside or inside a sealed vessel -- Life as...