"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...

"In Rethinking Marxist Theories of Transition, Onur Acaroglu traces the concept of transition across the tracts of Classical and Western Marxism. Rarely directly invoked, transition between different societies appears as an imminent social reality, and a useful conceptual tool for critical...