Marx and Modernity Key Readings and Commentary

Robert J. Antonio's collection on Marx and modernity brings together keyworks of Marx and a variety of contemporary Marxist writings that engage topics such as globalization, information technology, the triumph of neo-liberal market capitalism and global struggles against it. Antonio provides a lucid overview of Karl Marx's life and works, and debates over his legacy that should be extremely useful for contemporary readers." Douglas Kellner, University of California at Los Angeles

In this illuminating and concise collection of readings, Karl Marx emerges as the first theorist to give a comprehensive social view of the birth and development of capitalist modernity that began with the Second Industrial Revolution and still exists today.
Contents

Introduction.
Part I: Marx's Vision of History: "Historical Materialism".
Part II: The Juggernaut of Capitalist Modernity: The Revolutionary Bourgeoisie, End of Tradition, and New Social Powers.
Part III: Marx's Labor Theory of Value: The Hidden Social Relationship Beneath Capitalism's Distorted "Economic" Surface:.
Part IV: The First and Second Industrial Revolutions: From Manufacture to Modern Industry.
Part V: The Downside of Capitalist Growth: Unemployment, Poverty, Speculative Crises, and Environmental Devastation.
Part VI: Globalization and Colonialism: The New International Division of Labor, Unequal Exchange, and the Politics of Race and Ethnicity.
Part VII: New Society Rising in the Old: Socially-Regulated Capitalism and a Third Industrial Revolution.
Part VIII: The Revolutionary Proletariat and Vicissitudes of History: Counterrevolution, Dictatorship, or Radical Democracy?
Part IX: After Communism: The Death or Return of Marx?
Part X: New Economy or Old?: Information Capitalism and the Polarization of American Society.
Part XI: Neoliberal Globalization: Concentration, Proletarianization, & Immiseration in the New Transitional Division of Labor.
Part XII: Emergent Resistance to Neoliberal Globalization: Anti-Corporate, Alliance Politics & Direct Actions.
Part XIII: Rethinking Class and Emancipation after Communism: Avoiding Marxist Determinism and Totalization