List of Figures and Tables
List of Contributors
Introduction: Marxism without guarantees
Richard McIntyre, Theodore Burczak, and Robert Garnett
Contributors
Part I: Knowledge, class, and economics
Chapter One
A Conversation with Rick Wolff
Richard McIntyre
Part II: Economics without guarantees
Chapter Two
Strangers in a Strange Land: A Marxian Critique of Economics
David F. Ruccio
Chapter Three
Marxian Economics without Teleology: The Big New Life of Class
Bruce Norton
Chapter Four
Class-Analytic Marxism and the Recovery of the Marxian Theory of Enterprise
Erik Olsen
Chapter Five
Uncertainty and Overdetermination
Donald W. Katzner
Chapter Six
Catallactic Marxism: Marx, Hayek, and the Market
Ted Burczak
Part III: Labor, value, and class
Chapter Seven
Class and Overdetermination: Value Theory and the Core of Resnick and Wolff’s Marxism
Bruce Roberts
Chapter Eight
Wolff and Resnick’s Interpretation of Marx’s Theory of Value and Surplus-Value: Where’s the Money?
Fred Moseley
Chapter Nine
Rethinking Labor: Surplus, Class, and Justice
Faruk Eray Düzenli
Part IV: Heretical materialism
Chapter Ten
The Last Instance: Resnick and Wolff at the Point of Heresy
Warren Montag
Chapter Eleven
Aleatory Marxism: Resnick, Wolff, and the Revivification of Althusser
Joseph W. Childers
Chapter Twelve
Process: Tracing Connections and Consequences
Yahya M. Madra
Part V: Appraising the postmodern turn
Chapter Thirteen
Marxism’s Double Task: Deconstructing and Reconstructing Postmodernism
Jan Rehmann
Chapter Fourteen
Overdetermination: The Ethical Moment
George DeMartino
Chapter Fifteen
The Cost of Anti-Essentialism
Paul Smith
Chapter Sixteen
Marxism and Postmodernism: Our Goal is to Learn from One Another
Richard D. Wolff
Part VI: Postcolonial Marx
Chapter Seventeen
Global Marx?
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Chapter Eighteen
Primitive Accumulation and Historical Inevitability: A Postcolonial Critique
Anjan Chakrabarti, Stephen Cullenberg, and Anup Dhar
Chapter Nineteen
Draining the "Blood Energy": Destruction of Independent Production and Creation of Migrant Workers in Post-Reform China
Joseph Medley and Lorrayne Carroll
Chapter Twenty
Problematizing the Global Economy: Financialization and the "Feudalization" of Capital
Rajesh Bhattacharya and Ian J. Seda-Irizarry
Chapter Twenty One
Reproduction of Noncapital: A Marxian Perspective on the Informal Economy in India
Snehashish Bhattacharya
Part VII: Capitalism and class analysis
Chapter Twenty Two
Management Ideologies and the Class Structure of Capitalist Enterprises: Shareholderism vs. Stakeholderism at Scott Paper Company
Michael Hillard and Richard McIntyre
Chapter Twenty Three
Lewis L. Lorwin’s "Five-Year Plan for the World": A Subsumed Class Response to the Crises of the 1930s
Claude Misukiewicz
Part VIII: Communism without guarantees
Chapter Twenty Four
Bad Communisms
Maliha Safri and Kenan Erçel
Chapter Twenty Five
Hope without Guarantees: Overdeterminist Anti-Capitalism amidst Neoliberal Precarity
Ellen Russell
Part IX: Knowledge and class in everyday life
Chapter Twenty Six
The Work of Sex
Harriet Fraad
Chapter Twenty Seven
Homelessness as Violence: Bad People, Bad Policy, or Overdetermined Social Processes?
Vincent Lyon-Callo
Chapter Twenty Eight
Family Farms, Class, and the Future of Food
Elizabeth Ramey
Chapter Twenty Nine
A Long Shadow and Undiscovered Country: Notes on the Class Analysis of Education
Masato Aoki
Chapter Thirty
Ecological Challenges: A Marxist Response
Andriana Vlachou
Index
Theodore Burczak is Professor of Economics at Denison University
and author of Socialism after Hayek.
Robert Garnett is Associate Dean and Honors Professor of the Social
Sciences in the John V. Roach Honors College at Texas Christian
University, USA.
Richard McIntyre is Professor of Economics and Chair of
the Economics Department, University of Rhode Island, USA.
"A superb achievement! This is the definitive collection dedicated
to the work of Stephen Resnick and Richard Wolff, the influential
scholars who, with their "Amherst School" students, changed Marxian
economics forever. It includes piercing, yet appreciative
evaluations of their bedrock concepts: class, Marxian knowledge,
and overdetermination. The authors in this compendium are all the
right commentators (former students, colleagues, and famed social
theorists), and the editors—Theodore Burczak, Robert Garnett, and
Richard McIntyre—have turned in the most insightful, lucid, and
useful introductory essay to the work of Resnick and Wolff yet
written. A must for undergraduates, graduates, scholars, and
activists everywhere, for whom Marxism remains a living
tradition.", Jack Amariglio, Professor of Economics, Merrimack
College, USA"Nearly a half century of stagnant wages and rising
inequality, and the economic crisis following the financial crisis
of 2008, has brought renewed interest to Marxian economics even
while undermining the credibility of orthodox economic analysis.
Richard Wolff and the late-Stephen Resnick did not need this crisis
to discover the importance of Marxian analysis. Through their
teaching as much as their writing, they have advanced Marxian
analysis beyond the simple materialism of the Second International
and Stalinism. Recognizing that capitalism is rarely a total and
all-encompassing system, and that there are elements of
noncapitalism all around us, they have developed a Marxian
political economy that recognizes the importance of multiple forms
of identity and engagement where social life is interwoven with
forms of exploitation and resistance. They did this by building a
community of scholarship and political engagement with colleagues
and students, and students who became colleagues. These students
and colleagues have collected a set of essays drawing on their
work, and developing a central concept in Resnick and Wolff’s
thought: "Marxism without Guarantees." While providing a superb
introduction to Resnick and Wolff’s thought, Knowledge, Class, and
Economics is a set of 30 challenging, fascinating, and stimulating
essays. They are a worthy return to the many scholarly gifts that
Resnick and Wolff gave us all.", Gerald Friedman, Professor of
Economics, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA"History’s
ironies never end. The interest in Marxism is now more intense than
it has been in more than three decades. This collection offers a
theoretical and political invitation that deserves full
consideration. It showcases the scope and depth of the
innovativeness of an approach, which began its life in the work of
Stephen Resnick, Richard Wolff, their students and colleagues, in
an impressive range of themes at the level of epistemology and
philosophy; economic and historical analysis of capitalism’s
different sites; and non-capitalisms in theory and practice. The
essays presented in this volume all call for our attention, because
they have come from an intellectual source that has breathed new
life into Marxism: one ‘without guarantees,’ and one, which offers
‘hope without guarantees.’ It is one that calls for continuous
reflection; it is for re-thinking Marxism indeed.", Professor Serap
Ayșe Kayatekin, Division of Social Sciences and Humanities,
American College of Thessaloniki, Greece"This incisive and
wide-ranging collection does far more than commemorate the moment
of the Amherst School and the possibilities of rethinking Marxism
these past thirty years. It shows us what radical thinking looks
like today. Knowledge, Class, and Economics will soon be required
reading across the social sciences and humanities.", Andrew Parker,
Comparative Literature, Rutgers University
"A superb achievement! This is the definitive collection dedicated
to the work of Stephen Resnick and Richard Wolff, the influential
scholars who, with their ‘Amherst School’ students, changed Marxian
economics forever. It includes piercing yet appreciative
evaluations of their bedrock concepts: class, Marxian knowledge,
and overdetermination. The authors in this compendium are all the
right commentators (former students, colleagues, and famed social
theorists), and the editors—Theodore Burczak, Robert Garnett, and
Richard McIntyre—have turned in the most insightful, lucid, and
useful introductory essay to the work of Resnick and Wolff yet
written. A must for undergraduates, graduates, scholars, and
activists everywhere, for whom Marxism remains a living tradition."
Jack Amariglio, Professor of Economics, Merrimack College,
USA"Through their teaching as much as their writing, Richard Wolff
and the late Stephen Resnick advanced Marxian analysis beyond
simple materialism to develop a Marxism that recognizes the
importance of multiple forms of identity where social life is
interwoven with different types of exploitation and resistance.
Knowledge, Class, and Economics provides a superb introduction to
Resnick and Wolff’s thought and offers a set of 30 challenging,
fascinating, and stimulating essays that engage with it." Gerald
Friedman, Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts at
Amherst, USA"History’s ironies never end. The interest in Marxism
is now more intense than it has been in decades. This collection
showcases the scope and depth of the innovativeness of an approach
that has breathed new life into Marxism: one ‘without guarantees,’
one that offers ‘hope without guarantees,’ a Marxism that calls for
continuous reflection, for re-thinking Marxism indeed." Serap Ayșe
Kayatekin, Professor of Economics and Social Science, American
College of Thessaloniki, Greece"This incisive and wide-ranging
collection does far more than commemorate the moment of the Amherst
School and the possibilities of rethinking Marxism these past
thirty years. It shows us what radical thinking looks like today.
Knowledge, Class, and Economics will soon be required reading
across the social sciences and humanities." Andrew Parker,
Professor of French and Comparative Literature, Rutgers University
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