Available Formats:
NNELS formats guide
-
Accessibility:
- Described images
- Customizable display
- Heading navigation
- Table of contents navigation
Publisher:Fernwood Publishing, 2017
Details:
- Author: Camfield, DavidDate:Created2017Summary:
This book will provide readers with a short and accessible introduction to a Marxist theory for our times. More specifically, it will present and argue for an anti-racist queer feminist historical materialism (ARQFHM). This is a theoretical approach that critically appropriates the best of Marx and Marxism (including recent ecological Marxism) and fuses it with key contributions developed by non-Marxist anti-racist queer feminists to generate a non-reductionist way of explaining contemporary societies and historical developments as well as guiding action for social change.
Contents:- Part One POPULAR BUT DEFECTIVE: THREE SCHOOLS OF THEORY
- 1. Ideal explanations?
- 2. In our genes?
- 3. All about markets?
- PART TWO AN ALTERNATIVE: RECONSTRUCTED HISTORICAL MATERIALISM
- 4. Why Materialism matters
- 5. How to think about societies
- 6. Understanding history- how societies change
- 7. Capitalism
- PART THREE ANSWERING SOME OF TODAY'S QUESTIONS
- 8. Why is life getting harder for people in rich countries?
- 9. Why is so little being done about climate change?
- 10. Why do women still face Sexism?
- 11. Why is sex still political?
- 12. Why does Racism persist?
- 13. Why isn't there more revolt?
- PART FOUR THE POINT IS TO CHANGE IT
- 14. Is significant change for the better possible?
- 15. Can we do better than Capitalism?
- 16. What are we going to do? From theory to action.
Genre:Subject(s): Communism | Feminism | Philosophy | Social ChangeOriginal Publisher: Halifax, Fernwood PublishingLanguage(s): EnglishISBN: 9781552669969, 1552669963
- Log in to post comments