Table of Contents
Figures vii
Tables ix
Acknowledgements xi
1 Introduction 1
2 What is Critical Theory? 17
3 Friedrich Engels Today 53
4 Marx's Centenary (1918) in the Light of the Media and Socialist Thought 81
5 Reflections on Sven-Eric Liedman's Marx-Biography A World to Win: The Life and Works of Karl Marx 97
6 Universal Alienation, Formal and Real Subsumption of Society Under Capital, Ongoing Primitive Accumulation by Dispossession: Reflections on the Marx@200-Debate Between David Harvey and Michael Hardt/Foni Negri 111
7 Critical Social Theory and Sustainable Development: The Role of Class, Capitalism, and Domination in a Dialectical Analysis of Un/Sustainability 131
8 The Relevance of C.L.R. James's Dialectical, Marxist-Humanist Philosophy in the Age of Donald Trump, Black Lives Matter, and Digital Capitalism 157
9 Cornel West and Marxist Humanism 191
10 Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Marx 227
11 Conclusion 245
Index 259