Publisher's Synopsis
Topics covered include analytical Marxism, methodology, exploitation, & materialism. Contents: Introduction. What is a Marxist Today?. What is Living & What is Dead in Marxism?. Analytical Marxism & Morality. How to Make No Sense of Marx. Elster, Marx & Methodology. Marxism & Popular Politics: The Microfoundations of Class Conflict. Community, Tradition, & the 6th Thesis on Feuerbach. Methodological Individualism, Psychological Individualism & the Defense of Reason. Second Thoughts on Property Relations & Exploitation. John Roemer's Economic Philosophy & the Perils of Formalism. On the Exploitation of Cotton, Corn & Labor. An Alternative to 'Distributive' Marxism: Further Thoughts on Roemer, Cohen, & Exploitation. Roemer vs. Marx. Should Anyone Be Interested in Exploitation?. Exploitation & Equality: Labour Power as a Non-Commodity. Marxism, Materialism & Historical Progress. Ruling Ideas. Rationality & Alienation. In Defence of Abundance. Afterword.
