More on Marxism - a guest contribution

Here is Steven Coatrella's response to my post about his book. Hello David, and thank you for this balanced, constructively critical discussion of my book and the wider context of both our political trajectories in making sense of the world today. Since I first read your review of my book here, the world changed on Tuesday night, and I have read your two comments here on this blog about the election results, which I agree with and appreciate for their insight and depth. As to my book, I will say that I see it more as an attempt to use Marxist class categories as living and vital tools, rather than putting or even less forcing today's complex reality of classes and other groups and organized political forces into a Marxist framework. I also use the English title for Marx's great work, "Capital" - as the German title tends to be off-putting to readers of English suggesting a more impenetrable work that it in fact is. But these are minor points.As to the recent - well 40 plus years now -…

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