21st Century Marxism

Cockshott, W.P. (2008) 21st Century Marxism. Junge Welt,

Abstract

In certain respects the situation of Marxism in the early 21st century has much in common with that in the late 19th century. In both cases Marxism is faced with a world in which the capitalist mode of production dominates. During what Hobsbawm called the ‘shorter 20th century’, the period from 1914 to 1990, world politics centered round the epochal struggle between capitalist and socialist economic systems, and that reality gave to Marxism a quite different character than in its first period 1948-1914.

• Item Type: Articles
• Additional Information: This is the original english text of the article Oberhand Gewinnen
• Status: Published
• Refereed: No
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Cockshott, Dr William
• Authors: Cockshott, W.P.
• Subjects: H Social Sciences > HX Socialism. Communism. Anarchism
• College/School: College of Science and Engineering > School of Computing Science
• Journal Name: Junge Welt
• Copyright Holders: Copyright © 2010 the Author
• Publisher Policy: Reproduced with permission of the author