Addresses a wide range of topics which have become classic in Marxist debate, including dialectics, epistemology, social emancipation, value theory, historical materialism and the relationship between feminism and Marxism, providing a forum for debate on key theoretical questions.

Topics covered include dialectics, epistemology, social emancipation, value theory, historical materialism and the relationship between feminism and Marxism. The contributors argue that sociological heritage which grew up under the banner of scientific Marxism has had a detrimental effect on the movement of socialist thinking. The 'emancipation of Marx' implies both freeing Marx from the understanding of the 20th Century and the freeing of the human spirit from the control of capital.

Capitalism and reproduction, Mariarosa Dalla Costa
emancipating explanation, Kosmas Psychopedis
why did Marx conceal his dialectical method?, Helmut Reichelt
Hegel's philosophy of right and Marx's critique - a reassessment, Robert Fine
the dialectics of rights - transitions and emancipatory claims in the Marxian tradition, Manolios Angelidis
the complicity of posthistory, Adrian Wilding
from scream of refusal to scream of power - the centrality of work, John Holloway
capital as subject and the existence of labour, Werner Bonefeld.