The Marx Revival: John Bellamy Foster and Marcello Musto

Shelter and Solidarity and the Marxist Education Project are co-sponsoring this event

The Marx Revival: Key Concepts and New Interpretations

A focus on Ecology with John Bellamy Foster and a presentation on Communism with Marcello Musto

“Scornful neglect and intemperate hostility, haughty dismissal and marginal course adoption, selective co-optation and selective bowdlerization: these are some of the strategies of establishment intellectuals over the years in response to the challenger of the thinker born 204 years ago in Trier. Yet, here we are near the beginning of the third decade of the 21st century, and it sometimes seems that Karl Marx’s ideas have never been as topical, or as commanding of respect and interest, as they are today.” —Marcello Musto, from the Preface, The Marx Revival

The Marx Revival is a revelation: a Marx for our times. — Nancy Fraser
The Marx Revival  will be the place to start in Marx scholarship.  —Gregory Claeys
This is Marx for the 21st century.  —Göran Therborn

John Bellamy Foster is the editor of Monthly Review and is also Professor of Sociology at the University of Oregon. John is the author of the forthcoming Ecology in the Anthropocene (Monthly Review Press), the editor of works by Istvan Mészáros. He has written many books including The Robbery of Nature (with Brett Clark) and The Return of Nature,which won the Deutscher Memorial prize.

Marcello Musto is co-editor of the Marx, Engels, Marxisms series of works with Palgrave Macmillan and  is Associate Professor of Sociological Theory at York University. Marcello has authored and edited many volumes including Another Marx: Early Manuscripts to the International, The Last Years of Karl Marx: An Intellectual Biography, and Karl Marx’s Writings on Alienation.