Introduction : our time and the Age of Marx -- Into the twenty-first century : the new parameters of global politics -- Twentieth-century Marxism and the dialectics of modernity -- After dialectics : radical social theory in the North at the dawn of the twenty-first century
Summary
A comprehensive history of the development of Marxist theory and the parameters of 21st-century politics. In this pithy and panoramic work--both stimulating for the specialist and accessible to the general reader--one of the world's leading social theorists, G & ouml;ran Therborn, traces the trajectory of Marxism in the twentieth century and anticipates its legacy for radical thought in the twenty-first