The last two decades have seen Marxism's academic renascence. In
fields as diverse as law, literary criticism, history, and
philosophy, Marxism once again captivates no small number of
scholars. In part, this reassessment is driven by the efforts of a
group of philosophers and economists to reconstruct Marx from the
ground up on a more rigorous basis. The work of these "Analytical
Marxists" -- who include G.A. Cohen, Jon Elster, and John Roemer --
is given a sustained examination and critique in David Gordon's
Resurrecting Marx.
The charge of the Analytical Marxists that capitalism is
inherently exploitative and unjust is the primary subject of
Gordon's book. Gordon takes issue with that contention; he argues
that the Analytical Marxists' withering criticism of classical
Marxism is essentially correct, but that they fail to replace it
with a superior theoretical edifice. Gordon also analyzes the
Analytical Marxists' reformulation of the Marxian notion of
exploitation, the implications of their rejection of the labor
theory of value, their differences over what rights people have,
and their arguments for the compatibility of markets with
socialism.
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