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- Back to Marx
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
Maybe it's time for the left to see the universalization of capitalism not just as a defeat for us but also as an opportunity -- and that, of course, above all means a new opportunity for that unfashionable thing called class struggle.
- Democracy Against Capitalism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Wood provides a brilliant explication and defense of the key theoretical concepts relevant to socialism, understood to be the most radical social and economic democracy.
- The Demos Versus 'We, the People': from Ancient to Modern Conceptions of Citizenship
From Democracy Against Capitalism, Chapter 7
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1995
- Eurocentric Anti-Eurocentrism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
What is so puzzling about anti-Eurocentric histories, especially the histories of capitalism, is that, without exception, they are based on the most Eurocentric -- not to mention bourgeois -- assumptions.
- Interview with Ellen Meiksins Wood
Democracy & Capitalism: Friends or Foes?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1996
Postmodernist pluralism, just like the old variety, obscures the realities of power in capitalist societies. It also disarms and disintegrates the opposition to capitalism. Postmodernism brings us back to the old and uncritical forms of capitalist ideology, which leave the system fundamentally unchallenged. Marxism -- historical materialism -- is the best foundation for an understanding of the society in which we live and therefore also the best guide in our search for a better one.
- An interview with Ellen Meiksins Wood - co-editor of Monthly Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
The strength of the Marxist project is that it does recognize difference, specificities, and grounds its project in a real social word, but that it has a unifying principle - class - based upon lived experience. Obviously class can't cover all emancipatory struggles, but it can provide some sort of unifying principle among emancipatory struggles that's completely lacking in the postmodernist perspective. It can bring together women and men, black and white, based on their common experience of work and exploitation and common interest in a classless society.
- Modernity, postmodernity, or capitalism?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1996
- Peasant, Citizen and Slave
The Foundations of Athenian Democracy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Wood argues that, despite the importance of slavery in Athenian society, the most distinctive characteristic of Athenian democracy was the unprecedented prominence it gave to free labour. Wood argues that the emergence of the peasant as citizen, juridically and politically independent, accounts for much that is remarkable in Athenian political institutions and culture.
- Politics and the Communist Manifesto -- Part 1
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
Marxists used to be attacked from the right as "reductionists." Today, that accusation has become a favorite of the (postmodernist) left. We've reached a point where any attempt at explanation, any tendency to think in terms of causality, is "reductionist."
- The Retreat from Class
A New 'True' Socialism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986 Published: 1999
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