Democracy Against Capitalism: Renewing Historical Materialism

Democracy Against Capitalism: Renewing Historical Materialism

Ellen Meiksins Wood argues that with the collapse of Communism the theoretical project of Marxism and its critique of capitalism is more timely and important than ever. In this book she sets out to re…

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