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Part of a review symposium on a book by John Holloway, Change the World without Taking Power: The Meanings of Revolution Today (London: Pluto Press, 2002). References.

1. Introduction -- 2. A Marxian message to the pre-industrialised societies -- 3. Social and economic conditions in China -- 4. The road to Marxism -- 5. Chinese Marxism through the Cold War prism -- 6. The first fruits I: the removal of delusive prejudices -- 7. The first fruits II: towards a Marxian cultural theory -- 8. Mao Zedong's thought -- 9. Chinese Marxism in action: two case studies -- 10. The Thermidorean reaction: a crisis of legitimacy -- 11. Conclusion.

The collapse of the Soviet Union provides economist Howard Sherman with the opportunity to re-evaluate Marxism as an alternative to conventional pro-capitalist perspectives. Arguing that Soviet Marxism distorted Marxian thought, Sherman acknowledges that Marxism must move beyond its traditional Soviet formulation. What is needed, he writes, is a new, critical Marxism that is integral to a radical political economy - a Marxism that sees society as an organic whole dependent upon an integrated set of relationships. Sherman applies his relational-historical approach to four problems: poverty and exploitation, unemployment, the state, and the history of the Soviet Union. Then, using the same approach, he explores several important subjects of classical Marxism - dialectics, materialism, determinism, and Marxian humanism. The result is an understanding of Marxism that is more open-ended, flexible, and nuanced than previous approaches had allowed. In the final part of the book Sherman reconstructs contemporary Marxism as a political economy, and uses it as a critique of such failed communist societies as the former Yugoslavia and Soviet Union. He also shows how Marxism can be a valuable tool for examining society, economics, and politics in the United States

'Adventures in Marxism' by Marshall Berman is reviewed.

"Analytical Marxism" published on by Oxford University Press.

How can Marxism, a theory and practice that emerged from the European experience, speak to contexts outside that experience? Recent scholarship has returned to the moment of the 1960s and 1970s to examine how political movements in the global South that embraced Marxism grappled with this question, aiming to reformulate Marxist theories and categories of analysis for postcolonial realities. Whereas this scholarship focuses on the writings of intellectuals, in this article, the authors supplement prose with oral history and ethnography to also identify the theory immanent in practice. They show how the translation of Marxist theory for political practice in the peripheries instantiated what the authors call a worldly Marxism: that is, a Marxism that is constantly renewed as it exceeds its origins in Europe and attends to the specificities of settler-colonies, (post-)colonies and metropoles. Worldly Marxism thus entails theorizing in the conjuncture, that is, from a particular historical moment, and involves arranging multiple conceptual elements to clarify and understand the political task at hand. The authors illustrate how such worldly Marxism was produced in Pakistan by examining the Mazdoor Kisan Party (MKP), the country's historically largest communist party, as it engaged with agrarian transitions, religion, and gender.

Avant-propos à un recueil de textes ; Présentation du parcours théorique et intellectuel d'André Tosel, au travers de sa réflexion de Gramsci.