Starting from a viewpoint characterized by postmodernism, post-Marxism and critiques of Eurocentrism, Therborn tackles the issue of the trajectory of Marxism in the 20th century and its legacy for radical thought in the 21st

Retraces the development of a Marxist philosophy of science through detailed and highly readable accounts of the debates that shaped it. Skilfully deploying a large cast of characters, the author shows how Marx and Engel's ideas on the development and structure of natural science had a crucial...

I. Historical Materialism and the Specificity of Capitalism. 1. The separation of the 'economic' and the 'political' in capitalism ; 2. Rethinking base and superstructure ; 3. Class as process and relationship ; 4. History or technological determinism? ; 5. History or teleology? Marx versus...

The production of capital -- Transformations in the labour process -- The transformations of the wage-earners' conditions of life -- The concentration and centralization of capital -- General rate of profit and competition among capitals -- Monetary system, credit and crises