215 Critical and Radical Social Work • vol 6 • no 2 • 215–29 • © Policy Press 2018 Print ISSN 2049 8608 • Online ISSN 2049 8675 • https://doi.org/10.1332/204986018X15321003304200 Acccepted for publication 16 May 2018 • First published online 06 August 2018 article SPECIAL ISSUE • Marx at 200 Marx’s influence on Brazilian social work Elaine Behring, elan.rosbeh@uol.com.br Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil This article discusses the influence of Marx and the Marxist tradition on contemporary Brazilian social work. Marx’s method of political
nature of the platform and of the work, so too does the organization of the platform in turn relate to the ways in which workers act and express their agency within their material contexts. Historical materialism, dialectics and the labor theory of value Unlike Hegel, who regards the ‘idea’ as creating the world, Marx argues that “the ideal is nothing but the material world reflected in the mind of [the hu]man, and translated into forms of thought” ( Marx, 1977 : 102). I regard historical materialism as forming my theoretical foundation, as I conceptualize the
179 Critical and Radical Social Work • vol 6 • no 2 • 179–96 • © Policy Press 2018 Print ISSN 2049 8608 • Online ISSN 2049 8675 • https://doi.org/10.1332/204986018X15321002392248 Acccepted for publication 02 May 2018 • First published online 26 July 2018 article SPECIAL ISSUE • Marx at 200 Social work and Marxism: a short essay on the 200th anniversary of the birth of Karl Marx Paul Michael Garrett, pm.garrett@nuigalway.ie NUI Galway, Ireland Marxism is frequently regarded in a disdainful and dismissive way in social work education. However, often drawing on
1 Lawrence Wilde Marx, Morality, and the Global Justice Debate Lawrence Wilde1 Abstract Marx’s disdain for moral discourse is well known, and it is therefore hardly surprising that he barely rates a mention in the global justice debate that has developed apace over the last two decades. However, it is questionable that the debate, addressing as it does systemic inequalities in power, should simply ignore Marx’s analysis of exploitation in capitalism and its implicit ethical grounding in the alienation thesis. Conventional Marxist positions can
137 Critical and Radical Social Work • vol 6 • no 2 • 137–39 • © Policy Press 2018 Print ISSN 2049 8608 • Online ISSN 2049 8675 • https://doi.org/10.1332/204986018X15321004269838 Acccepted for publication 04 June 2018 • First published online 25 July 2018 editorial SPECIAL ISSUE • Marx at 200 Marx at 200 Iain Ferguson, Iain.Ferguson@uws.ac.uk University of the West of Scotland, UK Michael Lavalette, lavalem@hope.ac.uk Liverpool Hope University, UK To cite this article: Ferguson, I. and Lavalette, M. (2018) Editorial: Marx at 200, Critical and Radical Social
197 Critical and Radical Social Work • vol 6 • no 2 • 197–213 • © Policy Press 2018 Print ISSN 2049 8608 • Online ISSN 2049 8675 • https://doi.org/10.1332/204986018X15321002618490 Acccepted for publication 02 May 2018 • First published online 10 August 2018 article SPECIAL ISSUE • Marx at 200 Marx: alienation, commodity fetishism and the world of contemporary social work Michael Lavalette, lavalem@hope.ac.uk Liverpool Hope University, UK Iain Ferguson, iain.ferguson6@btinternet.com University of the West of Scotland, UK This article offers an outline of Marx’s
89 Karl Marx, 1818-83 arl Marx was born in Trier, Germany, in 1818 into a middle-class German-Jewish family who converted to Protestantism when Marx was a young child. Marx’s father was a lawyer and the young Marx attended university in Bonn and Berlin, where he studied law, history and philosophy. Early in his intellectual career he was influenced by the dialectical thinking of the idealist philosopher, Hegel, which he transformed into his own historical materialism which gave priority to social, economic and political forces in history, rather than to Hegel
125 6 Locating civil society in Marx and Gramsci Here I introduce the political economy of governance by sketching Marxian and Gramscian perspectives. This reflects the fact that Part I was primarily a sociological perspective in critical governance studies, that Chapter 5 presented a political and policy perspective, and that it is now time to present a radical perspective grounded in recognition of the capitalist character of the contemporary concept of civil society. This perspective was influential in Lockwood’s critique of a class- based analysis as
REVIEW Marx after post-narratives: a critical reading of Ronaldo Munck’s critical reading of Marx Marx 2020: After the Crisis, by Ronaldo Munck, London, Zed, 2016, 240pp, ISBN: 978-1783608072 RonaldoMunck (2016) observes at the start of his ambitious newwork,Marx 2020: After the Crisis, that evenmainstream pundits turned toMarx to help understand the Great Recession of 2008–9. In 2013 Time Magazine ranked Karl Marx the 14th most influential figure in all of human history. That same year the prestigious science journal Nature reported that Marx is, by far, the
