Table of Contents

Introduction: Marxism, Communism, and History: A Reintroduction 1. Actually Existing Marxism 2. Marx After Marxism: History, Subalternity, and Difference 3. Workers of the World 4. Subject for a Feminist Standpoint 5. Mao Zedong and Chinese Marxism 6. Twenty Theses on Marx: Interpretation of the Class Situation Today 7. The Continued Relevance of Marxism as a Question: Some Propositions 8. Queer Theory, Left Politics 9. What Is to Be Done?: Marxism and Academia 10. A Resistance Role for Marxism in the Belly of the Beast 11. Notes on the General Intellect

About the Author

Saree Makdisi is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Chicago. Cesare Casarino is Assistant Professor in the Department of English as the State University of New York at Albany. Rebecca E. Karl is a doctoral candidate in History at Duke University.