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Contemporary theoretical discussions of exploitation are dominated by thinkers in the liberal and Marxian traditions. This book pushes past these traditional and binary explanations, to focus on unjust practises that both depend on and perpetuate inequalities central to exploitation. Using real-world examples, the chapters in this collection address key questions, including, in what ways are exploitation practices globalised, racialized and gendered? How do cases of organ selling, price gouging and commercial gestational surrogacy change our understandings of exploitation? What possible social and economic remedies do these new conceptions prescribe? Case studies in this volume span the globe, dealing with developed and developing countries alike and in a variety of national and transnational contexts.

Exploitation --- Marxism --- Ausbeutung. --- Exploitation. --- Marxismus.

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Knowledge in the Age of Digital Capitalism proposes a new critical theory concerning the functioning of capitalism and how we consider knowledge and information. This ambitious book systematically and lucidly introduces contemporary phenomena into the framework of cognitive materialism to address some of the great themes of the social sciences: knowledge, exploitation and social class in an account of capitalism as totality in the present day. Author Mariano Zukerfeld reinvigorates materialist study of communications, presenting a typology of knowledge to explain the underlying material forms of information, intellectual property and cognitive work in contemporary societies. Using current examples the book also examines concerns such as free labour and the pivotal role of intellectual property. The book offers nothing less than an introduction to the theory of cognitive materialism and an account of the entirety of the digital (or knowledge) capitalism of our time.

intellectual property --- marxism --- materialism --- capitalism --- cognitive --- knowledge --- Information technology --- Capitalism --- Economic aspects. --- Social aspects.

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Während sozialistische Pädagogik lange Zeit vergessen schien, wird in jüngster Zeit vor dem Hintergrund der globalen Krise des Kapitalismus ihre Wiederentdeckung diskutiert. Robert Pfützner leistet mit seiner systematischen Rekonstruktion sozialistischen Nachdenkens über Solidarität und Pädagogik zwischen 1789 und 1918 einen Beitrag dazu und entwickelt die Idee einer aktuellen Pädagogik der Solidarität. Er stellt frühsozialistische, marxistische und sozialdemokratische Konzepte vor und legt dabei die erziehungs- und bildungstheoretischen Potenziale sozialistischer Traditionen jenseits der offiziellen Sowjet- und DDR-Rhetorik offen. »Es [ist] das Verdienst Pfützners, den sozialistischen Diskurs über Pädagogik wieder in den Blick gerückt zu haben. Lesenswert sind insbesondere seine Überlegungen zur ethischen Begründung einer solidarischen Pädagogik.« Florian Grams, Sozial.Geschichte Online, 24 (2019) »Weil die vorliegende Arbeit zur Reflexion [...] herausfordert und damit in der gegenwärtigen, sozialistische Gedankengänge weitgehend tabuisierenden Erziehungswissenschaft eine Ausnahmestellung einnimmt, bleibt zu hoffen, dass sie zu einer breiteren Diskussion [...] beitragen kann.« Marco Steffen, Das Argument, 326 (2018) Besprochen in: Allgemeine Deutsche Zeitung, 09.12.2017, Markus Fischer

Pädagogik; Bildung; Solidarität; Arbeiterbewegung; Sozialismus; Marxismus; Bildungsgeschichte; Bildungstheorie; Pedagogy; Education; Solidarity; Working Class Movement; Socialism; Marxism; History of Education; Theory of Education --- Education. --- History of Education. --- Marxism. --- Socialism. --- Solidarity. --- Theory of Education. --- Working Class Movement.

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Acta Slavica Estonica is an international series of publications on current issues of Russian and other Slavic languages, literatures and cultures. This volume consists of two sections and includes articles by participants of two international scientific seminars: “Translation strategies and state control” (Tartu, December 8–10, 2016) and “Textbook as an ideological text” (Tartu, September 29–30, 2017). The focus of the book is on the relationship between government institutions and members of the translation community during the Soviet period; ideology and poetics of translations of works of art included in the Russian-Soviet literary canon; mechanisms of transmission of ideology in Russian imperial and Soviet school textbooks.

Translation & interpretation --- Cultural studies --- Marxism & Communism --- Political structures: totalitarianism & dictatorship --- Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe) --- translation --- translators --- ideology --- state control --- Soviet Union --- cultural dynamics --- textbooks

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This book explores the tradition, impact, and contemporary relevance of two key ideas from Western Marxism: Georg Lukács's concept of reification, in which social aspects of humanity are viewed in objectified terms, and Guy Debord's concept of the spectacle, where the world is packaged and presented to consumers in uniquely mediated ways. Bringing the original, yet now often forgotten, theoretical contexts for these terms back to the fore, Johan Hartle and Samir Gandesha offer a new look at the importance of Western Marxism from its early days to the present moment-and reveal why Marxist cultural critique must continue to play a vital role in any serious sociological analysis of contemporary society.

Philosophy, Marxist. --- Reification. --- Thingification --- Verdinglichung --- Marxian philosophy --- Marxist philosophy --- Philosophy --- Metaphor --- Communism and philosophy --- Communism and culture. --- Communist aesthetics. --- Culture and communism --- Culture --- Aesthetics, Communist --- Aesthetics, Marxist --- Marxist aesthetics --- Communism and art --- Ideology, Cultural Criticism, Western Marxism, Commodity, Reification, Spectacle.