Marx's Ghost by Charles Derber

Using Marx’s analysis as a diagnostic tool rather than a dogma, the book argues that contemporary capitalism’s concentration of corporate power, rising inequality, and environmental destruction reveal limits that require more democratic, collective alternatives; it reads Marx as a living critique to explain how market imperatives erode community and democracy and to justify rebuilding economic life through expanded public goods, worker and community control, grassroots movements, and incremental “stepping-stone” strategies toward a more egalitarian, ecological socialism.

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