Marxism: Karl Marx’s Fifteen Key Concepts for Cultural and Communication Studies

Marxism: Karl Marx’s Fifteen Key Concepts for Cultural and Communication Studies
ISBN-10
1000744116
ISBN-13
9781000744118
Series
Marxism
Category
Business & Economics
Pages
288
Language
English
Published
2019-11-21
Publisher
Routledge
Author
Christian Fuchs

Description

This introductory text is a critical theory toolkit on how to how to make use of Karl Marx’s ideas in media, communication, and cultural studies. Karl Marx’s ideas remain of crucial relevance, and in this short, student-friendly book, leading expert Christian Fuchs introduces Marx to the reader by discussing 15 of his key concepts and showing how they matter for understanding the digital and communicative capitalism that shapes human life in twenty-first century society. Key concepts covered include: the dialectic, materialism, commodities, capital, capitalism, labour, surplus-value, the working class, alienation, means of communication, the general intellect, ideology, socialism, communism, and class struggles. Students taking courses in Media, Culture and Society; Communication Theory; Media Economics; Political Communication; and Cultural Studies will find Fuchs' concise introduction an essential guide to Marx.

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