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Demokracja i kapitalizm: teoria polityczna Ellen Meiksins Wood
Democracy and Capitalism: Ellen Meiksins Wood's Political Theory

Author(s): Eliasz Robakiewicz
Subject(s): Politics, Political Theory, Marxism
Published by: Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza
Keywords: Meiksins Wood; Political Marxism; Brenner; capitalism; feudalism

Summary/Abstract: Ellen Meiksins Wood is the theorist who, together with Robert Brenner, created a strand of Marxism called "political Marxism," which I intend, in this article, to present to the Polish-speaking public. In the first part, I present a brief description of "political Marxism” focusing on the subject of “relations of reproduction” and on the “transition debate” (transition from feudalism to capitalism) as key problems. In the second part, I discuss how Meiksins Wood understands the concept of "class," together with her research on democracy in general and on ancient Greece in particular.

  • Issue Year: 2017
  • Issue No: 26
  • Page Range: 290-319
  • Page Count: 30
  • Language: Polish