Marxism: Karl Marxs Fifteen Key Concepts for Cultural and Communication Studies [Paperback]

This introductory text is a critical theory toolkit on how to how to make use of Karl Marxs ideas in media, communication, and cultural studies.

Karl Marxs 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.

1. Introduction 2. The Dialectic 3. Materialism: The Base/Superstructure-Problem 4. Commodities, Capital, Capitalism 5. Labour and Surplus-Value 6. The Working Class 7. Alienation 8. Means of Communication and the General Intellect 9. Ideology 10. Socialism and Communism 11. Class Struggles

This introductory text is a critical theory toolkit on how to how to make use of Karl Marxs ideas in media, communication and cultural studies.

Christian Fuchs is a professor of media and communication studies and a critical theorist of communication and society. He is co-editor of the journal tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique (http://www.triple-c.at) and author of many books, including Communication and Capitalism: A Critical Theory, Rereading Marx in the Age of Digital Capitalism, Nationalism on the Internet: Critical Tlãõ