Book Review

Marx for the 21st Century, a collection of 14 essays by Japanese scholars, is not only about the relevance of Marx today, but also about Marx Studies, Marx-reception and Marxology in Japan. The themes, thinkers and texts discussed in this volume include: modernity, socialism, theory of history, original accumulation of capital, time sovereignty, distributive justice, environmental problems, labor money, civil/civilized society, Keynesianisms, World Systems Theory, John Stuart Mill, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Louis Blanc, Karl Marx, Max Weber, the Communist Manifesto, and The German Ideology. This publication provides some very interesting glimpses of Marx scholarship in Japan