Argues that the potentially powerful concept of writing as a social activity might become an instrument for the reproduction of existing social relations. Summarizes Lev Vygotsky's ideas about "self." Argues that the increasing interest in the social dimensions of writing can cultivate strategies for scholars and teachers to resist…

Cognitive capitalism--sometimes referred to as "third capitalism," after mercantilism and industrial capitalism--is an increasingly significant theory, given its focus on the socio-economic changes caused by Internet and Web 2.0 technologies that have transformed the mode of production and the nature of labor. The theory of cognitive…

The global agro-food system relies heavily on inorganic nitrogenous fertilizers. In addition to consuming enormous amounts of energy, this manufactured input contributes to the accumulation of reactive nitrogen in the biosphere and undermines the biological basis of agricultural production itself. While technological inefficiency and population…

This article focuses on research about welfare state restructuring in education and its implications for the teaching profession. Several things are described and discussed. However, amongst the most important are pan-European developments in the social relations of production in education over the past 50 years with respect to the…

This article analyzes Dale's attempt to reconstruct a classical version of Marxist ideology and finds its onesided. Dale replies in an immediately following article. (MT)

It is said that aestheticians today, including art critics and philosophers, are yearning for some kind of salvation for contemporary art. This salvation would come in the form of a return to aesthetic experience that would act as a foundation enabling resistance to pure discursive reflection and intertextuality. These debates concerning…

In this article, the author presents his views on Mike Cole's and Heather Mendick's comments on his book titled "Education and Society: Issues and Explanations in the Sociology of Education." In his review, Cole stated that the author's critical realism is seen as an advance on Marxism, of which the author is dismissive. The author refutes that…

After a brief explanation of historical materialism, this article discusses implications for the role of the school in capitalist society. Marxist analysis explaining the school's role in social reproduction is criticized. Ways in which the insights of historical materialism can be put to use by educational scholars are suggested. (MT)

Philosophical accounts of sport's sociopolitical purposes tend either to condemn or promote various political ideologies. This essay gives a synthetic interpretation of the philosophical groundwork of judgments about socialist sport in terms of Hegel's contributions to Marxist thought and the implications of Marxist thought for modern sporting…

Discusses the changing conditions in which organic intellectuals of the new order find themselves. Examines the dislocations and disruptions in international economic conditions that resist traditional Marxist explanations. Examines the ways in which the right has been successful in turning these to their advantage in the war for political and…

Turning towards history--to be contrasted with turning away from history--captures the Marxian sense of education. Marx worked out the elements of a theory of political education in relation to history by equating education with the coincidence of the changing of circumstances and people. This theory received its most comprehensive yet succinct…

Using the viewpoint of semiotics, this paper "re-reads" Karl Marx's labor theory of value and suggests a "triple triangle" model for commodity production and shows how this model could be a model for semiosis in general. The paper argues that there are three advantages to considering homogeneity of the sign production and the…

This article examines major categories of classical and critical Marxism and reviews issues emerging about their usefulness for radical social theory. These issues are analyzed with regard to how they have influenced the course of radical education theory. Finally, a theoretical discourse for developing an alternative radical theory of education…

By describing the activity theory of learning, this article presents the Soviet position on learning theory and ties psychological research in the USSR to the current Marxist approach to the solution of instructional problems. (BW)

Considers the new organic intellectual as rhetoric teacher, working out the ways in which this teacher is uniquely placed to encourage the counter-hegemonic efforts to subordinate groups. Offers concrete classroom activities as well as theoretical elaboration of their genesis. (RS)