Matthews on Marx
I was going to write a longer post on the usefulness of various Marxist ideas in scholarly practice, but as he is wont to do, Dylan has already done so and made any extra thoughts I might have a bit superfluous.
I would like to add that I think Will is right, in a limited sense, that due to the various cultural prejudices and path dependence in academia, that some Marx influenced ideas are more widespread than the value of the research program would say they deserve (world systems theory, for instance), but that’s a criticism of just about any scholarly approach or program that has staying power, and doesn’t have a ton to do with Marx himself or any of his ideas.
