Andrew Pendakis is Associate Professor of Theory and Rhetoric at Brock University, Canada. He is co-editor of Marx and Marxism: Contemporary Marxist Theory: A Reader (Bloomsbury, 2014) and The Bloomsbury Companion to Marx (Bloomsbury, 2018). He is also co-editor of The Johns Hopkins Guide to Critical and Cultural Theory (forthcoming 2023).

A deeply surprising and moving work. Pendakis’s book is one I didn’t know I needed, a clear-sighted, illuminating, unsentimental but – in the best and most rigorous way – romantic rumination on what it is to live while striving for a better world.

• Preface AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: On Life After Marx Chapter 1: How Capitalism Makes us Sad Chapter 2: Why Marxism is True Chapter 3: How Rage Can Change Your Life Chapter 4: Why We Need to Get Organized Bibliography Index Appendix

Andrew Pendakis is Associate Professor of Theory and Rhetoric at Brock University, Canada. He is co-editor of Marx and Marxism: Contemporary Marxist Theory: A Reader (Bloomsbury, 2014) and The Bloomsbury Companion to Marx (Bloomsbury, 2018). He is also co-editor of The Johns Hopkins Guide to Critical and Cultural Theory (forthcoming 2023).

A deeply surprising and moving work. Pendakis’s book is one I didn’t know I needed, a clear-sighted, illuminating, unsentimental but – in the best and most rigorous way – romantic rumination on what it is to live while striving for a better world.

• Preface AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: On Life After Marx Chapter 1: How Capitalism Makes us Sad Chapter 2: Why Marxism is True Chapter 3: How Rage Can Change Your Life Chapter 4: Why We Need to Get Organized Bibliography Index Appendix

Andrew Pendakis is Associate Professor of Theory and Rhetoric at Brock University, Canada. He is co-editor of Marx and Marxism: Contemporary Marxist Theory: A Reader (Bloomsbury, 2014) and The Bloomsbury Companion to Marx (Bloomsbury, 2018). He is also co-editor of The Johns Hopkins Guide to Critical and Cultural Theory (forthcoming 2023).

A deeply surprising and moving work. Pendakis’s book is one I didn’t know I needed, a clear-sighted, illuminating, unsentimental but – in the best and most rigorous way – romantic rumination on what it is to live while striving for a better world.

• Preface AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: On Life After Marx Chapter 1: How Capitalism Makes us Sad Chapter 2: Why Marxism is True Chapter 3: How Rage Can Change Your Life Chapter 4: Why We Need to Get Organized Bibliography Index Appendix