"First published by Verso 2008."--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : our time and the Age of Marx -- Into the twenty-first century : the new parameters of global politics -- Twentieth-century Marxism and the dialectics of modernity -- After dialectics : radical social theory in the North at the dawn of the twenty-first century.

Starting from a viewpoint characterized by postmodernism, post-Marxism and critiques of Eurocentrism, Therborn tackles the issue of the trajectory of Marxism in the 20th century and its legacy for radical thought in the 21st.