Posted: December 23rd, 2015

Is Marxism the best resource for understanding anti-austerity politics in contemporary Europe?

The essay title is “Is Marxism the best resource for understanding anti-austerity politics in contemporary Europe?”

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Please aim for 80 + in the essay, a very high first. Use around 20 sources for this essay, of high quality book or academic journal sources. I will be uploading sources and referencing books for you to use. Please use other sources through your own research too. If you are to use any internet sources, please only use a maximum of 5.

This course is centred on Marxist political theory so you will find Paul Cammack, David Harvey, Bonefield and Holloway along with other thinkers very useful in your essay, sources of which are being uploaded to the dashboard. Please use Chicago referencing style and double space the work and use 12 size font.

For example, if you are to reference Chicago style with footnotes, use this format:

Alfredo Saad-Filho (2003), “Value, capital and exploitation.” In Anti-capitalist: A Marxist Introduction, ed. Alfredo Saad-Filho (Sterling, VA: Pluto Press), pp. 34.

For bibliography, please use this format:

Saad-Filho, A (2003). “Value, capital and exploitation.” In Anti-capitalist: A Marxist Introduction, ed. Alfredo Saad-Filho, (Sterling, VA: Pluto Press), pp 27-41.

I will be uploading a previous essay written by writer 300769 as a form of guidance for your referencing style. I also will be uploading instructions on this essay as well as a guidline pdf on how to reference for my specific UK institution.

In regards to this specific essay, anti-austerity politics and its analyses in Europe should centre on movements in Greece, Spain and elsewhere in Europe, with Marxist political theory as a use of analyses and critique of capitalism and austerity measures with economic analyses from Keynes too, however, left wing Marxism itself should be critiqued too. Your main augment should however be on the side of Marxism, but if you wish to argue the other way around (on the side of capitalism and that Marxisim is not the best resource), this is fine. Arguments should definitely focus on class struggles. Please have your argument set out from the beginning introduction, in your analyses and all the way to your conclusion.