Xavier Lafrance is the author of The Making of Capitalism in France: Class Structures, Economic Development, the State and the Formation of the French Working Class, 1750–1914 (2019). He is a professor of political science at the University of Quebec in Montreal.

08.07.2023

• Xavier Lafrance

Ellen Meiksins Wood Showed Us the Irrationality of the Capitalist Market

Ellen Meiksins Wood was one of the great Marxist thinkers of her age. One of Wood’s most important contributions was to show how the coercive pressure of markets is specific to capitalism and point us toward the necessary socialist alternative.