Marxist Social Change Communication

This chapter offers an important corrective to the dominant social change communication literature, closely examining the nature of social change articulated in Marxist frameworks. The role of communication in revolutions is explored, attending to the communicative processes that underlie the organizing of workers and peasants against capital. The close reading of social change processes in Marxist traditions foregrounds the questions of land redistribution, collective organizing, state-directed development, and imperialism. The chapter then attends to examples of actually existing socialisms across the globe, attending to the ongoing work of socialist organizing in creating registers for human health and wellbeing.