Marxist Political Economy: Essays in Retrieval: Selected Works of Geoff Pilling

Geoff Pilling's work shows that Marxist theory is relevant to those struggling to understand the problems of capitalist society today, and that the work not only of Marx and Engels but that of later Marxist theorists, including Lenin is worth studying. It also shows that to understand the problems of today's society needs more than narrow specialist economic analysis, but a deep awareness of current developments in society.

Geoff Pilling was a prominent political economist who devoted his life to the achievement of socialism and a ’truly human society’. Geoff taught Economics at Sheffield and Bradford Universities and at Middlesex Polytechnic (later University), where he developed an MA in Political Economy and was awarded a readership. In addition to a distinguished academic career, in which he published several books, he was a prolific writer in the left-wing press, including Labour Review, Fourth International, Workers’Press and the Dockers Charter. He sadly died in 1997.

Doria Pilling was Geoff’s wife and is an Honorary Senior Fellow at the School of Health Sciences at City University, London, UK.