The Cultural Economy Moment? by Flew Terry

“…The paper draws upon Michel Foucault’s lectures on neo-liberalism to indicate that there are significant problems with the neo-Marxist account hat became hegemonic over the 2000s. …”
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Lithuania in the Centrai and Eastem Europe of the 16th-18th Centuries: "Feudal Reaction" or Peripheral Capitalism? by Darius Žiemelis

“…In Marxist historiography (beginning with Friedrich Engels), the concept of the second serfdom means the process of refeudalization. The neo-Marxist CWS theory of I. Wallerstein, applying an approach, suggests looking at the phenomenon of the second serfdom from the global perspective, describing it as an expression of peripheral capitalism in Central and Eastern Europe. …”
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The Ecstasy of Communication. Critical remarks on Jean Baudrillard by Pieter Duvenage

“…The point is that with the “… greater mediatization of society … we are witnessing the virtualization of our world.”2 This contribution briefly reconstructs, firstly, two phases in Baudrillard’s intellectual career – phases that shifted from an early neo-Marxist critique of the modern consumer society to a post-Marxist or postmodern view of society (which include engagements with socio-anthropology; psychoanalysis, sociology, semiology and media theory), and eventually ends in a kind of anti-theory with an extreme fatal vision of the world.3 In section 2 the implications of these two shifts in Baudrillard’s intellectual career are contextualized in the field of media and communication studies – and specifically his concept of the “ecstasy of communication”. …”
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The manor estate economy ofthe Republic of Two Nations (the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth) in the 16th-18th centuries from the Marxist and neo-institutionalist perspectives by Darius Žiemelis

“… This article continues an analysis of the socioeconomic history of the Republic of Two Nations (RTN) in the 16th-18th centuries, viewed through two competing historiographical views: the traditional Marxist conception emphasizing internal considerations and the neo-Marxist capitalist world system theory (CWS) emphasizing external motivations. …”
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Immanuel Wallerstein's Theory of the Capitalist World-System by Darius Žiemelis

“…Because of the dominant significance of Marxist sources, CWS can be considered a neo-Marxist theory. The development of the CWS's theory (from the 16th to the second half of the 19th c.) has three stages: 1) agrarian capitalism - the beginning of the CWS's theory; 2) mercantile capitalism - the outcome of the consolidation of the CWS's theory; 3) globalization period of the CWS. …”
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