What is to be Done with Marxism(s) Today?

Marxism has been an object of theoretical investigation for about 100 years, and as a global phenomenon it is the origin of widely differing schools of thought. Moreover in the postwar mid-century period it also became an object of academic study undertaken in different disciplinary modes in some national cultures (while demonized in others). In those terms it has been a huge success, and "We are all Marxists now" (even if many don't know they are and might even deny it). Hardly anyone now argues that politics, law, morality and property have no connection with the workings of the economic system, or that economic systems are timeless and have never changed in significant ways. However, in political terms, and certainly for the last 35 years since "the fall of the Wall," organized Marxism has had a decidedly mixed reception. It has been expunged in many places, but institutionalized in party-state systems in others. In between there are numerous activisms generating hyphenated hybrids and practising critique. Marxisms present a range of political options from social democracy to authoritarian capitalism, yet populisms of various kinds get more traction. Papers for this panel will consider "What is to be done with Marxism(s)?" from a wide variety of perspectives, some theoretical, some practical, some both. Panelists will define and delimit what is or isn't Marxism, and evaluate "ways forward," or options for "starting over."