The importance of a work that grounds critical educational theory in its Marxist foundations and that constitutes an uncompromising socialist project dedicated to educating towards a just society, cannot be understated. This book will provocatively engage all scholars who consider the multiple roles of schooling in society.

Jill Pinkey Pastrana, California State University, Long Beach

The scholarship is impressive. . . . It is a book which will certainly be of interest to any educators who want to build a society where socialism can flourish.

Journal Of In-Service Education

This book is an aid to thought, not just interpretation. Its central theme (that education is of necessity a political activity) is one that needs debate outside the walls of academia.

Times Educational Supplement

The essential message is that Marxism still matters, and this collection highlights the importance of this perspective in educational theory. The postmodern argument that metanarratives are now redundant should be rightly reassessed and this book is a vehicle for that reassessment.

Educational Research

There is undoubtedly a need for a contemporary rigorous Marxist-inspired critique of postmodernism and poststructuralism in educational settings and this book is certainly that.

British Journal of Educational Studies

By engaging rather than rejecting postmodern theory, Marxism Against Postmodernism critically assesses the value of recent theoretical production and offers interstices of hope for committed educators and public intellectuals. I applaud the book's timeliness and its authors' courage.

Zeus Leonardo, UC Berkeley, author of Edward Said and Education