[Verse 1]
Marx's ideas spread across the globe today
New thinkers found fresh paths along the way
Dependency theory shows the core and rim
Rich nations drain the poor, prospects grow dim
Wallerstein mapped the world-system's design
Center, periphery, and semi-periphery lines
[Chorus]
Neo-Marxism rising, theory's evolution
Dependency, world-systems, critical solution
Fraser shows us gender, Robinson reveals race
Capital's many faces in every time and place
Four developments, three voices, one direction
Marxist theory's modern resurrection
[Verse 2]
Frankfurt School birthed critical theory's light
Questioning culture, power, and what's right
Adorno and Horkheimer saw reason's cage
While Habermas wrote the communicative age
Theory meets practice in society's critique
Liberation's the goal that critical thinkers seek
[Chorus]
Neo-Marxism rising, theory's evolution
Dependency, world-systems, critical solution
Fraser shows us gender, Robinson reveals race
Capital's many faces in every time and place
Four developments, three voices, one direction
Marxist theory's modern resurrection
[Bridge]
Nancy Fraser takes on capitalism's care crisis
Social reproduction, feminism's thesis
Cedric Robinson coined racial capitalism's name
Slavery and accumulation, one and the same
Black radical tradition challenges Marx's frame
Class and race together in capital's game
[Verse 3]
From Global South to feminist critique
New Marxisms make the theory complete
World-systems show unequal exchange flows
While critical theory questions what everyone knows
These contemporary voices expand the view
Making nineteenth-century insights fresh and new
[Final Chorus]
Neo-Marxism rising, theory's evolution
Dependency, world-systems, critical solution
Fraser shows us gender, Robinson reveals race
Capital's many faces in every time and place
Four developments, three voices, one direction
Marxist theory's modern resurrection
[Outro]
The struggle continues in academic halls
As neo-Marxist theory breaks down walls
From world-systems to racial capital's might
Contemporary theory keeps Marx's flame bright