Series Editor’s Afterword: weaving other worlds with, against and beyond Marx

This Afterword reflects upon the Palgrave International Handbook of Marxism and Education’s challenge for us to think inside, against and beyond Marxist traditions. It reflects upon how thy offer us conceptual, psychological and social maps for how we might weave our concrete histories and ways of knowing the world with people, place, philosophy, values, communities, axiologies, cosmologies, in order to generate ‘relational accountability’. This pushes us to remember and reconsider Marx’s (ethnographic) work in light of the thinking of numerous intellectuals, teachers, elders and activists who have sought to synthesize and distil, weave and unwind, compost and mulch, our rich, differential experiences of capitalism. In relating these experiences to global emergencies, this work pushes us to remember how to use storytelling to connect, precisely because in sitting with those stories points us towards a poetry of positive transcendence of capitalist social relations, and the ability to tell out communism. They offer a consensus that our ontological, epistemological and methodological horizons must push against the law of value. Yet they also unfold myriad ways of analyzing with Marx how we might move through intellectual work in society, such that a new form of becoming accepts and shapes the individual as a many-sided being (in dialogue with other, many-sided beings).