摘要：As part of recent attempts to rethink Canadian political economy, a number of scholars writing from broadly Marxian perspectives have turned their attention towards the Maritimes. These "Maritime Marxists" have a number of goals: to sensitize the radical intellectual community to the high level of abstraction upon which the study of Canadian" political economy is based; to challenge certain orthodox interpretations of the development of the Maritimes; and to provide a Marxian interpretation of capitalist development in the Maritimes as a precondition for identifying and ameliorating the real problems facing the region.
