Political Theory

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  Welcome to the Desert of the Real

  by Slavoj Žižek
  Probing beneath the level of TV punditry, Žižek offers a highly original and readable account that serves as a fascinating and insightful comprehension of the events of September 11.

  5 posts

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  The Idea of Communism 2

  Edited by Slavoj Žižek
  Key theorists discuss the future of communism in New York.
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  The Value Controversy

  This volume presents, for the first time, a comprehensive yet accessible overview of the discussion over value theory. 
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  Redesigning Distribution

  by Bruce Ackerman, Anne Alstott, et al.
  Two proposals that would make capitalism much more egalitarian.

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  Parecon

  by Michael Albert
  An answer to the constant query put to economic and globalization activists: what do you want?
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  The Obama Syndrome

  by Tariq Ali
  A prescient dissection of Obama’s overseas escalation and domestic retreat, fully updated.

  58 posts

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  Kashmir: The Case for Freedom

  by Tariq Ali, Hilal Bhatt, et al.
  Leading international voices condemn the brutalities of the Kashmir occupation.

  6 posts

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  On Ideology

  by Louis Althusser
  The classic analysis of how particular political and cultural ideas come to dominate society.

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  For Marx

  by Louis Althusser
  A milestone in postwar Marxist thought, containing Althusser’s influential arguments on the epistemological break and anti-humanism.
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  Machiavelli and Us

  by Louis Althusser
  “Althusser, poised between modernism and postmodernism, meets Machiavelli, poised between the Middle Ages and modernity.”—Antonio Negri.

  1 post

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  Politics and History

  by Louis Althusser
  Enlightenment advances towards a science of politics, and Marx's relationship to Hegel.
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  Reading Capital

  by Louis Althusser and Étienne Balibar
  A landmark of French thought, reconstructing Western Marxism from its foundations.

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  Imagined Communities

  by Benedict Anderson
  The definitive, bestselling book on the origins and development of nationalism.

  2 posts

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  Arguments Within English Marxism

  by Perry Anderson
  “A very elegant restatement of the undogmatic essence of Marx.”—New Statesman
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  In the Tracks of Historical Materialism

  by Perry Anderson
  How Marxist thought evolved in the seventies and early eighties.
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  Spectrum

  by Perry Anderson
  Assesses the competing claims of theorists from the far right, the liberal centre and the Marxist left.

  1 post