Political Theory

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  Under Three Flags

  by Benedict Anderson
  The origins of nationalism and anti-globalization are traced by the bestselling author of Imagined Communities.

  2 posts

  1 discussion

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  The Future as Cultural Fact

  by Arjun Appadurai

  Acclaimed author presents a decade's research toward creating an anthropology of the future.

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  Debating Cosmopolitics

  Edited by Daniele Archibugi
  Cosmopolitics, the concept of a world politics based on shared democratic values, is in an increasingly fragile state.
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  Anti-Systemic Movements

  by Giovanni Arrighi, Terence K. Hopkins, et al.
  Peerless examination of the rise of social movements against the global capitalist system, conducted by the leading exponents of the “world systems” perspective.

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  The Geometry of Imperialism

  by Giovanni Arrighi
  Viewing many meanings of imperialism through a single, formal model.
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  They Can't Represent Us!

  by Dario Azzellini and Marina Sitrin
  How the new global movements are putting forward a radical conception of democracy.
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  Reflections on Anti-Semitism

  by Alain Badiou, Eric Hazan, et al.
  Dissecting how facile accusations of “anti-Semitism”are used to stifle dissent.
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  Philosophy for Militants

  by Alain Badiou
  A philosophical guidebook for the struggles to come

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  The Communist Hypothesis

  by Alain Badiou
  A new program for the Left after the death of neoliberalism.

  11 posts

  1 discussion

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  Antagonistics

  by Gopal Balakrishnan
  A striking intervention from one of the most original young radical thinkers of today.
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  Mapping the Nation

  Edited by Gopal Balakrishnan
  Part of Verso's classic Mapping series that collects the most important writings on key topics in a changing world

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  Debating Empire

  Edited by Gopal Balakrishnan
  Acute international theorists and commentators of our times subject Empire to trenchant and probing analysis.

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  The Philosophy of Marx

  by Étienne Balibar
  The only guide to Marx that the student and scholar will need.

  3 posts

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  Spinoza and Politics

  by Étienne Balibar and Warren Montag
  A rich analysis of Spinoza's key works, in the context of his political and ideological associations.
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  On the Dictatorship of the Proletariat

  by Étienne Balibar
  Debating the transition to communism.
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  Race, Nation, Class

  by Étienne Balibar and Immanuel Wallerstein
  The modernity of racism and its relationship to contemporary capitalism.

  4 posts