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An Unfinished Revolution

by Robin Blackburn, Abraham Lincoln, et al.
The impact of the American Civil War on Karl Marx, and Karl Marx on America.
3 posts
Contingency, Hegemony, Universality

by Judith Butler, Ernesto Laclau, et al.
The Hegelian legacy, Left strategy, and post-structuralism versus Lacanian psychoanalysis.
3 posts
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
The Panopticon Writings

by Jeremy Bentham
A definitive collection of Bentham’s work on the model prison, key to Foucault’s theory of power.
1 post

Critique of Economic Reason

by André Gorz
“Gorz’s greatest work, and a crucial book for our time.”—Le Monde.
3 posts
Race, Nation, Class

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

Edited by Costas Douzinas and Slavoj Žižek
An all-star cast of radical intellectuals discuss the continued importance of communism.
16 posts

1 discussion
From Marxism to Post-Marxism?

by Göran Therborn
A comprehensive history of the development of Marxist theory and the parameters of 21st-century politics.
3 posts

On the Nation and the Jewish People

by Ernest Renan and Shlomo Sand
Two classic texts on nationalism introduced by the author of The Invention of the Jewish People.
1 post
For Marx

by Louis Althusser
A milestone in postwar Marxist thought, containing Althusser’s influential arguments on the epistemological break and anti-humanism.
The Verso Book of Dissent

Edited by Andrew Hsiao and Audrea Lim
A sparkling anthology of revolt and resistance to orthodoxy and repression.
26 posts

1 discussion
The Revolutions of 1848

by Karl Marx
Volume 1 of Marx’s political writings, including The Communist Manifesto.
3 posts

The First International and After

by Karl Marx
Volume 3 of Marx’s political writings, including The Civil War In France.
3 posts
Surveys from Exile

by Karl Marx
Volume 2 of Marx’s political writings, including The Eighteenth Brumaire.
2 posts
Frames of War

by Judith Butler
Analyzing the different frames through which we experience war, Butler calls for a reorientation of the Left.
5 posts
Voices of the World

Edited by Boaventura de Sousa Santos
Voices of the World is a rich and timely collection of life stories from activists in the global justice movement.

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