Political Theory

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  On Practice and Contradiction

  by Mao Tse-Tung
  The writings that underpinned the Chinese revolution, introduced by Slavoj Žižek.

  2 posts

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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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  Revolution in the Air

  by Max Elbaum
  The first in-depth study of the long march of the US New Left after 1968.
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  Thinking Past Terror

  by Susan Buck-Morss
  Thinking past the twin insanities of terrorism and counter-terrorism.

  2 posts

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  Precarious Life

  by Judith Butler
  Responding to the US’s perpetual war, Butler explores how mourning could inspire solidarity.

  4 posts

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  Another Production is Possible

  Edited by Boaventura de Sousa Santos
  A meticulous examination of new forms of the conflict between capital and labor.
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  NHS plc

  by Allyson M. Pollock
  How the ideal of universal healthcare was eroded by the application of market principles.

  2 posts

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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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  The System of Objects

  by Jean Baudrillard
  A tour de force of the materialist semiotics of the early Baudrillard. 
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  The Return of the Political

  by Chantal Mouffe
  A powerful new understanding of citizenship, democracy and pluralism.
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  Liberalism and Democracy

  by Norberto Bobbio
  The longue durée of the relationship between liberalism and democracy.
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  Iraq

  by Slavoj Žižek
  Žižek analyzes the bizarre logic used to justify the attack on Iraq.

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  Books for Burning

  by Antonio Negri
  Subversive political writings by the acclaimed author of Empire.

  2 posts

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  Populism and the Mirror of Democracy

  Edited by Francisco Panizza
  Definitive collection on populist politics.
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  Social Theory

  by Roberto Mangabeira Unger
  Volume 2 of Politics, a work in constructive social theory.

  1 post

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  Plasticity into Power

  by Roberto Mangabeira Unger
  Volume 3 of Politics, a work in constructive social theory.