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Ellen Meiksins Wood: Groundbreaking Marxist Historian and Political Thinker

Ellen Meiksins Wood passed away on January 14, 2016. To celebrate her life, we're offering 30% off all of her titles.

Verso Books14 January 2026

Ellen Meiksins Wood: Groundbreaking Marxist Historian and Political Thinker

From her classic historical work, The Origin of Capitalism, to her sharp criticism of the Post-Marxist milieu in The Retreat from Class, Ellen Meiksins Wood was a Marxist thinker with major contributions to history, sociology, and theory. 

"Wood was an extraordinarily rigorous and imaginative thinker, someone who breathed life into Marxist political theory and made it speak—not to just to me but to many others—at multiple levels: historical, theoretical, political." — Corey Robin, Jacobin

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