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  Mute Compulsion

  by Søren Mau

  Despite insoluble contradictions, intense volatility and fierce resistance, the crisis-ridden capitalism of the 21st century lingers on. To understand capital’s paradoxical expansion and entrenchme...
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  The Debate on Classes

  by Erik Olin Wright

  Contributions by Uwe Becker, Johanna Brenner, Michael Burawoy, Val Burris, Guglielmo Carchedi, Gordon Marshall, Peter Meiksins, David Rose, Arthur Stinchcombe and Philippe Van Parijs

  Erik Olin Wright’s Classes was hailed on publication, by the American Journal of Sociology, as “almost certain to be the most important book on social classes” of the decade. Wright presented a bol...
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  How to Be an Anticapitalist in the Twenty-First Century

  by Erik Olin Wright

  Capitalism has transformed the world and increased our productivity, but at the cost of enormous human suffering. Our shared values equality and fairness, democracy and freedom, community and solid...
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  Envisioning Real Utopias

  by Erik Olin Wright

  Rising inequality of income and power, along with recent convulsions in the finance sector, have made the search for alternatives to unbridled capitalism more urgent than ever. Yet few are attempti...
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  Democracy Against Capitalism

  by Ellen Meiksins Wood

  Historian and political thinker Ellen Meiksins Wood argues that theories of “postmodern” fragmentation, “difference”, and contingency can barely accommodate the idea of capitalism, let alone subjec...
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  The Retreat from Class

  by Ellen Meiksins Wood

  In this classic study, which won the Isaac Deutscher Memorial Prize, Ellen Wood provides a critical survey of influential trends in “post-Marxist” theory. Challenging their dissociation of politics...
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  From Marxism to Post-Marxism?

  by Göran Therborn

  A comprehensive history of the development of Marxist theory and the parameters of 21st-century politicsIn this pithy and panoramic work - both stimulating for the specialist and the accessible to ...
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  Feminist International

  by Verónica Gago

  Translated by Liz Mason-Deese

  Recent years have seen massive feminist mobilizations in virtually every continent, overturning social mores and repressive legislation. In this brilliant and original look at the emerging feminist...
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  Analytical Marxism

  by Marcus Roberts

  In the 1980s, leading philosophers at Oxford, Chicago and UCLA undertook a controversial reassessment of Marxism using the techniques of analytical philosophy. The aim of these so-called “Non-Bulls...
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  Marx and Human Nature

  by Norman Geras

  In this passionate and polemical classic work, Norman Geras argues that the view that Marx broke with all conceptions of human nature in 1845 is wrong. Rather, his later writings are informed by an...
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  On Materialism

  by Sebastiano Timpanaro

  Translated by Lawrence Garner

  This polemical work presents to the English-speaking world one of the most original philosophical thinkers to have emerged within post-war Europe. Sebastiano Timpanaro is an Italian classical philo...
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  In the Tracks of Historical Materialism

  by Perry Anderson

  What have been the major changes in the intellectual landscape of the left since the mid seventies? Have they on balance represented an emancipation or a retreat for socialist culture as a whole? I...
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  Arguments Within English Marxism

  by Perry Anderson

  The characteristic form taken by English Marxism since the war has been the study of history. No writer exemplifies its achievements better than Edward Thompson, whose Making of the English Working...
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  The Philosophy of Marx

  by Étienne Balibar

  Translated by Gregory Elliott and Chris Turner

  Written by one of political theory’s leading thinkers, The Philosophy of Marx examines all the key areas of Marx’s writings in their wider historical and theoretical context—including the concepts ...
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  Considerations on Western Marxism

  by Perry Anderson

  This synoptic essay considers the nature and evolution of the Marxist theory that developed in Western Europe, after the defeat of the proletarian rebellions in the West and the isolation of the Ru...
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  Marx: Towards the Centre of Possibility

  by Kojin Karatani

  Introduction by Gavin Walker

  Edited by Gavin Walker

  Translated by Gavin Walker

  Originally published in 1974, Kojin Karatani’s Marx: Towards the Centre of Possibility has been among his most enduring and pioneering works in critical theory. Written at a time when the political...
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  Late Marxism

  by Fredric Jameson

  In the name of an assault on “totalization” and “identity,” a number of contemporary theorists have been busily washing Marxism’s dialectical and utopian projects down the plug-hole of postmodernis...
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  A Companion To Marx's Capital

  by David Harvey

  In recent years, we have witnessed a surge of interest in Marx’s work in the effort to understand the origins of our current predicament. For nearly forty years, David Harvey has written and lectur...
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  A Companion to Marx's Grundrisse

  by David Harvey

  When leading scholar of Marx, Roman Rosdolsky, first encountered the virtually unknown text of Marx's Grundrisse - his preparatory work for his masterpiece Das Capital - in the 1950s in New York Pu...

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  The H-Word

  by Perry Anderson

  Few terms are so widely used in the literature of international relations and political science, with so little agreement about their exact meaning, as hegemony.In the first full historical study o...
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  Class, Crisis and the State

  by Erik Olin Wright

  The idea of “class interest”—the set of social objectives of a given class—has been well explored in socialist thought. But what about the ability to realize these objectives? The complex tension b...
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  The Poulantzas Reader

  by Nicos Poulantzas

  Edited by James Martin

  Nicos Poulantzas was one of the leading Marxist theorists of the twentieth century, developing seminal analyses of the state and social classes during the crisis of monopoly capitalism. This volume...
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  Lineages of the Absolutist State

  by Perry Anderson

  Forty years after its original publication, Lineages of the Absolutist State remains an exemplary achievement in comparative history. Picking up from where its companion volume, Passages from Antiq...
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  The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State

  by Friedrich Engels

  Foreword by Jennifer Doyle

  Introduction by Eleanor Burke Leacock

  In this provocative and now-classic work, Friedrich Engels explores the interrelated development of the family and the state from ancient society to the Victorian era. Drawing on new anthropologica...
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  State, Power, Socialism

  by Nicos Poulantzas

  Introduction by Stuart Hall

  Translated by Patrick Camiller

  Developing themes of his earlier works, Poulantzas here advances a vigorous critique of contemporary Marxist theories of the state, arguing against a general theory of the state, and identifying fo...
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  The End of the State

  by Andrew Levine

  Is it possible, as Marx and Engels announced in the Communist Manifesto, for there to occur a withering away of the state? In this cool and lucid work of speculative philosophy, Andrew Levine trace...
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  Class Power and State Power

  by Ralph Miliband

  Ralph Miliband is one of the major Marxist sociologists working today. His books, The State in Capitalist Society and Parliamentary Socialism, are standard reference points in all debates on the na...
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  Fortunes of Feminism

  by Nancy Fraser

  Second Wave feminism emerged as a struggle for women’s liberation and took its place alongside other radical movements. But feminism’s subsequent immersion in identity politics coincided with a dec...
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  The Anti-Social Family

  by Michèle Barrett and Mary McIntosh

  The stereotypical nuclear family is in the minority of households, yet remains a powerful ideology. This classic of socialist feminism charts how the family reinforces conditions of inequality, and...
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  What Does the Ruling Class Do When It Rules?

  by Göran Therborn

  In his new book, Göran Therborn – author of the now standard comparative work on classical sociology and historical materialism, Science, Class and Society – looks at successive state structures in...
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  On Ideology

  by Louis Althusser

  Translated by Ben Brewster

  The publication of For Marx and Reading Capital established Louis Althusser as one of the most influential figures in the Western Marxist tradition. On Ideology charts Althusser’s critique of the t...
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  Alternatives to Capitalism

  by Robin Hahnel and Erik Olin Wright

  What would a viable free and democratic society look like? Poverty, exploitation, instability, hierarchy, subordination, environmental exhaustion, radical inequalities of wealth and power—it is not...
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  On the Reproduction of Capitalism

  by Louis Althusser

  Louis Althusser’s renowned short text "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses" radically transformed the concept of the subject, the understanding of the state and even the very frameworks o...
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  The New Spirit of Capitalism

  by Luc Boltanski and Eve Chiapello

  Translated by Gregory Elliott

  In this major work, sociologists Luc Boltanski and Eve Chiapello go to the heart of the changes in contemporary capitalism. Via an unprecedented analysis of the latest management texts that have fo...

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  American Foreign Policy and Its Thinkers

  by Perry Anderson

  Since the birth of the nation, impulses of empire have been close to the heart of the United States. How these urges interact with the way the country understands itself, and the nature of the dive...
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  Ever Closer Union?

  by Perry Anderson

  The European Union is a political order of peculiar stamp and continental scope, its polity of 446 million the third largest on the planet, though with famously little purchase on the conduct of it...
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  The Indian Ideology

  by Perry Anderson

  The historiography of modern India is largely a pageant of presumed virtues: harmonious territorial unity, religious impartiality, the miraculous survival of electoral norms in the world’s most pop...
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  The Clash of Fundamentalisms

  by Tariq Ali

  The aerial attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center, a global spectacle of unprecedented dimensions, generated an enormous volume of commentary. The inviolability of the American mainland...
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  America: The New Imperialism

  by Victor G. Kiernan

  Preface by Eric Hobsbawm

  The invasion and occupation of Iraq have sparked considerable discussion about the nature of American imperialism, but most of it is focused on the short term. The classical historical approach of ...
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  Potential History

  by Ariella Aïsha Azoulay

  In this theoretical tour-de-force, renowned scholar Ariella Aïsha Azoulay calls on us to recognize the imperial foundations of knowledge and to refuse its strictures and its many violences.Azoulay ...
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  The Imperial Mode of Living

  by Ulrich Brand and Markus Wissen

  With the concept of the Imperial Mode of Living, Brand and Wissen highlight the fact that capitalism implies uneven development as well as a constant and accelerating universalisation of a Western ...
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  Insurgent Empire

  by Priyamvada Gopal

  Much has been written on the how colonial subjects took up British and European ideas and turned them against empire when making claims to freedom and self-determination. The possibility of reverse...
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  The Origin of Capitalism

  by Ellen Meiksins Wood

  In The Origin of Capitalism, a now-classic work of history, Ellen Meiksins Wood offers readers a clear and accessible introduction to the theories and debates concerning the birth of capitalism, im...
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  Imagined Communities

  by Benedict Anderson

  What are the imagined communities that compel men to kill or to die for an idea of a nation? This notion of nationhood had its origins in the founding of the Americas, but was then adopted and tran...
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  Imperialism

  by Bill Warren

  Ever since the First World War, socialists have considered imperialism a calamity: responsible for militarism, economic stagnation, and assaults on democracy in metropolitan countries, an impedimen...
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  Sinews of War and Trade

  by Laleh Khalili

  On the map of global trade, China is now the factory of the world. A parade of ships full of raw commodities—iron ore, coal, oil—arrive in its ports, and fleets of container ships leave with manufa...
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  The Invention of the Land of Israel

  by Shlomo Sand

  Translated by Geremy Forman

  What is a homeland? When does it become a national territory? Why have so many people been willing to die for such places throughout the twentieth century? What is the essence of the Promised Land?...

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  Decolonial Marxism

  by Walter Rodney

  Foreword by Ngugi wa Thiong'o

  Early in life, Walter Rodney became a major revolutionary figure in a dizzying range of locales that traversed the breadth of the Black diaspora: in North America and Europe, in the Caribbean and o...
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  Abolition Geography

  by Ruth Wilson Gilmore

  Gathering together Ruth Wilson Gilmore's work from over three decades, Abolition Geography presents her singular contribution to the politics of abolition as theorist, researcher, and organizer, of...
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  The South

  by Adolph L. Reed Jr.

  Foreword by Barbara J. Fields

  The last generation of Americans with a living memory of Jim Crow will soon disappear. They leave behind a collective memory of segregation shaped increasingly by its horrors and heroic defeat but ...
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  Imagined Communities

  by Benedict Anderson

  What are the imagined communities that compel men to kill or to die for an idea of a nation? This notion of nationhood had its origins in the founding of the Americas, but was then adopted and tran...
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  Mistaken Identity

  by Asad Haider

  Whether class or race is the more important factor in modern politics is a question right at the heart of recent history’s most contentious debates. Among groups who should readily find common grou...
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  Class, Race, and Marxism

  by David R. Roediger

  Seen as a key figure in the critical study of whiteness, US historian David Roediger has sometimes received criticism, and praise, alleging that he left Marxism behind in order to work on questions...
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  Racecraft

  by Karen E. Fields and Barbara J. Fields

  Praised by a wide variety of people from Ta-Nehisi Coates to Zadie Smith, Racecraft "ought to be positioned," as Bookforum put it, "at the center of any discussion of race in American life." Most p...
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  The Invention of the White Race

  by Theodore W. Allen

  When the first Africans arrived in Virginia in 1619, there were no 'white' people there; nor, according to colonial records, would there be for another sixty years. Historical debate about the orig...
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  The Wages of Whiteness

  by David R. Roediger

  Preface by Priyamvada Gopal

  Introduction by Kathleen Cleaver

  An enduring history of how race and class came together to mark the course of the antebellum US and our present crisis. Roediger shows that in a nation pledged to independence, but less and less ab...
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  Seizing Freedom

  by David R. Roediger

  How did America recover after its years of civil war? How did freed men and women, former slaves, respond to their newly won freedom? David Roediger’s radical new history redefines the idea of fr...
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  De Colores Means All of Us

  by Elizabeth Sutherland Martînez

  Foreword by Angela Davis

  Introduction by Karma R. Chavez

  Elizabeth Martínez’s unique Chicana voice arises from over thirty years of experience in the movements for civil rights, women’s liberation, and Latina/o empowerment. In De Colores Means All of Us,...
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  The Black Atlantic

  by Paul Gilroy

  In this ground-breaking work, Paul Gilroy proposes that the modern black experience can not be defined solely as African, American, Carribean or British alone, but can only be understand as a Black...
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  Beyond Black and White

  by Manning Marable

  Many in the US, including Barack Obama, have called for a 'post-racial' politics: yet race still divides the country politically, economically and socially.In this highly acclaimed work, Manning Ma...
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  Traces of History

  by Patrick Wolfe

  Traces of History presents a new approach to race and to comparative colonial studies. Bringing a historical perspective to bear on the regimes of race that colonizers have sought to impose on A...
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  The American Crucible

  by Robin Blackburn

  For over three centuries, slavery in the Americas fuelled the growth of capitalism. But the stirrings of a revolutionary age in the late eighteenth century challenged this “peculiar institution” an...
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  Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World

  by Kumari Jayawardena

  Foreword by Rafia Zakaria

  For twenty-five years, Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World has been an essential primer on the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century history of women’s movements in Asia and the Midd...
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  The Making of the Black Working Class in Britain

  by Ron Ramdin

  This is the first comprehensive historical perspective on the relationship between Black workers and the changing patterns of Britain’s labour needs. It places in an historical context the developm...
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  The Groundings With My Brothers

  by Walter Rodney

  In his short life, the Guyanese intellectual Walter Rodney emerged as one of the leading thinkers and activists of the anticolonial revolution, leading movements in North America, South America, th...
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  Race, Nation, Class

  by Étienne Balibar and Immanuel Wallerstein

  Forty years after the defeat of Nazism, and twenty years after the great wave of decolonization, how is it that racism remains a growing phenomenon? What are the special characteristics of contempo...
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  The Common Wind

  by Julius S. Scott

  The Common Wind is a gripping and colorful account of the intercontinental networks that tied together the free and enslaved masses of the New World. Having delved deep into the gray obscurity of o...
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  Revolutionary Feminisms

  by Brenna Bhandar and Rafeef Ziadah

  Edited by Brenna Bhandar and Rafeef Ziadah

  In a moment of rising authoritarianism, climate crisis, and ever more exploitative forms of neoliberal capitalism, there is a compelling and urgent need for radical paradigms of thought and action....
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  Deadly and Slick

  by Sita Balani

  If race is increasingly understood to be socially constructed, why does it continue to seem like a physiological reality? The trickery of race, Sita Balani argues, comes down to how it is embedded ...
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  Understanding Class

  by Erik Olin Wright

  Few ideas are more contested today than “class.” Some have declared its death, while others insist on its centrality to contemporary capitalism. It is said its relevance is limited to explaining in...

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  Aesthetics and Politics

  by Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Ernst Bloch, Bertolt Brecht and Georg Lukács

  Afterword by Fredric Jameson

  No other country and no other period has produced a tradition of major aesthetic debate to compare with that which unfolded in German culture from the 1930s to the 1950s. In Aesthetics and Politics...
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  Raymond Chandler

  by Fredric Jameson

  Raymond Chandler, a dazzling stylist and portrayer of American life, holds a unique place in literary history, straddling both pulp fiction and modernism. With The Big Sleep, published in 1939, he ...
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  Culture and Materialism

  by Raymond Williams

  A comprehensive introduction to the work of one of the outstanding intellectuals of the twentieth century.Raymond Williams is a towering presence in cultural studies, most importantly as the founde...
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  In Theory

  by Aijaz Ahmad

  After the Second World War, nationalism emerged as the principle expression of resistance to Western imperialism in a variety of regions from the Indian subcontinent to Africa, to parts of Latin Am...
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  Invisibility Blues

  by Michele Wallace

  First published in 1990, Michele Wallace’s Invisibility Blues is widely regarded as a landmark in the history of black feminism. Wallace’s considerations of the black experience in America include ...
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  The Politics of Friendship

  by Jacques Derrida

  Translated by George Collins

  Jacques Derrida was one of most influential philosophers of the 20th century. In The Politics of Friendship he explores the idea of friendship and its political consequences, past and future in ord...
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  On Ideology

  by Louis Althusser

  Translated by Ben Brewster

  The publication of For Marx and Reading Capital established Louis Althusser as one of the most influential figures in the Western Marxist tradition. On Ideology charts Althusser’s critique of the t...
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  The Last Resistance

  by Jacqueline Rose

  In The Last Resistance, Jacqueline Rose explores the power of writing to create and transform our political lives. In particular, she examines the role of literature in the Zionist imagination: her...
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  In Search of Wagner

  by Theodor Adorno

  Foreword by Slavoj Žižek

  Translated by Rodney Livingstone

  Written in exile from Germany, this potent study of Europe’s most controversial composer explodes the frontiers of musical and cultural analysis. Measuring key elements of Wagner’s oeuvre with pate...
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  War and Cinema

  by Paul Virilio

  Translated by Patrick Camiller

  Reveals the convergence of perception and destruction in the parallel technologies of warfare and cinema.
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  Charles Baudelaire

  by Walter Benjamin

  Translated by Harry Zohn

  Walter Benjamin, one of the foremost cultural commentators and theorists of this century, is perhaps best known for his analyses of the work of art in the modern age and the philosophy of history. ...
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  Walter Benjamin's Archive

  by Walter Benjamin

  Edited by Ursula Marx, Michael Schwartz, Gudrun Schwarz and Erdmut Wizisla

  Translated by Esther Leslie

  The work of the great literary and cultural critic Walter Benjamin is an audacious plotting of history, art, and thought; a reservoir of texts, commentaries, scraps, and fragments of everyday lif...
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  One-Way Street

  by Walter Benjamin

  Introduction by Susan Sontag

  Translated by Edmund F.N. Jephcott and Kingsley Shorter

  Walter Benjamin is one of the most fascinating and enigmatic intellectual figures of this century. Not only was he a thinker who made an enormous impact with his critical and philosophical writings...
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  Politics and Letters

  by Raymond Williams

  Introduction by Geoff Dyer

  Raymond Williams made a central contribution to the intellectual culture of the Left in the English-speaking world. He was also one of the key figures in the foundation of cultural studies in Bri...
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  Sexuality in the Field of Vision

  by Jacqueline Rose

  A pivotal work in the history of feminism and a groundbreaking intervention into film theory, Sexuality in the Field of Vision is a brilliantly original exploration of the interface between feminis...
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  Allegory and Ideology

  by Fredric Jameson

  Works do not have meanings, they soak up meanings: a work is a machine for libidinal investments (including the political kind). It is a process that sorts incommensurabilities and registers contra...
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  The Ancients and the Postmoderns

  by Fredric Jameson

  High modernism is now as far from us as antiquity was for the Renaissance. Such is the premise of Fredric Jameson’s major new work in which modernist works, this time in painting (Rubens) and music...
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  Class War

  by Mark Steven

  A thrilling and vivid work of history, Class War weaves together literature and politics to chart the making and unmaking of social class through revolutionary combat. In a narrative that spans the...
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  Marx's Literary Style

  by Ludovico Silva

  In Marx’s Literary Style, the Venezuelan poet and philosopher Ludovico Silva argues that much of the confusion around Marx’s work results from a failure to understand his literary mode of expressio...
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  The Politics and Poetics of Everyday Life

  by Kristin Ross

  The texts in this volume represent Kristin Ross's attempt to think the question of the everyday across a range of discourses, practices and knowledges, from philosophy to history, from the visual a...
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  Writers and Missionaries

  by Adam Shatz

  Through a close reading of the lives and works of some of the greatest intellectuals of recent times, Adam Shatz asks: do writers have an ethical imperative to question injustice? How can one remai...
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  Different Speeds, Same Furies

  by Perry Anderson

  There are few writers about whom opinions diverge so widely as Anthony Powell, whose Dance to the Music of Time sequence is one of the most ambitious literary constructions in the English language....
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  The Antinomies of Realism

  by Fredric Jameson

  The Antinomies of Realism is a history of the nineteenth-century realist novel and its legacy told without a glimmer of nostalgia for artistic achievements that the movement of history makes it imp...
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  Ghostly Demarcations

  Contributions by Aijaz Ahmad, Jacques Derrida, Terry Eagleton, Werner Hamacher, Fredric Jameson, Tom Lewis, Pierre Macherey, Rastko Mo?nik, Warren Montag and Antonio Negri

  Edited by Michael Sprinker

  With the publication of Specters of Marx in 1993, Jacques Derrida redeemed a longstanding pledge to confront Marx’s texts directly and in detail. His characteristically bravura presentation provide...
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  Culture and Politics

  by Raymond Williams

  Raymond Williams was a pioneering scholar of cultural and society, and one of the outstanding intellectuals of the twentieth century. In this, a collection of difficult to find essays, some of whic...
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  Criticism and Ideology

  by Terry Eagleton

  Terry Eagleton is one of the most important—and most radical—theorists writing today. His witty and acerbic attacks on contemporary culture and society are read and enjoyed by many, and his studies...
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  Literature of Revolution

  by Norman Geras

  This influential collection explores the pivotal texts and topics in the Marxist tradition. Ranging over questions of social theory, political theory, moral philosophy and literary criticism, it l...
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  The Function of Criticism

  by Terry Eagleton

  This wide-ranging book argues that criticism emerged in early bourgeois society as a central feature of a “public sphere” in which political, ethical, and literary judgements could mingle under the...
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  The Cultural Turn

  by Fredric Jameson

  Fredric Jameson, a leading voice on the subject of postmodernism, assembles his most powerful writings on the culture of late capitalism in this essential volume. Classic insights on pastiche, nost...
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  The Age of the Poets

  by Alain Badiou

  Introduction by Emily Apter and Bruno Bosteels

  Translated by Bruno Bosteels

  The Age of the Poets revisits the age-old problem of the relation between literature and philosophy, arguing against both Plato and Heidegger’s famous arguments. Philosophy neither has to ban the p...

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  Class, Crisis and the State

  by Erik Olin Wright

  The idea of “class interest”—the set of social objectives of a given class—has been well explored in socialist thought. But what about the ability to realize these objectives? The complex tension b...

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  The Idea of Communism

  Contributions by Alain Badiou, Judith Balso, Bruno Bosteels, Susan Buck-Morss, Terry Eagleton, Peter Hallward, Michael Hardt, Jean-Luc Nancy, Antonio Negri, Jacques Rancière, Mark Russo, Alberto Toscano and Gianni Vattimo

  Edited by Costas Douzinas and Slavoj Žižek

  Do not be afraid, join us, come back! You’ve had your anti-communist fun, and you are pardoned for it—time to get serious once again!—Slavoj Žižek Responding to Alain Badiou’s ‘communist hypothesis...

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  The Dilemmas of Lenin

  by Tariq Ali

  Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, leader of the October 1917 uprising, is one of the most misunderstood leaders of the twentieth century. In his own time, there were many, even among his enemies, who acknowle...

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  The Poulantzas Reader

  by Nicos Poulantzas

  Edited by James Martin

  Nicos Poulantzas was one of the leading Marxist theorists of the twentieth century, developing seminal analyses of the state and social classes during the crisis of monopoly capitalism. This volume...

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  American Foreign Policy and Its Thinkers

  by Perry Anderson

  Since the birth of the nation, impulses of empire have been close to the heart of the United States. How these urges interact with the way the country understands itself, and the nature of the dive...

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  Ever Closer Union?

  by Perry Anderson

  The European Union is a political order of peculiar stamp and continental scope, its polity of 446 million the third largest on the planet, though with famously little purchase on the conduct of it...

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  The Indian Ideology

  by Perry Anderson

  The historiography of modern India is largely a pageant of presumed virtues: harmonious territorial unity, religious impartiality, the miraculous survival of electoral norms in the world’s most pop...

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  Brazil Apart

  by Perry Anderson

  What does Brazil’s lurch to the hard right under Jair Bolsonaro portend for Latin America’s most populous society, and how has it come about? Perry Anderson, foremost observer of the Brazilian scen...

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  Arguments Within English Marxism

  by Perry Anderson

  The characteristic form taken by English Marxism since the war has been the study of history. No writer exemplifies its achievements better than Edward Thompson, whose Making of the English Working...

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  The Clash of Fundamentalisms

  by Tariq Ali

  The aerial attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center, a global spectacle of unprecedented dimensions, generated an enormous volume of commentary. The inviolability of the American mainland...

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  Decolonial Marxism

  by Walter Rodney

  Foreword by Ngugi wa Thiong'o

  Early in life, Walter Rodney became a major revolutionary figure in a dizzying range of locales that traversed the breadth of the Black diaspora: in North America and Europe, in the Caribbean and o...

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  The South

  by Adolph L. Reed Jr.

  Foreword by Barbara J. Fields

  The last generation of Americans with a living memory of Jim Crow will soon disappear. They leave behind a collective memory of segregation shaped increasingly by its horrors and heroic defeat but ...

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  Racecraft

  by Karen E. Fields and Barbara J. Fields

  Praised by a wide variety of people from Ta-Nehisi Coates to Zadie Smith, Racecraft "ought to be positioned," as Bookforum put it, "at the center of any discussion of race in American life." Most p...

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  Toward Freedom

  by Touré Reed

  For many progressives, racial identities are the engine of American history, and by extension, contemporary politics. They, in short, want to separate race from class. While policymakers and pundit...

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  Darkwater

  by W. E. B. Du Bois

  Foreword by Manning Marable

  Introduction by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

  “I have been in the world, but not of it,” W.E.B. Du Bois begins this book, a continuation of the project he began in his celebrated work The Souls of Black Folk, describing the devastation of segr...

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  Imagined Communities

  by Benedict Anderson

  What are the imagined communities that compel men to kill or to die for an idea of a nation? This notion of nationhood had its origins in the founding of the Americas, but was then adopted and tran...

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  Class, Race, and Marxism

  by David R. Roediger

  Seen as a key figure in the critical study of whiteness, US historian David Roediger has sometimes received criticism, and praise, alleging that he left Marxism behind in order to work on questions...

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  The World in a Grain of Sand

  by Nivedita Majumdar

  The World in a Grain of Sand offers a framework for reading literature from the global South that goes against the grain of dominant theories in cultural studies, especially, postcolonial theory. I...

Book strip #31

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  Raymond Chandler

  by Fredric Jameson

  Raymond Chandler, a dazzling stylist and portrayer of American life, holds a unique place in literary history, straddling both pulp fiction and modernism. With The Big Sleep, published in 1939, he ...

Book strip #32

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  Aesthetics and Politics

  by Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Ernst Bloch, Bertolt Brecht and Georg Lukács

  Afterword by Fredric Jameson

  No other country and no other period has produced a tradition of major aesthetic debate to compare with that which unfolded in German culture from the 1930s to the 1950s. In Aesthetics and Politics...

Book strip #33

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  Culture and Materialism

  by Raymond Williams

  A comprehensive introduction to the work of one of the outstanding intellectuals of the twentieth century.Raymond Williams is a towering presence in cultural studies, most importantly as the founde...

Book strip #34

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  In Theory

  by Aijaz Ahmad

  After the Second World War, nationalism emerged as the principle expression of resistance to Western imperialism in a variety of regions from the Indian subcontinent to Africa, to parts of Latin Am...

Book strip #35

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  Against the Grain

  by Terry Eagleton

  These essays (and a ballad) have their origins in Terry Eagleton’s continuing engagement with the possibilities of a literary criticism that is both materialist and open to diverse currents of thou...

Book strip #36

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  Ghostly Demarcations

  Contributions by Aijaz Ahmad, Jacques Derrida, Terry Eagleton, Werner Hamacher, Fredric Jameson, Tom Lewis, Pierre Macherey, Rastko Mo?nik, Warren Montag and Antonio Negri

  Edited by Michael Sprinker

  With the publication of Specters of Marx in 1993, Jacques Derrida redeemed a longstanding pledge to confront Marx’s texts directly and in detail. His characteristically bravura presentation provide...