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Lineages of the Absolutist State

by Perry Anderson
Situating the Absolutist states of the early modern epoch against the background of European feudalism
9 posts
Lives on the Left

Edited by Francis Mulhern

Voices of Sartre, Lukács, Chomsky, Harvey and others in conversation with New Left Review.

17 posts
Living in the End Times

by Slavoj Žižek

Žižek analyzes the end of the world at the hands of the “four riders of the apocalypse.”

44 posts
The London Hanged

by Peter Linebaugh

This groundbreaking history aids any understanding of the rise of capitalism.

4 posts

The Long Twentieth Century

by Giovanni Arrighi

A comprehensive analysis of the development of world capitalism over seven hundred years.

15 posts
Lord Leverhulme’s Ghosts

by Jules Marchal

The definitive account of exploitation in the Congo, introduced by Adam Hochschild

6 posts
The Lost World of British Communism

by Raphael Samuel

A fascinating account of life as a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain

6 posts
The Making of Bourgeois Europe

by Colin Mooers

A defense of the concept of bourgeois revolution in European history

6 posts

The Making of New World Slavery

by Robin Blackburn

Tracing European doctrines of race and slavery from medieval times to the early modern epoch.

15 posts
The Making of the Black Working Class in Britain

by Ron Ramdin

A classic history of the role of Black working-class struggles throughout the twentieth century

16 posts
The Man Who Closed the Asylums

by John Foot

“A portrait of imperfect people who had the passion and pragmatism to put an end to a brutal and broken system.” – Financial Times

10 posts
The Many-Headed Hydra

by Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker
Long before the American Revolution and the Declaration of the Rights of Man, a motely crew of sailors, slaves, pirates, labourers, market women,...
9 posts

Marx and Freud in Latin America

by Bruno Bosteels
The turbulent continent through the eyes of Marx and Freud.
7 posts
Marxism and the Philosophy of Science

by Helena Sheehan

A masterful survey of the history of Marxist philosophy of science

2 posts
Marxism in the United States

by Paul Buhle
“Challenges the entire edifice of modern US cultural and political history.”—Monthly Review
5 posts
Masks of Anarchy

by Michael Demson
A graphic history of a poem that became aninspiration to immigrant workers in New York
13 posts

May Day Manifesto 1968

Edited by Raymond Williams

Anniversary edition of the classic political manifesto

9 posts
The Meaning of Sarkozy

by Alain Badiou

The reactionary tradition behind Sarkozy, and the communist hypothesis for the twenty-first century.

55 posts
The Meaning of the Second World War

by Ernest Mandel

“One of the most creative and independent-minded revolutionary Marxists of the post-war world.”—The Guardian

4 posts
A Millennium of Family Change

by Wally Seccombe
A powerful study of the changing structure of families.
5 posts

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