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First as Tragedy, Then as Farce

by Slavoj Žižek

From the tragedy of 9/11 to the farce of the financial meltdown.

15 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.”

45 posts
The Year of Dreaming Dangerously

by Slavoj Žižek

The renowned philosopher finds a utopian future in worldwide protests.

16 posts
Development Arrested

by Clyde Woods
A new edition of a classic history of the Mississippi River Delta
4 posts

Chechnya

by Tony Wood

A powerful argument for Chechen self-determination, and a definitive history of the region.

8 posts
Citizens to Lords

by Ellen Meiksins Wood
A major new history of Western political thought as it evolved through conflict and communities.
13 posts
The Origin of Capitalism

by Ellen Meiksins Wood

How did the dynamic economic system we know as capitalism develop among the peasants and lords of feudal Europe?

40 posts
Peasant-Citizen and Slave

by Ellen Meiksins Wood
The controversial thesis at the center of this study is that, despite the importance of slavery in Athenian society, the most distinctive...
16 posts

The Pristine Culture of Capitalism

by Ellen Meiksins Wood

In this lively and wide-ranging book, Ellen Meiksins Wood argues that what is supposed to have epitomized bourgeois modernity, especially the...

20 posts
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

by Mary Wollstonecraft

A renowned historian introduces Mary Wollestonecraft’s seminal feminist tract

17 posts
Benjamin and Brecht

by Erdmut Wizisla
A fascinating account of the friendship between two of the most brilliant minds of the twentieth century
8 posts
A Common Treasury

by Gerrard Winstanley

Some of the earliest examples of communist thought, introduced by Tony Benn.

16 posts

Changing Venezuela by Taking Power

by Gregory Wilpert

Venezuela under Hugo Chávez could be a model for peaceful revolution—or it could all be undone by the specters of the past.

4 posts
The Eitingons

by Mary-Kay Wilmers

A family history that explores the KGB, the fur trade, Freud and the assassination of Trotsky

4 posts
The Contours of American History

by William Appleman Williams

Chosen by The Modern Library as one of the best one hundred nonfiction books of the twentieth century.

4 posts
Elegy for Mary Turner

by Rachel Marie-Crane Williams

A lyrical and haunting depiction of American racial violence and lynching, evoked through stunning full-color artwork

3 posts

Making the Revolution Global

by Theo Williams

How black radicals reshaped the British left

5 posts
May Day Manifesto 1968

Edited by Raymond Williams

Anniversary edition of the classic political manifesto

9 posts
Resources of Hope

by Raymond Williams
Collected essays and talks from one of Britain’s great thinkers, ranging across political and cultural theory.
6 posts
Homage to Chiapas

by Bill Weinberg
Vividly depicts the grassroots struggles for land and local autonomy.
1 post

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