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Never-Ending Nightmare

by Pierre Dardot and Christian Laval

The authoritarian face of neoliberalism
Legislature by Lot

by John Gastil and Erik Olin Wright

Democracy means rule by the people, but in practice even the most robust democracies delegate most rule making to a political class
The Civic Foundations of Fascism in Europe

by Dylan Riley

How the development of twentieth-century fascism depended on strong civil societies

1 post
Fascism and Dictatorship

by Nicos Poulantzas

A compelling analysis of fascism, replete with insights into the authoritarian movements and states of our time

13 posts

The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg, Volume III

by Rosa Luxemburg

4 posts
Philosophy and Revolution: From Kant to Marx

by Stathis Kouvelakis

A remarkable history of the formation of Marxist thought

48 posts
The Day After the Revolution

by V. I. Lenin

One hundred years after the Russian Revolution, Žižek shows why Lenin’s thought is still important today

13 posts
Germany’s Hidden Crisis

by Oliver Nachtwey

How neoliberalism is causing a social crisis in Germany

2 posts

The Limits to Capital

by David Harvey

A major rereading of Marx’s critique of political economy

22 posts
On Populist Reason

by Ernesto Laclau

A philosophical and political exploration of the construction of popular identities

24 posts
Collected Works, Volume 2

by V. I. Lenin
Crowds and Party

by Jodi Dean

How do mass protests become an organized activist collective?

25 posts

Constituting Feminist Subjects

by Kathi Weeks

A groundbreaking attempt to theorise the feminist subject

8 posts
Claude Lévi-Strauss: A Critical Study of His Thought

by Maurice Godelier

One of the world’s leading anthropologists assesses the work of the founder of structural anthropology

1 post
The Other

by Ryszard Kapuściński

The master of literary reportage reflects on the West’s encounters with the non-European

3 posts
City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles

by Mike Davis

A fiercely elegant and wide-ranging history of L.A.’s Dickensian extremes and Pynchonesque conspiracies

16 posts

New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future

by James Bridle

“New Dark Age is among the most unsettling and illuminating books I’ve read about the Internet, which is to say that it is among the most unsettling and illuminating books I’ve read about contemporary life.” – Mark O'Connell, The New Yorker

11 posts
The Communist Horizon

by Jodi Dean

12 posts
First as Tragedy, Then as Farce

by Slavoj Žižek

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

16 posts
For a Left Populism

by Chantal Mouffe

What is the “populist moment” and what does it mean for the left?

10 posts

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