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Prophets of Deceit

by Norbert Guterman and Leo Löwenthal

How authoritarian and racist discourse functions

1 post
The Imperial Mode of Living

by Ulrich Brand and Markus Wissen

Our unsustainable life: why we can’t have everything we want
A Critical Theory of Police Power

by Mark Neocleous

Putting police power into the centre of the picture of capitalism

4 posts
How I Became A Socialist

by William Morris

The definitive collection of political writings from William Morris.

2 posts

Inequality and the Labyrinths of Democracy

by Göran Therborn

A global panorama of liberal democracies from a renowned social theorist
Futures of Socialism

Edited by Grace Blakeley

How should the left respond to electoral defeat, the leadership of Keir Starmer and a global crisis?

11 posts
Critical Encounters

by Wolfgang Streeck

An anthology of long-read book reviews by one of the European left’s foremost political economists

2 posts
Mutual Aid

by Dean Spade

Mutual aid is the radical act of caring for each other while working to change the world.

10 posts

Precarious Life

by Judith Butler

Responding to the US’s perpetual war, Butler explores how mourning could inspire solidarity

32 posts
Old Gods, New Enigmas

by Mike Davis
Is revolution possible in the age of the Anthropocene?
10 posts
The Social Photo

by Nathan Jurgenson

A set of bold theoretical reflections on how the social photo has remade our world

10 posts
Fully Automated Luxury Communism

by Aaron Bastani

A different kind of politics for a new kind of society—beyond work, scarcity and capitalism

20 posts

Socialism for a Sceptical Age

by Ralph Miliband

The final book by the noted British Marxist and sociologist, father of British Labour Party politicians, David and Ed Miliband
The Romance of American Communism

by Vivian Gornick

Writer and critic Vivian Gornick’s long-unavailable classic exploring how Left politics gave depth and meaning to American life

11 posts
Reactionary Democracy

by Aurelien Mondon and Aaron Winter

Democracy must be anti-racist. Any less is cowardly. Any less is reactionary

6 posts
Minima Moralia

by Theodor Adorno

A classic of twentieth-century thought, Minima Moralia is Adorno's literary and philosophical masterpiece

48 posts

On Ideology

by Louis Althusser

The classic analysis of how particular political and cultural ideas come to dominate society

19 posts
The Return of the Political

by Chantal Mouffe

A powerful new understanding of citizenship, democracy and pluralism

17 posts
Marx

by Kojin Karatani

Classic study of Marx by Japan’s leading critical theorist

5 posts
The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg, Volume III

by Rosa Luxemburg

11 posts

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