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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

19 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

8 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

45 posts
On Ideology

by Louis Althusser

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

18 posts
The Return of the Political

by Chantal Mouffe

A powerful new understanding of citizenship, democracy and pluralism

14 posts

Marx

by Kojin Karatani

Classic study of Marx by Japan’s leading critical theorist

4 posts
The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg, Volume III

by Rosa Luxemburg

7 posts
Victors’ Justice

by M. W. Weir and Danilo Zolo
International tribunals are shown to be little more than a tool of Western imperialism.
Comrade

by Jodi Dean

When people say “comrade,” they change the world

8 posts

How to Be an Anticapitalist in the Twenty-First Century

by Erik Olin Wright

What is wrong with capitalism, and how can we change it?

15 posts
The Authoritarian Personality

by Theodor Adorno, Else Frenkel-Brunswik, et al.

Hugely influential study of the psychology of authoritarianism

9 posts
For a Left Populism

by Chantal Mouffe

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

15 posts
The Tailor of Ulm: A History of Communism

by Lucio Magri

A fascinating analysis and account of the decline and fall of Western communism by a participant observer

20 posts

The Security Principle

by Frédéric Gros

The idea of security—from ancient Greece to the War on Terror

3 posts
Riot. Strike. Riot

by Joshua Clover

Political theorist Joshua Clover theorizes the riot as the form of the coming insurrection

52 posts
Full Surrogacy Now

by Sophie Lewis

Where pregnancy is concerned, let every pregnancy be for everyone. Let us overthrow, in short, the “family”

15 posts
The Old Is Dying and the New Cannot Be Born

by Nancy Fraser

Neoliberalism is fracturing, but what will emerge in its wake?

13 posts

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