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Did Somebody Say Totalitarianism?

by Slavoj Žižek
Undermining the liberal-democratic consensus that enables the designation of totalitarianism.
4 posts
The End of the Revolution

by Wang Hui

A compelling examination of the future of Chinese modernity by the leading member of China’s “New Left.”

17 posts
Revolution at the Gates

by V. I. Lenin
How to reinvent Lenin in the era of “cultural capitalism.”
7 posts
An Unfinished Revolution

by Robin Blackburn, Abraham Lincoln, et al.
The impact of the American Civil War on Karl Marx, and Karl Marx on America.
11 posts

Contingency, Hegemony, Universality

by Judith Butler, Ernesto Laclau, et al.
The Hegelian legacy, Left strategy, and post-structuralism versus Lacanian psychoanalysis.
25 posts
Critique of Economic Reason

by André Gorz

“Gorz’s greatest work, and a crucial book for our time.”—Le Monde.

5 posts
Machiavelli and Us

by Louis Althusser

“Althusser, poised between modernism and postmodernism, meets Machiavelli, poised between the Middle Ages and modernity.”—Antonio Negri.

12 posts
The Panopticon Writings

by Jeremy Bentham

A definitive collection of Bentham’s work on the modelprison, key to Foucault’s theory of power.

5 posts

Race, Nation, Class

by Etienne Balibar and Immanuel Wallerstein
The modernity of racism and its relationship to contemporary capitalism.
53 posts
The Idea of Communism

Edited by Costas Douzinas and Slavoj Žižek

An all-star cast of radical intellectuals discuss the continued importance of communism.

29 posts
On the Nation and the Jewish People

by Ernest Renan and Shlomo Sand
Two classic texts on nationalism introduced by the author of The Invention of the Jewish People.
15 posts
The First International and After

by Karl Marx

Volume 3 of Marx’s political writings, including The Civil War In France.

21 posts

The Revolutions of 1848

by Karl Marx

Volume 1 of Marx’s political writings, including The Communist Manifesto.

19 posts
Surveys from Exile

by Karl Marx
Volume 2 of Marx’s political writings, including The Eighteenth Brumaire.
15 posts
Voices of the World

Edited by Boaventura de Sousa Santos

Voices of the World is a rich and timely collection of life stories from activists in the global justice movement.

1 post
The Thin Blue Line

by Conor Foley

A first-hand account of the failure of humanitarian intervention, from Somalia to Iraq.

4 posts

Envisioning Real Utopias

by Erik Olin Wright
Leading sociologist proposes a new framework for a socialist alternative.
21 posts
Critique of Dialectical Reason, 2-volume set

by Jean-Paul Sartre
Both volumes of Sartre's intellectual masterpiece, introduced by Fredric Jameson
5 posts
A Companion to Marx's Capital

by David Harvey
The radical geographer guides us through the classic text of political economy.
40 posts
Marx for Our Times

by Daniel Bensaïd
Shows the relevance of Marx to twenty-first century global capitalism.
24 posts

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