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Being Numerous

by Natasha Lennard
An urgent challenge to the prevailing moral order from one of the freshest, most compelling voices in radical politics today
14 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?

26 posts
Prophets of Deceit

by Norbert Guterman and Leo Löwenthal

How authoritarian and racist discourse functions

2 posts
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

12 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

4 posts
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

1 post
Mutual Aid

by Dean Spade

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

18 posts
Precarious Life

by Judith Butler

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

28 posts
Old Gods, New Enigmas

by Mike Davis

Is revolution possible in the age of the Anthropocene?

14 posts

The Social Photo

by Nathan Jurgenson

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

9 posts
The Antinomies of Antonio Gramsci

by Perry Anderson

7 posts
Fully Automated Luxury Communism

by Aaron Bastani

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

23 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

Anything But Mexican

by Rodolfo F. Acuña

9 posts
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

5 posts
Minima Moralia

by Theodor Adorno

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

54 posts

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