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The Fall of the Turkish Model

by Cihan Tuğal

The brief rise and precipitous fall of “Islamic liberalism”

8 posts
Democracy Against Capitalism

by Ellen Meiksins Wood
Historian and political thinker Ellen Meiksins Wood argues that theories of “postmodern” fragmentation, “difference,” and con-tingency can barely...
25 posts
Frames of War

by Judith Butler
Analyzing the different frames through which we experience war, Butler calls for a reorientation of the Left
29 posts
Marx and Human Nature

by Norman Geras
“Striking elegance, economy, and argumentative power.”—Times Literary Supplement
10 posts

Public Sphere and Experience

by Alexander Kluge and Oskar Negt
The “public sphere” is a key concept in political discourse, designating a space for political action. But is this a single authoritative and...
9 posts
In Defence of the Terror

by Sophie Wahnich
Provocative reassessment of the Great Terror as a price worth paying
14 posts
Peasant-Citizen and Slave

by Ellen Meiksins Wood
The controversial thesis at the center of this study is that, despite the importance of slavery in Athenian society, the most distinctive...
16 posts
Red Rosa

by Kate Evans

“Utterly brilliant” – Steve Bell, Guardian

49 posts

Understanding Class

by Erik Olin Wright
Leading sociologist examines how different readings of class enrich our understanding of capitalism
8 posts
A Theory of Capitalist Regulation

by Michel Aglietta
Michel Aglietta’s path-breaking book is the first attempt at a rigorous historical theory of the whole development of US capitalism, from the Civil...
12 posts
Capitalism in the Web of Life

by Jason W. Moore

“Moore’s radical and rigorous work is, and richly deserves to be, agenda-setting.” – China Miéville

28 posts
Religion and the Rise of Capitalism

by R. H. Tawney
A classic of political economy that traces the influence of religious thought on capitalism
5 posts

Encyclical on Capitalism and Inequality

by Pope Francis

“An urgent call to action.” – New York Times
The Legacy of Rosa Luxemburg

by Norman Geras

An important contribution to our understanding of twentieth-century Marxism

21 posts
The Dialectics of Liberation

Edited by David Cooper

A revolutionary compilation of speeches which produced a political groundwork for many of the radical movements in the following decades

20 posts
The Dignity of Chartism

by Dorothy Thompson

Groundbreaking studies of Britain’s first major working-class movement

8 posts

Separate and Dominate

by Christine Delphy

An examination of how mainstream feminism has been mobilized in support of racist measures

55 posts
Sociology, Capitalism, Critique

by Klaus Dörre, Stephan Lessenich, et al.

Three radical perspectives on the critique of capitalism

6 posts
The Communist Hypothesis

by Alain Badiou

A new program for the Left after the death of neoliberalism.

49 posts
Philosophy for Militants

by Alain Badiou
A philosophical guidebook for the struggles to come
28 posts

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