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Freudianism

by Valentin Voloshinov
Early critique of Freud from a Marxist and linguistic perspective.
5 posts
Green Gone Wrong

by Heather Rogers
Trenchant exposé of the myths of “green capitalism”.
12 posts
Rationality and Irrationality in Economics

by Maurice Godelier
An analysis of social and economic systems and why they appear and disappear throughout history.
6 posts
Sex-pol

by Wilhelm Reich
The role of sexual repression in class domination, and the struggle for sexual liberation.
11 posts

The Invention of the White Race, Volume 1

by Theodore W. Allen
Groundbreaking analysis of the birth of racism in America.
23 posts
The Invention of the White Race, Volume 2

by Theodore W. Allen
Groundbreaking analysis of the birth of racism in America.
20 posts
Mapping Subaltern Studies and the Postcolonial

Edited by Vinayak Chaturvedi
Part of Verso’s classic Mapping series that collects the most important writings on key topics in a changing world
7 posts
School Wars

by Melissa Benn
The story of the struggle for Britain’s schools, and a passionate call for education as a public good.
17 posts

Border Vigils

by Jeremy Harding
Searing reportage and analysis of the new politics of immigration in both Europe and America.
27 posts
News For All the People

by Juan González and Joseph Torres

Bestselling narrative history of American media that puts race at the center of the story.

17 posts
Barbaric Sport

by Marc Perelman

Globalized sport as savage spectacle and ‘opium of the people’

16 posts
In Broad Daylight

by Gabriele Pedulla
The metamorphosis of the spectator and the arts in the age of YouTube.
7 posts

The Return of the Public

by Dan Hind

Winner 2011 Best Book of Ideas at the Bristol Festival of Ideas

13 posts
The Metamorphoses of Kinship

by Maurice Godelier

A masterwork of the anthropology of kinship by the heir to Levi-Strauss.

6 posts
The Erotic Margin

by Irvin C. Schick

Reviewing the large, disparate, and often contradictory western discourse on gender and sexuality of the Other

4 posts
The Mental and the Material

by Maurice Godelier

Groundbreaking examination of the relationship between thought, economy and society.

6 posts

It Started in Wisconsin

Edited by Paul Buhle and Mari Jo Buhle
First-hand accounts of the largest pro-labor mass mobilization in modern American history
11 posts
Occupy!

Edited by Carla Blumenkranz, Keith Gessen, et al.
The first book to explore the Occupy movement in depth, with reportage and analysis.
30 posts
Cities Under Siege

by Stephen Graham
A powerful exposé of how political violence operates through the spaces of urban life.
17 posts
Close to the Edge

by Sujatha Fernandes
"A classic of hip hop writing and a poignant tribute to urban youth."—Jeff Chang, author of Can't Stop Won't Stop
15 posts

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