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Facing the Anthropocene

Fossil Capitalism and the Crisis of the Earth System

by Ian Angus
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016

Science tells us that a new and dangerous stage in planetary evolution has begun—the Anthropocene, a time of rising temperatures, extreme weather, rising oceans, and mass species extinctions. Humanity faces not just more pollution or warmer weather, but a crisis of the Earth System. If business...
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Marxs Ecology

Materialism and Nature

by John Bellamy Foster
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2000

Progress requires the conquest of nature. Or does it? This startling new account overturns conventional interpretations of Marx and in the process outlines a more rational approach to the current environmental crisis. Marx, it is often assumed, cared only about industrial growth and the development...
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Trump in the White House

Tragedy and Farce

by John Bellamy Foster
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017

Remember that metaphor about the frog that slowly cooks to death in the pot of increasingly warm water? Leftists have used it for years to describe how people can accept dwindling health care, fading job opportunities, eroding racial and gender equality—as long as the loss occurs gradually. Now,...
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by Cornel West
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1991

In this fresh, original analysis of Marxist thought, Cornel West makes a significant contribution to today's debates about the relevance of Marxism by putting the issue of ethics squarely on the Marxist agenda. West, professor of religion and director of the Afro-American studies program at Princeton...
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Cocaine, Death Squads, and the War on Terror

U.S. Imperialism and Class Struggle in Colombia

by Oliver Villar, Drew Cottle
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011

Since the late 1990s, the United States has funneled billions of dollars in aid to Colombia, ostensibly to combat the illicit drug trade and State Department-designated terrorist groups. The result has been a spiral of violence that continues to take lives and destabilize Colombian society. This book...
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The Contradictions of "Real Socialism"

The Conductor and the Conducted

by Michael Lebowitz
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012

What was “real socialism”—the term which originated in twentieth-century socialist societies for the purpose of distinguishing them from abstract, theoretical socialism? In this volume, Michael A. Lebowitz considers the nature, tendencies, and contradictions of those societies. Beginning with...
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by Tadeusz Kowalik
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012

In the 1980s and 90s, renowned Polish economist Tadeusz Kowalik played a leading role in the Solidarity movement, struggling alongside workers for an alternative to "really-existing socialism" that was cooperative and controlled by the workers themselves. In the ensuing two decades, "really-existing"...
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Walter Rodney

A Promise of Revolution

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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012

The life of the great Guyanese scholar and revolutionary Walter Rodney burned with a rare intensity. The son of working class parents, Rodney showed great academic promise and was awarded scholarships to the University of the West Indies in Jamaica and the School of African and Oriental Studies in London....
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by Samir Amin
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013

In this slim, insightful volume, noted economist Samir Amin returns to the core of Marxian economic thought: Marx’s theory of value. He begins with the same question that Marx, along with the classical economists, once pondered: how can every commodity, including labor power, sell at its value on...
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Social Structure and Forms of Conciousness, Volume 2

The Dialectic of Structure and History

by Istvan Meszaros
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011

In The Dialectic of Structure and History, Volume Two of Social Structure and Forms of Consciousness, István Mészáros brings the comprehension of our condition and the possibility of emancipatory social action beyond the highest point reached to date. Building on the indicatory flashes of conceptual...
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Rethinking Revolution

Socialist Register 2017

by Leo Panitch, Greg Albo
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016

One hundred years ago, “October 1917” galvanized leftists and oppressed peoples around the globe, and became the lodestar for 20th century politics. Today, the left needs to reckon with this legacy—and transcend it. Social change, as it was understood in the 20th century, appears now to be as...
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The Rise of the Tea Party

Political Discontent and Corporate Media in the Age of Obama

by Anthony DiMaggio
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011

What to make of the Tea Party? To some, it is a grassroots movementaiming to reclaim an out-of-touch government for the people.To others, it is a proto-fascist organization of the misinformed andmanipulated lower middle class. Either way, it is surely one of themost significant forms of reaction in...
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Silvertown

The Lost Story of a Strike that Shook London and Helped Launch the Modern Labor Movement

by John Tully
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014

In 1889, Samuel Winkworth Silver’s rubber and electrical factory was the site of a massive worker revolt that upended the London industrial district which bore his name: Silvertown. Once referred to as the “Abyss” by Jack London, Silvertown was notorious for oppressive working conditions and...
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Race to Revolution

The U.S. and Cuba during Slavery and Jim Crow

by Gerald Horne
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014

The histories of Cuba and the United States are tightly intertwined and have been for at least two centuries. In Race to Revolution, historian Gerald Horne examines a critical relationship between the two countries by tracing out the typically overlooked interconnections among slavery, Jim Crow, and...
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