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Democracy or Bonapartism
Two Centuries of War on Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2020
How democracy became a form of soft authoritarian rule
The history of the advent of universal suffrage is a fraught one. As late as the mid-twentieth century, it was still impeded by forms of censitary, racial and sexual discrimination, which proved especially stubborn in countries with the...
Liberalism at Large
The World According to the Economist
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2019
The path-breaking history of modern liberalism told through the pages of one of its most zealous supporters
Since 1843, the Economist has been the single most devoted and influential champion of liberalism anywhere in the world. But what exactly is liberalism, and how has the liberal message...
by Etienne Balibar
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Providing a lucid and accessible introduction to Marx, complete with pedagogical boxes, a chronology and guides to further reading, Etienne Balibar makes the most difficult areas of his philosophy easy to understand. One of the most influential French philosophers to have emerged from the 1960s, Balibar...
by Jean Baudrillard
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2020
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2020
The most provocative work from the father of postmodernism.
A spectre haunts the revolutionary imagination: the spectre of production. Revolutionary thought - from Marx to Deleuze - merely replicates the obsession with production of classical political economy. Jean Baudrillard's provocative...
by Erik Olin Wright
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2019
What is wrong with capitalism, and how can we change it?
Capitalism has transformed the world and increased our productivity, but at the cost of enormous human suffering. Our shared values - equality and fairness, democracy and freedom, community and solidarity - can both provide the basis...
The New Enclosure
The Appropriation of Public Land in Neoliberal Britain
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2019
How public land has been stolen from us.
Much has been written about Britain's trailblazing post-1970s privatization program, but the biggest privatization of them all has until now escaped scrutiny: the privatization of land. Since Margaret Thatcher took power in 1979, and hidden from the...
by Maurice Godelier
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2012
With marriage in decline, divorce on the rise, the demise of the nuclear family, and the increase in marriages and adoptions among same-sex partners, it is clear that the structures of kinship in the modern West are in a state of flux.
In The Metamorphoses of Kinship, the world-renowned anthropologist...
by Maurice Godelier
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2020
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2020
Exploring the close relationship between the real and the symbolic and imaginary
What you imagined is not always imaginary, but everything that is imaginary is imagined. It is by imagining that people make the impossible become possible. In mythology or religion, however, those things that...
Communities of Resistance
Writings on Black Struggles for Socialism
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2019
‘There is no socialism after liberation, socialism is the process through which liberation is won.’ Each of the essays in Communities of Resistance acts as a critical reaffirmation of socialist politics as the context for questions of race and resistance.
The left itself is under scrutiny...
The Last Soldiers of the Cold War
The Story of the Cuban Five
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
Here is the story of political prisoners finally freed in December 2014, after being held captive by the United States since the late 1990s.
Through the 1980s and 1990s, violent anti-Castro groups based in Florida carried out hundreds of military attacks on Cuba, bombing hotels and shooting...
The People's Republic of Walmart
How the World's Biggest Corporations are Laying the Foundation for Socialism
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
Since the demise of the USSR, the mantle of the largest planned economies in the world has been taken up by the likes of Walmart, Amazon and other multinational corporations
For the left and the right, major multinational companies are held up as the ultimate expressions of free-market capitalism....
Without Apology
The Abortion Struggle Now
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2019
An indispensable guide to building a fighting feminist movement for reproductive freedom
With an antiabortion majority on the Supreme Court and several states attempting to outlaw abortion altogether, many activists are on the defensive, hoping to hold on to reproductive rights in a few places...
Fascism and Dictatorship
The Third International and the Problem of Fascism
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2019
Poulantzas’s book is the first major Marxist study of German and Italian fascism to appear since the Second World War. It carefully distinguishes between fascism as a mass movement before the seizure of power and fascism as an entrenched machinery of dictatorship. It compares the distinct class...
Women's Oppression Today
The Marxist/Feminist Encounter
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
Women’s Oppression Today is a classic text in the debate about Marxism and feminism, exploring how gender, sexuality and the “family-household system” operate in relation to contemporary capitalism. In this updated edition, Michèle Barrett surveys the social and intellectual changes that have...