"In Speculation as a Mode of Production: Aesthetics and the Financialisation of the Subject, Marina Vishmidt offers a new perspective on one of the main categories of capitalist life in the present. W
In Invisible Leviathan, Murray E.G. Smith refutes the main criticisms of Marx’s theory of labour value and argues that human civilization is imperilled by the capitalist imperative to measure wealth i
In this comprehensive guide to intellectual and historical contexts, disciplinary fields and leading thinkers, expert commentators span all the humanities and social sciences, with a distinct emphasis
In The French Revolution and Social Democracy Jean-Numa Ducange explores the important legacy of the French Revolution, and its different interpretations, in the culture of German-speaking social demo
By analysing the experience of Finland, Risto Alapuro shows how upheavals in powerful countries shape the internal politics of smaller countries. This linkage, a highly topical subject in the twenty-f
Uno was perhaps the greatest exponent of the Japanese school of Marxist economics. In this book he illustrates how he would present a ‘mid-range’ theory of capitalism, by summarising the three types o
Marxism and religion are not rivers at opposite sides of the world, and thinkers in both have commented on the other substantially. The richness of this material notwithstanding, few commentators have
Drawing on modern philosophy of science, epistemology, economics and sociology, this work retraces Marx’s original multi-disciplinary project and develops its foundations into a modern Marxist paradig
Examining the historical experiences of England and France, Gerstenberger (formerly of the U. of Bremen, Germany), constructs a theory of the evolution of the state--that is, the structural changes in
In The Making of Capitalism in France, Lafrance offers the first thorough analysis of the origins of French capitalism, understood as distinct type of historical society and implying a new mode of cla
In The Conspiracy of Modern Art the Brazilian critic and art-historian Luiz Renato Martins draws on Marxist theory to invite us to see familiar pictures anew.
In Global Political Economy and the Modern State System Tobias ten Brink contributes to an understanding of the modern state system, its conflicts, and its transformation.
In The Falling Rate of Profit and the Great Recession of 2007-2009, Peter Jones develops a new interpretation of Marx’s theories of value and finance, and shows how this can explain the causes of the
This collection of articles by Lebowitz (emeritus, economics, Simon Fraser U., Canada) began as a collection of essays published from the early 1970s onwards on discrete economic topics--neo-Ricardian
Based on extensive archive research, this first comprehensive history of the Red International of Labour Unions looks at the contribution of communism to the international trade union movement in the
The proceedings of the last Comintern congress in which Lenin participated, at last available in English, reveals a Communist world movement grappling to reconcile the goal of unifying workers and col
In Dialectics of the Ideal: Evald Ilyenkov and Creative Soviet Marxism Levant and Oittinen provide a window into the subterranean tradition of creative’ Soviet Marxism, which developed on the margins
