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Some recent books for review

  • Levy del Aguila Marchena
    Communism, Political Power and Personal Freedom in Marx: Beyond the Dualism of Realms
    Translated by Luis Felipe Bartolo Alegre, Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2022. 282pp. £89.99 hb
    ISBN 9783030828936
  • Gregory Albo, Stephen Maher, and Alan Zuege (eds)
    State Transformations: Classes, Strategy, Socialism
    Brill, Leiden and Boston, 2021. $237 hb
    ISBN 9789004462267
  • Kevin Anderson
    Lenin, Hegel, and Western Marxism: A Critical Study
    Brill, Leiden ; Boston, revised edn, 2022. 384pp. $186 hb
    ISBN 9789004471603
  • Ian H Angus
    Groundwork of Phenomenological Marxism: Crisis, Body, World
    Lexington Books, Lanham, MD, 2021. 558pp. $155 hb
    ISBN 9781793640901
  • Lelio Basso
    A Heterodox Marxist and His Century: Lelio Basso: Selected Writings
    Brill, Leiden and Boston, 2021. 204pp. $163 hb
    ISBN 9789004321687
  • Otto Bauer
    The Austrian Revolution
    Translated by Eric Canepa, Haymarket Books, Chicago, 2021. 400pp. £24.99 pb
    ISBN 9781642591620
  • David Bedford and Thomas Workman
    Marx, Engels and the Philosophy of Science
    Routledge, London, 2023. 230pp. £96 hb
    ISBN 9781032331911
  • Peter Beilharz
    Circling Marx: Essays 1980-2020
    Brill, Leiden and Boston, 2021. 440pp. $217 hb
    ISBN 9789004443976
  • Hanno Berger
    Thinking Revolution Through Film: On Audiovisual Stagings of Political Change
    De Gruyter, Berlin, 2022. 223pp. €69.95 hb
    ISBN 9783110753752
  • Andy Blunden
    Hegel, Marx and Vygotsky: Essays on Social Philosophy
    Brill, Leiden and Boston MA, 2022. 430pp. £198 hb
    ISBN 9789004470972
  • Roland Boer
    Friedrich Engels and the Foundations of Socialist Governance
    Springer, Singapore, 2021. 124pp. £49.99 pb
    ISBN 9789811646959
  • Amadeo Bordiga
    Science and Passion of Communism
    Haymarket, Chicago, 2021. 658pp. $36 pb
    ISBN 9781642593471
  • Kaveh Boveiri (ed)
    L’héritage de Hegel - Hegel’s Legacy
    Presses de l'Université Laval, Québec, 2022. 242 pp. 35,00 € hb
    ISBN 9791037017635
  • Sonja Buckel
    Subjectivation and Cohesion: Towards the Reconstruction of a Materialist Theory of Law
    Brill, Leiden, The Netherlands, 2021.
    ISBN 9789004432017
  • Nicolaas Buitendag
    States of Exclusion: A critical systems theory reading of international law
    Aosis Scholarly Books, Cape Town, 2022. 216 pp. Open Access hb
    ISBN 9781779952394
  • Tim Christiaens
    Digital Working Lives: Worker Autonomy and the Gig Economy
    Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, MD, 2022. 170pp. £81 hb
    ISBN 9781538173732
  • Fausto Corvino
    Global Justice, Markets and Domination: A Cosmopolitan Theory
    Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham and Northampton, MA, 2020. 175pp. £70 hb
    ISBN 9781839102554
  • Hal Draper
    Berkeley: The Student Revolt
    Haymarket books, Chicago, 2020. 280pp. $22 pb
    ISBN 9781642591255
  • Jean-Numa Ducange and Elisa Marcobelli (eds)
    Selected Writings of Jean Jaures: On Socialism, Pacifism and Marxism.
    Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2021. 188pp. £79.99 hb
    ISBN 9783030719586
  • Brian Elliott
    Landscape and Labour: Work, Place, and the Working Class in Eliot, Hardy, and Lawrence
    Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, MD, 2021. 168pp. £81 hb
    ISBN 9781786609106
  • Joseph Grim Feinberg, Ivan Landa, and Jan Mervart (eds)
    Karl Kosík and the Dialectics of the Concrete
    Brill, Leiden and Boston MA, 2021. €135.00 / $163.00 hb
    ISBN 9789004325364
  • Franck Fischbach
    Marx with Spinoza: Production, Alienation, History
    Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2023. €80 hb
    ISBN 9781399507660
  • James Furner
    Rescuing Autonomy from Kant: A Marxist Critique of Kant’s Ethics
    Brill, Leiden and Boston MA, 2023. €150.87 hb
    ISBN 9789004527508
  • George García-Quesada
    Karl Marx, Historian of Social Times and Spaces
    Brill, Leiden, 2021. 190 pp. €120 hb
    ISBN 9789004501799
  • V Geetha
    Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar and the Question of Socialism in India
    Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, 2021. 341pp. £89.99 hb
    ISBN 9783030803759
  • Vangelis Giannakakis
    Negative Dialectics and Event: Nonidentity, Culture, and the Historical Adequacy of Consciousness
    Lexington Books, Lanham, MD, 2022. 186pp. £73 hb
    ISBN 9781793638861
  • Paul Gomberg
    Anti-Racism as Communism
    Bloomsbury, London, 2024. 272 pp. £91 hb
    ISBN 9781350257979
  • David Goodhart
    Head Hand Heart: The Struggle for Dignity and Status in the 21st Century
    Penguin, London, 2021. 368pp. £10.99 pb
    ISBN 978-0141990415
  • Antonio Gramsci
    Subaltern Social Groups: A Critical Edition of Prison Notebook 25
    Eds Joseph A. Buttigieg and Marcus Green, Columbia University Press, New York, 2021. 288pp. $35 pb
    ISBN 9780231190398
  • Douglas Greene
    Stalinism and the Dialectics of Saturn: Anticommunism, Marxism, and the Fate of the Soviet Union
    Lexington Books, New York, 2023. 402 pp. $125 hb
    ISBN 9781666930894
  • Vasilis Grollios
    Illusion and Fetishism in Critical Theory: A study of Nietzsche, Benjamin, Castoriadis and the Situationists
    Routledge, New York, 2023. 218 pp. £104 hb
    ISBN 9781032556772
  • Simon Hannah
    Radical Lambeth 1978-1991
    Breviary Stuff Publications, London, 2021. 224pp. £16 pb
    ISBN 9781916158634
  • Tom Hazeldine
    The Northern Question: A History of a Divided Country
    Verso Books, Brooklyn, 2020. 304pp. £20 hb
    ISBN 9781786634061
  • Mike Healy
    Organising During the Coronavirus Crisis: The Contradictions of Our Digital Lives
    Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore, 2022. 251pp. €117.69 hb
    ISBN 9789811919411
  • Christoph Hermann
    The Critique of Commodification: Contours of a Post-Capitalist Society
    Oxford University Press, New York, 2021. 224pp. £64 hb
    ISBN 9780197576755
  • Rob Hunter, Rafael Khachaturian, Eva Nanopoulos (eds)
    Marxism and the Capitalist State: Towards a New Debate
    Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2023. 279pp. €126.25 hb
    ISBN 9783031361661
  • Jean Jaurès
    Selected Writings of Jean Jaurès: On Socialism, Pacifism and Marxism
    Translated by David Broder, Jean-Numa Ducange and Elisa Marcobelli, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2021. 158pp. £79.99 hb
    ISBN 9783030719586
  • Mark Jay and Philip Conklin
    A People's History of Detroit
    Duke University Press, Durham, NC, 2020. 320pp. $26.95 pb
    ISBN 9781478009351
  • Hjalmar Jorge Joffre-Eichhorn, Patrick Anderson (eds)
    Lenin: The Heritage We (Don’t) Renounce
    Daraja Press, Wakefield, Quebec, 2024. 320pp. $37 pb
    ISBN 9781998309047
  • Jens Johansson and Kristopher Baumgartner (eds)
    Marxist-Humanism in the Present Moment. Reflections on Theory and Practice in Light of the Covid-19 Pandemic and the Black Lives Matter Uprisings
    International Marxist-Humanist Organization, Chicago, 2021. 138pp. $14.00 pb
    ISBN 9781736880401
  • Lucia Hulsether
    Capitalist Humanitarianism
    Duke University Press, Durham, 2023. 264 pp. $25.95 pb
    ISBN 9781478019206
  • Bradley Kaye
    Marx After the Kyoto School: Utopia and the Pure Land
    Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, 2022. 264 pp. $115 hb
    ISBN 9781538154076
  • David Lane
    Global Neoliberal Capitalism and the Alternatives: From Social Democracy to State Capitalisms
    Bristol University Press, Bristol, 2023. 334 pp. £39 hb
    ISBN 9781529220902
  • Michael A Lebowitz
    Between Capitalism and Community
    Monthly Review Press, New York, 2021. 208pp. $24 pb
    ISBN 9781583678862
  • Luca Mavelli
    Neoliberal Citizenship: Sacred Markets, Sacrificial Lives
    Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2022. 304pp. $104.13 hb
    ISBN 9780192857583
  • Greg McCreery
    Political Disagreement, Violence and Nonviolence: An Analysis of Political Ideologies and their Distinctions between Kinds of Violence
    Lexington Books, Lanham, MD, 2023. 208pp. $95.00 hb
    ISBN 9781793617217
  • Siobhán McGuirk and Adrienne Pine (eds)
    Asylum for Sale: Profit and Protest in the Migration Industry
    PM Press, Oakland, 2020. 368pp. $27.95 pb
    ISBN 9781629637822
  • David Muhlmann
    Capitalisme Et Colonisation Mentale
    PUF, Paris, 2021. 123pp. 16,00 € pb
    ISBN 9782130826903
  • Donovan Miyasaki
    Nietzsche’s Immoralism: Politics as First Philosophy
    Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2022. 292pp. €106.99 hb
    ISBN 9783031113581
  • Jennifer Poulos Nesbitt
    Rum Histories: Drinking in Atlantic Literature and Culture
    University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville, 2021. 236pp. $32.50 pb
    ISBN 9780813946597
  • Nick Nesbitt
    The Price of Slavery: Capitalism and Revolution in the Caribbean
    University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville, 2022. 286pp. $35 pb
    ISBN 9780813947099
  • Duy Lap Nguyen
    Walter Benjamin and the Critique of Political Economy: A New Historical Materialism
    Bloomsbury Academic, London, 2022. 312 pp. $35.95 pb
    ISBN 9781350331051
  • Roberto Nigro
    Antonio Negri. Une philosophie de la subversion
    Éditions Amsterdam, Paris, 2023. 160 pp. €13 pb
    ISBN 9782354802677
  • Christopher Norris
    Socrates at Verse and Other Philosophical Poems
    Parlor Press, Anderson, SC, 2020. 199pp. £15.99 pb
    ISBN 9781643171593
  • Vesa Oittinen and Elina Viljanen (eds.)
    Stalin Era Intellectuals: Culture and Stalinism
    Routledge, London, 2022. 284pp. £120.00 hb
    ISBN 9781032114200
  • Gabriella Paolucci (ed.)
    Bourdieu E Marx. Pratiche Della Critica
    Mimesis, Milan, 2020. 446pp. € 32,00 pb
    ISBN 9788857555751
  • Cira Pascual Marquina and Chris Gilbert
    Venezuela, the Present as Struggle: Voices from the Bolivarian Revolution
    Monthly Review Press, New York, 2020. 352pp. $29 pb
    ISBN 9781583678640
  • Lothar Peter
    Marx on Campus: A Short History of the Marburg School
    Brill, Leiden and Boston, 2020. 183pp. $145 hb
    ISBN 9789004349414
  • Sanja S. Petkovska
    Decolonial Politics in European Peripheries: Redefining Progressiveness, Coloniality and Transition Efforts
    Routledge, London, 2023. 334pp. £104 hb
    ISBN 9781032160351
  • H. F. Pimlott
    Wars of Position? Marxism Today, Cultural Politics and the Remaking of the Left Press, 1979-90
    Brill, Leiden and Boston MA, 2022. €160.00 / $192.00 hb
    ISBN 9789004231894
  • Eric Rahim
    A Promethean Vision. The Formation of Karl Marx's Worldview
    Praxis Press, Glasgow, 2020. 144pp. £20 pb
    ISBN 9781899155088
  • Axel Roch and Magda Van Suntum (eds)
    Christophe Kotanyi. Cent Dérives - a Hundred Drifts - Hundert Driften
    gegenstalt, Berlin, 2020. 544pp. £75 hb
    ISBN 9783981315684
  • Sheila Rowbotham
    Daring to Hope: My Life in the 1970s
    Verso, London and New York, 2021. 336pp. £20 hb
    ISBN 9781839763892
  • Alessandro Russo
    Cultural Revolution and Revolutionary Culture
    Duke University Press, Durham, NC, 2020. 360pp. $28.95 pb
    ISBN 9781478009528
  • John Sayles
    Yellow Earth
    Haymarket Books, Chicago and London, 2020. 416pp. $28 hb
    ISBN 9781642590210
  • Fabian Scheidler
    The End of the Megamachine
    Zero Books, Winchester, 2020. 272pp. £19.99 pb
    ISBN 9781789042719
  • Paula L. Schwartz
    Today Sardines Are Not for Sale: A Street Protest in Occupied Paris
    Oxford University Press, New York, 2020. 256pp. £19.99 pb
    ISBN 9780190681548
  • Ludovico Silva
    Marx’s Literary Style
    Verso Books, London 2023. 128 pp. £14.99 pb
    ISBN 9781839765537
  • Bryan Smyth and Richard Westerman (eds)
    Marxism and Phenomenology: The Dialectical Horizons of Critique
    Lexington Books, Lanham, MD, 2022. 298pp. £85 hb
    ISBN 9781793622556
  • George Sotiropoulos
    Materialist Theory of Justice: The One, the Many, the Not-Yet
    Rowman & Littlefield, London, 2021. 268pp. £31 pb
    ISBN 9781538158777
  • Ronald Grigor Suny
    Stalin: Passage to Revolution
    Princeton University Press, Princeton, 2020. 896pp. £35 hb
    ISBN 978-0691182032
  • Eric Toussaint
    The Debt System: A History of Sovereign Debts and Their Repudiation
    Haymarket, Chicago and London, 2019. 280pp. £14.99 pb
    ISBN 9781608463091
  • Enzo Traversot
    Singular Pasts: The "I" in Historiography
    Columbia University Press, New York, 2022. 216pp. $28.00 pb
    ISBN 9780231203999
  • Ntina Tzouvala
    Capitalism as Civilisation: A History of International Law
    Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2020. 276pp.
    ISBN 9781108684415
  • Fabian van Onzen
    Service Workers in the Era of Monopoly Capital: A Marxist Analysis of Service and Retail Labour
    Haymarket Books, Chicago, 2022. 220pp. $25.00 pb
    ISBN 9781642597967
  • Miguel Vedda
    Siegfried Kracauer, or, the Allegories of Improvisation: Critical Studies
    Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, 2021. 239pp. £79.99 hb
    ISBN 9783030679644
  • Richard Westra
    Economics, Science and Capitalism
    Routledge, 2021. 206pp. £120 hb
    ISBN 9780367610425
  • Karl Widerquist
    The Problem of Property: Taking the Freedom of Nonowners Seriously
    Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. 131pp. €103.99 hb
    ISBN 9783031219474
  • Tom Wilber and Jerry Lembcke
    Dissenting Pows: From Vietnam's Hoa Lo Prison to America Today
    Monthly Review Press, New York, 2021. 160pp. $19 pb
    ISBN 9781583679081
  • Robert A Williams
    Garrison State Hegemony in U.S. Politics: A Critical Ethnohistory of Corruption and Power in the World's Oldest 'Democracy'
    Peter Lang, New York, 2021. 244pp.
    ISBN 9781433183478
  • Sean Winkler
    Boris Hessen and Philosophy: The Socioeconomic Roots of Classical and Modern Physics
    Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, 2023. 192pp.
    ISBN 9781538147580
  • Zhou Xun
    I Know Who Casued Covid-19: Pandemics and Xenophobia.
    Reaktion Books, London, 2021. 256pp. £16 hb
    ISBN 9781789145076
  • Tsuyoshi Yuki
    Socialism, Markets, and the Critique of Money: The Theory of "Labor Notes"
    Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, Switzerland, 2021. 278pp.
    ISBN 978-3-030-80408-4
  • Paul Zarembka
    Key Elements of Social Theory Revolutionized by Marx
    Brill, Leiden and Boston, 2021. $169 hb
    ISBN 9789004432697
  • Jacob A. Zumoff
    The Red Thread: The Passaic Textile Strike
    Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, 2021. 248pp. $32.95 pb
    ISBN 9781978809895
Updated 15 February 2024.