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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 - Giampaolo Conte
A History of Capitalist Transformation: A Critique of Liberal-Capitalist Reforms
Routledge, New York, 2024. 144 pp. $170 hb
ISBN 9781032579634 - 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
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