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Some recent books for review
- Mitchell Abidor (ed.)
The Permanent Guillotine: Writings of the Sans-Culottes
PM Press, Oakland, CA, 2017. 160pp. $14.95 pb
ISBN 9781629633886 - Barbara Carol Allen
Alexander Shlyapnikov, 1885-1937: Life of an Old Bolshevik
Haymarket Books, Chicago, 2016. 426pp. $28 pb
ISBN 9781608465583 - Kieran Allen
1916: Ireland's Revolutionary Tradition
Pluto Press, London, 2016. 232pp. £12.99 pb
ISBN 9780745336329 - Louis Althusser
How to Be a Marxist in Philosophy
Bloomsbury Academic, London and New York, 2017. 256pp. £21.99 pb
ISBN 9781474280549 - Samir Amin
Modern Imperialism, Monopoly Finance Capital, and Marx's Law of Value
Monthly Review Press, New York, 2018. 250pp. $29 pb
ISBN 9781583676554 - Perry Anderson
The Antinomies of Antonio Gramsci
Verso, London, 2017. 179pp. £14.99 hb
ISBN 9781786633729 - Ian Angus
A Redder Shade of Green: Intersections of Science and Socialism
Monthly Review Press, New York, 2017. 160pp. $22 pb
ISBN 9781583676448 - Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin and A. W Zurbrügg
Bakunin: Selected Texts 1868-1875
Merlin, London, 2016. 310pp. £18.99 pb
ISBN 9780850367225 - Étienne Balibar
Secularism and Cosmopolitanism: Critical Hypotheses on Religion and Politics
Columbia University Press, New York, 2018. 288pp. $28.00 / £22.00 hb
ISBN 9780231168601 - Johannes Beetz and Veit Schwab (eds)
Material Discourse-Materialist Analysis: Approaches in Discourse Studies
Lexington Books, Lanham, MD, 2017. 192pp. £60 hb
ISBN 9781498558150 - Cathy Bergin
Bitter with the Past but Sweet with the Dream: Communism in the African American Imaginary Representations of the Communist Party, 1940-1952
Brill, Leiden and Boston, 2015. 232pp. €99,00 / $128.00 hb
ISBN 9789004263727 - Richard J Bernstein
Ironic Life
Polity Press, Cambridge and Malden, MA, 2016. 184pp. £15.99 pb
ISBN 9781509505739 - David Berry, Ruth Kinna, Saku Pinta, and Alex Prichard (eds)
Libertarian Socialism: Politics in Black and Red
PM Press, Oakland, CA, 2nd edn, 2017. 368pp. $26.95 pb
ISBN 9781629633909 - A. Bogdanov
The Philosophy of Living Experience: Popular Outlines
Brill, Leiden and Boston, 2016. 266pp. €126,00 / $163.00 hb
ISBN 9789004231900 - Terrell Carver
Marx
Polity, Cambridge, 2018. 222pp. £16.99 pb
ISBN 9781509518173 - Robert Chernomas and Ian Hudson
The Profit Doctrine: Economists of the Neoliberal Era
Pluto, London, 2017. 240pp. £17.99 pb
ISBN 9780745335858 - François Chesnais
Finance Capital Today Corporations and Banks in the Lasting Global Slump
Haymarket, Chicago, 2018. 328pp. £24.99 pb
ISBN 9781608468270 - Noam Chomsky
What Kind of Creatures Are We?
Columbia University Press, New York, 2016. 200pp. $19.95 / £13.95 hb
ISBN 9780231175968 - Joseph Choonara
Reader's Guide to Marx's Capital
Bookmarks, London, 2017. 160pp. £9.99 pb
ISBN 9781910885482 - Phil Cohen
Archive That, Comrade! Left Legacies and the Counter Culture of Remembrance
PM Press, Oakland, CA, 2018. 160pp. $19.95 pb
ISBN 9781629635064 - James Connolly
James Connolly Reader
Edited by Shaun Harkin, Haymarket Books, Chicago, 2017. 400pp. £16.99 pb
ISBN 9781608466467 - Mark Cowling
Norman Geras's Political Thought from Marxism to Human Rights: Controversy and Analysis
Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2018. 220pp. £119.99 hb
ISBN 9783319740478 - Ewa Czerwinska-Schupp
Otto Bauer: Thinker and Politician.
Haymarket Books, Chicago, 2017. 440pp. £24.99 pb
ISBN 9781608468171 - William Davies
The Limits of Neoliberalism: Authority, Sovereignty and the Logic of Competition
Sage, Los Angeles and London, Revised edn, 2017. 223pp. £15.99 pb
ISBN 9781526403520 - Mike Davis
Old Gods, New Enigmas: Marx's Lost Theory
Verso, London and New York, 2018. 320pp. £17.99 hb
ISBN 9781788732161 - Emilio De Ipola
Althusser, the Infinite Farewell
Translated by Gavin Arnall, Duke University Press, Durham, NC, 2018. 184pp. $23.95 pb
ISBN 9780822370246 - Judith Dellheim and Frieder Otto Wolf (eds)
The Unfinished System of Karl Marx: Critically Reading Capital as a Challenge for Our Times
Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 2018. 394pp. £123 hb
ISBN 9783319703466 - Sevgi Doǧan
Marx and Hegel on the Dialectic of the Individual and the Social
Lexington Books, Lanham, MD, 2018. 284pp. $105 / £70 hb
ISBN 9781498571876 - Pete Dolack
Its Not Over: Learning from the Socialist Experiment
Zero Books, Alresford, Hants, 2016. 992pp. £34.99 pb
ISBN 9781785350498 - Thomas Hylland Eriksen and Elisabeth Schober
Identity Destabilised: Living in an Overheated World
Pluto, London, 2016. 272pp. £19.99 pb
ISBN 9780745399126 - Frantz Fanon
Alienation and Freedom
Bloomsbury, New York and London, 2017. 816pp. £19.99 hb
ISBN 9781474250214 - Andrew Feenberg
Technosystem: The Social Life of Reason
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2017. 235pp. £25.95 hb
ISBN 978-0674971783 - Liz Fekete
Europe's Fault Lines: Racism and the Rise of the Right
Verso, London and New York, 2018. 214pp. £14.99 pb
ISBN 9781784787226 - Dominik Finkelde
Excessive Subjectivity: Kant, Hegel, Lacan, and the Foundations of Ethics
Translated by Deva Kemmis and Astrid Weigert, Columbia University Press, New York, 2017. 368pp. $65/£54 hb
ISBN 9780231173186 - Paul Flewers and John McIlroy (eds)
1956: John Saville, E P Thompson and the Reasoner
Merlin Press, London, 2016. 444pp. £20 pb
ISBN 9780850367263 - John Bellamy Foster
Trump in the White House: Tragedy and Farce
Monthly Review Press, New York, 2017. 144pp. $11 pb
ISBN 9781583676806 - Nancy Fraser and Rachel Jaeggi
Capitalism: A Conversation in Critical Theory
Polity, Cambridge, 2018. 224pp. £17.99 pb
ISBN 9780745671574 - Christian Fuchs
Critical Theory of Communication
University of Westminster Press, London, 2016. 236pp. £18.99 pb; free download
ISBN 9781911534044 - Christian Fuchs
Digital Demagogue: Authoritarian Capitalism in the Age of Trump and Twitter
Pluto Press, London, 2018. 336pp. £17.99 pb
ISBN 9780745337968 - Diego Fusaro
The Place of Possibility: Towards a New Philosophy of Praxis
Translated by Steven M Cenci, The Pertinent Press, Oxford, 2017. 242pp. £59 hb
ISBN 9781912142125 - Henry A Giroux
America's Addiction to Terrorism
Monthly Review Press, New York, 2016. 288pp. $20 pb
ISBN 9781583675700 - Vasilis Grollios
Negativity and Democracy: Marxism and the Critical Theory Tradition
Routledge, New York, 2017. 272pp. £90 hb
ISBN 9781138886469 - Owen Hatherley
The Chaplin Machine: Slapstick, Fordism and the Communist Avant-Garde
Pluto, London, 2016. 240pp. £16.99 pb
ISBN 9780745336015 - Henry Heller
The French Revolution and Historical Materialism: Selected Essays
Brill, Leiden and Boston, 2017. 273pp. €115,00 / $133.00 hb
ISBN 9789004296978 - Andrew Hemingway
Landscape between Ideology and the Aesthetic: Marxist Essays on British Art and Art Theory, 1750-1850
Haymarket, Chicago, 2017. 520pp. $36 pb
ISBN 9781608468317 - Jan Hoff
Marx Worldwide on the Development of the International Discourse on Marx since 1965
Haymarket Books, Chicago, 2017. 400pp. £24.99 pb
ISBN 9781608468324 - Eric Holt-Giménez
A Foodie's Guide to Capitalism: Understanding the Political Economy of What We Eat
Monthly Review Press, New York, 2017. 256pp. $25 pb
ISBN 9781583676592 - Gerald Horne
Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, and Capitalism in Seventeenth Century North America and the Caribbean
Monthly Review, New York, 2018. 256pp. $25 pb
ISBN 9781583676639 - John E Kelly
Contemporary Trotskyism: Parties, Sects and Social Movements in Britain
Routledge, Abingdon, 2018. 296pp. £23.99 pb
ISBN 9781138943810 - Rosine Judith Kelz
The Non-Sovereign Self, Responsibility, and Otherness: Hannah Arendt, Judith Butler, and Stanley Cavell on Moral Philosophy and Political Agency
Palgrave Macmillan, London and New York, 2016. 209pp. £70 hb
ISBN 9781137508966 - Alexandra Kollontai
Writings from the Struggle
Haymarket Books, Chicago, 2018. 348pp. $22 pb
ISBN 9781608469130 - Andrea Komlosy
Work: The Last 1,000 Years
Verso, London and New York, 2018. 265pp. £16.99 pb
ISBN 9781786634108 - Miroslav Krleža
Harbors Rich in Ships: The Selected Revolutionary Writings of Miroslav Krleza, Radical Luminary of Modern World Literature
Translated by Željko Cipriš, Monthly Review Press, New York, 2017. 230pp. $29 pb
ISBN 9781583676486 - Jeremy Kuzmarov and John Marciano
The Russians Are Coming, Again: The First Cold War as Tragedy, the Second as Farce
Monthly Review Press, New York, 2018. 237pp. $19 pb
ISBN 9781583676943 - Helen Lackner
Yemen in Crisis Autocracy,Neo-Liberalism and the Disintegration of a State
Saqi Books, London, 2017. 384pp. £25 hb
ISBN 978-0863561931 - ERNESTO LACLAU
On Populist Reason
VERSO, London, reprint edn, 2018. 276pp.
ISBN 9781788731317 - Lauren Langman and George N Lundskow
God, Guns, Gold and Glory: American Character and Its Discontents
Brill, Leiden and Boston, 2016. 358pp. €165,00 / $198.00 hb
ISBN 9789004328631 - David Lapoujade
Aberrant Movements: The Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze
Semiotext(e), South Pasadena, CA, 2017. 376pp. £14.95 pb
ISBN 9781584351955 - Andrew Brower Latz
The Social Philosphy of Gillian Rose
Cascade Books, Eugene, Oregon, 2018. 232pp. $29 pb
ISBN 9781532618376 - Paul Le Blanc
October Song: Bolshevik Triumph, Communist Tragedy, 1917-1924
Haymarket, Chicago, 2017. 504pp. $27.95 pb
ISBN 9781608468485 - Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin and Slavoj Žižek
Lenin 2017: Remembering, Repeating, and Working Through
Verso, London and Brooklyn, NY, 2017. 272pp. £12.99 pb
ISBN 9781786631886 - Jacques Lezra
On the Nature of Marx's Things: Translation as Necrophilology
Fordham University Press, New York, 2018. 288pp. $28 pb
ISBN 9780823279432 - Renzo Llorente
The Political Theory of Che Guevara
Rowman & Littlefield International, Lanham, MD, 2018. 196pp. $39.95 pb
ISBN 9781783487172 - Julián Esteban Torres López
Marx's Humanism and Its Limits: Why Marx Believed We Should Achieve Socialism and Communism Nonviolently
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2018. 100pp. $6.99 pb
ISBN 9781717480187 - Alejandra Mancilla
The Right of Necessity: Moral Cosmopolitanism and Global Poverty
Rowman & Littlefield International, Lanham, MD, 2016. 140pp. £19.95 / $29.95 pb
ISBN 9781783485864 - David Mandel
Democracy, Plan, and Market: Yakov Kronrod's Political Economy of Socialism
ibidem Verlag, Stuttgart, 2017. 140pp. $30 pb
ISBN 9783838211084 - D. S. Marriott
Whither Fanon? Studies in the Blackness of Being
Stanford University Press, Stanford, California, 2018. 432pp. £22.99 pb
ISBN 9781503605725 - Peter Marshall
William Godwin: Philosopher, Novelist, Revolutionary
PM Press, Oakland, CA, 2nd edn, 2017. 544pp. $29.95 pb
ISBN 9781629633862 - Adam Mayer
Naija Marxisms: Revolutionary Thought in Nigeria
Pluto Press, London, 2016. 248pp. £17.99 pb
ISBN 9780745336572 - Tony McKenna
The Dictator, the Revolution, the Machine: A Political Account of Joseph Stalin
Sussex Academic Press, Brighton, 2016. 240pp. £25 pb
ISBN 9781845198268 - Scott McLemee and Paul Le Blanc (eds)
C.L.R. James and Revolutionary Marxism: Selected Writings of C.L.R. James, 1939-1949
Haymarket, Chicago, 2018. 270pp. £16.99 pb
ISBN 9781608468645 - George Monbiot
How Did We Get into This Mess?: Politics, Equality, Nature
Verso, London, 2017. 352pp. £9.99 pb
ISBN 9781786630780 - David Morgan (ed.)
The Labour Party in Historical Perspective
Socialist History Society, London, 2018. 110pp. £6 pb
ISBN 9780993010477 - Brian Morris
Kropotkin: The Politics of Community
PM Press, Oakland, CA, 2018. 320pp. $24.95 pb
ISBN 9781629635057 - William Morris
William Morris's Socialist Diary
Edited by Florence Boos, Five Leaves Publications, Nottingham, 2018. 180pp. £10 pb
ISBN 9781910170496 - Chantal Mouffe
For a Left Populism
Verso, London and New York, 2018. 112pp. £10.99 hb
ISBN 9781786637550 - Bill V Mullin
W E B Du Bois Revolutionary across the Color Line
Pluto Press, London, 2016. 176pp. £12.99 pb
ISBN 9780745335056 - Marcello Musto
Another Marx: Early Manuscripts to the International
Translated by Patrick Camiller, Bloomsbury Academic, London, 2018. 288pp. £24.99 pb
ISBN 9781474273398 - Ron Nixon
Selling Apartheid
Pluto Press, London, 2016. 256pp. £15.99 pb
ISBN 9780745399140 - Deirdre O'Neill and Mike Wayne (eds)
Considering Class: Theory, Culture and the Media in the 21st Century
Brill, Leiden and Boston, 2018. 320pp. €130.00 / $150.00
ISBN 9789004319516 - Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin
The Socialist Challenge Today: Syriza, Sanders, Corbyn
Merlin Press, London, 2018. 102pp. £6.99 pb
ISBN 9780850367409 - Luiz Bernardo Pericás
Caio Prado Júnior: Uma Biografia Política
Boitempo, São Paulo, 2016. 483pp. R$ 63,00 pb
ISBN 9788575594483 - Thomas Piketty
Chronicles: On Our Troubled Times
Viking, London, 2016. 192pp. £16.99 pb
ISBN 9780241234891 - Jože Pirjevec
Tito and His Comrades
The University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, Wisconsin, 2018. 544pp. $45.95 hb
ISBN 9780299317706 - Catarina Príncipe and Bhaskar Sunkara (eds)
Europe in Revolt
Haymarket Books, Chicago, 2016. 288pp. £11.95 pb
ISBN 9781608465934 - Peter Ranis
Cooperatives Confront Capitalism: Challenging the Neoliberal Economy
Zed books, London, 2016. 184pp. £18.99 pb
ISBN 9781783606498 - Juliane Rebentisch
The Art of Freedom: On the Dialectics of Democratic Existence
Polity Press, Cambridge and Malden, MA, English edition edn, 2016. 320pp. £18.99 pb
ISBN 9780745682136 - William L Remley
Jean-Paul Sartre's Anarchist Philosophy
Bloomsbury Academic, London, 2018. 272pp. £85 hb
ISBN 9781350048249 - César Rendueles
Sociophobia: Political Change in the Digital Utopia
Columbia University Press, New York, 2017. 200pp. £21/$25 pb
ISBN 9780231175272 - Adrian Rifkin
Communards and Other Cultural Histories Essays by Adrian Rifkin.
Haymarket Books, Chicago, 2017. 548pp. £31.99 pb
ISBN 9781608468249 - Michael Roberts
The Long Depression: How It Happened, Why It Happened, and What Happens Next
Haymarket, Chicago, 2016. 380pp. $19 pb
ISBN 9781608464685 - Alfred Rosmer
Lenin's Moscow
Haymarket, Chicago, 3rd edn, 2016. 288pp. $19.95 pb
ISBN 9781608466153 - Howard Ryan
Educational Justice: Teaching and Organizing against the Corporate Juggernaut
Monthly Review Press, New York, 2016. 248pp. $23 pb
ISBN 9781583676134 - Tiphaine Samoyault
Barthes: A Biography
Polity Press, Cambridge and Malden, MA, 2016. £25 hb
ISBN 9781509505654 - Hans-Christoph Schmidt am Busch
Was Wollen Wir, Wenn Wir Arbeiten? Honneth, Hegel Und Die Grundlagen Der Kritik Des Neoliberalismus
Duncker & Humblot, Berlin, 2017. 88pp. € 19,90
ISBN 9783428144822 - Ingo Schmidt (ed.)
Three Worlds of Social Democracy: A Global View
Pluto Press, London, 2016. 256pp. £15.99 pb
ISBN 9780745336084 - Ingo Schmidt and Carlo Fanelli (eds)
Reading Capital Today: Marx after 150 Years
Pluto, London, 2017. 224pp. £18.99 pb
ISBN 9780745399713 - Lynne Segal
Radical Happiness: The Search for Moments of Shared Joy
Verso Books, London, 2017. 352pp. £16.99 hb
ISBN 9781786631541 - Helena Sheehan
The Syriza Wave: Surging and Crashing with the Greek Left
Monthly Review Press, New York, 2017. 247pp. £16.99 pb
ISBN 9781583676257 - Peter Singer
Marx: A Very Short Introduction
Oxford University Press, New York and London, 2nd edn, 2018. 152pp. £7.99 pb
ISBN 9780198821076 - Luke Sinwell and Siphiwe Mbatha
The Spirit of Marikana: The Rise of Insurgent Trade Unionism in South Africa
Pluto Press, London, 2016. 224pp. £19.99 pb
ISBN 9780745336480 - Daphne Skillen
Freedom of Speech in Russia: Politics and Media from Gorbachev to Putin.
Taylor & Francis, London, 2017. 364pp. £26.99 pb
ISBN 9781138743267 - Victoria Smolkin
A Sacred Space Is Never Empty: A History of Soviet Atheism
Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2018. 360pp. $45 / £35 hb
ISBN 9781400890101 - Steven G Snow
Bourgeois Ideology and Education: Subversion through Pedagogy
Routledge, London, 2018. 138pp. £105 hb
ISBN 9781138721111 - Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (ed.)
How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective
Haymarket, Chicago, 2017. 200pp. $18 pb
ISBN 9781608468553 - Göran Therborn
Cities of Power: The Urban, the National, the Popular and the Global
Verso, London and New York, 2017. 408pp. $35.00 / £20.00 hb
ISBN 9781784785444 - Michael J Thompson
The Domestication of Critical Theory
Rowman & Littlefield International, Lanham, MD, 2016. 256pp. £24.95 pb
ISBN 9781783484317 - Enzo Traverso
The End of Jewish Modernity
Pluto, London, 2016. 176pp. £14.99 pb
ISBN 9780745336664 - Yanis Varoufakis
And the Weak Suffer What They Must?
Bodley Head, London, 2016. 336pp. £16.99 hb
ISBN 9781847924032 - Hilary Wainwright
A New Politics from the Left
Polity Press, Cambridge, UK and Medford, MA, 2018. 140pp. £9.99 pb
ISBN 9781509523634 - Howard Waitzkin and Working Group for Health Beyond Capitalism
Health Care under the Knife: Moving Beyond Capitalism for Our Health
Monthly Review Press, New York, 2018. 336pp. $27 pb
ISBN 9781583676745 - McKenzie Wark
General Intellects: Twenty-One Thinkers for the Twenty-First Century
Verso Books, New York, 2017. 336pp. £16.99 pb
ISBN 9781786631909 - Lee Wengraf
Extracting Profit: Imperialism, Neoliberalism and the New Scramble for Africa
Haymarket, Chicago, 2018. 300pp. £16.99 pb
ISBN 9781608468515 - Richard D Wolff
Capitalism's Crisis Deepens: Essays on the Global Economic Meltdown 2010-2014
Haymarket, Chicago, 2016. 223pp. $18.95 pb
ISBN 9781608465958 - Jamie Woodcock
Working the Phones
Pluto Press, London, 2016. 208pp. £17.99 pb
ISBN 9780745399065 - Jude Woodward
The Us Vs China: Asia's New Cold War?
Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2017. 304pp. £22.50 pb
ISBN 9781784993429 - Kaveh Yazdani
India, Modernity and the Great Divergence: Mysore and Gujarat (17th to 19th C.)
Brill, Leiden and Boston, 2017. 669pp. €205,00 / $246.00 hb
ISBN 9789004330788 - James Young
Union Power: The United Electrical Workers in Erie, Pennsylvania
Monthly Review Press, New York, 2017. 264pp. $24.95 pb
ISBN 9781583676172 - Ren Zavaleta-mercado
The National-Popular in Bolivia
Translated by Anne Freeland, Seagull Books, London and Calcutta, 2018. 304pp. $35 hb
ISBN 9780857423580
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