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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 - Gregory Albo, Leo Panitch, and Alan Zuege (eds)
Class, Party and Revolution: A Socialist Register Reader
Haymarket, Chicago, 2018. 300pp. $24 pb
ISBN 9781608469192 - 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 - Ian Angus
A Redder Shade of Green: Intersections of Science and Socialism
Monthly Review Press, New York, 2017. 160pp. $22 pb
ISBN 9781583676448 - Alain Badiou
Can Politics Be Thought?
Duke University Press, Durham NC, 2018. 128pp. £16.99 pb
ISBN 9781478001669 - Alain Badiou
Lacan: Anti-Philosophy 3
Columbia University Press, New York, 2018. 256pp. $30 / £24 hb
ISBN 9780231171489 - Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin and A. W Zurbrügg
Bakunin: Selected Texts 1868-1875
Merlin, London, 2016. 310pp. £18.99 pb
ISBN 9780850367225 - Seyla Benhabib
Exile, Statelessness, and Migration
Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2018. 304pp. $24.95 / £20.00 pb
ISBN 9780691167244 - 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 - 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 - Guglielmo Carchedi and Michael Roberts (eds)
World in Crisis: A Global Analysis of Marx's Law of Profitability
Haymarket, Chicago, 2018. 350pp. $22.95 pb
ISBN 9781608461813 - Paresh Chattopadhyay
Socialism and Commodity Production: Essay in Marx Revival
Brill, Leiden, 2018. 300pp. $156 hb
ISBN 9789004231641 - François Chesnais
Finance Capital Today Corporations and Banks in the Lasting Global Slump
Haymarket, Chicago, 2018. 328pp. £24.99 pb
ISBN 9781608468270 - 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 - Stefan Collini
Speaking of Universities
Verso, London and New York, 2017. 296pp. £16.99 hb
ISBN 9781786631398 - 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 - Philip Cunliffe
Lenin Lives! Reimagining the Russian Revolution 1917-2017
Zero books, Charlotte, NC, 2017. £9.99 pb
ISBN 9781785356971 - Ewa Czerwinska-Schupp
Otto Bauer: Thinker and Politician.
Haymarket Books, Chicago, 2017. 440pp. £24.99 pb
ISBN 9781608468171 - Raju J Das
Marxist Class Theory for a Skeptical World
Haymarket, Chicago, 2018. 694pp. $50 pb
ISBN 9781608469291 - 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 - Thomas Docherty
Literature and Capital
Bloomsbury Academic, London and New York, 2019. 280pp. £21.99 pb
ISBN 9781350064638 - 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 - Raya Dunayevskaya
Marxs Philosophy of Revolution in Permanence for Our Day: Selected Writings.
Ed. Franklin Dmitryev, Brill, Leiden and Boston, 2018. 386pp. €132.00 / $158.00 hb
ISBN 9789004323322 - 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 - Matt Ffytche and Daniel Pick (eds)
Psychoanalysis in the Age of Totalitarianism
Routledge, London and New York, 2016. 287pp. £31.99 pb
ISBN 9781138793897 - Adam Fishwick and Heather Connolly (eds)
Austerity and Working-Class Resistance: Survival, Disruption and Creation in Hard Times
Rowman & Littlefield International, London and New York, 2018. 232pp. £24.99 pb
ISBN 9781786603531 - 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 - James Furner
Marx on Capitalism: The Interaction-Recognition-Antinomy Thesis
Brill, Leiden and Boston, 2018. 522pp. €180.00 / $217.00 hb
ISBN 9789004384804 - 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 - Martha Gimenez
Marx, Women, and Capitalist Social Reproduction: Marxist Feminist Essays
Brill, Boston, 2018. 400pp. $174.00 hb
ISBN 9789004278936 - 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 - Simon Hannah
A Party with Socialists in It: A History of the Labour Left
Pluto Press, London, 2018. 288pp. £12.99 pb
ISBN 9780745337470 - Nigel Harris
Selected Essays of Nigel Harris: From National Liberation to Globalisation
Ahmed Shawki, Haymarket, Chicago, 2018. 522pp. £31.99 pb
ISBN 9781608460106 - David Harvey
Marx, Capital, and the Madness of Economic Reason
Oxford Univ Press, New York, 2017. 240pp. $24.95 hb
ISBN 9780190691486 - 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 - 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 - Kōstas Kavoulakos
Georg Lukács's Philosophy of Praxis: From Neo-Kantianism to Marxism
Bloomsbury Academic, London, 2018. 264pp. £85 hb
ISBN 9781474267410 - 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 - Peter Lamb and Douglas Burnham
First Marx: A Philosophical Introduction
Bloomsbury Academic, London, 2018. 240pp. £21.99 pb
ISBN 9781350029613 - 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 - Costas Lapavitsas
Marxist Monetary Theory: Collected Papers.
Haymarket Books, Chicago, 2018. 336pp. £24.99 pb
ISBN 9781608468300 - 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 - David Mandel
Democracy, Plan, and Market: Yakov Kronrod's Political Economy of Socialism
ibidem Verlag, Stuttgart, 2017. 140pp. $30 pb
ISBN 9783838211084 - Peter Marshall
William Godwin: Philosopher, Novelist, Revolutionary
PM Press, Oakland, CA, 2nd edn, 2017. 544pp. $29.95 pb
ISBN 9781629633862 - Brian Massumi
99 Theses on the Revaluation of Value: A Postcapitalist Manifesto
University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 2018. 152pp. $18.95 pb
ISBN 9781517905873 - Adam Mayer
Naija Marxisms: Revolutionary Thought in Nigeria
Pluto Press, London, 2016. 248pp. £17.99 pb
ISBN 9780745336572 - John McDonnell (ed.)
Economics for the Many
Verso, London, 2018. 227pp. £12.99 pb
ISBN 9781788732239 - 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 - Sandro Mezzadra
In the Marxian Workshops: Producing Subjects
Rowman & Littlefield International, Lanham, MD, 2018. 164pp. £24.95 pb
ISBN 9781786603593 - 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 - 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 - Alan Nasser
Overripe Economy: American Capitalism and the Crisis of Democracy
Pluto Press, London, 2018. 308pp. $28 pb
ISBN 9780745337937 - 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 / $150.00
ISBN 9789004319516 - Luiz Bernardo Pericás
Caio Prado Júnior: Uma Biografia Política
Boitempo, São Paulo, 2016. 483pp. R$ 63,00 pb
ISBN 9788575594483 - Thomas Piketty
Chronicles: On Our Troubled Times
Viking, London, 2016. 192pp. £16.99 pb
ISBN 9780241234891 - Frederick Harry Pitts
Critiquing Capitalism Today: New Ways to Read Marx
Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2017. 279pp. £89.99 hb
ISBN 9783319626321 - 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 - Carl Ratner
Politics of Cooperation and Co-Ops: Forms of Cooperation and Co-Ops, and the Politics That Shape Them
Nova Science, Hauppauge, NY, 2016. 310pp. $79 pb
ISBN 9781536101577 - 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 - Ben Reynolds
The Coming Revolution: Capitalism in the 21st Century
Zero books, Winchester, 2018. 328pp. £17.99 pb
ISBN 9781785357091 - Michael Roberts
The Long Depression: How It Happened, Why It Happened, and What Happens Next
Haymarket, Chicago, 2016. 380pp. $19 pb
ISBN 9781608464685 - Michael Rosen
The Author. Towards a Marxist Approach to Authorship
Michael Rosen, 2018. 404pp. £13.99 pb
ISBN 9781999923839 - Alfred Rosmer
Lenin's Moscow
Haymarket, Chicago, 3rd edn, 2016. 288pp. $19.95 pb
ISBN 9781608466153 - Pavlos Roufos
Happy Future Is a Thing of the Past: The Greek Crisis and Other Disasters.
Reaktion Books, London, 2018. 224pp. £14.95 hb
ISBN 9781780239859 - Howard Ryan
Educational Justice: Teaching and Organizing against the Corporate Juggernaut
Monthly Review Press, New York, 2016. 248pp. $23 pb
ISBN 9781583676134 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - Richard D Wolff
Capitalism's Crisis Deepens: Essays on the Global Economic Meltdown 2010-2014
Haymarket, Chicago, 2016. 223pp. $18.95 pb
ISBN 9781608465958 - Jude Woodward
The Us Vs China: Asia's New Cold War?
Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2017. 304pp. £22.50 pb
ISBN 9781784993429 - Zhun Xu
From Commune to Capitalism: How China's Peasants Lost Collective Farming and Gained Urban Poverty
Monthly Review Press, New York, 2018. 154pp. £20 pb
ISBN 9781583676981 - 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 - Slavoj Žižek, Frank Ruda, and Agon Hamza
Reading Marx
Polity, Medford, MA, 2018. 170pp. $19.95 pb
ISBN 9781509521418
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