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Some recent books for review
- Onur Acaroglu
Rethinking Marxist Approaches to Transition: A Theory of Temporal Dislocation
Brill, Leiden and Boston, 2021. 232pp. £152 hb
ISBN 9789004436664 - Michel Aglietta
The Reform of Europe: A Political Guide to the Future
Verso Books, London and New York, 2019. 280pp. £16.99 hb
ISBN 9781786632548 - Kevin Anderson
Dialectics of Revolution: Hegel, Marxism, and Its Critics through a Lens of Race, Class, Gender, and Colonialism
Daraja Press, Ottawa, 2020. 256pp. £27.66 pb
ISBN 9781988832753 - Francesca Antonini, Aaron Bernstein, Lorenzo Fusaro, and Robert Jackson (eds)
Revisiting Gramsci's Notebooks
Haymarket Books, Chicago and London, 2020. 522pp. £27.37 pb
ISBN 9781642593433 - Jairus Banaji
A Brief History of Commercial Capitalism
Haymarket, Chicago and London, 2020. 200pp. $19.95 pb
ISBN 9781642591323 - Lelio Basso
A Heterodox Marxist and His Century: Lelio Basso: Selected Writings
Brill, Leiden and Boston, 2021. 204pp. $163 hb
ISBN 9789004321687 - Peter Beilharz
Circling Marx: Essays 1980-2020
Brill, Leiden and Boston, 2021. 440pp. $217 hb
ISBN 9789004443976 - Daniel Bensaïd and Karl Marx
The Dispossessed: Karl Marx's Debates on Wood Theft and the Right of the Poor
University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 2021. 176pp.
ISBN 9781517903855 - Jeremy Brecher
Strike!
PM Press, Oakland,CA, 50th anniversary edn, 2020. 640pp. $28.95 pb
ISBN 9781629638003 - Pem Davidson Buck
The Punishment Monopoly: Tales of My Ancestors, Dispossession, and the Building of the United States
Monthly Review Press, New York, 2019. 384pp. $29 pb
ISBN 9781583678329 - Sonja Buckel
Subjectivation and Cohesion: Towards the Reconstruction of a Materialist Theory of Law
Koninklijke BrillNV, Leiden, The Netherlands, 2021. 1pp.
ISBN 978-90-04-43201-7 - Tom Bunyard
Debord, Time and Spectacle: Hegelian Marxism and Situationist Theory
Haymarket Books, Chicago, 2020. 430pp. $28 pb
ISBN 9781608460793 - Eric T Chester
Free Speech and the Suppression of Dissent During World War I
Monthly Review Press, New York, 2020. 416pp. £18.99 pb
ISBN 9781583678688 - Davina Cooper
Feeling Like a State: Desire, Denial, and the Recasting of Authority
Duke University Press, Durham, NC, 2019. 288pp. £20.99 pb
ISBN 9781478004745 - Hannah Cross
Migration Beyond Capitalism
Polity Press, Cambridge , UK and Medford, MA, 2021. 210pp. £17.99 pb
ISBN 9781509535958 - Jeff Diamanti, Andrew Pendakis, and Imre Szeman (eds)
The Bloomsbury Companion to Marx
Bloomsbury Academic, London and New York, 2019. 680pp. £100 hb
ISBN 9781474278713 - Ana Cecelia Dinerstein and Frederick Harry Pitts
A World Beyond Work?: Labour, Money and the Capitalist State between Crisis and Utopia.
Emerald, Bingley, 2021. 232pp. £16.99 pb
ISBN 9781787691469 - Seth Donnelly
The Lie of Global Prosperity: How Neoliberals Distort Data to Mask Poverty and Exploitation
Monthly Review Press, New York, 2019. 120pp. $21 pb
ISBN 9781583677650 - Hal Draper
Berkeley: The Student Revolt
Haymarket books, Chicago, 2020. 280pp. $22 pb
ISBN 9781642591255 - The Research Unit for Political Economy
Crisis and Predation: India, Covid-19, and Global Finance
Monthly Review Press, New York, 2020. 216pp. $15 pb
ISBN 9781583679241 - Zillah R Eisenstein
Abolitionist Socialist Feminism: Radicalizing the Next Revolution
Monthly Review Press, New York, 2019. 160pp. $20 hb
ISBN 9781583677629 - Spencer Ellsworth
The Great Faerie Strike
Broken Eye Books, 2020. 292pp. £15.95 pb
ISBN 9781940372396 - Christian Fuchs
Marxism: Karl Marx's Fifteen Key Concepts for Cultural and Communication Studies
Routledge, New York, 2019. 296pp. £22.99 pb
ISBN 9780367418779 - Christian Fuchs
Communication and Capitalism: A Critical Theory
University of Westminster Press, London, 2020. 406pp. £28.99 pb / open access ebook
ISBN 9781912656714 - Christian Fuchs
Marxist Humanism and Communication Theory: Media, Communication and Society, Volume One
Routledge, New York, 2021. 310pp. £29.99 pb
ISBN 9780367697129 - Hermann Levin Goldschmidt
Contradiction Set Free
Bloomsbury Publishing, London, 2020. 168pp. £91 hb
ISBN 9781350079816 - Bruno Gullì
Singularities at the Threshold: The Ontology of Unrest
Lexington Books, Lanham, MD, 2020. 166pp. £73 hb
ISBN 9781793606761 - Shaibal Gupta, Marcello Musto, and Babak Amini (eds)
Karl Marx's Life, Ideas, and Influences: A Critical Examination on the Bicentenary
Palgrave Macmillan, London and New York, 2019. 378pp. $119.99 hb
ISBN 9783030248147 - Tom Hazeldine
The Northern Question: A History of a Divided Country
Verso Books, Brooklyn, 2020. 304pp. £20 hb
ISBN 9781786634061 - Mike Healy
Marx and Digital Machines Alienation, Technology, Capitalism
University of Westminster Press, London, 2020. 172pp. £19.99 pb / open access
ISBN 9781912656790 - Chris Henry
The Ethics of Political Resistance: Althusser, Badiou, Deleuze
Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2019. 248pp. £75 hb
ISBN 9781474447737 - George Hull (ed.)
Debating African Philosophy: Perspectives on Identity, Decolonial Ethics, and Comparative Philosophy
Routledge, London and New York, 2019. 321pp. £32.99 pb
ISBN 9781138344969 - Makoto Itoh
Value and Crisis: Essays on Marxian Economics in Japan
Monthly Review Press, New York, Second edn, 2020. 296pp. $29 pb
ISBN 9781583678985 - 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, and Johann Salazar (eds)
Lenin 150 (Samizdat)
KckAss Books, Hamburg, 2020. €15 pb
ISBN 9783000662126 - Ruth Kinna and Clifford Harper
Great Anarchists
Dog Section Press, London, 2020. 128pp. £6 pb
ISBN 9781916036567 - Tarik Kochi
Global Justice and Social Conflict: A Critical Theory of International Law
Routledge, London, 2020. 250pp. £29.99 pb
ISBN 9780367406813 - Richard Lachmann
First-Class Passengers on a Sinking Ship: Elite Politics and the Decline of Great Powers
Verso, London and New York, 2020. 477pp. £25 hb
ISBN 9781788734073 - Michael A Lebowitz
Between Capitalism and Community
Monthly Review Press, New York, 2021. 208pp. $24 pb
ISBN 9781583678862 - Michael Löwy (ed.)
Revolutions
Haymarket, Chicago and London, 2020. 550pp. $40 hb
ISBN 9781642591606 - Kfir Cohen Lustig
Makers of Worlds, Readers of Signs: Israeli and Palestinian Literature of the Global Contemporary
Verso, London and Brooklyn, NY, First edition edn, 2019. 304pp. £25 pb
ISBN 9781788737579 - Brendan McGeever
Antisemitism and the Russian Revolution
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK and New York, 2019. 258pp. £75 hb
ISBN 9781107195998 - 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 - Tony McKenna
Toward Forever: Radical Reflections on History and Art
Zero Books, Ridgefield, CT, 2020. 272pp. £14.99 pb
ISBN 9781789043570 - Andy Merrifield
Marx, Dead and Alive: Reading Capital in Precarious Times
Monthly Review Press, New York, 2020. 192pp. $23 pb
ISBN 9781583678794 - Alessandra Mezzadri
Marx in the Field
Anthem Press, New York, 2021. 256pp. £80 hb
ISBN 9781785274497 - Phil Mullan
Beyond Confrontation: Globalists, Nationalists and Their Discontents
Emerald, 2020. 276pp. £19.99 pb
ISBN 9781839825637 - Karen Ng
Hegel's Concept of Life: Self-Consciousness, Freedom, Logic
Oxford University Press, New York, 2020. 336pp. £67.30 hb
ISBN 9780190947613 - Christopher Norris
Socrates at Verse and Other Philosophical Poems
Parlor Press, Anderson, SC, 2020. 199pp. £15.99 pb
ISBN 9781643171593 - Robert Ovetz (ed.)
Workers' Inquiry and Global Class Struggle Strategies, Tactics, Objectives
Pluto, London, 2021. 288pp. £24.71 pb
ISBN 9780745340869 - Gabriella Paolucci (ed.)
Bourdieu E Marx. Pratiche Della Critica
Mimesis, Milan, 2020. 446pp. € 32,00 pb
ISBN 9788857555751 - Paul Paolucci
Marx's Experiments and Microscopes: Modes of Production, Religion, and the Method of Successive Abstractions
Brill, Leiden and Boston, 2020. 313pp. $192 hb
ISBN 9789004413856 - 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 - Steve Paxton
Unlearning Marx: Why the Soviet Failure Was a Triumph for Marx
Zero Books, Ridgefield, CT, 2020. 184pp.
ISBN 9781789045413 - Lothar Peter
Marx on Campus: A Short History of the Marburg School
Brill, Leiden and Boston, 2020. 183pp. $145 hb
ISBN 9789004349414 - Marco Piasentier
On Biopolitics: An Inquiry into Nature and Language
Routledge, New York, First Edition edn, 2020. 136pp. £96 hb
ISBN 9781138478862 - Robert Poole
Peterloo: The English Uprising
Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2019. 480pp. £25 hb
ISBN 9780198783466 - Vijay Prashad
Washington Bullets
Monthly Review Press, New York, 2020. 162pp. $17 pb
ISBN 9781583679067 - Karl Radek
Karl Radek on China: Documents from the Former Secret Soviet Archives
Translated by Richard Abraham and Steven I. Levine, Brill, Leiden and Boston, 2021. 510pp. $246 hb
ISBN 9789004432062 - Eric Rahim
A Promethean Vision. The Formation of Karl Marx's Worldview
Praxis Press, Glasgow, 2020. 144pp. £20 pb
ISBN 9781899155088 - J. Jesse Ramirez
Against Automation Mythologies: Business Science Fiction and the Ruse of the Robots
Routledge, New York, 2021. 116pp. £35.99 hb
ISBN 9780367520144 - Jacques Rancière
What Times Are We Living In? A Conversation with Eric Hazan
Polity Press, Medford, MA, 2020. 75pp. £9.99 pb
ISBN 9781509536993 - Adam Theron-Lee Rensch
No Home for You Here: A Memoir of Class and Culture
Reaktion Books, London, 2020. 184pp. £14.95 hb
ISBN 9781789142006 - Michael Roberts
Engels 200 - His Contribution to Political Economy
lulu, 2020. 172pp. £8.95 pb
ISBN 9781716471339 - Axel Roch and Magda Van Suntum (eds)
Christophe Kotanyi. Cent Dérives - a Hundred Drifts - Hundert Driften
gegenstalt, Berlin, 2020. 544pp. £75 hb
ISBN 9783981315684 - Norman Roessler and Anthony Squiers (eds)
Philosophizing Brecht: Critical Readings on Art, Consciousness, Social Theory and Performance
Brill Rodopi, Leiden and Boston, 2019. 206pp. €94.00 hb
ISBN 9789004404434 - Eric-John Russell
Spectacular Logic in Hegel and Debord: Why Everything Is as It Seems
Bloomsbury Academic, London and New York, 2021. 272pp. $115 hb
ISBN 9781350157637 - 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 - Jason E Smith
Smart Machines and Service Work: Automation in an Age of Stagnation
Reaktion Books, London, 2020. 160pp. £14.95 hb
ISBN 9781789143188 - Panagiotis Sotiris
A Philosophy for Communism: Rethinking Althusser
Brill, Leiden and Boston, 2020. 558pp. $198 hb
ISBN 9789004291355 - Sylvana Tomaselli
Wollstonecraft: Philosophy, Passion, and Politics
Princeton University Press, Princeton, 2020. 248pp. £25 hb
ISBN 9780691169033 - Eric Toussaint
The Debt System: A History of Sovereign Debts and Their Repudiation
Haymarket, Chicago and London, 2019. 280pp. £14.99 pb
ISBN 9781608463091 - Derek Wall
Climate Strike: The Practical Politics of the Climate Crisis.
Merlin Press, London, 2020. 222pp. £10 pb
ISBN 9780850367645 - Rob Wallace
Dead Epidemiologists: On the Origins of Covid-19
Monthly Review Press, New York, 2020. 260pp. $17 pb
ISBN 9781583678794 - Mike Wayne
Marxism Goes to the Movies
Routledge, London and New York, 2020. 218pp. £31.99 pb
ISBN 9781138677876 - James D White
Marx and Russia: The Fate of a Doctrine
Bloomsbury, London, 2018. 240pp. £21.99 pb
ISBN 9781474224062 - Fred A Wilcox
Shamrocks and Oil Slicks: A People's Uprising against Shell Oil in County Mayo, Ireland
Monthly Review Press, New York, 2019. 168pp. $22 pb
ISBN 9781583678466 - Calvin Winslow
Radical Seattle: The General Strike of 1919
Monthly Review Press, New York, 2020. 280pp. $26 pb
ISBN 9781583678527 - Paul Zarembka
Key Elements of Social Theory Revolutionized by Marx
Brill, Leiden and Boston, 2021. $169 hb
ISBN 9789004432697 - Slavoj Žižek
Pandemic! Covid-19 Shakes the World
Polity, Cambridge UK and Medford, MA, 2020. 140pp. $14.95 pb
ISBN 9781509546114
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