Type: New Book

Culture as Politics: Selected Writings of Christopher Caudwell, edited with an introduction by David Margolies.  Pluto Press, £17.99. https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745337227/culture-as-politics/ Caudwell was the most imaginative Marxist thinker in pre-war Britain. Auto-didact, writer on aeronautics, crime novelist as well as theorist, killed in the Spanish Civil War at 29, he developed a materialist understanding of how culture not

NEW FROM PLUTO PRESS: What’s Wrong with Rights?: Social Movements, Law and Liberal Imaginations By Radha D’Souza —————– ‘The book many of us have been waiting for – brilliant, radical, and essential thinking for our times … A major contribution to critical theorising and activist knowledge for struggles against capitalist exploitation, imperialism and fascism today’

Capital and Time: For a New Critique of Neoliberal Reason. There is a short promotional video made for the book. Please also note that the book appears in a new series, Currencies: New Thinking for Financial Times. Several other titles are scheduled to appear in the near future, and we’re keen to hear from authors whose work fits with

SOCIALISM IN THE 21ST CENTURY by Richard Westra Book Description: This easy to read book explores the fundamental ideas of socialism as a prelude to its critical reappraisal of their implementation in the Soviet revolutionary experiment. The book then turns to the seismic economic changes of the neoliberal era which it claims now preclude both

Before Stalinism The Rise and Fall of Soviet Democracy by Samuel Farber Before Stalinism: The Rise and Fall of Soviet Democracy is an historical study of democratic life and institutions and their decline in the early years of the Russian Revolution. Rather than an event-by-event description of this period, it is an attempt at interpretation and synthesis

A Jewish Communist in Weimar Germany: The Life of Werner Scholem (1895 – 1940) Ralf Hoffrogge Walter Benjamin derided Werner Scholem as a ‘rogue’ in 1924. Josef Stalin referred him as a ‘splendid man’, but soon backtracked and labeled him an ‘imbecile’, while Ernst Thälmann, chairman of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD), warned his

OUT NOW: Radical Happiness Moments of Collective Joy by Lynne Segal What is the true meaning of happiness? Lynne Segal explores the radical potential of being together https://www.versobooks.com/books/2576-radical-happiness ———- Why are we so obsessed by the pursuit of happiness? With new ways to measure contentment we are told that we have a right to individual

The French Revolution and Historical Materialism Selected Essays Henry Heller This text reasserts the Marxist view of the French Revolution as a bourgeois and capitalist revolution. Based mainly on articles published in the journal Historical Materialism it challenges the still dominant revisionist view of the French Revolution. It serves to restore the close tie between

British Communism and the Politics of Race Evan Smith British Communism and the Politics of Race explores the role that the Communist Party of Great Britain played within the anti-racism movement in Britain from the 1940s to the 1980s. As one of the first organisations to undertake serious anti-colonial and anti-racist activism within the British

Art History as Social Praxis: The Collected Writings of David Craven David Craven Edited by Brian Winkenweder Art History as Social Praxis: The Collected Writings of David Craven brings together more than thirty essays that chart the development of Craven’s voice as an unorthodox Marxist who applied historical materialism to the study of modern art.

Responses to Marx’s Capital:  From Rudolf Hilferding to Isaak Illich Rubin Edited by Richard B. Day and Daniel F. Gaido Responses to Marx’s Capital: From Rudolf Hilferding to Isaak Illich Rubin is a collection of primary sources dealing with the reception of the economic works of Karl Marx from the First to the Third International.

The Struggle for Development     Benjamin Selwyn            The world economy is expanding rapidly despite chronic economic crises. Yet the majority of the world’s population live in poverty. Why are wealth and poverty two sides of the coin of capitalist development? What can be done to overcome this destructive dynamic?     In this hard-hitting analysis Benjamin Selwyn