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The complete Guide to THE RAYA DUNAYEVSKAYA COLLECTION Marxist-Humanism: A Half-Century of Its World Development is now available as a PDF with live links to all the documents in The Raya Dunayevskaya Collection Raya Dunayevskaya founded Marxist-Humanism in the United States. During a lifetime in the Marxist movement, she developed a revolutionary body of ideas: the theory

NEW FROM VERSO THE ZAD AND NoTAV  Territorial Struggles and the Making of a New Political Intelligence   by Mauvaise Troupe Translated by Kristin Ross Introduction and notes by Kristin Ross https://www.versobooks.com/books/2504-the-zad-and-notav ————— Vivid account and reflection on two struggles that are at the heart of the contestation of neoliberal technocracy and the state At

New from Resistance Books Resisting Trump articles from International Viewpoint   International Viewpoint has gathered voices from around the world explaining the popular struggles against Trump and the business and political interests that have exploited his election. http://resistancebooks.org/product/resisting-trump/ISBN: 978-0-902869-19-6, 106 pages, includes 50 b&w photos and tables. Authors include: Gilbert Achcar, Linda Martín Alcoff, Cinzia

Readers of Historical Materialism may be interested in the publication of Selected Writings of Raya Dunayevskaya Russia: From Proletarian Revolution to State-Capitalist Counter-Revolution by Brill in their Critical Social Science series.    Raya Dunayevskaya, philosopher of Marxist-Humanism, was a secretary to Leon Trotsky in exile in Mexico. She developed a theory of sate-capitalism with regard to Russia and

NEW FROM PLUTO PRESS: Reading ‘Capital’ Today Marx after 150 Years Edited by Ingo Schmidt and Carlo Fanelli   Recent years have seen a surge of interest in Marxian political economy and especially Marx’s great work Capital. 150 years after the book’s original publication, are there readings of Capital that can help us find new

AVAILABLE NOW! KNOWLEDGE IN THE AGE  OF DIGITAL CAPITALISM http://www.uwestminsterpress.co.uk/site/books/10.16997/book3/   CRITICAL DIGITAL AND SOCIAL MEDIA STUDIES  Series Editor: Christian Fuchs

NEW FROM VERSO: CITIES OF POWER The Urban, The National, The Popular, The Global   by Göran Therborn https://www.versobooks.com/books/2421-cities-of-power   ————— Why are cities centres of power? A sociological analysis of urban politics In this brilliant, very original survey of the politics and meanings of urban landscapes, leading sociologist Göran Therborn offers a tour of

Forthcoming exploration of the Russian Revolution … OCTOBER SONG: BOLSHEVIK TRIUMPH, COMMUNIST TRAGEDY 1917-1924 By Paul  Le Blanc “October Song is wonderful, a vivid, sympathetic but critical account of the Revolution, moving beyond the merely defensive to thoughtfully consider not only external challenges but internal problems among the revolutionaries.” China Miéville, author of October: The Story

  NEW FROM VERSO:   GENERAL INTELLECTS     Twenty-One Thinkers for the Twenty First Century   by McKenzie Wark   https://www.versobooks.com/books/2446-general-intellects   —————   A guide to the thinkers and ideas that will shape the future   What happened to the public intellectuals that used to challenge and inform us? Who is the Sartre

NEW FROM VERSO:   FUTURABILITY   The Age of Impotence and the Horizon of Possibility   by Franco “Bifo” Berardi   https://www.versobooks.com/books/2486-futurability   —————   A comprehensive philosophy of contemporary life and politics, by one of the sharpest critics of the present   We live in an age of impotence. Stuck between global war and

Varieties of Alternative Economic Systems: Practical Utopias for an Age of Global Crisis and Austerity Edited by Richard Westra, Robert Albritton, Seongjin Jeong This book moves the debate beyond the critiques and the false or not fully-realised alternatives, to focus on what can be termed “practical utopias”. The contributors to this book outline a range of practical proposals for constructing pathways out of the global economic, ecological and social crisis. Varieties of Alternative Economic Systems eschews a single blueprint but insists on dealing directly with the deep structural problems and contradictions of contemporary global capitalism. It provides a diverse array of complementary proposals and perspectives that can inform both theoretical thinking and practical action. Chapter 1) Introduction to practical utopias Robert Albritton and Richard Westra Part I Socialism and ecology Chapter 2) Radical social democracy: a phase of transition to democratic socialism Saeed Rahnema Chapter 3) Ecosocialism for a new era Pat Devine Chapter 4) Ecological community: a practical utopia Ann E. Davis Chapter 5) Soviet planning and the labor-time

Omnia Sunt Communia On the Commons and the Transformation to Postcapitalism Massimo De Angelis In a weaving of radical political economy, Omnia Sunt Communia sets out the steps to postcapitalism Introduces a new theoretical contribution in which the commons are conceptualized not just as common goods, but as a set of social systems Links the literature on the commons