Type: New Book

REVOLUTION IN THE AIR By Max Elbaum Foreword by Alicia Garza ————— The first in-depth study of the long march of the US New Left after 1968. The sixties were a time when radical movements learned to embrace twentieth-century Marxism. Revolution in the Air is the definitive study of this turning point, and examines what the resistance of

Splendour, Misery, and Possibilities: An X-Ray of Socialist Yugoslavia Darko Suvin   Suvin’s ‘X-Ray’ of Socialist Yugoslavia offers an indispensable overview of a unique and often overlooked twentieth-century socialism The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was created in a surge of revolutionary self-determination that rejected both the free-market-Capitalism of Europe, and the bureaucratic-Socialism of the

Revolution, Defeat and Theoretical Underdevelopment: Russia, Turkey, Spain, Bolivia Loren Goldner   A wide-ranging and critical examination of twentieth-century revolutionary movements across four major ideological traditions and countries.   The historical studies presented here examine four ideologies — Leninism, Trotskyism, anarchism, and anti-imperialism — still with us, however different and diffuse in form. In approaching

Out now from Mimesis International in the Sociology series: The Rise of the European Self-employed Workforce by Sergio Bologna ____________________________________________________________________________ Sergio Bologna has long been one of the sharpest analysts and critics of the changing structures in the contemporary labour market. In this new volume, the Italian thinker focuses on the phenomenon of ‘freelance workers’, and particularly of knowledge workers, not just as another segment within the global workforce, but as

NEW FROM PLUTO PRESS: Class Matters Inequality and Exploitation in 21st Century Britain By Charles Umney —————– ‘A sophisticated answer to impoverished sociologies and cheap media cliches … A sharp and deeply necessary book’ – Richard Seymour, author of ‘Corbyn: The Strange Rebirth of Radical Politics’ (Verso, 2017). ‘Umney presents a powerful and nuanced alternative

Radical Philosophy issue 2.02 (June 2018) has just been published. It is freely available online, and for purchase as a print-on-demand volume.    Online edition: https://www.radicalphilosophy.com/ Print edition: Amazon.co.uk, Barnes & Noble and others. (Non-corporate distribution channels on their way…)   RP 2.02 (June 2018) Contents Five theses on sabotage in the shadow of fossil capitalJeff Diamanti and Mark Simpson Powerless companions or fellow

Althusser and Theology: Religion, Politics and Philosophy Agon Hamza (ed.) A major contribution to Althusser scholarship, as well as to our understanding of the Left’s relation to religion and theology. Religion has always been an object of philosophical analysis and a platform for political practice. In bringing this to light, Althusser and Theology intends not

NEW FROM VERSO   MISTAKEN IDENTITY   By Asad Haider    —————   A powerful challenge to the way we understand the politics of race and the history of anti-racist struggle.   Whether class or race is the more important factor in modern politics is a question right at the heart of recent history’s most

Marx Worldwide: On the Development of the International Discourse on Marx since 1965 Jan Hoff Examining how Marxism has been received and developed beyond Europe, this work asserts the continuing global relevance of tradition. Charting the unprecedented global boost that has been experienced by critical Marxism since the mid-1960s, Marx Worldwide provides an overview of

The Practical Essence of Man: The ‘Activity Approach’ in Late Soviet Philosophy Andrey Maidansky and Vesa Oittinen (eds) This book depicts in detail the rise and fall of a remarkable phenomenon in Soviet Marxism: ‘The Activity Approach’. This book presents to Western readers, for the first time, a current in late Soviet philosophy which challenged

NEW EDITION FROM VERSO THE NEW SPIRIT OF CAPITALISM by Luc Boltanski and Eve Chiapello Translated by Gregory Elliott ————— New edition of this major work examining the development of neoliberalism In this established classic, sociologists Luc Boltanski and Eve Chiapello get to the heart of contemporary capitalism. Delving deep into the latest management texts

The Philosophy of Living Experience: Popular Outlines Alexander Bogdanov, translated by David G. Rowley This is the best introduction to the thought of Bogdanov, a Russian polymath and co-founder of the Bolshevik Party. The Philosophy of Living Experience (1913) was written at a transitional point between Bogdanov’s other major works, Empiriomonism andTektology; as such, it