Marxism & Communism

Before I knew that I was Jewish or a girl I knew that I was a member of the working class. So begins Vivian Gornick's exploration of how the world ...

The globalised world of the twenty-first century has many parallels with that of the period running up to the cataclysm of 1914, namely the world p...

Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer wrote the central text of critical theory, Dialectic of Enlightenment, a measured critique of the Enlightenment r...

Seen as a key figure in the critical study of whiteness, US historian David Roediger has sometimes received criticism, and praise, alleging that he...

Karl Marx was not only the great theorist of capitalism; he was above all else a revolutionary. In Paris in 1844 he made the connection between rad...

Among the most influential political and social forces of the twentieth century, modern communism rests firmly on philosophical, political, and eco...

Originally published in 1974, Kojin Karatani's Marx: Towards the Centre of Possibility has been among his most enduring and pioneering works in cri...

The essays collected in this volume develop the theoretical perspective initiated in Laclau and Chantal Mouffe's classic Hegemony and Socialist Str...

We know that communism is the right hypothesis. All those who abandon this hypothesis immediately resign themselves to the market economy, to parli...

This book systematically introduces the idea of an improper politics. Introducing a conceptual vocabulary, it engages with the politics of the prop...

Between his birth in 1818 and his death sixty-five years later, Karl Marx became one of Western civilizations most influential political philosophe...

In On Marx, Alan Ryan examines Marxs writing, not within the framework of Lenin or Tolstoy but within its own time, tracing its Hegelian roots and ...

In On Marx, Alan Ryan examines Marxs writing, not within the framework of Lenin or Tolstoy but within its own time, tracing its Hegelian roots and ...

''Inch by inch, he moved the gun out from underneath his stomach, over to his right side. He rolled over just enough to get the gun in the clear, s...

Ernesto Laclau is best known for co-authoring Hegemony and Socialist Strategy, with Chantal Mouffe. Politically active in the social and student mo...

Between the end of the Second World War and the collapse of Communism confrontation with the Soviet Union was an everyday reality. As part of Nato'...

According to Michel Henry, no thinker has been more influential than Marx, and no one has been more misunderstood. With his characteristic clarity ...