British Marxist scholar C.J. Arthur combines two mutually supportive trends in Marxist theory: that of systematic dialectic and that of value form theory. The first seven chapters, using Marx's writin
In How Language Informs Mathematics Damsma shows how Hegel’s and Marx’s dialectics allow us to understand the structure and nature of mathematical and capitalist systems. Knowledge of such systems all
The Petrograd Workers in the Russian Revolution is a study of revolution 'from below', from the industrial districts of Russia’s capital. It allows the workers speak for themselves, as conscious, crea
The present studies on Brazilian modern art seek to specify some of the dominant contradictions of capitalism’s combined but uneven development as these appear from the global ‘periphery’.
Geert Reuten's The unity of the capitalist economy and state offers a systematic exposition of the capitalist system. Outlining the economic and state institutions and processes that sustain capitalis
In contrast to orthodox theory, Howard Botwinick uses a classical Marxist analysis of real capitalist competition to show that substantial patterns of wage disparity among similar workers can persist
The Class Strikes Back examines a number of radical, twenty-first-century workers’ struggles characterised by a different kind of grassroots unionism and solidarity.
This book endeavours to show what capitalism logically is all about. Too much has been talked about without its real identity exposed, or even meant to be exposed.
"The Meanings of Work" aims to explore some dimensions of the changes taking place in the labour-world, as well as looking at the consequences, theoretical and empirical, entailed by these transformat
With the onset of the global financial crisis in 2008, it became not uncommon to read critiques of the big financial houses as operating a form of "zombie capitalism," while Rolling Stone writer Matt
Following the deaths of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, Paul Levi took the helm of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) and continued Luxemburg's pursuit of the politics of majority-revolution, on
Mikhail Lifshitz is a major forgotten figure in the tradition of Marxist philosophy and art history. The Crisis of Ugliness (1968), published here in English for the first time, is a compact broadside
The book rethinks the central categories of Marx's work beyond any philosophy of history, providing a critical analysis of his political and theoretical development from his early writings, to the ela
Henning's Philosophy after Marx recapitulates the history of Marx-interpretations as a history of misinterpretation. Illustrating how Marx's original theories are more sustainable than their critiques
When Workers Shot Back: Class Conflict from 1877 to 1921 explores how workers escalated their tactics, even taking up arms, to disrupt the capitalist economy and extract concessions that prevoked the
The proceedings and resolutions from three enlarged plenums of the Executive Committee of the Communist International (Comintern) in 1922–23. Valuable for understanding the world revolutionary movemen
