In Global Political Economy and the Modern State System Tobias ten Brink contributes to an understanding of the modern state system, its conflicts, and its transformation.
In The Falling Rate of Profit and the Great Recession of 2007-2009, Peter Jones develops a new interpretation of Marx’s theories of value and finance, and shows how this can explain the causes of the
This collection of articles by Lebowitz (emeritus, economics, Simon Fraser U., Canada) began as a collection of essays published from the early 1970s onwards on discrete economic topics--neo-Ricardian
Based on extensive archive research, this first comprehensive history of the Red International of Labour Unions looks at the contribution of communism to the international trade union movement in the
The proceedings of the last Comintern congress in which Lenin participated, at last available in English, reveals a Communist world movement grappling to reconcile the goal of unifying workers and col
In Dialectics of the Ideal: Evald Ilyenkov and Creative Soviet Marxism Levant and Oittinen provide a window into the subterranean tradition of creative’ Soviet Marxism, which developed on the margins
Plural Temporalities is an ambitious attempt to understand Spinoza’s thought through Althusser’s insights, and in the process to better interrogate Althusser’s own philosophy. Drawing on the fragmenta
How does music relate to time? How does rhythm express our experience of time? Mark Abel addresses these questions through his account of the rise to prominence in Western music of a new way of organi
Few would deny that Karl Marx was among the most influential philosophers of the 20th century. Yet, as Christoph Henning shows in this important new work, he was also among the most misinterpreted. Fo
This book provides a wide-ranging and in-depth reappraisal of the relation between Marx’s economic theory in Capital and Hegel’s Logic by leading Marxian economists and philosophers from around the wo
“Broue enables us to feel that we are actually living through these epoch-making events…. [D]o not miss this magnificent work.”—Robert Brenner, UCLAA magisterial, definitive account of the upheavals i
Mieville (a member of the editorial board of Historical Materialism) presents an account of international law derived from Critical Legal Studies and the Marxist theories of Evgeny Pashukanis. He argu
“The amount of sources the author has studied is staggering . . . the book [has] an encyclopedic value and [is] accessible to all scholars interested in political history.”—Martin Kragh, Stockholm Sch
This book examines the impact of Trotsky’s politics upon those Spanish communists who dissented from the general line’ of Moscow in the midst of the Spanish Civil War. Exploring the ideas of leading P
Focusing on the central concepts of the Prison Notebooks and relating them to the history of modern political ideas, Gramsci's Political Thought demonstrates that Gramsci’s ideas continue to be releva
In these probing analytical essays, John Marot applies Robert Brenner's analysis of pre-capitalist modes of production to early Soviet attempts at revolutionary transformation, concluding that none of
In this far-reaching and insightful work, Vasant Kaiwar analyzes the political, economic, and ideological cross-currents that have shaped and informed postcolonial studies. Kaiwar mobilizes Marxism to
Through a careful textual analysis of the writings of Lenin and his contemporary, Shandro traces the ways in which Lenin’s political practice and theory led him to the philosophical fact’ of hegemony.
The German Left and the Weimar Republic illuminates the history of the political left by presenting original documents on various aspects of socialist and communist activity in Germany. This collectio
Short Listed for the 2011 Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial PrizeUnable to analyze the dynamics of specific forms of social labour in the antebellum U.S., most historians of the US Civil War have ig
