In Trotsky and the Problem of Soviet Bureaucracy, Thomas M. Twiss traces the development of Trotsky’s thinking on the issue of post-revolutionary bureaucracy from the first years after the Bolshevik R
In this biography of Richard Muller (1880–1943), the leading protagonist of the 1918 German Revolution, Ralf Hoffrogge lifts Muller and his council socialist Shop Stewards' movement out of obscurity,
Responses to Marx's Capital: From Rudolf Hilferding to Isaak Illich Rubin is a collection of primary sources, translated from German and Russian, dealing with the reception of the economic works of Ka
Liberal egalitarians believe that the shortcomings of capitalist market societies can be overcome with proper political regulation. In Beyond Liberal Egalitarianism Tony Smith argues that this belief
Austro-Marxism: The Ideology of Unity documents the theoretical and political legacy of one of Europe's most influential intellectual currents in the first half of the twentieth century.
Art History as Social Praxis: The Collected Writings of David Craven brings together more than thirty essays that chart the development of Craven’s voice as an unorthodox Marxist who applied historica
Debord, Time and Spectacle addresses the philosophical content of Guy Debord and the Situationists’ work. It reconstructs the Hegelian and Marxian elements of Debord’s theory of ‘spectacle’, and prese
This first of three documentary volumes U.S. Trotskyism 1928-1965. Part I: Emergence, spans 1928 to 1940, with a rich selection of primary sources on labor and social struggles, intellectual history,
In Marx’s Theory of the Genesis of Money, Samezo Kuruma examines the different angles from which Marx analyses the commodity and money in the first two chapters of Capital, Volume I.
In The Popular Front Novel in Britain Elinor Taylor examines British Communist novels of the 1930s and argues that the realist novel of the left was a crucial site in which the politics of the Popular
The German-Dutch communist left was the first left-current to lead the international opposition to the trade-unionist and parliamentary theses adopted by the Communist International's leadership, s
In War and Revolution in Catalonia, 1936-1939, Pelai Pages i Blanch analyses the political and military evolution of the events in Catalonia during the Spanish Civil War.
"Marx and Singularity" by Luca Basso attempts to understand the development of Marx s thought, from the early writings to the "Grundrisse," as a search for individual realisation. Drawing upon the con
From the travails of art critical language in the late eighteenth century to the upheaval of the Paris Commune of 1871, from neo-classical art criticism to the Paris Commune of 1871, from Bizet's Carm
In this collection of classic and newly-published essays, Andrew Hemingway exposes the voices of competing class interest in British aesthetics and art theory in the Romantic period and provides fresh
Revolutionary Marxism in Spain, 1930-1937 examines the impact of Trotsky’s political thought upon those Spanish communists who dissented from the ‘general line’ laid down by Moscow. Using Spanish sour
In From the Vanguard to the Margins the late Dr Mark Pittaway offers a path-breaking account of the social history of post-war and contemporary Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and the role of labour
