Far-left political ideologies and movements

A concise, readable, and novel interpretation of the history of communist states.

In The Third Revolution, eminent China scholar Elizabeth C.

Deng Xiaoping joined the Chinese Communist movement as a youth and rose in its ranks to become an important lieutenant of Mao's from the 1930s onward.

The changes that followed the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 were particularly dramatic for East Germans.

The Russian Revolution had a decisive impact on the history of the twentieth century.

In The Third Revolution, eminent China scholar Elizabeth C.

The Russian Revolution had a decisive impact on the history of the twentieth century.

In recent years we could be forgiven for assuming that Marx has nothing left to say to us.

Deng Xiaoping joined the Chinese Communist movement as a youth and rose in its ranks to become an important lieutenant of Mao's from the 1930s onward.

The changes that followed the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 were particularly dramatic for East Germans.

China's reform era is ending.

In recent years we could be forgiven for assuming that Marx has nothing left to say to us.

China's reform era is ending.

A concise, readable, and novel interpretation of the history of communist states.

Featuring extensive revisions to the text as well as a new introduction and epilogue--bringing the book completely up to date on the tumultuous politics of the previous decade and the long-term implications of the Soviet collapse--this compact, original, and engaging book offers the definitive account of one of the great historical events of the last fifty years.

Leon Trotsky was the most important contributor to the development of revolutionary Marxism this century, after Lenin.

When Value and Naturalism in Marx was first published in English in 1979, recent controversies in socialist economic theory had been concentrated on the tenability or untenability of Marx's labour theory of value.

This book reinterprets the history of nineteenth and twentieth-century revolutions by composing a constellation of "e;dialectical images"e;: Marx's "e;locomotives of history,"e; Alexandra Kollontai's sexually liberated bodies, Lenin's mummified body, Auguste Blanqui's barricades and red flags, the Paris Commune's demolition of the Vendome Column, among several others.

In Marxism and Philosophy Korsch argues for a reexamination of the relationship between Marxist theory and bourgeois philosophy, and insists on the centrality of the Hegelian dialectic and a commitment to revolutionary praxis.

The Soviet agronomist Trofim Lysenko, who died in 1976, symbolizes one of the most notorious yet obscure episodes in the history of the Soviet Union.

Out of the chaos following Lenin's death and the mounting fury against Luk,cs and his freshly penned History and Class Consciousness (1923), this book bears an assessment of Lenin as "e;the only theoretical equal to Marx.

In The Philosophy of Marx, Etienne Balibar provides an accessible introduction to Marx and his key followers, complete with pedagogical information for the student to make the most challenging areas of theory easy to understand.

Christopher Caudwell's The Crisis in Physics is a stylish and readable analysis of the lines of connection between scientific theories and economic realities.

This book which combines the methods and results of both Freud and Marx is by one of the leaders of the West German student left during its most militant phase in the late 1960s.

The 2007-08 credit crisis and the long recession that followed brutally exposed the economic and social costs of financialization.

Fiscal crises have cascaded across much of the developing world with devastating results, from Mexico to Indonesia, Russia and Argentina.

In this hugely influential book, Laclau and Mouffe examine the workings of hegemony and contemporary social struggles, and their significance for democratic theory.

An urgent and provocative account of the modern 'militant', a transformative figure at the front line of emancipatory politics.

The basic discoveries underlying Marx's critique of political economy - labour power, surplus value, use value - are all in some way built upon the concept of need.

In the Nineteenth-century, English textile workers responded to the introduction of new technologies on the factory floor by smashing them to bits.

As the crisis of capitalism unfolds, the need for alternatives is felt ever more intensely.

Written by one of political theory's leading thinkers, The Philosophy of Marx examines all the key areas of Marx's writings in their wider historical and theoretical context-including the concepts of class struggle, ideology, humanism, progress, determinism, commodity fetishism, and the state.

This influential collection of essays focuses on the elusive concept of "e;value,"e; and aims to answer the question "e;Why is Marx's theory of value so important?

Representing Capital, Fredric Jameson's first book-length engagement with Marx's magnum opus, is a unique work of scholarship that records the progression of Marx's thought as if it were a musical score.

An explosive analysis of the central strategic concepts in Gramsci's thought, as revelatory today as on first publication in New Left Review in 1976.

This synoptic essay considers the nature and evolution of the Marxist theory that developed in Western Europe, after the defeat of the proletarian rebellions in the West and the isolation of the Russian Revolution in the East in the early 1920s.

In the eyes of Britain's heritage industry, London is the traditional home of empire, monarchy and power, an urban wonderland for the privileged, where the vast majority of Londoners feature only to applaud in the background.

In this passionate and polemical classic work, Norman Geras argues that the view that Marx broke with all conceptions of human nature in 1845 is wrong.

Really Existing Nationalisms challenges the conventional view that Marx and Engels lacked the theoretical resources needed to understand nationalism.

Raymond Chandler, a dazzling stylist and portrayer of American life, holds a unique place in literary history, straddling both pulp fiction and modernism.

The success of Jeremy Corbyn's left-led Labour Party and Bernie Sanders's 2016 presidential campaign revived a political idea many had thought dead.

Christianity has for centuries been the dominant religion in Europe and in much of the world beyond.

In 1923, a group of young radical German thinkers and intellectuals came together to at Victoria Alle 7, Frankfurt, determined to explain the workings of the modern world.

In February of 1917 Russia was a backward, autocratic monarchy, mired in an unpopular war; by October, after not one but two revolutions, it had become the world's first workers' state, straining to be at the vanguard of global revolution.

Shortlisted for the Deutscher Memorial Prize 2023Capital is currently cannibalizing every sphere of life-guzzling wealth from nature and racialized populations, sucking up our ability to care for each other, and gutting the practice of politics.

Billions of dollars were hastily poured into the global banking system in a frantic attempt at financial stabilisation.

Recent trends in Marxist economic theory have sponsored the methods of modern logic and mathematics.