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Book SynopsisSince the late-1990s much of Latin America has experienced an uneven and contradictory turn to the Left in the electoral arena. At the same time, there has been a rejuvenation of Marxist critiques of political economy. Drawing on the expertise of Latin American, North American, and European scholars, this volume offers cutting-edge theoretical explorations of trends in the region, as well as in-depth case studies of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, and Venezuela. Essays in the volume focus on changes to class formation in Latin America and offer new insights into the state-form, exploring the complex relationship between state and market in contexts of late capitalist development, particularly in countries endowed with incredible natural resource wealth. Contributors are: Dario Azzellini, Emilia Castorina, Mariano Féliz, Juan Grigera, Nicolas Grinberg, Gabriel Hetland, Claudio Katz, Thomas Purcell, Ben Selwyn, Susan J. Spronk, Guido Starosta, Leandro Vergara-Camus, and Jeffery R. Webber.Trade ReviewThis book will define new debates on Latin American political economy. It superbly delivers fine-grained empirical commentary on the composition of working class politics across the region (in Bolivia, Argentina, Venezuela and Brazil), as well as theoretical exposure of the specificities of states and markets within the uneven and combined development of capitalism shaping Latin America. With leading political economists at the helm, this whopper of a book truly brings fresh radical perspectives to bear on the struggles against capitalist power within Latin America. Ignore it at your peril. − Adam David Morton, University of Sydney and author of Revolution and State in Modern Mexico: The Political Economy of Uneven Development Crisis and Contradiction: Marxist Perspectives on Latin America in the Global Economy is the indispensable source for students, academics and activists interested in the transition to neoliberalism in Latin America. If Latin America is the region in which, perhaps more than any other, the left needs urgently to take an interest, the contributors to this volume have taken up the challenge. They offer a vast, detailed and richly informative survey of recent political and economic developments in Bolivia, Venezuala, Argentina, and elsewhere, and have produced a volume which will serve both as a testament to the vitality of the left in Latin America, and a proof of the excellence of Marxist scholarship on the region. Susan Spronk's and Jeffery R. Webber's book is the finest example of its kind to date. − Alfredo Saad-Filho, SOAS, University of London and author of The Value of MarxTable of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Acknowledgements Note on Contributors 1. Introduction – Systemic Logics and Historical Specificity: Renewing Historical Materialism in Latin American Political Economy Susan Spronk and Jeffery R. Webber PART I: THE ‘NEW’ WORKING CLASS: DECOMPOSITION AND RE-COMPOSITION UNDER NEOLIBERALISM 2. Roots of Resistance to Urban Water Privatisation in Bolivia: The ‘New Working Class’, the Crisis of Neoliberalism, and Public Services, Susan Spronk 3. The Neo-Developmentalist Alternative: Capitalist Crisis, Popular Movements, and Economic Development in Argentina since the 1990s, Mariano Féliz 4. The Reproduction of Democratic Neoliberalism in Argentina: Kirchner’s ‘Solution’ to the Crisis of 2001, Emilia Castorina 5. Doubly Marginalised? Women Workers in Northeast Brazilian Export Horticulture, Ben Selwyn 6. Emergent Socialist Hegemony in Bolivarian Venezuela: The Role of the Party, Gabriel Hetland 7. Venezuela’s Social Transformation and Growing Class Struggle, Dario Azzellini 8. Socialist Management and Natural Resource Based Industrial Production: A Critique of Cogestión in Venezuela, Thomas F. Purcell PART II: STATE AND MARKET IN LATE CAPITALIST DEVELOPMENT 9. Conspicuous silences: State and Class in Structuralist and Neo-structuralist Thought, Juan Grigera 10. Sugarcane Ethanol: the Hen of the Golden Eggs? Agribusiness and the State in Lula’s Brazil, Leandro Vergara-Camus 11. From Global Capital Accumulation to Varieties of Centre-Leftism in South America: The Cases of Brazil and Argentina, Nicolas Grinberg and Guido Starosta 12. The Three Dimensions of the Crisis, Claudio Katz 13. Revolution against ‘Progress’: Neo-Extractivism, the Compensatory State, and the TIPNIS Conflict in Bolivia, Jeffery R. Webber References Index

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Book SynopsisMarxism in a Lost Century retells the history of the radical left during the twentieth century through the words and deeds of Paul Mattick. An adolescent during the German revolutions that followed World War I, he was also a recent émigré to the United States during the 1930s Great Depression, when the unemployed groups in which he participated were among the most dynamic manifestations of social unrest. Three biographical themes receive special attention -- the self-taught nature of left-wing activity, Mattick’s experiences with publishing, and the nexus of men, politics, and friendship. Mattick found a wide audience during the 1960s because of his emphasis on the economy’s dysfunctional aspects and his advocacy of workplace councils—a popularity mirrored in the cyclical nature of the global economy.Trade Review"Just as all good biographies transcend their immediate subject matter and illuminate more enduring truths, so too does Roth's recounting of Mattick's life disclose much about the biases and prejudices within intellectual and political circles on the left, both then and now. [...] Marxism in a Lost Century illuminates as much about ourselves and the world within which left intellectuals circulate today as it does about the world of this remarkable Marxist thinker." - Thom Workman (University of New Brunswick), in Marx and Philosophy Review of Books, 23 July 2016 "Gary Roths biographische Studie über Paul Mattick basiert wesentlich auf dem umfangreichen, im Amsterdamer Institut für Sozialgeschichte (IISG) aufbewahrten Nachlass, insbesondere auf der überlieferten Korrespondenz, die nahezu 2000 Briefe umfasst; außerdem nutzte Roth die Gelegenheit zur Befragung von Zeitzeugen, insbesondere Matticks zweiter Frau Ilse Mattick und den Sohn Paul Mattick Jr. , der auch die letzte Schrift seines Vaters „Marxism. Last Refuge of the Bourgoisie?“ 1983, zwei Jahre nach dem Tod des Autors 1981 posthum herausbrachte (während eine deutsche Ausgabe leider nach wie vor aussteht). Roth erzählt das Leben Matticks faktisch aus Sicht und politischer Perspektive von Mattick selbst; damit gelingt ihm eine mit vielen Einzelheiten und zuweilen auch überflüssigen Informationen gefüllte lebendige Darstellung, die es zu lesen durchaus lohnt." - Michael Buckmiller (Leibniz Universität Hannover), The International Newsletter of Communist Studies, Vol. 22-23 (2016/17), Nos. 29-30, pp. 108 - 110 "In his new biography of Paul Mattick, a German-born worker who immigrated to the United States in 1926 and later emerged as one of the most important radical critics of his time, Gary Roth tells the story of a largely forgotten current in the 20th century that early on made a rupture with the statist caricatures of communism to which today’s media-savvy leftist intellectuals are still holding fast.1 Noting that this story is about “bygone eras in which a radicalized working class still constituted a hope for the future,” Roth steers clear of melancholy and nostalgia, instead seeking a justification for his work in the more recent reconfiguration "of the world’s population into a vast working class that extends into the middle classes in the industrialized countries and the pools of underemployed agricultural workers everywhere else"." - Felix Baum, The Brooklyn Rail, December 9th, 2015 "Besides its political and theoretical content, Roth’s biography of Mattick is of great human interest. It tells us a lot about what life was like at various times for working people in both Germany and the United States. The book is worth reading for that alone." - In: Socialist Standard, February 2016 "Gary Roth’s Marxism in a Lost Century provides a vivid and fascinating account of the life of Paul Mattick, and in so doing presents a history of the twentieth-century left from the perspective of one of its underappreciated protagonists. [...] By shining light on an extraordinary and neglected Marxist, Roth’s book is an important contribution to Marxist scholarship and deserves to be widely read." - Robin Hurlstone, International Socialist Review, Issue 101Table of ContentsList of Photos Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations About the Notes 1. Introduction 2. Children at Work and War 2.1 At Home 2.2 Protest and Revolution 2.3 Revolution in Retreat 3. Young Radicals 3.1 March 1920 3.2 KAPD 4. Between Berlin and Cologne 4.1 Bouts of Unemployment 4.2 Movement in Decline 4.3 Older Friends 5. New Worlds 5.1 Voyages 5.2 Work and Writing 5.3 Amalgamation 6. Chicago in the Depression 6.1 Opening Years 6.2 Opposition and Accusations 6.3 Across the Country 6.4 Crisis Theory 7. The Unemployed Movement 7.1 The Workers League 7.2 Federation and Party 7.3 Fascism’s Initial Impact 7.4 The German Émigré Community 8. The Independent Left 8.1 German to English 8.2 Editors’ Reluctance 9. International Council Correspondence 9.1 Pamphlets and Authors 9.2 The Inevitability of Communism 9.3 Mid-Decade 10. Towards War 10.1 International Developments 10.2 Opportunities 10.3 Living Marxism 11. End of an Era 11.1 Self-Reflections 11.2 Anti-Fascism 12. The War Years 12.1 Relationships 12.2 New Essays 12.3 Leaving Chicago 13. New York City 13.1 Isolation 13.2 Travelling to Berlin 14. Quiet Times 14.1 Writers’ Bloc 14.2 Back to Nature 14.3 Boston 15. Rekindling 15.1 Recent Admirers 15.2 A New Left 16. Reception 16.1 Discovery in Germany 16.2 From Marx and Keynes to Roskilde 17. Winding Down 17.1 Last Years 17.2 Illness Archives Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisFrom the Vanguard to the Margins is dedicated to the work of the late British historian, Dr Mark Pittaway (1971-2010), a prominent scholar of post-war and contemporary Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). Breaking with orthodox readings on Eastern bloc regimes, which remain wedded to the 'totalitarianism' paradigm of the Cold War era, the essays in this volume shed light on the contradictory historical and social trajectory of 'real socialism' in the region. Mainstream historiography has presented Stalinist parties as 'omnipotent', effectively stripping workers and society in general of its 'relative autonomy'. Building on an impressive amount of archive material, Pittaway convincingly shows how dynamics of class, gender, skill level, and rural versus urban location, shaped politics in the period. The volume also offers novel insights on historical and sociological roots of fascism in Hungary and the politics of legitimacy in the Austro-Hungarian borderlands.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements. Abbreviations Introduction By Adam B. Fabry 1 Crisis, War and Occupation 2 Building Socialism 3 The Reproduction of Hierarchy: Skill, Working-Class Culture, and the State in Early Socialist Hungary 4 The Social Limits of State Control: Time, the Industrial Wage Relation, and Social Identity in Stalinist Hungary, 1948–53 5 Retreat from Collective Protest: Household, Gender, Work and Popular Opposition in Stalinist Hungary 6 The Revolution and Industrial Workers: The Disintegration and Reconstruction of Socialism, 1953–58 7 Accommodation and the Limits of Economic Reform: Industrial Workers during the Making and Unmaking of Kádár’s Hungary 8 Research in Hungarian Archives on Post-1945 History 9 Making Peace in the Shadow of War: The Austrian-Hungarian Borderlands, 1945–56 10 Workers and the Change of System 11 Fascism in Hungary 12 Towards a Social History of the 1956 Revolution in Hungary Epilogue By Nigel Swain References Index

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Book SynopsisIn 1980 Polish workers astonished the world by demanding and winning an independent union with the right to strike, called Solidarity--the beginning of the end of the Soviet empire. Jack M. Bloom's Seeing Through the Eyes of the Polish Revolution explains how it happened, from the imposition to Communism to its end, based on 150 interviews of Solidarity leaders, activists, supporters and opponents. Bloom presents the perspectives and experiences of these participants. He shows how an opposition was built, the battle between Solidarity and the ruling party, the conflicts that emerged within each side during this tense period, how Solidarity survived the imposition of martial law and how the opposition forced the government to negotiate itself out of power.Trade Review"Die im Verlauf von mehr als fünfzehn Jahren entstandene Abhandlung von Jack M. Bloom zur Entstehung der polnischen Gewerkschaftsbewegung Solidarność und deren gewaltsamer Auflösung liefert einen empirischen Einblick in die Funktionsweise einer oppositionellen Massenbewegung, die im Sommer 1980 aus den Streiks der Hafenarbeiter in Gdańsk/Danzig entstanden ist." – Wolfgang Schlott, Universität Bremen, International Newsletter of Communist Studies Online XX-XXI/27-28 (2014/15)Table of ContentsAcknowledgements 1. Patronage and Corruption in Communist Poland PART I: THE EMERGENCE OF OPPOSITION 2. The First Systemic Crisis 3. ‘Living Parallel to the System’: The Solidarity Generation 4. A Line of Blood 5. An Opposition Emerges 6. Independent Organisations and Opposition PART II: THE SOLIDARITY REVOLUTION 7. The Solidarity Explosion 8. Social Solidarity and the Victory of Solidarność 9. The Solidarity Revolution 10. The Solidarity Offensive 11. Bydgoszcz: the Turning Point 12. The Party at War with Itself References Index

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Book SynopsisInspired by Raymond Williams’ cultural materialism, H.F. Pimlott explores the connections between political practice and cultural form through Marxism Today’s transformation from a Communist Party theoretical journal into a ‘glossy’ left magazine. Marxism Today’s successes and failures during the 1980s are analysed through its political and cultural critiques of Thatcherism and the left, especially by Stuart Hall and Eric Hobsbawm, innovative publicity and marketplace distribution, relationships with the national UK press, cultural coverage, design and format, and writing style. Wars of Position offers insights for contemporary media activists and challenges the neglect of the left press by media scholars.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Preface List of Tables and Illustrations Abbreviations Introduction: The Left, Cultural Form and Political Practice  1 Sign(ifier) of the Times?  2 The Production of the ‘Marketplace of the Ideas’  3 Overview of the Book 1 Marxism Today’s Story: An Historical Narrative of a Cultural Form  1 The Left, Cultural Form and Political Practice  2 The Party and the Party Paper: Leninist Communication Practices  3 Leninist Communication Practices: The Party as a Medium of Communication  4 The CPGB’s Practice of ‘Democratic Centralism’  5 Leninist Communication Practices: Agitation and Propaganda  6 Leninist Communication Practices: The Party Paper  7 A Basic Typology of Communist Party Publications  8 The Beginnings of Postwar Reconstruction and Periodical Developments  9 Precursors: The Commission on Party Journals 1953  10 Precursors: Marxist Quarterly (1954–57)  11 Precursors: The Commission on Inner Party Democracy 1957  12 Marxism Today: ‘The First Generation’: 1957–77  13 A Party of Two Wings  14 The Brief Rise of ‘Eurocommunism’  15 Marxism Today’s Transformation: ‘Caution & Compromise’, 1977–83  16 ‘Reaction & Realignment’ 1983–87  17 ‘The Tail Wags the Dog’: 1987–89  18 ‘New Times’, 1989–91  19 Conclusion 2 From ‘New Left’ to ‘New Labour’: Marxism Today’s Political Project and the ‘Retreat from Class’  1 ‘Forward March of Labour Halted?’  2 ‘Thatcherism’  3 Thatcherism: Critiques  4 Separation of ‘The Economic’  5 Alternate Political Explanations  6 Elections, Polling and Public Opinion  7 ‘Common Sense’  8 Thatcherism’s Theoretical Underpinnings: The ‘Wrong’ Gramsci?  9 ‘Ideology’ vs. ‘Discourse’  10 ‘Hegemony’  11 Social Production of Ideologies  12 The Hegemonic Apparatus  13 ‘New Times’: From New Left to New Labour?  14 Part II: ‘From Wars of Position to Cultural Politics’  15 ‘Popular Politics’  16 Feminism and the New Social Movements  17 ‘Municipal Socialism’  18 The Communist Party, Popular Culture and Marxism Today  19 From ‘Rock Against Racism’ to ‘Designer Socialism’  20 Conclusion 3 The Party Line versus the Bottom Line? The Political Economy of Left Magazine Production  1 ‘Passive’ and ‘Active’ Editorships, 1957–91  2 ‘Editorial Control’ or ‘Cultural Circle’?  3 ‘Who Pays the Piper, Calls the Tune?’ Financing Marxism Today  4 Advertising  5 ‘Private Enterprise or Political Commitment?’ Printing and Subscriptions  6 ‘A Little Help From My Friends’: The Process of Magazine Production  7 The Production Process  8 Conclusion 4 From the Party Line to the Politics of Design: Marxism Today’s Cultural Transformation  1 The Theory of the Periodical and Magazine Design in the 1980s  2 Format: ‘From a Journal into a Magazine’  3 The First Format: 1957–79  4 The Second Format: 1979–86  5 The Third Format: 1986–91  6 Front covers  7 Visual Communication, Advertising and Design  8 Editorial Sections: Features  9 Features: Alternative Modes of Presentation  10 Modes of/for Discussion  11 Other Editorial Sections  12 Cultural Coverage: From ‘Reviews’ to ‘Channel Five’  13 The Politics of Form and the Form of Politics  14 Conclusion 5 From the Margins to the Mainstream: Publicity, Promotion and Distribution in the Marketplace of Ideas  1 Party Distribution  2 ‘Out-of-Party’ Distribution  3 In the Marketplace of Left Periodicals  4 ‘Cadres to Consumers’: Changes in Readership, 1957–91  5 Contributors  6 Book Publishing  7 ‘The Art of Talking’: Discussion Groups, Talks, Events, Conferences  8 Promotion  9 Publicity  10 National Press Coverage  11 ‘Thinking the Unthinkable’  12 Conclusion 6 Write Out of the Margins: Communist Ideology and Accessibility, Rhetoric and Writing Style  1 Twentieth-Century Communist Rhetoric  2 Accessibility  3 Marxism Today’s Defensive Rhetorical Strategy 1957–77  4 ‘Solidification’  5 Principles of Good Style  6 Language  7 Plain Style  8 Marxism Today’s Top Two Contributors: Eric Hobsbawm and Stuart Hall  9 Eric Hobsbawm and the Rhetorical Style of ‘Realistic Marxism’  10 Rhetorical Strategy and Writing Style  11 Stuart Hall: Socialist Public Intellectual and Polemical Rhetorician  12 Stuart Hall’s Rhetorical Techniques and Writing Style  13 Qualification and Conditionality  14 Unity and Division on the Left: From ‘Common Sense’ to Caricature?  15 Tropes and Metaphors  16 Stuart Hall’s ‘Realism’  17 Conclusion 7 W(h)ither the Party Paper? What Lessons for the Left Press  1 A Perennial Question  2 Epilogue Illustrations References Index

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Book SynopsisThe collection of archival documents Karl Radek on China reflects the views of one of the major Soviet China specialists, activists of the Russian revolutionary movement, and leaders of the Trotskyist Opposition, Karl Bernhardovich Radek (1885-1939). The documents present an original conception of the history of China from ancient times to the twentieth century as well as a delineation of the fundamental political problems of China in the 1920s. The appendices contain letters from Trotsky to Radek as well as the 'Chronological Information' of Zinoviev and Trotsky, outlining the most important stages of the struggle of the United Left Opposition against the Stalinist majority in the AUCP(b) regarding problems of the Chinese revolution. None of the documents have ever been published in English.Table of ContentsPreface Abbreviations Karl Radek – Sinologist  by Alexander V. Pantsov 1 On the Fundamentals of Communist Policy in China 22 June 1926 2 History of the Revolutionary Movement in China: The 1926–7 Lecture Course Fall 1926 – Early 1927 3 Controversial Questions of Chinese History: Lecture to the Society of Marxist Historians 26 November 1926, Stenographic Report 4 On the International Situation of China 11 March 1927, Stenographic Report 5 Driving Forces of the Chinese Revolution: Lecture to the Communist Academy 13 March 1927, Stenographic Report 6 Concluding Word to the Lecture ‘Driving Forces of the Chinese Revolution’ 27 March 1927, Stenographic Report 7 The ‘Betrayal’ of the National Movement by the Chinese Upper Bourgeoisie Early May 1927 8 Speech at the Institute of World Economy and World Politics of the Communist Academy during the Discussion of the Lecture by L.N. Geller on the Chinese Workers’ Movement 17 May 1927, Stenographic Report 9 A New Stage in the Chinese Revolution: From Chiang Kai-shek to Wang Jingwei 2 July 1927, G.E. Evdokimov, G.E. Zinoviev, K.B. Radek, G.I. Safarov, L.D. Trotsky Afterword: Bukharin Continues to Mislead the Chinese Communists Appendix 1: Letter from L.D. Trotsky to K.B. Radek 26 June 1926 Appendix 2: Letter from L.D. Trotsky to K.B. Radek 14 May 1926 Appendix 3: Facts and Documents Which Should be Accessible for Verification by Every Member of the AUCP(b) and the Whole Comintern: Chronological Information 21 May 1927, G.E. Zinoviev and L.D. Trotsky Biographical Dictionary Works Cited Bibliography of the Works of K.B. Radek and Literature about K.B. Radek (Not Included in the Present Collection) Index

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Book SynopsisAmadeo Bordiga was one of the greatest figures of the Third Communist International. The Science and Passion of Communism presents his Soviet and internationalist battles in the revolutionary post-WWI period until that against Stalinism, and those in the post-WWII period against the triumphant U.S. capitalism and for an original, updated re-presentation of Marxist critique of political economy.Trade ReviewInterview by David Broder with Pietro Basso on Jacobin about “the burying of Bordiga’s name, his ecological vision of communism, and how he challenged Joseph Stalin to his face” [Click here] “[The book] is the first English-langauge selection of Bordiga’s writings to cover both the chronological spread and thematic diversity of his interventions. The fine translations by Giacomo Donis and Patrick Camiller allow non-Italian speakers fresh insight into what Basso charmingly calls the “goldmine” of Bordiga’s vast array of research… For many decades, even the results of this research have had a tiny readership… [but] when you do get your hands on a copy, you will be in doubt that Bordiga is a wrongly overlooked thinker.” - David Broder, in: Weekly Worker [Full review]Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures Introduction: Yesterday’s Battles and Today’s World Part 1 The Italian Left in the Great Revolutionary Struggle (1912–26) 1 Against the War 2 On Elections 3 On Soviets 4 On Strategy and Tactics 5 On Fascism, against Fascism 6 The Lyons Theses 7 Against Stalin and ‘Socialism in One Country’ Part 2 The Struggle for the Rebirth of Revolutionary Communism (1945–65) Section 1 Russia and Revolution in Marxist Theory 8 Lessons of Counter-revolutions 9 Forty Years of Organically Analysing Russian Events within the Dramatic Context of the Social and Historical Course of the World Section 2 The Critique of Triumphant Capitalism 10 Property and Financial Capital 11 Welfare Economics 12 The Law of Hunger 13 Murder of the Dead 14 Inflation of the State 15 The United States of America (1947–57) Section 3 On the ‘Gigantic Movement of Emancipation’ of the Coloured Peoples 16 The Factors of Race and Nation in Marxist Theory (1953) 17 East 18 The Multiple Revolutions 19 ‘Racial’ Pressure of the Peasantry, Class Pressure of the Coloured Peoples Section 4 On the Revolutionary Prospects of Communism 20 The Revolutionary Programme of Communist Society 21 Who’s Afraid of Automation? 22 The Immediate Revolutionary Programme in the Capitalist West Section 5 On the Party 23 Considerations on the Party’s Organic Activity When the General Situation is Historically Unfavourable (1965) Annotated Bibliography of Bordiga’s Writings Annotated Bibliography on Bordiga in Italian References Index Illustrations

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Book SynopsisIn Alexander Shlyapnikov, 1885-1937: Life of an Old Bolshevik, Barbara Allen recounts the political formation and positions of Russian Communist and trade unionist, Alexander Shlyapnikov. As leader of the Workers’ Opposition (1919–21), Shlyapnikov called for trade unions to realise workers’ mastery over the economy. Despite defeat, he continued to advocate distinct views on the Soviet socialist project that provide a counterpoint to Stalin’s vision. Arrested during the Great Terror, he refused to confess to charges he thought illogical and unsupported by evidence. Unlike the standard historical and literary depiction of the Old Bolshevik, Shlyapnikov contested Stalin's and the NKVD's construct of the ideal party member. Allen conducted extensive research in archives of the Soviet Communist party and secret police. Listen to SRB Podcast's episode on Alexander Shlyapnikov: An Old Working Class Bolshevik featuring Barbara Allen.Trade ReviewListen to SRB Podcast's episode on Alexander Shlyapnikov: An Old Working Class Bolshevik featuring Barbara Allen. "Shlyapnikov’s life journey, as narrated in this well-written, well-balanced, and superbly researched monograph, enriches our understanding of Russian and, especially, Soviet political culture. Barbara C. Allen has met the challenge of transforming a rather tragic story into a beautiful book – an example of life-writing at its best!" — J.-Guy Lalande (St. Francis Xavier University), Labour / Le Travail, Issue 80, Fall 2017, pp. 356-358 "Drawing on a vast body of previously untapped archival sources, including top secret FSB files, Barbara Allen presents a nuanced, insightful, and compelling portrait of the leading worker-Bolshevik, Alexander Shlyapnikov, and of the time in which he lived. Her highly readable study is vital for all those seriously interested in the Russian revolution and the fate of the Russian labor movement under Lenin and Stalin.” — Alexander Rabinowitch, The Bolsheviks Come to Power "This biography of a Bolshevik worker–intellectual provides a vivid alternative to the common focus on the party’s best-known leaders, and insight into Bolshevik political culture, internal debates and all." —China Miéville, October "Barbara Allen has given us a fascinating perspective on the Russian Revolution, showing its strengths and weaknesses through the remarkable but ultimately tragic story of a Bolshevik worker-intellectual." —Ian Birchall, Revolutionary Socialism For the 21st Century "Drawing on material from seven archives, five in Russia and two in the United States, as well as extensive conversations with the Shlyapnikov family, Barbara Allen has provided the definitive biography of Alexander Shlyapnikov and made a lasting contribution to Soviet history in its first two decades. [...] a must for scholars in the field and is highly recommended for graduate students who will find the chapter introductions and conclusions an excellent guide to a complex and thorough work." — Alexis E. Pogorelskin, University of Minnesota-Duluth, forthcoming in the journal Canadian Slavonic Papers (2016) "Die Biographie ist eine exemplarische Studie über den Aufstieg und Fall einer Personengruppe, die gemeinhin unter dem Begriff „Altbolschewiki“ subsumiert wird. Schljapnikow steht stellvertretend für eine Generation von russischen Revolutionären, die im späten Zarenreich aufwuchsen und sozialisiert wurden, während der Revolution von 1917 an die Macht gelangten und im Bürgerkrieg obsiegten, nur um nach Lenins Tod allmählich ins Abseits gedrängt und später von Stalin vernichtet zu werden. Schljapnikows Lebensweg besitzt ein Veranschaulichungs- und Erklärungspotential, das zum besseren Verständnis überindividueller historischer Prozesse und Phänomene beitragen kann. Barbara Allen hat den biographischen Ansatz vorbildlich angewendet. Ihr durchweg gut lesbares Buch sollte Osteuropahistorikerinnen und -historikern als Ermutigung dienen, der Biographie mehr Aufmerksamkeit zu schenken." — Andreas Oberender, H-Soz-Kult, 12.11.2015Table of ContentsList of illustrations Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations and Acronyms Introduction 1. From the Old Belief to Socialism 2. Emigration and the Revolutionary Underground 3. Organising Workers in the Revolutionary Year 1917 4. Labour Commissar 5. Defending Soviet Power and Unions in Civil War 6. The Workers’ Opposition and the Trade-Union Debate 7. Early NEP and the Trade Unions 8. Appeal of the 22 to the Communist International 9. Factional Politics in the NEP Era 10. Late NEP, Industrialisation and Renewed Repression 11. Purged from the Party 12. Exile, Arrest and Prison Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisKōzō Uno’s Theory of Crisis presents an unparalleled and systematic demonstration of the inevitability of crisis under the capitalist mode of production. Based on a radical re-interpretation of Marx’s Capital, Uno’s theory of crisis emphasizes ‘excess capital alongside surplus populations’ and ‘the commodification of labour power’ at the heart of Marx’s theory of crisis, and additionally provides a concise overview of capitalist crises from the stage of mercantilism to the imperialist stage of capitalism. Included are two Appendix essays by Uno, which disentangle theoretical difficulties related to the theory of crisis in Marx’s Capital, and two original and contemporary essays by Professors Makoto Itoh and by Ken Kawashima and Gavin Walker. This book was originally published in Japanese as Kyōkō-ron by Iwanami Shoten, 1953.Table of ContentsTranslator’s Preface Author’s Preface Uno Kōzō, Kyoko Ron (Theory of Crisis) Introduction  1 Classical Phenomena of Crises  2 The Theory of Crisis and Foreign Trade  3 The Role of Commercial Capital in Relation to the Phenomena of Crisis  4 The Possibility and Inevitability of Crisis in Capitalist Society 1 Prosperity  1 The Accumulation of Capital in the Phase of Prosperity  2 The Role Performed by Credit  3 Speculative Development and the Rise in Prices 2 Crisis  1 The Collision between the Profit Rate and the Interest Rate  2 The Excess of Capital and the Excess (Surplus) of Populations  3 The Destruction of the Value of Capital 3 Depression  1 The Stagnation of the Reproduction Process  2 Inaugurating New Accumulation through Improvements to the Production Process  3 The Turn towards Prosperity 4 The Turnover Period of the Business Cycle 5 The Inevitability of Crisis in Capitalist Society  1 Mechanical Inevitability and Historical Inevitability  2 The Inevitability of Crisis and the Inevitability of Collapse  3 The Theory of Crisis and the Analyses of Crises Appendix 1: Problems of the Theory of Crisis in Capital Appendix 2: Capital and the Demonstration of the Inevitable Ground of Crisis Guiding Comments  Makoto Itoh Supplementary Essay: Uno Kōzō’s Theory of Crisis Today  Ken C. Kawashima and Gavin Walker Works Cited in Theory of Crisis Index

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Book SynopsisDuring the second half of the twentieth century the countries of East Asia saw one of the most remarkable transformations in human history, from relatively poor societies to global powerhouses of accumulation, proletarianisation and mega-urbanisation. This volume features Marxist scholars from East Asia and Europe who are pioneering a new approach to this transformation using the theory of state capitalism. The essays analyse the histories of countries on either side of the Cold War divide within the broader framework of twentieth century global capitalist expansion, while at the same time offering a sophisticated critique of Developmental State Theory. Contributors are: Tobias ten Brink, Gareth Dale, Jeong Seongjin, Michael Haynes, Kim Ha-young, Kim Yong-uk, Lee Jeong-goo, and Owen MillerTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Notes on Contributors Note on Romanisation of East Asian words 1 The Emergence and Development of Capitalism in East Asia: The State Capitalist Approach  Owen Miller and Gareth Dale 2 The Trajectory of North Korean State Capitalism: from Formation to Crisis, 1945–90  Kim Ha-young 3 Mao’s China: the Chinese Working Class under State Capitalism, 1949–62  Kim Yong-uk 4 State Capitalism and the Permanent War Economy in South Korea, 1950–72  Jeong Seongjin 5 China’s State-Permeated Capitalism: a Global Political Economy Perspective  Tobias ten Brink 6 Developmental State Theory and Chinese Capitalism: a Critical Review  Lee Jeong-goo 7 Historical Dynamics and the History of Capitalism and State Capitalism  Michael Haynes Glossary of East Asian Terms Bibliography I: References in English and Other European Languages Bibliography II: References in East Asian Languages Index

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Book SynopsisMinneapolis in the early 1930s was anything but a union stronghold. An employers' association known as the Citizens' Alliance kept labour organisations in check, at the same time as it cultivated opposition to radicalism in all forms. This all changed in 1934. The year saw three strikes, violent picket-line confrontations, and tens of thousands of workers protesting in the streets. Bryan D. Palmer tells the riveting story of how a handful of revolutionary Trotskyists, working in the largely non-union trucking sector, led the drive to organise the unorganised, to build one large industrial union. What emerges is a compelling narrative of class struggle, a reminder of what can be accomplished, even in the worst of circumstances, with a principled and far-seeing leadership.Trade Review"Brian Palmer's Revolutionary Teamsters: The Minneapolis Truckers’ Strikes of 1934 offers a detailed and energetic narrative of one of these key [American workers'] strikes [of 1934]." - in: Social History, Volume 40, Issue 1, 2015, p. 123 "[...] an in-depth study [...] The strength of Palmer’s book is that he understands how much the CLA as a whole contributed to the battle in Minneapolis. Palmer describes the supporting role of local CLA members and chronicles the growth of the local branch in parallel with the union." - E. Tanner, in: 4th International Communist League, 19 September 2014 "[...] the most detailed account to date of the strategic thinking of Trotskyist militants who organized and led it." - in: Solidarity, July 2014 "It is the most in-depth and serious study of the 1934 Minneapolis strikes yet published. The book is an invaluable contribution, both to labor history and to the challenges facing the left and the working class today." - in: Socialist Alternative, July 13, 2014 "We already have several books on the 1934 Teamster strikes, but Palmer’s is distinguished by its focus on the role of the Trotskyist leadership, that is, on the role of revolutionary socialists in the labor movement." - Dan La Botz, in: New Politics, 13 June 2014 Unpublished endorsements: "Palmer's superb micro-history of the Minneapolis General Strike provides readers with an unprecedented view of a Depression-era class struggle from the inside out. Revolutionary Teamsters offers invaluable 'dancing lessons' — still relevant today — for labour radicals and protest organizers." - Mike Davis, author of Ecology of Fear, Planet of Slums, and Buda's Wagon "A stirring study worthy of the epic struggles it describes. Palmer's account situates the creativity, seriousness, and heroism of revolutionaries and rank-and-filers in an historical moment while trusting that they speak to our moment as well." - David R. Roediger, Kendrick C. Babcock Professor of History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and co-author of The Production of Difference "We live in an era in which most scholarly work is highly specialized. In my fields, it is usually either dense and heavily theorized or it is strategically directed at a popular audience. Revolutionary Teamsters breaks out of this mold. It is a refreshingly "both-and" book in an era of "either-or" books. Bryan Palmer's text is simultaneously theoretical and empirical. He presents the ideas advocated by the Trotskyist leaders of Minneapolis' Teamsters' union in the 1930s, tracing their genealogy back to Trotsky himself and James P. Cannon (about whom Palmer is writing a multi-volume biography), and evaluating the impact of their implementation in the labor struggles of the Great Depression era. To carry out this project, Palmer reveals himself to be equally masterful in the parsing of political and economic theories and in the excavation of the historical archives. The result is not only a fresh look at a critical set of historical events in the history of both the left and the labor movement, but also an invitation to engage in a creative reconsideration of the relationship between the past and the present. Like any really good historian, Palmer reveals himself to be more interested in the future than in the past, and Revolutionary Teamsters will take its readers on an energized, informed, and meaningful journey weaving back and forth between the past, the present, and the future." - Peter Rachleff, Professor of History, Macalester College, St. Paul, MinnesotaTable of ContentsAcknowledgements 1. Revolutionary Trotskyism and Teamsters in the United States: the Early Depression-Years 2. The Mass Strike 3. Combined and Uneven Development: Class-Relations in Minneapolis 4. Trotskyists Among the Teamsters: Propagandistic Old Moles 5. January Thaw; February Cold Snap: the Coal-Yards on Strike 6. Unemployed-Agitation and Strike-Preparation 7. The Women’s Auxiliary 8. Rebel-Outpost: 1900 Chicago Avenue 9. The Tribune Alley Plot and the Battle of Deputies Run 10. May 1934: Settlement Secured; Victory Postponed 11. Interlude 12. Toward the July Days 13. A Strike Declared; a Plot Exposed 14. Bloody Friday 15. Labour’s Martyr: Henry B. Ness 16. Martial Law and the Red-Scare 17. Governor Olson: The ‘Merits’ of a Defective Progressive Pragmatism 18. Standing Fast: Satire and Solidarity 19. Mediation’s Meanderings 20. Sudden and Unexpected Victory 21. After 1934: the Revenge of Uneven and Combined Development 22. Conclusion: The Meaning of Minneapolis Appendix: Trotskyism in the United States, 1928–33 References Index

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Book SynopsisAt a time of growing interest in relations between Marxism and Romanticism, Andrew Hemingway’s essays on British art and art theory reopen the question of Romantic painting’s ideological functions and, in some cases, its critical purchase. Half the volume exposes the voices of competing class interests in aesthetics and art theory in the tumultuous years of British history between the American Revolution and the 1832 Parliamentary Reform Act. Half offers new perspectives on works by some of the most important landscape painters of the time: John Constable, J.M.W. Turner, John Crome, and John Sell Cotman. Four essays are hitherto unpublished, and the remainder have been updated and in several cases substantially rewritten for this volume.Trade Review"... the book has to be recommended not only as an impressive work of art historical rigour, but also as a timely reminder within the current conjecture that the stakes of Marxist art history not only concern which class controls the proper names of history, but whether our understanding of our own history, art and culture, and the class basis of them, is rational or ideological." - Richard Hudson-Miles, in: Marx & Philosophy Review of Books "This remarkable book on the complex, contradictory relations between aesthetics, politics and the art of landscape painting in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is the product of more than three decades' patient, perceptive thinking about their constellation. Its probing, historically nuanced interpretations of individual canvases and their ideological accretions are as elegant as they are rigorous; and its ongoing attempt to map the theoretical and political contours of Marxist theories of art and aesthetics, to which it represents a signal contribution itself, is commanding. Landscape between Ideology and the Aesthetic is a fascinating as well as fitting testament to Andrew Hemingway's influential career as an unapologetically Marxist art historian." – Matthew Beaumont, Professor of Nineteenth-Century Literature, University College London "Andrew Hemingway’s collection of essays on eighteenth-century aesthetics and Romantic landscape painting, written over many years, demonstrates vividly the contribution that Marxism has made to both subjects. The essays on Cotman, Crome, Constable and Turner are filled with powerful insights and provide richly persuasive interpretations of classic works by placing them within a cogent intellectual framework that involves astute readings of their historical and literary context." – David Bindman, Emeritus Professor of the History of Art, University College London "This exceptionally fine study offers a nuanced and profound historical analysis of varieties of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century British art. Wearing his learning lightly, Hemingway integrates the finest detail of close empirical research into an enjoyably readable narrative. He demonstrates conclusively how a critically-sophisticated Marxist approach opens up extraordinarily rewarding insights into a cultural history where the pictorial interplayed with the economic, literary, and political. He offers as outstanding an account of the ideas of the eighteenth-century Scottish philosophers as of the Norwich painters and along the way resoundingly demonstrates quite how much of actual value is to be had from the disciplined and multidisciplinary interrogation of historical art. One of the leaders of that group of scholars which reinvigorated the study of British historical art in the 1980s, Andrew Hemingway invites younger scholars now to take up the scholarly baton." – Michael Rosenthal, Emeritus Professor of the History of Art, University of WarwickTable of ContentsList of Illustrations ... vii Acknowledgements ... xi Sources and Occasions ... xii Introduction: Theoretical Apologia ... 1 Aesthetics and Ideology 1 The Science of Taste in the Eighteenth Century: Philosophical Criticism and the Scottish Historical School ... 41 2 Academic Theory versus Association Aesthetics: The Ideological Forms of a Conflict of Interests in the Early Nineteenth Century ... 86 3 Bourgeois Critiques of the Monopoly of Taste ... 114 4 Genius, Gender, and Progress: Benthamism and the Arts in the 1820s ... 150 5 Cultural Philanthropy and the Invention of the Norwich School ... 181 Landscape and Ideology 6 Meaning in Cotman’s Norfolk Subjects ... 217 7 Sheep as a Pictorial Motif: Pastoral and Counter-Pastoral ... 246 8 Artisanal Worldview in the Paintings of John Crome ... 297 9 John Crome’s ‘Local Scenery’: Iconography and the Ideology of the Picturesque ... 336 10 Constable and his Audience: An Argument for Iconography ... 387 11 The Field of Waterloo Exposed: Turner, Byron, and the Politics of Reaction ... 420 Coda: Regarding Art History ... 459 Bibliography ... 464 Index ... 492

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Book SynopsisThe Dutch-German Communist Left, represented by the German KAPD-AAUD, the Dutch KAPN and the Bulgarian Communist Workers Party, separated from the Comintern (1921) on questions like electoralism, trade-unionism, united fronts, the one-party state and anti-proletarian violence. It attracted the ire of Lenin, who wrote his Left Wing Communism, An Infantile Disorder against the Linkskommunismus, while Herman Gorter wrote a famous response in his pamphlet Reply to Lenin. The present volume provides the most substantial history to date of this tendency in the twentieth-century Communist movement. It covers how the Communist left, with the KAPD-AAU, denounced 'party communism' and 'state capitalism' in Russia; how the German left survived after 1933 in the shape of the Dutch GIK and Paul Mattick’s councils movement in the USA; and also how the Dutch Communistenbond Spartacus continued to fight after 1942 for the world power of the workers councils, as theorised by Pannekoek in his book Workers’ Councils (1946).Table of ContentsAcknowledgements ... ix Illustrations ... xi Introduction ... 1 Part 1: From Tribunism to Communism (1900–18) 1 Origins and Formation of the ‘Tribunist’ Current (1900–14) ... 11 2 Pannekoek and ‘Dutch’ Marxism in the Second International ... 82 3 The Dutch Tribunist Current and the First World-War (1914–18) ... 132 Part 2: The Dutch Communist Left and the World-Revolution (1919–27) 4 The Dutch Left in the Comintern (1919–20) ... 177 5 Gorter, the kapd and the Foundation of the Communist Workers’ International (1921–7) ... 226 Part 3: The gic from 1927 to 1940 Introduction to Part 3: The Group of International Communists: From Left-Communism to Council-Communism ... 277 6 The Birth of the gic (1927–33) ... 292 7 Towards a New Workers’ Movement? The Record of Council-Communism (1933–5) ... 327 8 Towards State-Capitalism: Fascism, Anti-Fascism, Democracy, Stalinism, Popular Fronts and the ‘Inevitable War’ (1933–9) ... 380 9 The Dutch Internationalist Communists and the Events in Spain (1936–7) ... 407 Part 4: Council-Communism during and after the War (1939–68) 10 From the ‘Marx-Lenin-Luxemburg Front’ to the Communistenbond Spartacus (1940–42) ... 431 11 The Communistenbond Spartacus and the Council-Communist Current (1942–68) ... 456 Conclusion ... 517 Works Cited ... 533 Further Reading ... 550 Addresses of Archival Centres ... 614 Acronyms ... 615 Index ... 622

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Book SynopsisThe collected papers of Costas Lapavitsas are a pathway to Marxist monetary theory, a field that continues to attract strong interest. The papers range far and wide, including markets and money, finance and the enterprise, power and money, the financialisation of capitalism, finance and profit, even money as art. Despite its breadth, the collection remains highly coherent. Money and finance are pre-eminent, even dominant, features of contemporary capitalism. Lapavitsas has been one of the first political economists to notice their ascendancy and to devote his research to it. He offers a resolutely Marxist perspective on contemporary capitalism while remaining conversant with the history of political economy, sensitive to mainstream economic theory, and fully aware of the empirical reality of financialisation.Trade Review"The Wolfson Lecture Theatre (Senate House) was full and lively as Costas led off the afternoon by putting Marx’s analysis of ‘the universal equivalent’ to work in explaining money today in the current conjuncture and its role in overthrowing capitalism. His emphasis was more on the forms than the functions money has taken: commodity money (gold), simple fiat money, credit money, central bank fiat money and electronic monies. Costas foregrounded four ‘stylised facts’ of our current system: first, legal inconvertibility after 1971–1973; second, the quantitative dominance of credit money within the sphere of domestic money; third, the qualitative significance of legal tender as central bank created fiat money; and fourth, the pre-eminence of inconvertible legal tender from a small number of central banks forming international money. Furthermore, Costas made a significant comparison between Bitcoin and gold. [...] As Costas points out in this new book: ‘There is an ideology of money in capitalist society that is similar to religion in both its falseness and necessity.’ I have a firm opinion that everyone on the Left needs to better acknowledge the worth of understanding money as a concept and set of processes, in order to better appreciate money as a weapon of control and to actively resist the power of money to substitute for substantive democracy and genuine governance. Internationally, money is remarkably potent. In his talk, Costas emphasised it as ‘a lever for hierarchy among states’; our global history cannot be told without reference to the British pound, the US dollar and, more recently the €uro — as shown in the sorry story of Syriza’s reign in Greece. So, too, it becomes ‘a mechanism to entrench commercial advantage’ and ‘exercises power over entire societies through fear and identity’." – Anitra Nelson, Progress in Political EconomyTable of ContentsPreface 1. Money as Art: The Form, the Material, and Capital PART I: THE FORMS, THE FUNCTIONS AND THE QUANTITY OF MONEY 2. The Theory of Credit Money: A Structural Analysis 3. The Banking School and the Monetary Thought of Karl Marx 4. The Classical Adjustment Mechanism of International Balances: Marx’s Critique 5. Money and the Analysis of Capitalism: The Significance of Commodity Money PART II: CREDIT, INTEREST-BEARING CAPITAL, AND THE HOARDING OF MONEY 6. Two Approaches to the Concept of Interest-Bearing Capital 7. On Marx’s Analysis of Money Hoarding in the Turnover of Capital PART III: THE ORIGIN OF MONEY AND THE NATURE OF COMMODITIES 8. Commodities and Gifts: Why Commodities Represent More than Market Relations 9. The Emergence of Money in Commodity Exchange, or Money as Monopolist of the Ability to Buy 10. The Social Relations of Money as Universal Equivalent: A Response to Ingham PART IV: THE COMPLEX REALITY OF CONTEMPORARY MONEY 11. Relations of Power and Trust in Contemporary Finance 12. The Monetary Basis of Financialised Capitalism Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisNigel Harris’s Selected Essays: From National Liberation to Globalisation presents an encompassing overview of the work of one of the most prolific and insightful Marxist economists of the second half of the twentieth century. It starts off with a new interview in which Harris reflects on the development of his thought over the more than half a century separating the death of Stalin from the latest developments in globalisation and capitalist restructuring. The collected essays deal with topics ranging from imperialism and the state to the political economy of development and migration, and offer an ample selection from Harris’s political journalism. Together the work constitutes at once a personal journey through the history of the British revolutionary left and a trenchant commentary on some of the most fundamental problems facing a renewed Marxist theory.Table of ContentsIntroduction: An Interview with Nigel Harris Imperialism and the World Order 1.1 Imperialism Today 1.2 How Should We Characterise the World Order? Reflections on Callinicos’s Imperialism and Global Political Economy 1.3 Can the West Survive? 1.4 On Economic Globalisation, Neo-Liberalism and the Nature of the Period The State and Economic Development 2.1 The ‘Scissors Crisis in India and China’ 2.2 Agriculture, Peasants and Accumulation 2.3 The Revolutionary Role of the Peasantry 2.4 China, Decentralisation and Development 2.5 New Bourgeoisies? 2.6 Nationalism and Development 2.7 The War-Making State and Privatisation 2.8 The Rise and Fall of the Concept of ‘National Economic Development’ Issues in Political Economy 3.1 Food, Development and Crisis 3.2 Deindustrialisation 3.3 The Road from 1910 3.4 Trade in Early India: Themes in Indian History Migration 4.1 The New Untouchables: The International Migration of Labour 4.2 The Economics and Politics of the Free Movement of People 4.3 Immigration and State Power 4.4 The Freedom to Move Journalism and Shorter Pieces 5.1 Japan: From the Other Side of the Hill 5.2 Nicaragua: 1979 5.3 Vietnam: Old Men Remember 5.4 Tehran Diary 5.5 Churchill: A Ruling-Class Militant 5.6 Two Notes on a Visit to the United States 5.7 Rip van Winkle in China 5.8 Apartheid is Dead! Long Live Apartheid! 5.9 Korea’s New Revolution 5.10 Structural Adjustment in Romania 5.11 Forms of Compulsion 5.12 Economic Fusion, Political Fission 5.13 Mexico’s Tiananmen Square 5.14 Peru: Emerging from the Crisis 5.15 Vietnam: Back at the Beginning 5.16 Lebanon: There is Life after Death 5.17 Moscow’s Migrants 5.18 Indonesia: The Year of Anniversaries 5.19 The First Commonwealth Immigration Act 1962: Fifty Years On Bibliography of Nigel Harris’s Writings References Index

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Book SynopsisThis book is a key resource on the foundations of Marxist Internet and Digital Media Studies. It presents 16 contributions that show how Marx’s analyses of capitalism, the commodity, class, labour, work, exploitation, surplus-value, dialectics, crises, ideology, class struggles, and communism help us to understand the Internet and social media in 21st century digital capitalism.Table of ContentsList of Tables and Figures About the Authors 1. Introduction: Marx is Back – The Importance of Marxist Theory and Research for Critical Communication Studies Today Christian Fuchs and Vincent Mosco 2. Towards Marxian Internet Studies Christian Fuchs 3. Digital Marx: Toward a Political Economy of Distributed Media Andreas Wittel 4. The Relevance of Marx’s Theory of Primitive Accumulation for Media and Communication Research Mattias Ekman 5. The Internet and “Frictionless Capitalism” Jens Schröter 6. Digital Media and Capital’s Logic of Acceleration Vincent R. Manzerolle and Atle Mikkola Kjøsen 7. How Less Alienation Creates More Exploitation? Audience Labour on Social Network Sites Eran Fisher 8. The Network’s Blindspot: Exclusion, Exploitation and Marx’s Process-Relational Ontology Robert Prey 9. 3C: Commodifying Communication in Capitalism Jernej Prodnik 10. The Construction of Platform Imperialism in the Globalisation Era Dal Yong Jin 11. Foxconned Labour as the Dark Side of the Information Age: Working Conditions at Apple’s Contract Manufacturers in China Marisol Sandoval 12. The Pastoral Power of Technology. Rethinking Alienation in Digital Culture Katarina Giritli Nygren and Katarina L Gidlund 13. The Problem of Privacy in Capitalism and Alternative Social Media: The Case of Diaspora* Sebastian Sevignani 14. ‘A Workers’ Inquiry 2.0’: An Ethnographic Method for the Study of Produsage in Social Media Contexts Brian Brown and Anabel Quan-Haase 15. Social Media, Mediation and the Arab Revolutions Miriyam Aouragh 16. Marx in the Cloud Vincent Mosco Index

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Book SynopsisThis book is a key resource on the foundations of Marxist Media, Cultural and Communication Studies. It presents 18 contributions that show how Marx’s analyses of capitalism, the commodity, class, labour, work, exploitation, surplus-value, dialectics, crises, ideology, class struggles, and communism help us to understand media, cultural and communications in 21st century informational capitalism.Table of ContentsList of Tables and Figures About the Authors 1. Introduction: Marx is Back – The Importance of Marxist Theory and Research for Critical Communication Studies Today Christian Fuchs and Vincent Mosco 2. Marx is Back, But Which One? On Knowledge Labour and Media Practice Vincent Mosco 3. Cultural Work as a Site of Struggle: Freelancers and Exploitation Nicole S. Cohen 4. Against Commodification: The University, Cognitive Capitalism and Emergent Technologies Richard Hall and Bernd Stahl 5. Communication and Symbolic Capitalism. Rethinking Marxist Communication Theory in the Light of the Information Society George Pleios 6. Missing Marx: The Place of Marx in Current Communication Research and the Place of Communication in Marx’s Work İrfan Erdogan 7. Did Somebody Say Neoliberalism? On the Uses and Limitations of a Critical Concept in Media and Communication Studies Christian Garland and Stephen Harper 8. The Coolness of Capitalism Today Jim McGuigan 9. Critical Political Economy of Communication and the Problem of Method Brice Nixon 10. “Feminism” as Ideology: Sarah Palin’s Anti-feminist Feminism and Ideology Michelle Rodino-Colocino 11. Propaganda as Production Gerald Sussman 12. Updating Marx’s Concept of the Alternatives Peter Ludes 13. Conceptualising and Subverting the Capitalist Academic Publishing Model Wilhelm Peekhaus 14. Marx, Free Speech and the Indian Media Padmaja Shaw 15. The Ideology of Media Policy in Argentina Pablo Castagno 16. “Means of Communication as Means of Production” Revisited William Henning James Hebblewhite 17. Media and Power for 21st Century Socialism in Venezuela Lee Artz 18. Dallas Smythe Today – The Audience Commodity, the Digital Labour Debate, Marxist Political Economy and Critical Theory. Prolegomena to a Digital Labour Theory of Value. Christian Fuchs Index

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Book SynopsisLabor Conflict and Capitalist Hegemony in Argentina delves into the dynamics of labor conflict during a decisive moment in the history of Neoliberalism and its crisis. How did workers react to labor flexibilization, market reforms and massive layoffs? In what way were employers able to keep hold of industrial hegemony during the crisis of Neoliberalism? This book explores these questions from a Marxian approach on peripheral capitalist countries with the aim of contributing to a new conceptualization of labor relations, labor history and collective class action. The analysis focuses on the automotive industry in Argentina between 1990 and 2007 although framed in broader temporal dynamics. Labor conflict and capitalist hegemony in Argentina relata la dinámica del conflicto laboral en el período crucial de la historia del neoliberalismo y su crisis. ¿Cómo reaccionaron los trabajadores frente a la flexibilización laboral, las reformas de mercado y los despidos masivos? ¿De qué modo los empresarios mantuvieron la hegemonía industrial en la crisis del neoliberalismo? El libro formula las preguntas a partir de una aplicación del análisis marxiano para los países periféricos capitalistas. Sobre esta base se propone una conceptualización novedosa de las relaciones laborales, la historia sindical y la acción colectiva de clase. El análisis está enfocado en la industria automotriz argentina entre 1990 y 2007 aunque enmarcado en dinámicas temporales más amplias.Table of ContentsList of Tables and Figures List of Abbreviations Acknowledgements 1. Introduction 2. What are Trade Unions in Marxist theory? 3. Capital and Class Formation: on Postone and van der Linden 4. General Strikes in 20th Century in Argentina 5. The Debate about Trade Union Bureaucracy 6. Labor Relations and Conflict in the Automobile Sector 7. Workers during the Crisis 1998-2002 8. Contention Dynamics in Fiat and Ford (Further Discussion on Concepts) 9. Cycles of Protest with No Revolutionary Situations, 1958 – 2001 10. Labor Conflict in the 2000s 11. Hegemonic Despotism and Labor Relations in the Automobile Sector 12. Conclusions References Author Index Subject Index

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Book SynopsisGlobal Labour History has firmly established itself in the past three decades. This anthology provides an overview of the conceptual aspects of the discipline and is underpinned by case and field studies from Africa, Latin America, the Middle East and China. It is dedicated to Marcel van der Linden, the doyen of, and networker for, Global Labour History.Table of ContentsPreface  Karl Heinz Roth List of Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Marcel van der Linden – Networker 1 Marcel van der Linden and the International Institute of Social History on the Road to Global Labour History: A Personal Account  Karin Hofmeester 2 Dialogues across Borders: Marcel van der Linden and the Association of Indian Labour Historians (AILH)  Chitra Joshi, Prabhu P. Mohapatra and Rana P. Behal 3 Marcel van der Linden and the International Conference of Labour and Social History (ITH)  David Mayer and Berthold Unfried 4 Marcel van der Linden – Friend of the Foundation for Social History of the Twentieth Century  Angelika Ebbinghaus Field and Case Studies 5 Slaveries and the Enslaved in Spanish America: Thoughts on the ‘World Working Class’ in a Historical Global Perspective  Michael Zeuske 6 Potosí’s Silver and the Global World of Trade (Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries)  Rossana Barragán Romano 7 Chronicle of a Strike Foretold: Abadan, July 1946  Touraj Atabaki 8 Petitioning as Industrial Bargaining in a Turkish State Factory: The Changing Nature of Petitioning in an Early Republican State Factory  Görkem Akgöz 9 Chinese Workers in Global Production and Local Resistance  Jenny Chan Methodological and Conceptual Aspects 10 On the Road to Global Labour History – via Comparison  Peter Alexander 11 Migration Research in a Global Perspective: Recent Developments  Dirk Hoerder 12 Labour Flexibility and Labour Precariousness as Conceptual Tools for the Historical Study of the Interactions among Labour Relations  Christian G. De Vito 13 Re-assessing Labour and Value Transfer under Capitalism  Andrea Komlosy Marcel van der Linden – His Intellectual Development 14 An Encyclopaedist of Critical Thought: Marcel van der Linden, Heterodox Marxism and Global Labour History  Karl Heinz Roth Marcel van der Linden: A Bibliography Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisCrises and Hegemonic Transitions reworks the concept of hegemony at the international level and analyses its relation to world market crises. Returning to the critical edition of Gramsci’s Quaderni and maintaining that the author’s work is permeated by Marx’s Capital and the law of value, Fusaro argues that imperialist states strive to constructing hegemonic relations in order to secure capital accumulation using domination and leadership, coercion and consensus, and that economic crises have only the potential to provoke crises of hegemony. Tracing the vicissitudes of US hegemony from the interwar period to the present and assessing the Great Depression’s and the Great Recession’s impact, Fusaro provides a novel way to interpret past and present developments within the world economy.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Figures and Tables Introduction: Which Gramsci?  1 Gramsci vs Capital?  2 Towards the Development of a New Concept  3 Argument and Plan of the Book 1 A Dissenting View  1 Theories of Hegemony  2 Crises and Hegemonic Transitions  3 Do Crises lead to Hegemonic Transitions?  4 A Critique Part 1 Theory 2 Hegemony  1 Readings of Gramsci  2 Hegemony at the National Level  3 Gramscian IR  4 Gramsci’s IR  5 Hegemony at the International Level (first cut) 3 Crises  1 Marx’s Method and Gramsci  2 Capital  3 An Integral Theory of Crises  4 From Capital to the International  5 Hegemony at the International Level (second cut)  6 World Market Crises and Hegemonic Transitions Part 2 History 4 Tantae Molis Erat: US Hegemony during the Interwar Period  1 Sturm und Drang Hegemony  2 In Crisis  3 The Full Realisation of US Hegemony 5 Not for Real, Yet: US Hegemony Today  1 Hegemony Unravelling (1970–2007)?  2 The Great Recession  3 Fight with Cudgels Conclusion: Crises and Hegemonic Transitions  1 The Concept  2 Hegemony  3 Crises and Hegemonic Transitions  4 US Hegemony and China’s Long March Ahead Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe life of legendary revolutionary fighter and journalist Larisa Reisner (1895–1926) is set against the world-shaking events of 1917, and draws on material recently released from the Soviet archives to tell her story through the memories of those close to her, her own voluminous writings, and her six books, to be published together in translation for the first time by Brill with this biography.Table of ContentsList of Figures Timeline Introduction 1 Childhood and Exile 2 Student Life 3 Poets and War 4 In Petrograd 5 Red Kronstadt 6 Bolshevik Russia 7 ‘Unforgettable 1918’ 8 Svyazhsk 9 Reds and Whites 10 From Moscow to the Caspian 11 Rabfaks and Commissars 12 Afghanistan 13 The New Culture 14 Berlin and Hamburg 15 Across Workers’ Russia 16 Seifullina and Alyosha 17 Germany and China 18 ‘How Extraordinary to Be Alive’ 19 Afterlife Appendix: Figures Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisValue without Fetish presents the first in-depth English-language study of the influential Japanese economist Uno Kōzō‘s (1897-1977) theory of ‘pure capitalism’ in the light of the method and object of Marx’s Critique of Political Economy. A close analysis of the theories of value, production and reproduction, and crisis in Uno’s central texts from the 1930s to the 1970s reveals his departure from Marx’s central insights about the fetish character of the capitalist mode of production – a departure that Lange shows can be traced back to the failed epistemology of value developed in Uno’s earliest writings. By disavowing the complex relation between value and fetish that structures Marx’s critique, Uno adopts the paradigms of neoclassical theories to present an apology rather than a critique of capitalism.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Note on Translations and Transcriptions Part 1 The Method of The Critique of Political Economy 1 Introduction – Marx’s Critique of Fetishism as Method  1.1 The Critique of Fetishism and Uno’s Theory of ‘Pure Capitalism’  1.2 The Aporias of Classical Political Economy  1.3 The Critical Function of Marx’s Labour Theory of Value. Against Some Readings of ‘Form’ in Contemporary Value Form Theory 2 What’s ‘Pure’ about Capitalism? Uno’s Three-Level Method and the Theory of Principles  2.1 The Limits of the Three-Level Method (sandankairon)  2.2 Pure Theory’s X-Axis: The Law of Population  2.3 Pure Theory’s Y-Axis: The Commodification of Labour Power Part 2 The Object of The Critique of Political Economy 3 Uno’s Theory of Value – Value without Fetish (1947–69)  3.1 The Problem of Abstract Labour in Uno’s Theory of Value  3.2 Uno’s Theory of Value: Methodological Individualism and the Fetishism of Use Value  3.3 Uno’s Theory of Money: Baileyan Assumptions  3.4 Uno’s Theory of Capital: M-C-M’ as Pure Form 4 The Principles of Political Economy (1952/1964) in Light of Marx’s Critique of Political Economy  4.1 The Reconstruction of Capital  4.2 The Law of Value as the Law of General Social Equilibrium (Uno)  4.3 Surplus Value and Profit: The ‘Transformation Problem’ in Uno’s Perspective  4.4 The Law of Value as the Law of Crisis (Marx) 5 Uno’s Legacy in Japan and Beyond  5.1 Money vs. Value? The ‘Monetary Approach’ in the Post-Uno School of Value Theory  5.2 The ‘Dialectic of Capital’ as the Apologetic of Capital in the Anglophone Uno School  5.3 The Meaning of Real Subsumption or the Real Subsumption of Meaning: Aspects of Anglophone Uno School Historiographies References Index

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Book SynopsisThe historical studies presented here examine four ideologies— Leninism, Trotskyism, anarchism, and anti-imperialism— still with us, however different and diffuse in form. They are a contribution to the worldwide Marx renaissance of recent decades which has helped clear away the legacies of the Second, Third and Fourth Internationals, not to mention of the ‘real existing socialism’ of the Soviet Union and its bastard progeny. These revolutionary predecessors did not fail because ‘they had the wrong ideas’; in contrast to today, they were merely embedded in an earlier dynamic where capitalism, globally, was not yet fully dominant. The cases of Russia, Turkey, Spain and Bolivia allow us to measure the distance between their epoch and our own, and to clear away their problematic legacies.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 The Agrarian Question in the Russian Revolution: From Material Community to Productivism, and Back 2 ‘Socialism in One Country’ Before Stalin, and the Origins of Reactionary ‘Anti-Imperialism’: The Case of Turkey, 1917–25 3 The Spanish Revolution, Past and Future: Grandeur and Poverty of Anarchism: How the Working Class Takes Over (or Doesn’t), Then and Now 4 Anti-Capitalism or Anti-Imperialism? Interwar Authoritarian and Fascist Sources of a Reactionary Ideology: The Case of the Bolivian MNR References Index

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Book SynopsisEmpiriomonism is Alexander Bogdanov’s scientific-philosophical substantiation of Marxism. In Books One and Two, he combines Ernst Mach’s and Richard Avenarius’s neutral monist philosophy with the theory of psychophysical parallelism and systematically demonstrates that human psyches are thoroughly natural and are subject to nature’s laws. In Book Three, Bogdanov argues that empiriomonism is superior to G. V. Plekhanov’s outdated materialism and shows how the principles of empiriomonism solve the basic problem of historical materialism: how a society’s material base causally determines its ways of thinking. Bogdanov concludes that empiriomonism is of the same order as materialist systems, and, since it is the ideology of the productive forces of society, it is a Marxist philosophy.Trade Review"As Bazarov mentions, one of the concepts with a great variety of applications in Tektology is the ‘law of the leasts’, the fact that people and things take the path of least resistance. This has certainly applied to the way Bogdanov’s ideas have been treated over the years. Instead of investigating what Bogdanov actually wrote, verdicts stemming from Lenin and Plekhanov have been repeated uncritically. This was understandable so long as Bogdanov’s works remained inaccessible. With this translation of Empiriomonism, this need no longer be the case." - James D. White, University of Glasgow, in: Europe-Asia Studies 72/10 (2020) "… Rowley’s excellent translation will not only permit a wide new audience to explore the grand systems and historical forays of Bogdanov’s Empiriomonism – it also illuminates a particular moment where various strains of Marxism debated the very relationship between understanding and changing the world: a generative conflict between Bogdanov and Lenin." - Nicholas Bujalski, in: Marx and Philosophy Review of Books (2021) [Full review]Table of ContentsPreface The Autobiography of Alexander Bogdanov Bogdanov as a Thinker  V.A. Bazarov Book One 1 The Ideal of Cognition (Empiriomonism of the Physical and the Psychical) 2 Life and the Psyche  1 The Realm of Experiences  2 Psychoenergetics  3 The Monist Conception of Life 3 Universum (Empiriomonism of the Separate and the Continuous) Conclusion to Book One Book Two 4 The ‘Thing-in-Itself’ from the Perspective of Empiriomonism 5 Psychical Selection (Empiriomonism in the Theory of the Psyche)  1 Foundations of the Method  2 Applications of the Method (Illustrations) 6 Two Theories of the Vital-Differential Book Three 7 Preface to Book Three  1 Three Materialisms  2 Energetics and Empiriocriticism  3 The Path of Empiriomonism  4 Regarding Eclecticism and Monism 8 Social Selection (Foundations of the Method) 9 Historical Monism  1 Main Lines of Development  2 Classes and Groups 10 Self-Awareness of Philosophy (The Origin of Empiriomonism) Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisConsumption in Russia and the former USSR has been lately studied as regards the pre-revolutionary and early Soviet period. The history of Soviet consumption and the Soviet variety of consumerism in the 1950s-1990s has hardly been studied at all. This book concentrates on the late Soviet period but it also considers pre-WWII and even pre-revolutionary times.The book consists of articles, which survey the longue durée of Russian and Soviet consumer attitudes, Soviet ideology of consumption as indicated in texts concerning fashion, the world of Soviet fashion planning and the survival strategies of the Soviet consumer complaining against sub-standard goods and services in a command economy. There's also a case study concerning the uses of concepts with anti-consumerist content. Contributors include: Lena Bogdanova, Olga Gurova, Timo Vihavainen and Larissa Zakharova.

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Book SynopsisSuvin’s ‘X-Ray’ of Socialist Yugoslavia offers an indispensable overview of a unique and often overlooked twentieth-century socialism. It shows that the plebeian surge of revolutionary self-determination was halted in SFR Yugoslavia by 1965; that between 1965– 72 there was a confused and hidden but still open-ended clash; and that by 1972 the oligarchy in power was closed and static, leading to failure. The underlying reasons of this failure are analysed in a melding of semiotics and political history, which points beyond Yugoslavia – including its achievements and degeneration – to show how political and economic democracy fail when pursued in isolation. The emphasis on socialist Yugoslavia is at various points embedded into a wider historical and theoretical frame, including Left debates about the party, sociological debates about classes, and Marx’s great foray against a religious State doctrine in The Jewish Question.Table of ContentsList of Tables and Figures Acknowledgements Preface: Pro Doma Sua PART 1: FUNDAMENTS: FREEDOM AND ACCUMULATION 1: Radical Emancipation and Yugoslavia: On the Founding Singularities of SFRY 2: Accumulation and Its Discontents PART 2: CLASS INTERESTS AND POLITICS AS SFRY DOMINANTS 3: On Class Relationships in Yugoslavia 4: On a Hidden Ruling Class and Central Conflict 5: What Has Been and What Could Have Been 6: 15 Theses about Communism and Yugoslavia, Or the Two-Headed Janus of Emancipation through the State (Metamorphoses and Anamorphoses of ‘On The Jewish Question’ by Marx) 7: The Communist Party of Yugoslavia PART 3: SELF-GOVERNMENT VS. ALIENATION: A TRACTATE ON YUGOSLAV ECONOMICS AND POLITICS Part 3.1: On Self-management In S.F.R. Yugoslavia: A Critical Stock-Taking (1945-72) 8: Anatomy: Macro-Political Economics, Or the View from Above 9: Anatomy: Micro-Political Economics, Or the View from the Workers 10: Physiology: The Interests and Stakes behind the Macro-Events Part 3.2: On the Horizon of Disalienation in S.F.R. Yugoslavia: Self-Government and Plebeian Democracy 11: On the Politics of Disalienation, Inside and Outside Economic Production 12: In Production: Rise and Fall of Self-management 13: In Civic Life: Dis/Alienation and Oligarchy Monolithism 14: Conclusion: On Failures and Potentialities APPENDICES Appendix 1: Bureaucracy: A Term and Concept in the Socialist Discourse about State Power (Upstream of Yugoslavia) Appendix 2: The Discourse about Bureaucracy and State Power in Post-Revolutionary Yugoslavia 1945–72 References

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Book SynopsisThe Silver Treasury of the Ministry of Revenue was the most important central government store in the Qing dynasty. It held all capital funds submitted to Beijing by provinces and was responsible for the release of all central government expenditures. This book is mainly based on Qing archives pertaining to the Silver Treasury, notably the Yellow Register copies of the Treasury, now held by the Institute of Economics of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. As it is the first monograph on the subject of the Silver Treasury to be published in English, as well as giving a brief introduction to the history of its successive management systems, it also presents comprehensive tables of monthly revenues/expenditures and yearend inventories for the period 1667 to 1899.Table of ContentsSeries Editors’ Preface to the Quantitative Economic History of China Series ... vii List of Figures and Tables ... viii Emperors of the Qing Dynasty ... xiv Chinese Terms ... xv Currencies Used during the Qing Dynasty ... xxii Introduction ... 1 1 The Central Government’s Silver Treasury ... 4 1.1 Set-up and Evolution of the Three Stores ... 4 1.2 Management of the Silver Treasury ... 7 2 Silver Treasury Registers and Their Copies ... 14 2.1 Yellow Registers of the Silver Treasury ... 14 2.2 Copies of the Yellow Registers of the Silver Treasury ... 18 2.3 Use in this Book of Copies of Yellow Registers ... 23 2.3.1 Annual Aggregate Revenues, Expenditures and Their Surpluses/Defijicits ... 24 2.3.2 Annual Inventories of the Silver Treasury ... 25 3 Silver Treasury Revenues during the Qing Dynasty ... 27 3.1 Provisions to the Capital and Silver Treasury Revenues ... 27 3.2 Silver Treasury Revenues from Kangxi to Daoguang: 1662–1850 ... 35 3.3 Silver Treasury Revenues during Xianfeng and Tongzhi: 1851–1874 ... 45 3.4 Silver Treasury Revenues during Guangxu: 1875–1908 ... 52 4 Silver Treasury Expenditures and Payment Surpluses/Defijicits during the Qing Dynasty ... 64 4.1 From Kangxi to Daoguang ... 64 4.2 The Xianfeng – Tongzhi Period ... 79 4.3 Guangxu Period ... 86 5 Fluctuations in Inventories of the Silver Treasury during the Qing Dynasty ... 96 5.1 From Kangxi to Daoguang ... 96 5.2 Xianfeng, Tongzhi and Guangxu ... 102 Appendix A: Tables of Aggregate Revenue/Expenditure of the Silver Treasury ... 109 Appendix B: Inventories of the Silver Treasury under Diffferent Reigns ... 217 References ... 245 Index ... 250

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Book SynopsisThis volume offers a critical re-assessment of the thought of Ernst Bloch, best-known for his groundbreaking study The Principle of Hope and one of the most significant European thinkers and public intellectuals of the twentieth century. It explores Bloch’s life, work and reception; his debt to Marx and Hegel; his central concepts of hope and utopia; his affinities with philosophers such as Gramsci and Žižek; and his radical reframing of our understanding of history, society and culture. Above all, this volume examines the relevance of Bloch’s ideas today, in a world still shot through with economic inequality and social injustice. Contributors are: Agata Bielik-Robson, Ivan Boldyrev, Henk de Berg, Sam Dolbear, Vincent Geoghegan, Holger Glinka, Loren Goldman, Douglas Kellner, Cat Moir, Jan Rehmann, Nina Rismal, Johan Siebers, and Peter ThompsonTable of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures Notes on Contributors 1 Ernst Bloch: Life Work – Reception  Cat Moir 2 Will There Be Nothing Rather Than Something? Ernst Bloch’s Overcoming of Gnosticism  Agata Bielik-Robson 3 Art, History and the Language of Death: Bloch’s The Spirit of Utopia between Hegel and Derrida  Ivan Boldyrev 4 Between Dialectics and Metaphysics: Critical Reflections on Bloch’s Subjekt-Objekt  Henk de Berg 5 Bloch’s Commentary on Marx’s ‘Theses on Feuerbach’ in The Principle of Hope  Vincent Geoghegan 6 Natural Law in the Ideas of Bloch, Hegel and Marxism  Holger Glinka 7 The Matter of Bloch’s Philosophy of Nature in the Shadow of Idealism  Loren Goldman 8 Ernst Bloch’s Utopian Philosophy: From Hegel to Marx and Beyond  Douglas Kellner 9 What Can We Hope For? Reading Ernst Bloch with Antonio Gramsci  Jan Rehmann 10 The Possibility of Envisioning Utopias  Nina Rismal 11 Hegel, Marx, Bloch: On the Margins of the Spirit  Johan Siebers and Sam Dolbear 12 Something’s Missing: Bloch’s Unfinished Project of Humanity  Peter Thompson Index

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Book SynopsisWalter Benjamin derided Werner Scholem as a ‘rogue’ in 1924. Josef Stalin referred him as a ‘splendid man’, but soon backtracked and labeled him an ‘imbecile’, while Ernst Thälmann, chairman of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD), warned his followers against the dangers of ‘Scholemism’. For the philosopher and historian Gershom Scholem, however, Werner was first and foremost his older brother. The life of German-Jewish Communist Werner Scholem (1895–1940) had many facets. Werner and Gerhard, later Gershom, rebelled together against their authoritarian father and the atmosphere of national chauvinism engulfing Germany during World War I. After inspiring his younger brother to take up the Zionist cause, Werner himself underwent a long personal journey before deciding to join the Communist struggle. Scholem climbed the party ladder and orchestrated the KPD's ‘Bolshevisation’ campaign, only to be expelled as one of Stalin's opponents in 1926. He was arrested in 1933, and ultimately murdered in the Buchenwald concentration camp seven years later. This first biography of Werner Scholem tells his life story by drawing on a wide range of original sources and archive material long hidden beyond the Iron Curtain of the Cold War era. First published in German by UVK Verlagsgesellschaft as Werner Scholem - eine politische Biographie (1895-1940), Konstanz, 2014.Trade ReviewReviews from the German press (quotes translated into English): "The most interesting parts of Hoffrogge's work are perhaps the thick descriptions of the Weimar Republic's communist milieu with its peculiar mixture of dogmatism and careerism, male chauvinism and women's emancipation, puritanism and sexual permissiveness. The interesting figure here is Scholem's wife Emmy, who came from humble background, eager to learn and climb the social ladder, aware of her chances for emancipation and equipped with all the weapons of a woman." - Gerd Koenen, DIE ZEIT, full review here “… in the field of historical research, it is the more refined work by Ralf Hoffrogge that will make a lasting impression. His reconstruction of events is the only one that allows us to understand Scholem's arrest and trial … ” - Lorenz Jaeger, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, October 4th 2014 “... Two recently published biographies that could not be more different are devoted to the life of this exceptional politician, to whom the historian Miriam Zadoff attributed an "agile temperament", but also depicted him in an apotheosis of suffering, comparing Scholem to the biblical Job. Quite different is the sober reconstruction of the historian Ralf Hoffrogge, invariably oriented towards the facts. Almost entirely without gaps, this political biography reconstructs the twisted lifeline of Scholem in the context of its time. The merit of both biographies consists not least in the fact that here for the first time a personality is portrayed who embodied in his intellectual and political action the intrinsic ambiguity of the period between the two world wars.” - Wolf Scheller in Jüdische Allgemeine Zeitung, full review here Documentary The filmmaker Niels Bolbrinker has portrayed Werner Scholem´s life in the short 17-minute documentary "Between Utopia and Counter Revolution". It features an impressive Interview with Scholem´s daugther Renee Goddard (*1923) who talks about the tragic arrest of her parents after the Nazis took power in 1933. The film is based on the recent biography written by Ralf Hoffrogge. Watch the subtitled documentary here .Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Introduction 1 Adolescent Years (1895–1914)  The Scholems: A German Family  Four Distinct Brothers  Rebellion(s): From Zionism to Socialism 2 World War and Revolution (1914–18)  War and Socialism in Hanover  A Red in Field Grey: Werner Scholem on the Eastern Front  Hospital Reflections, 1916  Lèse-majesté: A Soldier’s Day in Court  Werner and Emmy Scholem: A Mésalliance  All Quiet on the Western Front: Werner Misses the Revolution 3 A Rebel at the Editing Desk, a Rebel in Parliament (1919–24)  Independent Social Democracy and More: Werner Scholem as Agitator in the USPD  Journalism and Judiciary: Werner Scholem as Editor of the Rote Fahne  Reform or Revolution? A Parliamentarian in the Prussian Landtag  Scholem as School Reformer  Anti-Semitism and the Ostjuden Debate  A Reluctant Republican? Fighting Right-Wing Terror and Fascism  The Philosophy of History in the Landtag  Inflation, Crisis and Radicalisation  Reform or Revolution: Scholem’s Answer 4 Communism: Utopia and Apparatus (1921–6)  The Berlin Opposition (1921–3)  National Revolution on the Ruhr? Scholem and Schlageter in the Summer of 1923  From the Battle of the Ruhr to the ‘German October’ of 1923: New Conflicts in the KPD  Reaching for Power: Scholem and His Comrades Take Over the KPD  The Power of the Apparatus: Werner Scholem Organises the KPD  The Apparatus Strikes Back: The Left Opposition on the Defensive  Scholem Versus Stalin: A Question of Democracy? 5 A Reluctant Defector: Werner Scholem as Dissident (1926–8)  A Left Communist in the Reichstag  The Lenin League: Werner Scholem Founds a Party 6 Back to the Lecture Hall: Family and University Life in Berlin  ‘At Home with Communists’: Emmy and Werner in Private  Life as a Lawyer 7 The Triumph of Barbarism (1933–40)  The Arrest  Separate Paths: A Family Falls Apart  Espionage and Intrigue: Werner Scholem as a Literary Figure  The Hammerstein Case: Fiction and Reality  From the Supreme Court to the ‘People’s Court’: Scholem’s Last Trial  A Stolen Life: Plötzensee, Lichtenburg, Dachau  Murder in the Quarry 8 Remembering Werner Scholem Appendices 1 Chronology of Werner Scholem’s life 2 List of Werner Scholem’s Places of Detention, 1917–40 3 Selected Articles and Publications by Werner Scholem Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn Marx and Social Justice, George E. McCarthy presents a detailed and comprehensive overview of the ethical, political, and economic foundations of Marx’s theory of social justice in his early and later writings. What is distinctive about Marx's theory is that he rejects the views of justice in liberalism and reform socialism based on legal rights and fair distribution by balancing ancient Greek philosophy with nineteenth-century political economy. Relying on Aristotle’s definition of social justice grounded in ethics and politics, virtue and democracy, Marx applies it to a broader range of issues, including workers’ control and creativity, producer associations, human rights and human needs, fairness and reciprocity in exchange, wealth distribution, political emancipation, economic and ecological crises, and economic democracy. Each chapter in the book represents a different aspect of social justice. Unlike Locke and Hegel, Marx is able to integrate natural law and natural rights, as he constructs a classical vision of self-government ‘of the people, by the people’.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: The Ethical Archaeology of Justice in Marx Dialectic between the Ancients and the Moderns: Natural Law and Natural Rights 1 Natural Law and Natural Rights in Locke: Indifference and Incoherence of Liberalism  Thomas Hobbes and the State of Nature and War  Richard Hooker and the Laws of Nature and Ecclesiastical Polity  Locke on Natural Rights and Natural Law  Ethics and Structure in Natural Law  Natural Law Limits to Natural Rights in the Original State of Nature  Eclipse of Natural Law and Social Justice in the Second State of Nature  Irrelevance of Natural Law, Incoherence of Liberalism, and the Return to Hobbes 2 Justice Beyond Liberalism: Natural Law and the Ethical Community in Hegel  Early Theological Writings and Dreams of Classical Antiquity in Hegel  Hegel’s Natural Law and Critique of Liberalism and Natural Rights  Social Ethics and Integration of Natural Law and Natural Rights  Hegel’s Philosophy of Right, Law, and the State as Objective Spirit  Formation of the Ethical Life in the Family, Civil Society, and the State  Marx’s Critique of Hegel and the Revival of Classical Democracy in Spinoza and Rousseau Ethics, Virtue, and Natural Law in Marx 3 Civil and Legal Justice: Integrating Natural Rights and Natural Law  Religious Prejudice, Judaism, and Civil Rights  Natural Rights as Ideology and Alienation  Transition of Politics from Pure Ideology to Human Rights and Emancipation  Critique of Liberal Democracy and Contradictions between Economic and Political Rights  Marx’s Theory of Emancipation and Human Rights  Natural Rights of Free Press and Universal Suffrage 4 Workplace Justice: Ethics, Virtue, and Human Freedom  Alienation and the Virtue of Work and Self-Determination  Work as Productive Life and Creative Beauty  Ethics, Human Needs, and Natural Law  Virtue and Late Medieval Thomistic Natural Law 5 Ecological Justice: Historical Materialism and the Dialectic of Nature and Society  Alienation of Production, Labour, and Nature  Dialectic of Nature and the Alienation of Consciousness  Natural Science as the Objectification and Social Praxis of Species Being  Science as Objectivity and Alienation  Social Metabolism, Contradictions, and Ecological Crises  Social Justice and the Natural Laws of Ethics and Ecology Structures of Democracy, Economy, and Social Justice in Marx 6 Distributive Justice: Justice of Consumption, Economic Redistribution, and Social Reciprocity  Labour, Nature, and Society in the Gotha Program  Equality, Fair Distribution, and the Public Expenses of Production  Distribution, Fairness, and the Means of Social Consumption  Socialism, Self-Realisation, and Human Need  Critique of Reformist and Vulgar Socialism – Happiness without Meaning 7 Political Justice: Ethics and the Good Life of Democratic Socialism  Franco-Prussian War and the Formation of the Paris Commune of 1871  Dismantling the Old State and Rise of Political Democracy in the Commune  Organisation of Labour and Economic Democracy  ‘Declaration to the French People’ and the Social Programmes of the Commune  Marx, Lincoln, and the Human Emancipation from Racial and Wage Slavery 8 Economic Justice: Ethics, Production, and the Critique of Chrematistics and Political Economy  Commodities, Exchange, and the Labour Theory of Value  Labour Power, Surplus Value, and the Alienation of Chrematistic Production  Natural Law of Contradictions, Crises, and Capital  Natural Law of Justice and Natural Law of Value Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisDaniel Bensaïd: From the Actuality of Revolution to the Melancholic Wager is the first systematic full-length study of Bensaïd’s renovation of Marxism. Bensaïd, a student leader during the May '68 revolt and founder of the Ligue communiste révolutionnaire, was an exemplar of a creative and open liberatory Marxism, leaving a vast oeuvre for a new generation of Marxists to explore. Much of Bensaïd’s writing remains untranslated into English, and Roso’s volume offers a comprehensive critical overview.Table of ContentsForeword Foreword: The Power of Imagination Acknowledgements Introduction: Fitting the Bow for the Renewal of Marxism Part 1 Bensaïd Encounters Lenin in the Early Years 1 Bensaïd Encounters Lenin 2 Revolution and Power 3 The Dark Years of Readjustment Part 2 New Inventions and Illuminations 4 History Has Two Faces 5 Marx from Beneath the Ruins 6 Ready to Roll the Dice? Part 3 Open-ended Conjunctural Judgements 7 The Return of the Social Question 8 Who Is the Judge? 9 Smile of the Frightful Hobgoblin Part 4 Bensaïd and His Contemporaries 10 Althusser: Trapped in Stalin’s Glass Jar 11 Negri: The Dissolution of Politics into Violence 12 Badiou: A Distant Companion 13 Derrida: Fellow Marrano Part 5 Strategic Thinking to Break the Reproduction of Fetishism and Domination 14 Praising the Profane 15 Commodity Fetishism Conclusion: Pointing Towards Spaces of Liberation Appendix: Daniel Bensaïd’s Melancholic Wager Jury D’habilitation 2005 (by Way of an Introduction)  Michael Löwy References Index

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Book SynopsisDoes the growing economic might of regional superpowers like Brazil mean that dependency theory of the 1960s was all wrong? The answer to this and many other enigmas of development is found in Sub-Imperialism Revisited, a theoretically rigorous study by the brilliant Mexican analyst Adrián Sotelo Valencia. In analysing the 21st Century conditions of Latin America, Sotelo systematically explores the concept of "sub-imperialism" as advanced in the pioneering work of Ruy Mauro Marini. Himself a former student of Marini, Sotelo elucidates the explanatory power of a fully Marxist conception of imperialism and underdevelopment while providing considerable insight into opposing conceptions of dependency. This timely book ultimately enables readers to appreciate why radical dependency theory remains more relevant today than ever.Table of ContentsForeword  Carlos Eduardo Martins List of Illustrations Introduction 1 Dependency Theory in the Post-1945 Development Literature of Latin America 2 Marini’s Marxism and Dependency Theory Today 3 Neo-imperialism and Neo-dependency: Two Sides of the Same Historical-Political Process 4 Sub-imperialism and Dependency 5 The United States and Brazil: Antagonistic Cooperation 6 Brasil Potência vs. Sub-imperialism 7 Dictatorship, Democracy and the State of the Fourth Power 8 Sub-imperialism and the Contemporary Capitalist Crisis Epilogue Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book provides an analysis of the articulation and organisation of radical international solidarity by organisations that were either connected to or had been established by the Communist International (Comintern), such as the International Red Aid, the International Workers’ Relief, the League Against Imperialism, the International of Seamen and Harbour Workers and the International Trade Union Committee of Negro Workers. The guiding light of these organisations was a radical interpretation of international solidarity, usually in combination with concepts and visions of gender, race and class as well as anti-capitalism, anti-imperialism, anti-colonialism and anti-fascism. All of these new transnational networks form a controversial part of the contemporary history of international organisations. Like the Comintern these international organisations had an ambigious character that does not fit nicely into the traditional typologies of international organisations as they were neither international governmental organisations nor international non-governmental organisations. They constituted a radical continuation of the pre-First World War Left and exemplified an attempt to implement the ideas and movements of a new type of radical international solidarity not only in Europe, but on a global scale. Contributors are: Gleb J. Albert, Bernhard H. Bayerlein, Kasper Braskén, Fredrik Petersson, Holger Weiss.Trade Review"Though neither adult education nor adult learning even appear in the exhaustive index, this scholarly historical collection makes a valuable contribution to the field of social movement learning. [...] this study of the organization, theory, and methods by which these 20th-century movements were able to survive and grow still has some important lessons to teach today’s social movement activists." - Bob Boughton, in: Adult Education Quarterly 69:1 (2019) [DOI: 10.1177/0741713618763127]Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables ... vii Abbreviations ... ix List of Contributors ... xii Transnational and Global Perspectives on International Communist Solidarity Organisations ... 1 Bernhard Bayerlein, Kasper Braskén and Holger Weiss 1 The “Cultural International” as the Comintern’s Intermediate Empire: International Mass and Sympathizing Organisations beyond Parties ... 28 Bernhard H. Bayerlein 2 The ussr Section of the International Red Aid (mopr): The Institutionalisation of International Solidarity in Interwar Soviet Society ... 89 Gleb J. Albert 3 In Pursuit of Global International Solidarity? The Transnational Networks of the International Workers’ Relief, 1921–1935 ... 130 Kasper Braskén 4 The British Miners’ and General Strike of 1926: Problems and Practices of Radical International Solidarity ... 168 Kasper Braskén 5 Anti-imperialism and Nostalgia: A Re-assessment of the History and Historiography of the League Against Imperialism ... 191 Fredrik Petersson 6 The International of Seamen and Harbour Workers – A Radical Global Labour Union of the Waterfront or a Subversive World-Wide Web? ... 256 Holger Weiss 7 Global Ambitions, Structural Constraints and Marginality as a Choice: The International Trade Union Committee of Negro Workers ... 318 Holger Weiss Index ... 363

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Book SynopsisIn The Falling Rate of Profit and the Great Recession of 2007-2009, Peter H. Jones develops a new non-equilibrium interpretation of the labour theory of value Karl Marx builds in Capital. Applying this to US national accounting data, Jones shows that when measured correctly the profit rate falls in the lead up to the Great Recession, and for the main reason Marx identifies: the rising organic composition of capital. Jones also details a new theory of finance, which shows how cycles in the profit rate relate to stock market booms and slumps, and movements in the interest rate. He discusses the implications of the analysis and Marx and Engels’ work generally for a democratic socialist strategy.Table of ContentsPreface List of Tables and Figures Advice to Readers 1 Marx’s Value Theory and the Law of the Tendential Fall in the Rate of Profit  1 The Development of the LTFRP and Its Significance  2 Criticisms of the Law  3 Summary 2 Devaluation  1 Formalisms, Models and Method  2 Devaluation and Value  3 Historical Cost, Input Cost and Output Cost  4 Measuring Devaluation  5 The MELT and Revaluation  6 The Rate of Profit, the Rate of Accumulation and the Rate of Growth  7 Conclusion  8 Appendix: A Counter-example to the Okishio Theorem Using Current Cost Measures of the Rate of Profit 3 Turnover Time and the Organic Composition of Capital  1 Decomposing the Rate of Profit: Existing Approaches  2 The Stock of Variable Capital  3 The OCC  4 Conclusion  5 Appendix: Decomposing Changes in the Rate of Profit 4 Surplus Value, Profit and Output  1 The Forms of Appearance of Surplus Value  2 Unproductive Labour  3 Measuring Surplus Value after Unproductive Expenditures  4 The Value of Labour Power  5 Measuring Output  6 Differences between the Total Price and Total Value of Output  7 Surplus Value after Unproductive Expenditures  8 Profits from Production  9 Conclusion  10 Appendix A: Accounting Definitions  11 Appendix B: Decomposing Changes in the Rate of Profit from Production  12 Appendix C: Decomposing Rates of Profit When the Value of Labour Power Is Not Equal to Its Price 5 Marx on Finance  1 Money Dealing and Interest-Bearing Capital  2 Currency  3 Social Relations and Interest  4 Dynamics of the Interest Rate (I)  5 Money Capital and Fictitious Capital  6 Fictitious Capital and the Dynamics of the Interest Rate (II)  7 Conclusions 6 The Rate of Profit and Financial Rates of Return  1 The Separation between Financial Profits and Profits from Production  2 Fictitious and Non-fictitious Profits  3 The Non-fictitious Financial Rate of Return and the Interest Rate  4 Conclusion  5 Appendix: Accounting Definitions for Financial Rates of Return 7 Results  1 Output and Surplus Value  2 Measures of the Rate of Profit  3 Why the Rate of Profit Fell  4 The Rate of Profit and Financial Rates of Return  5 The Rate of Profit and the Interest Rate over the Long Term 8 Conclusions  1 The Rate of Profit and the Great Recession  2 Capital and Marx’s Value Theory Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisOnce deemed ‘the pope of Marxism’, Karl Kautsky (1854–1938) was the leading theoretician of the German Social Democratic Party and one of the most prominent public intellectuals of his time. However, during the twentieth century a constellation of historical factors ensured that his ideas were gradually consigned to near oblivion. Not only has his political thought been dismissed in non-Marxist historical and political discourse, but his ideas are equally discredited in Marxist circles. This book aims to rekindle interest in Kautsky’s ideas by exploring his democratic-republican understanding of state and society. It demonstrates how Kautsky’s republican thought was positively influenced by Marx and Engels – especially in relation to the lessons they drew from the experience of the Paris Commune. Listen to Ben Lewis discuss the book on [this podcast] by LINKSE HOBBY.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements Introduction: Karl Kautsky’s Democratic Republicanism Part 1 Karl Kautsky, Parliamentarism and Democracy (1893) Preface to the First Edition Preface to the Second Edition Introduction 1 Direct Legislation in Prehistory 2 Direct Legislation in Civilisation 3 Urban Democracy in Antiquity 4 The Representative System 5 Monarchical and Parliamentary Absolutism 6 Modern Democracy 7 Rittinghausen’s Proposal 8 Drafting Laws 9 Implementing Laws 10 Jurisprudence and the Press 11 Parliamentarism and the Parties in England 12 Parliamentarism and the Working Classes 13 Direct Legislation by the People and the Class Struggle Part 2 Karl Kautsky, The Republic and Social Democracy in France (1905) 1 Clarifying the Dispute 2 The American Republic 3 The First Republic 4 The Second Republic and the Socialists 5 The Second Empire and the Paris Commune 6 The Constitution of the Third Republic 7 The Bourgeois Republicans at Work 8 Socialism in the Third Republic Part 3 Karl Kautsky, The Development of a Marxist (1924) Appendix: Synoptic Overview of the Drafts of the Erfurt Programme (1891) Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe Berlin council movement of 1919–20 proves that there was a left alternative beyond Social Democracy and Stalinism in the German Revolution. The movement combined an impressive mass mobilisation with extensive socialist and democratic aspirations that pointed far beyond the Weimar order. Berlin was not just the centre of the November Revolution of 1918, but also the most important arena of the Second Revolution that followed. For the first time, the movement is analysed here in all its diversity and on the basis of a broad range of sources. Beside the workers' and factory councils, it also includes councils of students, women, the unemployed and intellectuals. Central events such as the 1919 general strike and the struggle against the Kapp Putsch of 1920 are also examined.Table of ContentsForeword to the English Edition About the Author Abbreviations Introduction  The Subject, Its Historical Context and Its Significance  The Present State of Research  Methodology and Sources 1 The March 1919 General Strike in Berlin  The Course of Events – a Brief Outline  Strikes in the Other Regions  Objectives of the Leadership and Measures Taken  Cross-Regional Coordination  Pressure from Below: The Rank and File of the Movement  Official Strike Demands  Scope and Capacity for Mobilisation  Organisation of the Strike Movement  Citizens’ Council and General Strike  The Role of the Media  Street Fighting during the Strike  The Response of the Governments  Interim Conclusion 2 The Demonstration outside the Reichstag on 13 January 1920  The Opposition Is Forming  The Course of Events at the Demonstration  Consequences  Contradictory Interpretations  The Role of the Security Police and Military  Interim Conclusion 3 The Kapp-Lüttwitz Putsch and the Council Movement  Starting Shot from the Right: The Putsch  Backlash from the Left: The General Strike in Germany and Berlin  Workers’ Organisations: For and against the Councils  A Second Spring for the Councils? Reconstruction and Activities  Interim Conclusion 4 The Revolutionary Central Office of Factory Councils  Foundation and Organisational Structure  Programme  Rivalry with the Trade Unions  Interim Conclusion 5 Pupil Councils  A Special Case: Gustav Wyneken’s Attempt at Reform  The Starting Point: Vocational Schools and the Youth Workers’ Movement  Structure of the Pupil Councils  The School Strike in the Summer of 1919  Relationship to the ‘Actual’ Council Movement  Interim Conclusion 6 Unemployed Councils  Unemployment in Berlin  Organisational Development of the Unemployed Councils  Objectives and Activities  Relations with the Other Sections of the Workers’ Movement  Interim Conclusion 7 The ‘Political Council of Intellectual Workers’ 8 Women and the Council Movement  Contemporary Reflections on the Integration of Women into the Councils  Women in Council Practice  Interim Conclusion 9 The Council Policies of the Left Parties and Trade Unions  Origins and Contents of Article 165 of the Weimar Constitution and of the Factory Councils Act  Free Trade Unions: General German Trade Union Federation, DMV and AfA  SPD  KPD  USPD  Interim Conclusion 10 Summary and Conclusion  Aims and Concepts  Organisational Structures  Modes of Action  Relationship to the State  Council Movement and Revolution Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisCultures of Uneven and Combined Development seeks to explore and develop Leon Trotsky’s concept of uneven and combined development. In particular, it aims to adapt the political and historical analysis which originated in Trotsky’s Russia for use within the contemporary field of world literature. As such, it draws together the work of scholars from both the field of international relations and the field of literature and the arts. This collection will therefore be of particular interest to anyone who is interested in new ways of understanding world literary texts, or interested in new ways of applying Trotsky’s revolutionary politics to the contemporary world order. Contributors: Alexander Anievas, Gail Day, James Christie, Kamran Matin, Kerem Nisancioglu, Luke Cooper, Michael Niblett, Neil Davidson, Nesrin Degirmencioglu, Robert Spencer, Steve Edwards.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures Notes on Contributors Part 1 Introducing the Field Introduction: Why Cultures of Uneven and Combined Development?  James Christie and Nesrin Degirmencioglu 1 Uneven and Combined Development as a Universal Aspect of Capitalist Modernity  Neil Davidson Part 2 Critiquing Eurocentrism 2 Troubling Time and Space in World Politics: Reimagining Western Modernity in the Atlantic Mirror  Alexander Anievas and Kerem Nisancioglu 3 The Iranian Revolution in the Mirror of Uneven and Combined Development  Kamran Matin 4 Rationalist or Nationalist? The Eighteenth-Century Public Sphere  Luke Cooper Part 3 Towards a Theory of Culture 5 Uneven and Combined Development: Between Capitalist Modernity and Modernism  Neil Davidson 6 Fredric Jameson and the Rise of World Literature: From World Systems Theory to Uneven and Combined Development  James Christie Part 4 Reading under the Sign of Uneven and Combined Development 7 Late Capitalism in Contemporary Fiction  Robert Spencer 8 Differential Time and Aesthetic Form: Uneven and Combined Capitalism in the Work of Allan Sekula  Gail Day and Steve Edwards 9 Aesthetics of Uneven and Combined Development: Tanpınar and Dos Passos at a World Literary Conjuncture  Nesrin Degirmencioglu 10 Demon Landscapes, Uneven Ecologies: Folk-Spirits in Guyanese Fiction  Michael Niblett Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn How Language Informs Mathematics Dirk Damsma shows how Hegel’s and Marx’s systematic dialectical analysis of mathematical and economic language helps us understand the structure and nature of mathematical and capitalist systems. More importantly, Damsma shows how knowledge of the latter can inform model assumptions and help improve models. His book provides a blueprint for an approach to economic model building that does away with arbitrarily chosen assumptions and is sensitive to the institutional structures of capitalism. In light of the failure of mainstream economics to understand systemic failures like the financial crisis and given the arbitrary character of most assumptions in mainstream models, such an approach is desperately needed.Table of ContentsList of Figure and Tables Acknowledgements Brief Contents Note on the Style of Referencing and the Use of Capitalisation and Emphasis in this Work List of Symbols Introduction  1 On Marx’s and Hegel’s Dialectical Methods  Introduction  1 The Chronology of Hegel’s and Marx’s Historical and Systematic Dialectic  2 Hegel’s Method  3 Marx’s Comments on Hegel, Their Implications and Marx’s Twist on Hegel’s Dialectical Method  4 Commentators on and Studies of Marx’s Dialectics  Summary and Conclusions  Preview  2 The Dialectical Foundations of Mathematics  Introduction  1 Previous Literature on Hegel and Mathematics  2 Hegel’s Determination of the Quantitative  A Quality  2.1 Being  2.2 Nothing  2.3 Becoming  2.4 Presence  2.5 Something and Other  2.6 One and Many Ones  2.7 Attraction and Repulsion  B Quantity  2.8 Quantity  2.9 Continuous and Discrete Magnitude  2.10 Quantum and Number  2.11 Unit and Amount  2.12 Limit  2.13 Intensive and Extensive Magnitude  C Measure  2.14 Measure  3 Hegel’s Determination of Mathematical Mechanics  A Space and Time  3.1 Space  3.2 Spatial Dimensions  3.3 The Point  3.4 The Line  3.5 The Plane  3.6 Distinct Space  3.7 Time  3.8 Temporal Dimensions  3.9 Now  3.10 Place  3.11 Motion  3.12 Matter  Summary and Conclusions: How This Dialectic Reflects on Mathematics  Appendix: Comparison of the Determination of the Quantitative in the Wissenschaft and the Encyclopädie  A1 Being, Nothing, Becoming, Presence, Something and Others  A2 Qualitative Limit  A3 Finitude and Infinity  A4 True Infinite  A5 Being-for-self  A6 One, Many Ones, Repulsion, Attraction, Quantity, Continuous and Discrete Magnitude, Quantum, Number, Unit and Amount, Quantitative Limit and Intensive and Extensive Magnitude  A7 Quantitative Infinity  A8 Direct Ratio  A9 Inverse Ratio  A10 Ratio of Powers  A11 Measure  Concluding Remarks  3 Marx’s Systematic Dialectics and Mathematics  Introduction  1 Marx’s Acquaintance with and Ideas on Mathematics  2 Marx’s Exhibition of Capitalism as a System: The Systematic-Dialectical Position  2.1 Sociation  2.2 Dissociation  2.3 Association: The Exchange Relation  2.4 The Commodity, Exchangeability and the Bargain  2.5 Value in Exchange  2.6 The Simple, Expanded and General Commodity Form and the Money Form of Value  2.7 Money as Measure of Value, Means of Circulation and End of Exchange  2.8 Capital  2.9 Constant and Variable Capital  2.10 Accumulation  2.11 The Money Capital, Production Capital and Commodity Capital Circuits  2.12 Fixed and Circulating Capital  2.13 Simple Reproduction, Means of Production, Consumption Goods, Total Social Capital and Expanded Reproduction  2.14 General Rate of Profit, Many Capitals, Competition and Minimum Prices of Production  3 The Role of Mathematics in Marx’s Investigation and Exhibition in Capital: the Case of Marx’s “Schemes of Reproduction”  3.1 Simple Reproduction   3.1.1 The Model   3.1.2 Conclusions  3.2 Expanded Reproduction   3.2.1 The Model   3.2.2 Conclusions  Summary and Conclusions on the Role of Mathematics in Systematic-Dialectical Investigation and Exhibition  4 A Formal Dynamic Reconstruction of Marx’s Schemes of Reproduction along Dialectical Lines  Introduction  1 The Model for Simple Reproduction  2 Extensive Growth of Total Social Capital  3 The Model for Expanded Reproduction  Summary and Conclusions  Appendix: Derivations  A1 Accumulation and Growth Rate for Department c as a Function of Accumulation and Growth in Department p with Extensive Growth (expression 4.15 and 4.16)  A2 Constant Capital’s Growth Rate for Department c for the Case of Expanded Reproduction (expression 4.19)  A3 The Condition for Constant Rates of Accumulation in Case of Expanded Reproduction (expression 4.20)  Summary and General Conclusions  References  Author Index  Subject Index

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Book SynopsisFor almost 150 years, scholars have been debating how to interpret Marx’s seminal work Capital while they had access to just some of Marx’s economic manuscripts. This changed in 2013 with the publication of all the known economic writings of Marx and Engels in the Marx-Engels Gesamtausgabe (MEGA). One can now reconstruct the lines of intellectual development, and one can also explore in detail how Friedrich Engels went about compiling volumes II and III of Capital from the vast legacy of manuscripts that Marx left behind after his death in 1883. It should be possible, now, to develop a more comprehensive and accurate picture of Marx as an economic theoretician. This volume of essays aims to initiate this process. Contributors are: Christopher J. Arthur, Matthias Bohlender, Timm Graßmann, Jorge Grespan, Gerald Hubmann, Heinz D. Kurz, Marcel van der Linden, Kenji Mori, Fred Moseley, Lucia Pradella, Geert Reuten, Regina Roth, and Carl-Erich Vollgraf.Table of ContentsList of Tables and Figures Notes on Contributors 1 Introduction  Marcel van der Linden and Gerald Hubmann 2 Editing the legacy: Friedrich Engels and Marx’s Capital  Regina Roth 3 About the beginning and end of capitalism. Observations on the consequences possibly derived from the discoveries of MEGA²  Jorge Grespan 4 Marx’s further work on Capital after publishing Volume 1: on the completion of Part II of the MEGA²  Carl-Erich Vollgraf 5 Marx after the MEGA² edition: a comment  Heinz D. Kurz 6 The development of Marx’s theory of the falling rate of profit in the four drafts of Capital  Fred Moseley 7 Did Marx relinquish his concept of capital’s historical dynamic? A comment on Fred Moseley  Timm Graßmann 8 The redundant transformation to prices of production: a Marx-immanent critique and reconstruction  Geert Reuten 9 Comment on Geert Reuten  Christopher J. Arthur 10 Karl Marx’s Books of Crisis and the concept of double crisis: A Ricardian Legacy  Kenji Mori 11 Marx meets Manchester. The Manchester Notebooks as a starting point of an unfinish(ed)able project?  Matthias Bohlender 12 Marx’s itineraries to Capital: on Matthias Bohlender’s ‘Marx meets Manchester’  Lucia Pradella Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAlongside the ‘critical theory’ of the Frankfurt School, West Germany was also home to another influential Marxist current known as the Marburg School. In this volume, Marburg disciple Lothar Peter traces the school’s history and situates it in the political discourse and developments of its time. The renowned political scientist Wolfgang Abendroth plays a large role, but unlike most histories of the Marburg School Peter also takes the sociologists Werner Hofmann and Heinz Maus into account as well as their many students and successors. They were united by the conviction that teaching and scholarship must necessarily be tied to the practical goal of transforming society – an approach that met with considerable opposition in the harshly anti-Communist atmosphere of the period. This book was first published in 2014 as Marx an die Uni. Die "Marburger Schule" – Geschichte, Probleme, Akteure by PapyRossa Verlag, Cologne, ISBN 978-38-94-38546-0. With a new Introduction by Ingar Solty.Table of ContentsPreface Abbreviations Introduction  Ingar Solty 1 Abendroth School or Marburg School?  1 What Constitutes a School of Thought?  2 Why the ‘Marburg School’? 2 First Phase: Gradual Formation, 1950 to the Mid-1960s  1 Social and Political Context  2 Wolfgang Abendroth (1906–85)  3 Students, Doctoral Candidates, Staff 3 Second Phase: Emergence of an ‘Epistemic Community’, Mid-1960s to Early 1970s  1 Social and Political Context  2 Werner Hofmann (1922–69)  3 Heinz Maus (1911–78)  4 Abendroth, Hofmann, and Maus’s Understanding of Marx and Marxism  5 The Marburg and Frankfurt Schools: ‘Social Critique’ or ‘Artistic Critique’?  6 Dominance of the Marxist Paradigm 4 Third Phase: Continuity and New Challenges. Abendroth’s Retirement to the Early 1980s  1 Social and Political Context  2 The Political Sociology of Worker Consciousness and the Trade Unions (Frank Deppe)  3 The History of German Social Democracy (Georg Fülberth and Jürgen Harrer)  4 Studying Fascism (Reinhard Kühnl)  5 The Political Sociology of Latin America (Dieter Boris)  6 External Pressure, Administrative Interference, Difficult Encounters  7 A Controversial History of the Trade Unions  8 Theoretical Conflict: The Identity of Marxism 5 The Marburg School since the 1980s  1 A Premature Farewell  2 A Contribution to Constitutional Law (Peter Römer)  3 Marburg in the Historikerstreit (Reinhard Kühnl)  4 Activities and Interactions in the Academic Sphere 6 Fourth Phase: From the ‘Epochal Rupture’ of 1989–90 to the Early 2000s  1 Social and Political Context  2 Confronting the ‘Epochal Rupture’ (Georg Fülberth)  3 Reacting to a Changed Situation  4 Excursus: A Conversation between Ulrich Beck and Frank Deppe on the State of Political Opposition in Germany 7 Scholarly Focuses since the 1990s  1 Research Activity and a New Conflict  2 Social Movements in Latin America (Dieter Boris)  3 Capitalism and Kapitalistik (Georg Fülberth)  4 Political Thought from the Late Nineteenth to the Early Twenty-First Century (Frank Deppe) 8 Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn Digitalized Finance, Edemilson Paraná investigates the relationship between the development of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and the process of financialization of economies on a global scale, particularly in Brazil. The book explains the influence of ICT in the emergence and consolidation, especially from the 1980s, of new forms of operation and management of the globalized financial system, highly connected, operated in “real time” with intensive use of technological features, and how these advances are related with the economic and social changes in question. It also describes how contemporary capital markets work, where the search for earnings is leveraged by sophisticated mathematical models, robots and automated trading software that seek financial gains in the milliseconds scale.Trade Review"Edemilson Paraná has provided an astute and solid analysis of the role of ‘Information and Communication Technologies’ (ICT) in the intensification and strengthening of the financialization process of the global economy [...]. [H]e demonstrates that, just as the machinery of the industrial revolution made the already formally existent subordination of labor to capital a reality, the untiring development of the ICTs over the past few decades, by firmly establishing the compression of the space-time that is the nature of capital, has meant the increasing and very real subordination of the logic of productive accumulation to the logic of financial accumulation [...]." - Leda Paulani, University of São Paulo "Edemilson Paraná offers the reader a rich overview of the impact of financial globalization [...]. This book shows in detail how these processes take place, and how the application of the most advanced information and communication technologies have supported the rise of new ways of exploiting people, poor countries and nature, including a detailed and unique analysis of the restructuring of the relations of control and domination in Brazil." - Alfredo Saad Filho, SOAS University of LondonTable of ContentsForeword  Maria de Lourdes Rollemberg Mollo Preface  Luiz Gonzaga de Mello Belluzzo Acknowledgements List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations 1 Introduction  1.1 Methodological Considerations 2 Capitalism at the Beginning of the 21st Century: Globalized Finance  2.1 A Brief Review of the Theories of Financialization  2.2 Interest Bearing Capital and Fictitious Capital  2.3 Globalization of Capital: Neoliberalism and Finance-dominated Accumulation Regime 3 Technics, Capital and Society: The Material Bases of Technological Development  3.1 Investigating the Technological Practice from Its Social Content  3.2 Technological Development and Financialization of the Economy: Theoretical Starting Points 4 Digitalized Finance: Informatization at the Service of Financial Dominance  4.1 The State of the Art of Digitalized Finance at the Beginning of the 21st Century  4.2 The Consequences of Digitalization in the Capitals Markets  4.3 Recent Trends: The Next Steps for Digitalized Finance 5 Digitalized Finance in the Brazilian Context  5.1 A Brief Overview of the Technical-Operational Development of the Capitals Market in Brazil  5.2 The Development of ICT and the Transformations of the Brazilian Capitals Market: Elective Affinities 6 Final Considerations References Index

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Book SynopsisVicente Lombardo Toledano was the founder of numerous labour union organisations in Mexico and Latin America between the 1920s to the 1960s. He was not only an organiser but also a broker between the unions, the government, and business leaders, able to disentangle difficult conflicts. He cooperated closely with the governments of Mexico and other Latin American nations and worked with the representatives of the Soviet Union when he considered it useful. As a result he was alternately seen as a government stooge or a communist, even though he was never a member of the party or of the Mexican government administration. Daniela Spenser's is the first biography of Lombardo Toledano based on his extensive private papers, on primary sources from European, Mexican and American archives, and on personal interviews. Her even-keeled portrayal of the man counters previous hagiographies and/or vilifications.Trade Review"Spenser provides a highly readable portrait of Lombardo Toledano, deftly navigating the complexities of Mexican domestic politics and global ideological crosscurrents. She is remarkably balanced, giving us insights into her subject’s worldview while not hesitating to present him in a critical light. [...] In Combat offers a clear and coherent view of a figure who stood at the heart of Mexico’s twentieth century." – Tony wood, Princeton University, in: HAHR (February, 2022), doi 10.1215/00182168-9497668 “… there is no doubt that Spenser has written a tome that will be cited for years to come. This work will prove useful not only to scholars interested in Lombardo Toledano himself but also to those who seek to learn more about postrevolutionary Mexico, Latin American labor movements, and even the transnational influence of the Soviet Union.” – Nathan Ellstrand, Loyola University Chicago, in: Humanities and Social Sciences Online (May, 2021) [Full review]Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations Abbreviations Introduction Part 1 Changing Times and Ideas 1 Family  1 The Village  2 Children  3 Vicente Lombardo Toledano  4 The Wise Man  5 The Family 2 Knowledge and Power  1 Renewal  2 The Break  3 On the Campaign Trail  4 From the Government Palace  5 On the Road to the Chamber of Deputies  6 The Trip  7 The Polemical Dispute  8 Ideological Passion 3 Exodus  1 In the CROM  2 Collapse  3 The Labour Law  4 The Road to the Left Part 2 Crusades 4 A Journey into the World of the Future  1 The Preparations  2 The Trip  3 Different Perspectives  4 Back in Mexico  5 The President and the Leader  6 The Gide Case 5 The Foundations of the Nation  1 The Preparations  2 The First Pillar  3 Into Action  4 The Schism  5 Disunity  6 The President and the Leader 6 A Continental Feat  1 In Santiago de Chile  2 The Planning  3 In the United States  4 In Europe  5 The Founding Congress  6 To the Attack Part 3 War: Threshold of a Better World? 7 Fight Fascism!  1 The Defeat of the Spanish Republic  2 Exile  3 Face to Face with Leon Trotsky  4 The Pact and Its Violation  5 In Soviet Intelligence  6 The Undesirable Anti-fascists 8 The Illusory Unity  1 On the Campaign Trail  2 The Victory  3 The Farewell  4 The Re-election  5 The Elusive Unity 9 The Fragile Harmony  1 The Latin American Panorama  2 The Congress  3 The Celebrated Trip  4 The Catavi Massacre  5 Coups and Blows  6 From Montevideo to Caracas  7 From Philadelphia to Cali  8 The Elusive Harmony Part 4 Animosities and Confrontations 10 For the Renewal of the Nation  1 The Future  2 On the Campaign Trail  3 The Roundtable  4 Elections in the CTM  5 The Expulsion  6 The Crisis of the Nation 11 For the Spilled Blood  1 The Postwar Map  2 In London  3 In Paris  4 In the Other Europe  5 Confrontations  6 In People’s China 12 Emancipation  1 Removing Obstacles  2 On an Inspection Tour  3 In Lima  4 The Third Congress  5 The Oil Workers  6 Failed Emancipation Part 5 On the Fronts of the Cold Peace 13 Rearmament  1 The People’s Party  2 UGOCM  3 Back on the Campaign Trail  4 Aftermath of Defeat  5 The Succession  6 The Cold Peace 14 Mission Completed  1 Anti-communist Liberalism  2 Liberal Internationalism  3 In Decline  4 The CTAL Dies in Bucharest  5 The CTAL Completed Its Historic Mission 15 The Road to 1968  1 PPS  2 Against the Current  3 On the Final Campaign Trail  4 Schism in the Party  5 1968 Epilogue: Testament and Testimonies Bibliography and Works Cited Index Illustrations

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Book SynopsisBetween the years 1964 and 1974, Ethiopian post-secondary students studying at home, in Europe, and in North America produced a number of journals. In these they explored the relationship between social theory and social change within the project of building a socialist Ethiopia. Ethiopia in Theory examines the literature of this student movement, together with the movement’s afterlife in Ethiopian politics and society, in order to ask: what does it mean to write today about the appropriation and indigenisation of Marxist and mainstream social science ideas in an Ethiopian and African context; and, importantly, what does the archive of revolutionary thought in Africa teach us about the practice of critical theory more generally?Trade ReviewListen to Elleni Centime Zeleke discuss the book with Madina Thiam in this podcast by the New Books Network (2020) "Ethiopia in Theory deserves the widest readership. First for its recovery of the intellectual and political enterprise of the last three Ethiopian generations through a dazzling method at once archival, literary, and auto/ethnographic. Second for illuminating a dark space in Twentieth-century global history: how intellectuals outside Europe, or in diasporas, put Marxism and ‘Western’ social sciences to work. Historians of elsewhere in the Tricontinent will find a valuable lens in this portrait of the intellectual origins, climax and aftermaths of the Ethiopian Revolution. For it was not just in Ethiopia that the emancipatory promise of c. 1960 collapsed through its own contradictions and yet, like the anchor to a blues chord, stubbornly persists." - Richard Drayton, Rhodes Professor of Imperial History, King’s College London, author of Nature's Government: Science, Imperial Britain, and the "Improvement" of the World. "Ethiopia in Theory is an ambitious, surprising book. Its focus is the Ethiopian student movement of the 1960s and 1970s in Addis Ababa and across the globe, and its relationship to the great upheavals of revolutionary Ethiopia. It gives us a highly original analysis of the ideas produced by this movement based on a close reading of its texts, but does much more than that too. It offers not just an analysis of the social science ideas of the students themselves and the ways in which they shaped and were shaped by Ethiopian history, but also of the categories used to study those ideas. This double move reflects a deep interest in understanding the politics of knowledge production in Ethiopia and Africa, and gives us a novel means of doing so. It is a move that is also rooted in Zeleke’s own life story, and is thus an act of self-recovery too. This crossing of disciplines, genres and viewpoints has produced an extraordinarily productive and engaging account of a momentous time." - Jocelyn Alexander, Professor of Commonwealth Studies, University of Oxford, author of The Unsettled Land: The Politics of Land and State-making in Zimbabwe, 1893-2003 "This superb book will transform all discussions concerning the production of knowledge. Ranging through the archives, moving across philosophy and critical theory, and traversing social history, Ethiopia in Theory frames a stunningly original account of the Ethiopian student movement of the 1960s and ‘70s as a site for the production of radical social science. Rather than the mere reception of revolutionary theory in an African context, Zeleke shows us the dynamics of its generation. There is truly nothing in the literature that comes close to the depth of this multi-leveled, interdisciplinary study. Zeleke’s outstanding book deserves the widest possible readership in social history, African studies, post-colonial analysis, and Marxist and critical theory in general." - David McNally, Cullen Distinguished Professor of History, University of Houston, author of Monsters of the Market: Zombies, Vampires and Global Capitalism "Political research on the period from roughly 1966 to the mid-1970s often fail to articulate the global dimensions of student movements in African countries. This much-overdue study of the Ethiopian example offers, with nuance, rich historical evidence, and wonderfully clear prose, the revolutionary situation in which, as its author Elleni Centime Zeleke aptly puts it, the bandit is transformed into “a guerilla or leader.” In response to those who cry “illiberalism,” this work reveals an alignment with other movements of what is at times called “the black radical tradition” through which the response, echoed with explanatory force and defiance through the corridors of history, is that those at the bottom cannot and should not wait. As such, this extraordinary book also illuminates the complexity, strengths, and shortcomings of revolutionary forms of knowledge and praxis in Afro-modernity." - Lewis R. Gordon, Professor of Philosophy, University of Connecticut, author of Existentia Africana and What Fanon Said "An original and pathbreaking study of the ideology and the intellectual traditions that informed the Ethiopian revolution of 1974. Ethiopia in Theory provides sophisticated analysis of the ideas of the Ethiopian student movement of the 1960s and the way in which these ideas have continued to shape state policies in contemporary Ethiopia. This meticulously researched book offers a unique perspective for the study of revolutions and the socialist experience in Africa as well as the process of local knowledge production. It will undoubtedly appeal to a wide range of scholars beyond the field of African studies." - Ahmad Sikainga, Professor of African History, Ohio State University, author of City of Steel and Fire: A social History of Atbara, Sudan’s Railway Town, 1906-1984 “In Ethiopia in Theory, Elleni Centime Zeleke imaginatively transgresses disciplinary boundaries to offer a rendering of the 1974 Ethiopian revolution that is part memoir, part historical ethnography, part political theory. […] Zeleke’s rich engagement with the Ethiopian student movement serves as a critical reminder of the plurality of black geographies of struggle, and it is precisely this plurality that is generative of new memories, and new imaginations of the future.” - Samar Al-Bulushi, University of California, Irvine, in: Humanities and Social Sciences Online (2020) “… in attuning us to the constitution of social science as an ideological and political battlefield, Zeleke offers a model of how we might map the global Third World efforts to indigenize social theory in service of social transformation.” - Adom Getachew, University of Chicago, in: Humanities and Social Sciences Online (2020) “… the book offers a reading of what it means to be human in a world that has been made by the social sciences. […] In order to appreciate the political imperative, epistemic elaboration, and the social ramifications of this social science project, one must be willing to step outside of it, to make an account of it and to tell its story. This, in effect, is what Zeleke does with great care, rigor, and urgency.” - Wendell Marsh, Rutgers University-Newark, in: Humanities and Social Sciences Online (2020) “Elleni’s notable contribution with this book is in showing the lasting legacy of the student movement”. - Hewan Semon Marye, in: Aethiopica 24, 2021Table of ContentsForeword  Donald L. Donham Acknowledgments Abbreviations Note on Citations Introduction  1 Revolutionary Ethiopia  2 Background to the Project  3 Fieldwork  4 Structure of the Book Part 1 Knowledge Production and Social Change in Ethiopia 1 The Children of the Revolution: Toward an Alternative Method  1 I Don’t Have Tizita 2 Social Science Is a Battlefield: Rethinking the Historiography of the Ethiopian Revolution  1 Early Histories of the Revolution and the International Left  2 Historiography of the Liberated Zones  3 Historical Contiguity  4 The Student Movement Grows Up 3 Challenge: Social Science in the Literature of the Ethiopian Student Movement  1 Challenge 1965–9: The Moment of Departure  2 Our Collective Backwardness  3 The Method of the Idea  4 The Making of a Programme  5 The Moment of Manoeuvre: Debates on the National Question  6 Challenge in the World  7 Conclusion 4 When Social Science Concepts Become Neutral Arbiters of Social Conflict: Rethinking the 2005 Elections in Ethiopia  1 The 2005 Federal Elections  2 Discussion 5 Passive Revolution: Living in the Aftermath of the 2005 Elections Part 2 Theory as Memoir 6 The Problem of the Social Sciences in Africa  1 The Problem of the Social Sciences in Africa  2 Rethinking Transitions to Capitalism  3 Knowledge Production in Africa  4 Anthropological Nature and the Possibility of Critique  5 Critical-Practical Thought  6 The Human as Subject and Object  7 A Theory of Human Development  8 Coda Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe Bourgeois Charm of Karl Marx & the Ideological Irony of American Jurisprudence employs a well-known body of work, Marx’s, to explain the inevitable limits of scholarship, in hopes to encourage academic boldness, and diversity, especially within American jurisprudence. While scholarly meaning-making has been addressed in specific academic areas, mostly linguistics and philosophy, it has never been addressed in a triangular relationship between the text (T1) and its instigator (S1), as well as its subsequent interpellator (S2). Furthermore, while addressed as a result of difference, it has never been addressed for today’s liberal theory, which includes liberal jurisprudence, through the mirror of Marxist difference. Scholarship is the unique product of the instigator’s private and public subjectivity, as all theory is aimed to be communicated and used by the scholarly community and beyond. Understanding its public life, textual instigators (S1) aim to control its meaning employing various research methods to observe reality and then to convey their narrative, or “philosophy”. But meaning is not fixed; it is negotiated by S1 and those theories interpellate (S2), according to their own private and public subjectivity, which covers their ideology. Negotiated meaning is always a surprise to both S1 and S2, surprise which is both ironic and ideological. The book has ten chapters, an index and a list of referencesTable of Contents Acknowledgments  List of Illustrations  Introduction  1Marx, Irony and Ideology – Negotiating Meaning  2Meaning as a Result of Textual Instigation and Interpellation  1Contextualizing Marx: Differentiating to Embrace or to Reject?  1Marx and Dewey  2Linguistic and Cultural Barriers to Marx’s Works  3Cultural Lifespan  4Marxian Ideology as Soviet, ergo, Undesired, Subjectivity  5Marx’s Un-American Attitude toward Religion  6Marx’s Human Progress and Self-Promotion  2Marxian or Marxism: Labels Differentiating Content or Fabricating Difference?  3Textual Differences and Marx’s Interdisciplinary Dialectics  1Dialectics and Ideology: Thinking, Researching and Incorporating Observations  2Marxian Interdisciplinary Dialectics  3Dialectics and Post-Marxian Scholarship  4Private Subjectivity, Alienation and Theory Production  1Alienation as Creative Reification  2Alienation and Ideological Resistance to Power Structures  3Karl Marx, the Alienated Alienating Intellectual  5Ideology as Public (Political) Subjectivity  1Ideology through the Ages  2Marxian and Marxist Views on Ideology  3Academic (Ideological) Purges?  4Marx and Ideological Identity  5Ideology and Ideological Propaganda  6Mass Media – Ideology Is the Message  6The Irony of Scholarship Production  1Encoded Irony in T₁  2Dormant Irony as T₁ Textual Omissions  3Textual Irony and Rorty’s Intellectual Ironist  7Ideological Irony – S₂ Actuating T₁’s Meaning  1Irony and Direct Scholastic Criticism  2Scholarship as (Ironic) Polite Criticis  8The Bearable Lightness of Jurisprudential Irony  1Jurisprudential Irony as Inescapable Trade-Off between Scholastic Ambition and Reality  2Jurisprudential Irony and the Socratic Method of Teaching Law  3Jurisprudential Irony – Byproduct of Legal Hegemony  4Encoded Jurisprudential Irony  5United States Supreme Court Justices as Embodied Irony: The Late Justice Scalia and Justice Gorsuch  9Ironical Ideology, Difference of Meaning and Philosophical Camaraderie  1Plato’s Concepts of Just and Justice  2Aristotle’s Dialectical Universals  3Thomas Hobbes’ and John Locke’s Ideological Differences and Different Epistemological Conclusions  4The Intersection between the Abstract and Concrete Facets of the Law According to Montesquieu, Kant and Rousseau  5Jeremy Bentham’s Common Sense and Grotius’ Technocratic Approach to Law  6American Jurisprudence and Marx: Strange Bedfellows … Not  10Irony, Jurisprudential Meaning-Making and Ideological Camaraderie  1Classical Liberalism  2Law as Science or the Rejection of Ideology  3Formalism and Realism: Two Sides of the Same Coin  4The Limits of Rawls and Dworkin: Justice and Historical Contingency  5Critical Legal Studies and Marx  6Feminism and Queer Theory  7Intersectionality – Bridging the Gap between Theory and Reality  Summary and Conclusion  References  Index

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Book SynopsisWhat does a Dutchman have to do with the rise of the Chinese Communist Party? Finding Allies and Making Revolution by Tony Saich reveals how Henk Sneevliet (alias Maring), arriving as Lenin’s choice for China work, provided the communists with two of their most enduring legacies: the idea of a Leninist party and the tactic of the united front. Sneevliet strived to instill discipline and structure for the left-leaning intellectuals searching for a solution to China’s humiliation. He was not an easy man and clashed with the Chinese comrades and his masters in Moscow. This new analysis is based on Sneevliet’s diaries and reports, together with contemporary materials from key Chinese figures, and important documents held in the Comintern’s China archive.Table of ContentsPreface and a Note on Sources Acknowledgements Transcription Pseudonyms of Sneevliet while in China Abbreviations 1 Introduction 2 Searching for Allies: Soviet Interests in China  1 Early Soviet Activities in China  2 The Comintern Develops a Strategy for the East  3 Preparing for Voitinsky’s Visit  4 Coordinating Revolutionary Movements in the East 3 Creating a Communist Party  1 China on the Eve of and after Voitinsky’s Arrival  2 Voitinsky’s Mission in China  3 The Party Falls Apart  4 The Development of Communist Small Groups across China 4 The Chinese Communist Party Decides its Path, Sneevliet Suggests a Different Route  1 Post-Congress Differences  2 Sneevliet Travels South and Sees the Revolution’s Future  3 Sneevliet Travels South and Sees the Future 5 Concern in China, Acceptance in Moscow  1 Reporting in Beijing and Shanghai  2 Reporting to the Comintern  3 Sneevliet Outlines His Views 6 Cajoling the Chinese Communist Party, Uniting with the Guomindang  1 The Changing Scene in China: the Chinese Communist Party Shifts its Stance  2 Hangzhou: a Time of Decision  3 Sun Yat-sen, Wu Peifu and Soviet Russia  4 Sun and Joffe Reach an Understanding 7 Doubts in Moscow, Continued Opposition in China  1 Opposition in Moscow? 8 Chinese Communist Party Suffers a Setback, Guomindang Cooperation Cemented  1 CER Negotiations with the Far Eastern Republic and Zhang Zuolin  2 Soviet Aid for Sun Yat-sen  3 The February Seventh Strike: a Sobering Experience  4 The Third Congress of the Chinese Communist Party: Showdown  5 Aftermath Epilogue: Development and Disaster: Who Was to Blame? Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn Apostles of Revolution? Marxism and Biblical Studies Christina Petterson sheds light on the collaboration between Biblical studies and liberal ideology. Marxist analysis of the bible is spreading, but clarity about what constitutes Marxist readings and Marxist categories of analysis is lacking – a lack of clarity compounded by the different strands within Marxist politics, and its subtle resonances in biblical scholarship. The author examines the interplay between Biblical studies and liberal ideology in two ways. First, by presenting and discussing some of the central Marxist categories of analysis, namely history, ideology and class, and how these categories have been co-opted into biblical studies and in the process lost their radical edge. Second, by discussing the emergence of the discipline of biblical studies during the Enlightenment, and to what extent the containment strategies of biblical studies overlap with those of capitalism.

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Book SynopsisMarx's oeuvre is vast but there are key elements of his ever evolving, class-based contribution to social theory. Declining usefulness for him of Hegelian philosophy and his deepening confrontation with Ricardian political economy were expressions. While the French edition of Capital is closest to Marx’s mature thought, Engels did not understand how work on Russia related to Marx’s evolution, and Engels distorted the outcome. Accumulation of capital is particularly difficult conceptually, including use of ‘primitive accumulation’, and is carefully addressed, as is composition of capital. After Marx, Luxemburg is the most significant contributor to Marxism and her works on political economy and on nationalism are highlighted here. The modern topic of state conspiracies, too often avoided, concludes the book. Troubling issues, however, remain.Trade Review“The virtue of Zarembka’s book is that it examines the different ways in which Marx made a contribution to the social sciences. It offers to the reader much that is original and significant.… He explains in clear and accessible language key concepts of Marx’s economics, and how these have been interpreted by writers such as Rosa Luxemburg. This is a book which can be highly recommended both to specialists in Marx’s ideas and to the wider reading public.” -- James D. White, Critical Sociology, 47:7/8 (Nov 2021, pp. 1349-1353)Table of Contents List of Tables  List of Abbreviations  Note on the Citing of Capital, Volume I  Introduction Part 1: The Atrophy of Philosophy  1 The Problem of Hegel   1 Hegel and Capital, Volume I, 1st German Edition   2 2nd German and French Editions of Volume I   3 Sieber on Marx and Criticizing His Use of Hegel; Marx’s Reaction    3.1 Sieber’s 1871 Book    3.2 Sieber, Mikhaylovsky and Marx, 1874–1877    3.3 1881: Marx’s Comment on Sieber and Reply to Zasulich   4 After Marx’s 1883 Death, Sieber’s Decline and Plekhanov’s Influence   5 Lenin’s Evolution toward Dialectical Materialism   6 Conclusion Part 2: Key Elements of Political Economy  2 Marx’s Evolution and Revolution with the Concept of Value   1 Poverty of Philosophy (1847): economic Concepts Historically Conditioned   2 Contribution (1859): abstract Labor as the Substance of Value   3 Capital, Volume I (1867): labor Power   4 Other Additions in Volume I: a) Socially Necessary Labor Time, b) Form of Value, c) Labor Time in Constant Capital    4.1 Socially Necessary Labor Time    4.2 Form of Value    4.3 Labor Time Embodied in Constant Capital   5 Marx’s Retrospective on Value  3 Not Engels, but Marx’s Final Edition of Capital, Volume I (1882)   1 Marx’s Capital, Volume I: Parts I–VI   2 Volume I: the Structural Divisions Desired by Marx, Contrasted to Engels’ Editions   3 Marx’s Parts VII and VIII (1882) Compared with Engels’ 3rd Edition (1883)  4 Text: “The General Law of Capitalist Accumulation”, Sections 1–4, as Desired by Marx (1882)   1 Section 1: the Increased Demand for Labour-Power that Accompanies Accumulation, the Composition of Capital Remaining the Same   2 Section 2: changes in the Composition of Capital with the Progress of Accumulation and Relative Diminution of that Part of Capital that is Exchanged against Labor Power   3 Section 3: progressive Production of a Relative Surplus-Population or Industrial Reserve Army   4 Section 4: different Forms of the Relative Surplus-Population. The General Law of Capitalist Accumulation   5 Section 5: illustrations of the General Law of Capitalist Accumulation  5 Marx on Primitive Accumulation Contrasted to Engels’ Handling of It   1 Why, for Marx, Primitive Accumulation became a New Part VIII   2 Engels’ Handling of the English (1887) and 4th German (1890) Editions of VolumeI   3 Engels’ Continuing Failure to Recognize Marx’s Advances   4 Postscript: Marx’s Primitive Accumulation Conflated with Modern Dispossessions/Enclosures  6 Marxist Accumulation of Capital?   1 Accumulation of Capital in Capital, Volume I   2 Schemes of Reproduction in Capital, Volume II   3 Ambiguity   4 “Marxist Accumulation of Capital”   5 An Algebraic Model of Marxist Accumulation with Fixed Constant Capital Included  7 Three Troubling Issues   1 Conundrum: value under Marxist Accumulation of Capital   2 Sieber’s Query of Value in Marx   3 Prejudices of Marx and Engels  8 The Composition of Capital Clarified Theoretically, Empirically   1 Materialized Composition of Capital and the Rate of Profit   2 Luxemburg’s Recognition of the Materialized Composition, Considering It to be Rising   3 Marx’s and Engels’ Estimations for Cotton Spinning   4 Estimates of the Composition of Capital, Post-World War II   5 Updated Estimation for the United States    5.1 Introduction by Shaikh of a Revised Methodology for Capital Stock Measurement    5.2 Quality Adjustment in Capital Stock Measurement    5.3 Paitaridis and Tsoulfidis’ Implementation of Shaikh’s Methodology    5.4 Sector Estimates   6 Limitations of the Current Discussion  9 Luxemburg’s Accumulation of Capital and Consideration of the Evidence   1 The Issue Luxemburg Addressed   2 Luxemburg’s Critique of Marx on Accumulation and Her Response to Bauer’s Criticism    2.1 Bauer’s Critique and Luxemburg’s Reply   3 Criticism of Luxemburg’s Accumulation after her Death: Bukharin to Shaikh   4 Luxemburg Gets Assists from Robinson and Kowalik   5 Historical Accumulation and Fraction of Surplus Value Required Part 3: Considering Nationalism and State Machiavellianism  10 Luxemburg’s “The National Question and Antonomy” and Lenin’s Criticism  Narihiko Ito   1 The Features of Luxemburg’s Theory on the National Question   2 The Polish Question and Marx and Engels   3 Luxemburg’s “The National Question and Autonomy”    3.1 Negation of the Right of National Self-determination    3.2 Abolition of the Nation-State    3.3 Centralization or Local Autonomy    3.4 Conditions of “National Autonomy”    3.5 The Domain of “Polish Autonomy”    3.6 Is “The National Question and Autonomy” an Unfinished Work?   4 Lenin’s Criticism    4.1 Lenin’s Criticism    4.2 Nation-State vs. Autonomy    4.3 Theoretical Differences between Lenin and Luxemburg and Historical Reality    4.4 Luxemburg’s Theory on the National Question  5 Epilogue  11 Marxism, Machiavellianism, and Conspiracy Theory   1 A Limitation of Marxist Theory of the National State   2 Marx on Louis Bonaparte’s Conspiratorial Coup   3 Were Wars Initiated by Provocations, Prevarications, or False-Flags? Some Background    3.1 “Spotty Lincoln” and the Mexican-American War    3.2 The Explosion of the USS Maine and the Spanish-American War    3.3 Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand    3.4 Mukden or Manchurian Incident    3.5 Reichstag Burning and the Gleiwitz Incident    3.6 The Second Gulf of Tonkin Incident before Escalation in Vietnam   4 “Conspiracy Theory” Becomes a Weapon of the State after the Assassination of John F. Kennedy   5 Dismissing a Jury Trial Conviction of State Conspiracy in the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.   6 Utilization of the “Conspiracy Theory” Weapon: the World Trade Center and the Pentagon in 2001    6.1 Alleged Muslim Hijackers    6.2 Falling Skyscrapers    6.3 The Pentagon    6.4 Calls from Planes?    6.5 Insider Trading    6.6 September 11th and Conspiracy Theory    6.7 Conclusion  References  Index

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Book SynopsisInfluenced by anarchism and especially by the anarcho-syndicalist Georges Sorel, the political praxis of Peruvian activist and scholar José Carlos Mariátegui (1894–1930) deviated from the policies mandated by the Comintern. Mariátegui saw that new subjectivities would be required to bring about a revolution that would not recreate bourgeois or fascist structures. A new society, he argued, required a new culture. Thus, Mariátegui not only founded the Peruvian Socialist Party, but also created Amauta, a magazine that brought together the writings of the political and cultural avant-gardes. In the spirit of this approach, Bread and Beauty not only studies the political signifi cance of cultural habits and products; it also looks at the cultural underpinnings of the political proposals found in Mariátegui’s writings and actions.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements 1 Introduction  1 Mariátegui’s Reception in the English-Speaking World  2 Mariátegui in (Mostly) Latin America  3 On This Book 2 José Carlos Mariátegui: The Making of a Revolutionary in the Aristocratic Republic  1 Lima in the Early 1900s  2 Manuel González Prada and the Radicals  3 Colónida  4 A Sublime Dance  5 Turn Left  6 A Polemical Exile  7 Italy and Gramsci  8 Back to Peru and Death  9 After-Death and After-Life 3 Mariátegui, Sorel and Myth  1 Mariátegui and Sorel  2 The Myth in Sorel  3 Sorel in Mariátegui  4 Rational Irrationalism  5 Indigenous Cultures and the Myth  6 Conclusion 4 José Carlos Mariátegui: From Race to Culture  1 The Peruvian and International Context  2 The Discrediting of Racism  3 Mariátegui as Anti-racist  4 Conclusion 5 Mariátegui’s Cosmopolitan Nationalism  1 One World Not Three (or Two)  2 Making Peru Peruvian  3 A Brief Pre-history of Mariátegui’s Indigenismo  4 Thinking Globally, Writing Locally  5 The Nation as Myth  6 Conclusion 6 José Carlos Mariátegui and the Politics of Literature  1 Art, Revolution and Decadence  2 The Absolute in Bergson, Ibérico, and Mariátegui  3 Revolutionary Literature and Reality  4 On Chaplin  5 Literature on Trial  6 César Vallejo  7 Conclusion 7 José Carlos Mariátegui and the Culture of Politics  1 Mariátegui’s Anti-politics  2 Haya’s Impossible Candidacy  3 The New Spirit  4 The Platform of the Partido Nacionalista Libertador del Peru  5 Party Structure  6 Caudillismo or/and Fascism  7 Partido Socialista  8 Popular Fronts  9 Conclusion 8 Mariátegui and Argentina: Celebrating Buenos Aires, Criticising Communism  1 Buenos Aires and Mexico City as Cultural Meridians  2 Mestizo Argentina  3 Motley Crew  4 Defending Marxism  5 Defense of Heresy  6 Apologia pro vita sua  7 Amauta/Sur  8 Conclusion 9 Mariátegui and Che: Reflections on and around Walter Salles’s The Motorcycle Diaries  1 Hugo Pesce as Mediator  2 From Mariátegui to Che  3 The New Man  4 Mariátegui as a Founder of Discursivity  5 Conclusion: Mariátegui, Che and Borges 10 Epilogue: A Tale of Two Quijanos  1 The ‘Reencounter’  2 Mode of Production  3 Mariátegui’s Debates  4 Thirty Years Later  5 Mariátegui, Anti-Eurocentrism, and Modes of Production  6 Alternative Rationality  7 Quijano as the Paradigm  8 Conclusion: Mariátegui Unplugged Bibliography Index

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