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Book SynopsisIn Cuba Was Different, Even Sandvik Underlid explores the views of Cuban authorities, official press, and Party members as they reflect back on the collapse of Soviet and Eastern European socialism. In so doing, he contributes to a better understanding as to why the Cuban system – often associated with Fidel Castro’s leadership – did not itself collapse. Despite the loss of its most important allies, key ideological referents, and even most of its foreign trade, Cuba did not embrace capitalism. The author critically examines and analyzes the collapse of the USSR and Eastern Europe as reported in the Cuban Communist Party newspaper Granma, both as they unfolded and subsequently through the lens of additional interviews with individual Party members. This focus on Cuba’s Communist Party provides new perspectives on how these events were seen from Cuba and on the notable resilience of many party members.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Figures List of Abbreviations Introduction Part 1 : The Collapse According to Granma 1 Written Sources on the Collapse 2 Granma and the Written News as a Method 3 Analyzing the News Accounts 4 Reflections on the Written News Part 2 : 5 Contextualizing the Testimonies 6 Oral Source Methodologies 7 Analysis of the Interviews 8 Insights from the Oral Testimonies Conclusion: Viewing the Collapse through the PCC Lens Afterword Appendix 1: Information for the Interviewees Appendix 2: Interview Guide Appendix 3 : Core Sources Appendix 4: Example Table for Data Visualization Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAlexander Bogdanov (1873–1928) wrote the articles in this volume in the years before and during the Revolution of 1905 when he was co-leader, with V.I. Lenin, of the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party, and was active in the revolution and the struggle against Marxist revisionism. In these pieces, Bogdanov defends the principles of revolutionary Social-Democracy on the basis of a neutral monist philosophy (empiriomonism), the idea of the invariable regularity of nature, and the use of the principle of selection to explain social development. The articles in On the Psychology of Society (1904/06) discredit the neo-Kantian philosophy of Russia’s Marxist revisionists, rebut their critique of historical materialism, and develop the idea that labour technology determines social consciousness. New World (1905) envisions how humankind will develop under socialism, and Bogdanov’s contributions to Studies in the Realist Worldview (1904/05) defend the labour theory of value and criticise neo-Kantian sociology.Table of ContentsTranslator’s Introduction Part 1 On the Psychology of Society From the Author 1 In the Field of View 2 What Is Idealism? 3 The Development of Life in Nature and in Society 4 Authoritarian Thinking 5 A New Middle Ages: On Problems of Idealism 6 A New Middle Ages: On the Benefit of Knowledge 7 A New Middle Ages: Echoes of the Past 8 A New Middle Ages: A Philosophical Nightmare 9 Revolution and Philosophy Part 2 New World From the Author 10 The Integration of Humankind 11 Norms and Goals of Life 12 The Accursed Questions of Philosophy Part 3 Studies in the Realist Worldview Introduction to the First Edition Introduction to the Second Edition 13 Exchange and Technology 14 Legal Society and Labour Society Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisChoice Award 2022: Outstanding Academic Title Marx Matters is an examination of how Marx remains more relevant than ever in dealing with contemporary crises. This volume explores how technical dimensions of a Marxian analytic frame remains relevant to our understanding of inequality, of exploitation and oppression, and of financialization in the age of global capitalism. Contributors track Marx in promoting emancipatory practices in Latin America, tackle how Marx informs issues of race and gender, explore current social movements and the populist turn, and demonstrate how Marx can guide strategies to deal with the existential environmental crises of the day. Marx matters because Marx still provides the best analysis of capitalism as a system, and his ideas still point to how society can organize for a better world. Contributors are: Jose Bell Lara, Ashley J. Bohrer, Tom Brass, Rose M. Brewer, William K. Carroll, Penelope Ciancanelli, Raju J. Das, Ricardo A. Dello Buono, David Fasenfest, Ben Fine, Lauren Langman, Alfredo Saad-Filho, Vishwas Satgar, and William K. Tabb.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures Notes on Contributors 1 The Once and Future Marx   David Fasenfest 2 What Marx Anticipated That Is, or Should Be, Central to Political Economy Today   William K. Tabb part 1 Marx’s Political Economy for the Present 3 From Marxist Political Economy to Financialization or Is It the Other Way About?   Ben Fine 4 Value, Capital and Exploitation in Marx   Alfredo Saad-Filho 5 Social Oppression, Class Relation, and Capitalist Accumulation   Raju J. Das 6 The Power of Money   Penelope Ciancanelli 7 Great Replacement and/as the Industrial Reserve Populism or Marxism?   Tom Brass part 2 Marx and a Changing Society 8 Emancipatory Thought in Latin America The Enduring Legacy of Carlos Marx   Ricardo A. Dello Buono and José Bell Lara 9 Marx, the Commons and Democratic Eco-socialism   Vishwas Satgar 10 Marx Matters, in Theory and Practice Reflections from the Corporate Mapping Project   William K. Carroll 11 The Capitalist Racial State and Black Lives in Struggle   Rose M. Brewer 12 Marxism and Intersectionality A Critical Historiography   Ashley J. Bohrer 13 Marxism, Peasants, and the Cultural Turn The Myth of a ‘Nice’ Populism   Tom Brass 14 Marx on Social Movements Left and Right   Lauren Langman Index

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Book SynopsisThis encyclopaedia showcases the explanatory power of Marxist educational theory and practice. The entries have been written by 51 leading authors from across the globe. The 39 entries cover an impressive range of contemporary issues and historical problematics. The editor has designed the book to appeal to readers within the Marxism and education intellectual tradition, and also those who are curious newcomers, as well as critics of Marxism. The Encyclopaedia of Marxism and Education is the first of its kind. It is a landmark text with relevance for years to come for the productive dialogue between Marxism and education for transformational thinking and practice.Trade Review"The encyclopaedia not only provides a thorough critique of the effects of neoliberal policies on education but also unravels a myriad of reasons for the condition of our world, which is marked by super-exploitation and intensification of labour, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. [...] This encyclopaedia illuminates a path out of the growing darkness, which threatens not only the human species but our whole planet because capitalism shapes not only people in the Global North and South but also adversely affects Nature through commodification and marketisation". Dr. Dilnaz Boga and Rohit Ranjan in CounterCurrents.org. Read the full review here.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors 1 Introduction  Alpesh Maisuria 2 The 4th Industrial Revolution, Post-Capitalism, Waged Labour and Vocational Education  James Avis 3 Alienation and Education  Richard Hall 4 Alternatives to Capitalism  Peter Hudis 5 Capital Accumulation and Education  John Fraser Rice 6 Colonialisms and Class  Spyros Themelis 7 Communism: The Party – Pedagogy and Revolution from Marx to China  Collin L. Chambers and Derek R. Ford 8 Corporate State: “Downhill All the Way” – Education in England from Welfare to Corporate State  Patrick Ainley 9 Critical Education  Sandra Mathison and E. Wayne Ross 10 Critical Realism  Grant Banfield 11 Cuban-Marxist Education  Rosi Smith, Leticia de las Mercedes García Rosabal and Maikel J. Ortiz Bosch 12 Dialectical Materialism (Materialist Dialectics)  Constantine (Kostas) Skordoulis 13 Disaster Education  John Preston 14 Early Childhood, Feminism, and Marx  Rachel Rosen and Jan Newberry 15 Employment: Education without Jobs – Young People, Qualifications, and Employment in 21st Century Britain  Martin Allen 16 Ethnography of Education and Marxism: Education Research for Social Transformation  Dennis Beach 17 Freire, Paulo (1921–1997) as a Marxist Revolutionary for Education  Juha Suoranta 18 Gramsci, Antonio (1891–1937): Culture and Education  Peter Mayo 19 Green Marxism  Simon Boxley 20 Guevara, Ernesto “Che” (1928–1967)  Peter McLaren and Lilia D. Monzó 21 Intersectionality: Scaling Intersectional Praxes  Gregory Martin and Benjamin “Benji” Chang 22 Lenin, Vladimir (1870–1924) and Education  Juha Suoranta and Robert FitzSimmons 23 Liberation Theology  Peter McLaren 24 Luxemburg, Rosa (1871–1919) and Education  Julia Damphouse and Sebastian Engelmann 25 Managerialism and Higher Education  Goran Puaca 26 Marxism and Education: [Closed] and … Open …  Glenn Rikowski 27 Marxism and Human Rights against Capitalism  Daniel Hedlund and Magnus Nilsson 28 Marxist Feminism and Education: Gender, Race, and Class  Sara Carpenter and Shahrzad Mojab 29 Middle Classes of the World  Göran Therborn 30 Neo-Liberalism and Revolution: Marxism for Emerging Critical Educators  Alpesh Maisuria 31 New Left, Anarchism and Education  Nick Stevenson 32 Palestine: Education in Mandate Palestine  Bernard Regan 33 Plebs League: Towards a Modern Plebs League  Colin Waugh 34 Postdigital Marxism  Petar Jandrić 35 Poverty: Class, Poverty and Neo-Liberalism  Terry Wrigley 36 Public Pedagogy  Mike Cole 37 Public University: The Political Economy of the Public University  David Harvie, Mariya Ivancheva and Robert Ovetz 38 Social Class: Education, Social Class and Marxist Theory  Dave Hill and Alpesh Maisuria 39 State and Private Capital: Education, State and Capital  Ravi Kumar and Rama Paul 40 World-Systems Critical Education  Tom G. Griffiths Index

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Book SynopsisThis first English-language biography of Mikhail Tomsky reveals his central role in all the key developments in early Soviet history, including the stormy debates over the role of unions in the self-proclaimed workers’ state. Charters Wynn’s compelling account illuminates how the charismatic Tomsky rose from an impoverished working-class background and years of tsarist prison and Siberian exile to become both a Politburo member and the head of the trade unions, where he helped shape Soviet domestic and foreign policy along generally moderate lines throughout the 1920s. His failed attempt to block Stalin’s catastrophic adoption of forced collectivization would tragically make Tomsky a prime target in the Great Purges.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations Introduction  1 Note on Transliteration 1 The Making of a Moderate Working-Class Bolshevik Leader 2 Balancing Act: Tomsky during War Communism and the Trade-Union Debate 3 Detour East: From Disgraced Exile in Tashkent to Redemption inside the Kremlin 4 Getting Together Then Falling Apart: Tomsky and British Trade Unionists 5 Tomsky during NEP: Trade Unions and the Intra-Party Struggle 6 NEP’s Last Stand: The Eighth Trade-Union Congress 7 Tomsky Outcast: Tormenting a ‘Right Deviationist’ Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisWhat is money? What is capital? The Spectre of Capital tackles such fundamental questions at a deep philosophical level. It argues that the modern world is ruled by a ‘spectre’, the spectre of capital. This insight is rooted in an original combination of the ideas of Marx and Hegel. It presents the most sophisticated argument to date for ‘the homology thesis’, namely that the order of Hegel’s logical categories, and that of the social forms addressed by Marx’s Capital, share the same architectonic. The systematic-dialectical presentation shows how capital becomes a self-sustaining power.Table of ContentsPreface Abbreviations Introduction Part 1 Object and Method 1 Capital and Social Form 2 Capital and the Actuality of the Ideal 3 Systematic Dialectic 4 The Two Dialectics of Capital: Analytic and Synthetic 5 With What Must the Critique of Capital Begin? Part 2 The Ideal Constitution of Capital Division I Capital in Its Notion 6 Commodity 7 Money 8 Capital Division II Capital Relation 9 Circulation 10 Production 11 Reproduction Division III The System of Capital Introduction to Division III 12 Capital as a System of Capitals 13 The System of Industrial Capital 14 The Dual Ontology of Capital 15 Absolute Capital 16 Capital and Its Others: Labour and Land 17 The Spectre 18 Review of the Presentation 19 Beyond Capital and Class Appendix 1: Commentary on Hegel’s Logic Appendix 2: Tables Glossary Select Bibliography Index of Names Index of Subjects

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Book SynopsisThe Historical-Critical Dictionary of Marxism (HCDM) is a comprehensive Marxist lexicon, which in the 9 German-language volumes concluded so far has involved over 800 scholars from around the globe. Conceived by philosopher Wolfgang Fritz Haug in 1983, the first volume of the ongoing lexicon project was published in 1994. This first English-language selection introduces readers to the HCDM’s wide range of terms: besides Marxist concepts, approached from a plural standpoint and stressing feminist, ecological, and internationalist perspectives, it boasts entries on the histories of social movements, theoretical schools, as well as cultural, political, philosophical, and aesthetic debates. Contributors are: Samir Amin, Jan Otto Andersson, Konstantin Baehrens, Lutz-Dieter Behrendt, Mario Candeias, Robert Cohen, Alex Demirović, Klaus Dörre, William W. Hansen, Wolfgang Fritz Haug, Frigga Haug, Peter Jehle, Juha Koivisto, Wolfgang Küttler, Morus Markard, Eleonore von Oertzen, Christof Ohm, Rinse Reeling Brouwer, Jan Rehmann, Thomas Sablowski, Peter Schyga, Victor Strazzeri, Peter D. Thomas, André Tosel, Michael Vester, Lise Vogel, and Victor Wallis.Table of ContentsFor(e)ward: An Invitation  Wolfgang Fritz Haug Foreword From the Preface to the First Volume of the HKWM About This Edition  Konstantin Baehrens, Juha Koivisto and Victor Strazzeri Abbreviations and Scribal Abbreviations Notes on Contributors 1 Action Potence, Agency  Rinse Reeling Brouwer 2 Anticolonialism  Samir Amin 3 Being a Marxist  Wolfgang Fritz Haug 4 Capitalist Mode of Production  Wolfgang Fritz Haug 5 Class in Itself/for Itself  Michael Vester 6 Communism  André Tosel 7 Cook  Frigga Haug 8 Crisis Theories  Thomas Sablowski 9 Cybertariat  Mario Candeias 10 Dialectics  Wolfgang Fritz Haug 11 Domestic-Labour Debate  Lise Vogel 12 Fanonism  William W. Hansen 13 Gender Relations  Frigga Haug 14 Hacker  Christof Ohm 15 Hegemony  Wolfgang Fritz Haug 16 Historicism, Absolute  Peter Thomas 17 Historical-Critical  Wolfgang Fritz Haug 18 Hope  Jan Rehmann 19 Imperialism  Jan Otto Andersson 20 Intellectuals  Alex Demirovic and Peter Jehle 21 International Division of Labour  Mario Candeias 22 Kronstadt Rebellion  Lutz-Dieter Behrendt 23 Land Seizure, Land Grab  Klaus Dörre 24 Lenin’s Marxism  Wolfgang Küttler 25 Limits to Growth  Peter Schyga and Victor Wallis 26 Luxemburg-Gramsci Line  Frigga Haug 27 Mariáteguism  Eleonore von Oertzen 28 Marxism-Feminism  Frigga Haug 29 Theory of Ideology  Jan Rehmann 30 Theses on Feuerbach  Wolfgang Fritz Haug Afterword: An Open-Ended Project in Global Marxism  Victor Strazzeri References to the Original Publications Index of Names

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Book SynopsisSubject of numerous interpretations and studies, the vicissitudes of the famous Frankfurt Institute for Social Research nevertheless still reserve some little-known pages, such as the human and scientific relationship that bound philosopher Max Horkheimer and economist Friedrich Pollock for over fifty years. Based on texts and letters translated here into English for the first time as well as some previously unpublished documents, the book reconstructs the crucial moments in the friendship between the two scholars with a narrative style and philological accuracy. Nicola Emery accompanies us through the two friends and intellectuals’ “nonconformism” and search for an alternative life-form that led to the birth of the Frankfurt critical theory.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements List of Figures Translator’s Note 1 For Nonconformism  1.1 Transgression, Autobiography, Philosophy  1.2 Forms of Life  1.3 Psyche and History  1.4 Biopower and the Hidden Faculties of Existence (Eroticism, Friendship, Art) 2 The Era of State Capitalism: Morphology and Genesis Starting from Friedrich Pollock  2.1 Friedrich Pollock’s Ideal Type  2.2 Between Domination and Welfare 3 Expatriation, Disorientation, Islands  3.1 Leaving Germany (Eichmann Trial, Israel and the Atlantic Pact)  3.2 Free from the Coercion of the Reality Principle (Switzerland)  3.3 Beyond Instrumental Architecture (the Houses in Montagnola) 4 Automation and the Eclipse of Democracy  4.1 Era of Automation and Crisis: Pollock’s Prognosis  4.2 Is Critical Theory Antiquated? 5 Critical Theory and Longing for the Other  5.1 The Absent Alterity  5.2 Critique of Instrumental Reason and Religion  5.3 Critical Judaism (beyond Identity, beyond Sovereignty, beyond Zionism) Appendix: Figures Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn contrast to the traditional Marxist interpretation of emerging capitalism and a revolutionary bourgeoisie, this book shows that commodified labor, fundamental to the existence of a capitalist bourgeoisie, did not take shape in eighteenth-century France. The mass of the population consisted of peasants and artisans in possession of land and workshops, and embedded in autonomous communities. The old regime bourgeoisie and nobility thus developed within the absolutist state in order to have the political means to impose feudal forms of exploitation on the people. These class relations explain the crisis of 1789 and the revolutionary conflicts of the 1790s.Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Introduction 1 The Peasant Economy, Seigneurial Regime, and State 2 The Rewards of Royal Service 3 Crown and Nobility in a Time of Financial Difficulties: Royal Policy 1758–89 4 Revolutionary Politics 1788–91: Despotism and Equality 5 Popular Revolts, Political Authority and the Revolutionary Dynamic, 1789–93 6 Politics and Class, 1792–99: Radicalism, Terror, and Repression Conclusion Appendix Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAs the author of the ground-breaking work of Marxist political economy, Finance Capital, and a leader in the German Social Democratic Party, Rudolf Hilferding was a dominant intellectual and political figure in the history of European socialism from its halcyon days in the pre-1914 era until its collapse in the 1930s. This collection of his previously unpublished correspondence allows readers to trace the evolution of Hilferding’s thought as socialism’s fortunes declined and his own fate became precarious. It shows how, in the face of rising Stalinism and fascism, democracy remained at the core of his socialist vision.Table of ContentsPreface List of Figures Abbreviations Part 1 1 Introduction to Part 1: Passing the Torch 2 Rudolf Hilferding’s Letters to Karl Kautsky, 1902–07 3 Rudolf Hilferding’s Letters to Karl Kautsky, 1915–18 4 Hilferding’s Letters to Karl Kautsky, 1924–33 5 Hilferding to Kautsky, 1933–38 Part 2 6 Introduction to Part 2: A Political Friendship? 7 Leon Trotsky’s Letters to Rudolf Hilferding, 1907–12 Part 3 8 Introduction to Part 3: “Freedom or Slavery” 9 Rudolf Hilferding’s Correspondence with Paul Hertz, 1933–38 Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThat the idea of world revolution was crucial for the Bolshevik leaders in the years following the 1917 revolution is a well-known fact. But what did the party’s rank and file make of it? How did it resonate with the general population? And what can a social history of international solidarity tell us about the transformation of Soviet society from NEP to Stalinism? This book undertakes the first in-depth analysis of the discourses and practices of internationalism in early Soviet society during the years of revolution, civil war and NEP, using forgotten archival materials and contemporary sources.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Abbreviations Editorial Note 1 Introduction 2 ‘World Revolution’, the Bolsheviks and Soviet Society  1 Bolshevik Internationalism through the World War and Revolution  2 1918/19, 1923, 1926: Three World-Revolutionary ‘Windows of Opportunity’ in Their Soviet Reflection 3 Activists and the Charisma of World Revolution  1 Activists, Opportunists and Functionaries: Types of Early Soviet Political Actors  2 The World Revolution as a ‘Delightful Thing’  3 Communist World Society or Russian Domination? Activists Imagine the Future 4 Internationalist Practices I: Charisma and Activism between the Revolution and NEP  1 Informing, Performing and Intervening: Public Speech about the World Revolution  2 Internationalist Greeting Messages and Their Authors  3 The Bolshevik Provincial Press: From Activist Mouthpiece to ‘Mass’ Newspaper 5 Internationalism and the Soviet ‘Masses’  1 Ways and Means of Transmitting Internationalist Knowledge  2 Reactions of the ‘Masses’: Disinterest, Resistance, Appropriation 6 MOPR: The Institutionalisation of International Solidarity in the obshchestvennost’ 7 International Practices II: Activism and obshchestvennost’ from NEP to Stalinism  1 Donations and Fundraising: Class Solidarity, Philanthropy and Entertainment  2 Objects and Subjects of ‘Shefstvo’: Comparing Two Types of International Sponsorship  3 Internationalist Pen Pal Correspondence – Collective and Individual  4 Banners Wanted: The Twists and Turns of International Flag Exchange  5 Dealing with Comrades from Abroad: Foreign Representatives of the Labour Movement in the Soviet Union 8 A Practice Forestalled: Going Abroad for the World Revolution 9 Concluding Remarks Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisWhat would an alternative to contemporary capitalism look like? In this book, Geert Reuten sets out a detailed design of a democratic society organised in worker cooperatives, followed by an equally detailed democratic transition to it, thereby making a convincing case. In Reuten’s design, Workers constitute the single economic class. However, unlike in capitalism, there is no class that owns the means of production. The legal structure of worker cooperatives is such that workers have full rights to the fruits of the cooperative without owning it, and yet the state does not own the cooperatives either. Interestingly, worker councils in the economic and state domains vote on all economically relevant matters. In Reuten’s work, the free choice of occupation and of specific consumer goods is even larger than in capitalism.Table of ContentsPreface and acknowledgements General introduction Part One Design of the organisation of a worker cooperatives society 1 Preview of the main elements of the design’s worker cooperatives society 2 Design of the economy of a worker cooperatives society: economic democracy and the organisation of cooperatives 3 Design of the state in a worker cooperatives society: democratic governance of the state and the organisation of state institutions 4 Municipal and provincial administrations 5 International economic relations Part Two From modifying capitalism to transition Introduction to Part Two 6 The modification of capitalist practices by ‘worker-owned cooperatives’ and similar democratic enterprises 7 Circumstances just before the transition: financial and real estate markets and the scope of capital flight 8 Transition to a worker cooperatives society General summary References Index of names Index of subjects Abbreviations Extended list of contents

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Book SynopsisDespite the collapse of Soviet-style socialism, the spectre of Marx still haunts the French imagination. This is no accident, in a country whose intellectual life and political history have long been marked by his multiple presences. This volume offers a historical and sociological insight into the way his thought has been received in the French context, from his own lifetime to the present. Analysing Marx’s place and influence in the French intellectual, political and artistic debate – across the political spectrum and even in the French-speaking colonial world – it helps us understand the uses and misuses of an œuvre of paramount importance.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Writing the History of France’s Marxisms  Jean-Numa Ducange and Antony Burlaud Prologue: Karl Marx’s France  Antony Burlaud Part 1 The Political Uses of Marx 1 The Socialists’ Marx: The Guesde-Jaurès Moment  Jean-Numa Ducange 2 The Socialists’ Marx: The Centenary of Marx’s Birth: A Challenge for the SFIO  Raymond Huard 3 The Socialists’ Marx: The Blum Era  Thierry Hohl 4 The Socialists’ Marx: From Guy Mollet to the Present  Mathieu Fulla 5 The Communists’ Marx: Karl Marx, Marxism and Marxism-Leninism, 1920–55  Serge Wolikow 6 The Communists’ Marx: A (Now-)Problematic Reference Point, 1956–2017  Anthony Crézégut 7 The Far Left’s Marx: The Politicisation of a Scholarly Marxism  Patrick Massa Part 2 Translating, Editing, and Publishing Marx 8 How to Translate Marx into French?  Guillaume Fondu and Jean Quétier 9 PCF Publishing Houses and Marx in France, 1920–60: From Politics to Scholarship?  Marie-Cécile Bouju 10 Marx’s Works in the ‘Bibliothèque de la Pléiade’: A Paradoxical Legitimation  Aude Le Moullec-Rieu 11 A Golden Age for Marxist Publishing? The 1960s and 1970s  Julien Hage Part 3 Marx and the Social Sciences 12 Marxism and Rationalism in the French Social Sciences (1930–60)  Isabelle Gouarné 13 Marx’s Peculiar Fate in French Economic Scholarship  Thierry Pouch 14 Sociology and Marxism  Gérard Mauger 15 Marx and French Historians  François Dosse 16 Marxism and Literary Criticism  Lucile Dumont, Quentin Fondu and Laélia Veron Part 4 Theoretical Hybridisations 17 Marx and the Marxists, Children of France’s Eighteenth Century?  Stéphanie Roza 18 Marxism and Phenomenology in France  Alexandre Feron 19 The Structuralist Marx  Frédérique Matonti 20 Marx, an Avant-Gardist?  Frédéric Thomas 21 Post-’68 Intellectuals and Marx: A Fascination with ‘Farewells’  Antoine Aubert 22 Feminisms, Marxism, And Their Contentious Links  Sylvie Chaperon and Florence Rochefort Part 5 Seen from Elsewhere 23 Marx Seen from the Right: When French Economists Discovered Marx’s Capital  Jacqueline Cahen 24 Marx Seen from the Right: Raymond Aron, Marxism and Communism  Gwendal Châton 25 French Catholics and Marxism, from the 1930s to the ‘1968 Moment’  Denis Pelletier 26 Marx in French-Speaking Africa  Françoise Blum 27 Learning Marxism in Paris: Chinese Students in France, 1919–25  Kaixuan Liu and Wenrui Bi References Index

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Book SynopsisThe first book by the great French radical historian Maurice Dommanget (1888–1976) to be translated into English, this book is an engaging, sympathetic telling of the life and works of Sylvain Maréchal (1750–1803), an unjustly forgotten figure of the French Revolutionary era. Maréchal was not only a militant atheist and opponent of royalty, but, as the author of the Manifesto of the Equals he laid the groundwork for modern communism. With an introduction by Jean-Numa Ducange.Table of ContentsForeword Introduction Part 1 Before the Revolution Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Part 2 During the French Revolution Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Part 3 After the Revolution Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Chapter 16 Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book Synopsis‘The revolutions of 1989’ remains the standard term used to describe the onset of post-commununist transformations more than thirty years ago. Zenonas Norkus proposes a completely new perspective, theorising them as the next wave of modern social restorations, starting with the post-Napoleonic restorations in 1815. A comparison of the 1789 French and 1917 Russian revolutions was seminal for the rise of comparative historical and sociological research on modern revolutions. The book extends and supplements the sociology of modern revolutions by the first systematic outline of the sociology of modern social restorations grounded in a comparison of post-Napoleonic and post-communist restorations.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures and Tables Abbreviations Introduction 1 Theorising Modern Social Restorations: Received Work  1.1 Reworking Seminal Contributions: Robert A. Kann and Rein Taagepera  1.2 Redemocratisations of Authoritarian States, Reconstitutions of Failed States and the Rights of Extinct States to Restoration  1.3 Conceptualising Restorations: Cultural and Environmental Heritage Protection as Reference Sites 2 The Rise and Collapse of Post-Revolutionary Empires: Great Modern Revolutions in Comparison  2.1 The Failure of World Revolutions and the Rise of Great Post-Revolutionary Empires: the French and Russian Revolutions in Comparison  2.2 The Defeat and Fall of Great Post-Revolutionary (Napoleonic and Soviet) Empires in Comparison  2.3 Post-Napoleonic Restoration and Post-Communist Rehabilitation of the International Order in Comparison 3 Post-Napoleonic and Post-Communist Domestic Restorations and Rehabilitations in Comparison  3.1 Dilemmas of Post-Napoleonic and Post-Communist Domestic Restorations in Comparison  3.2 Endurance Failures of (Most) Post-Napoleonic Restorations  3.3 Post-Communist Rehabilitations and Restorations on the Endurance Success Track 4 Do Progressive Social Restorations Exist?  4.1 Did the Post-Napoleonic Restorations Bring Economic, Health and Somatic Progress?  4.2 Are Post-Socialist Capitalist Rehabilitations and Restorations Economically Progressive?  4.3 Are Post-Socialist Capitalist Rehabilitations and Restorations Health Progressive?  4.4 Are Post-Socialist Capitalist Rehabilitations and Restorations Somatically Progressive? Conclusion References Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume collects the proceedings of the First Latin American Communist Conference, organized in Buenos Aires, Argentina in June 1929 by the South American Secretariat of the Moscow-based Communist International (Comintern). The Conference was the first and in some ways only opportunity that communists in Latin America had to engage in a broad discussion of the most important problems and challenges that they faced. The topics that the assembled delegates addressed – including militarism, anti-imperialism, trade union issues, and racial discrimination – were all central to the question of how to organise a strong revolutionary movement. This major documentary collection of the Latin American Communist movement, newly translated into English and with a substantial introduction, remains surprisingly relevant to our world today. With an introduction by Victor Jeifets and Lazar Jeifets.Table of ContentsAbbreviations Biographies of Conference Participants Introduction: The Outcomes of Ten Years of Latin American Communism  Victor Jeifets and Lazar Jeifets Part 1 Descriptions of the Conference Introduction to Part 1 1 The First Latin American Communist Conference 2 First Latin American Communist Conference 3 Issues Addressed at the First Latin American Communist Conference 4 Towards the Latin American Communist Conference 5 Bibliography for the First Latin American Communist Conference 6 Parties Represented at the First Latin American Communist Conference 7 The Latin American Revolutionary Movement Part 2 Background Documents Introduction to Part 2 1 The First Session of the South American Secretariat of the Communist International 2 Questions of the Latin American Countries 3 Draft Theses on the Revolutionary Movement in Latin America 4 Report from the SP of the EC of the PSRC to the ECCI 5 Letter from the CI to the Revolutionary Socialist Party of Colombia 6 Colombia, 27 May 1929, Morning Session 7 Meeting with the Colombian Delegate 8 Mexico 9 Conversation with the Peruvian Delegates 10 The Importance of the First Latin American Communist Conference Part 3 Proceedings and Resolutions Introduction to Part 3 1 Foreword 2 Conference Opening (1 June 1929) 3 The International Situation in Latin America and the Threat of War  Second Session, 2 June 1929  Third Session, 2 June 1929  Fourth Session, 2 June 1929 4 Resolution on the International Situation in Latin America and the Threat of War 5 The Anti-Imperialist Struggle and Tactical Issues Facing Communist Parties in Latin America  Fifth and Sixth Sessions, 3 June 1929  Seventh Session, 4 June 1929  Eighth Session, 4 June 1929  Ninth Session, 4 June 1929  Tenth Session, 5 June 1929  Eleventh Session, 5 June 1929 6 Resolution on the Tactics of the Communist Parties of Latin America 7 Trade Union Issues  Twelfth Session, 6 June 1929 8 Resolution on the Tasks of the Communist Parties in the Latin American Trade Union Movement 9 Agrarian Issues 10 Peasant Issues  Thirteenth Session, 7 June 1929  Fourteenth Session, 7 June 1929  Fifteenth Session, 7 June 1929 11 Resolution on Peasant Issues in Latin America 12 Racial Problems in Latin America  Sixteenth Session, 8 June 1929  Seventeenth Session, 8 June 1929 13 Resolution on Racial Problems in Latin America 14 Racial Problems 15 Work of the Anti-Imperialist League  Eighteenth Session, 10 June 1929 16 Resolution on the Work of the Anti-Imperialist Leagues 17 The Youth Movement and the Tasks of Communist Parties  Nineteenth Session, 10 June 1929 18 Draft Thesis on the Tasks of the Party in the Youth Movement 19 Organisational Matters 20 Resolution on Organisational Matters of the Communist Parties in Latin America 21 Work of the South American Secretariat  Twentieth Session, 12 June 1929 22 Report on the Solution to the Crisis in the Communist Party of Argentina 23 Resolution on the Solution to the Crisis of the Communist Party of Argentina 24 Theses on Women’s Issues 25 Communists and the International Red Aid Part 4 Conversations After the Conference Introduction to Part 4 1 Conversation with the Delegates from Mexico 2 Conversation with the Delegations from Guatemala and El Salvador 3 Conversation with the Colombian Delegation 4 Second Conversation with the Colombian Delegation 5 Conversation with the Peruvian Delegates 6 Conversation with the Delegation of Peru 7 South American Secretariat Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisRaising the Red Flag explores the origins of the British Marxist movement from the creation of the Social Democratic Federation to the foundation of the Communist Party. It tells a story of rising class struggle, the founding of the Labour Party, the fight against World War One, the Russian Revolution, and the explosive year of 1919. The book also uses new archival sources to re-examine Marxist organisations such as the British Socialist Party, the Socialist Labour Party, and Sylvia Parkhurst’s Workers’ Socialist Federation. Above all, this is the story of men and women who fought to liberate the working class from capitalism through socialist revolution.Table of ContentsList of Figures Abbreviations Introduction 1 Mr Hyndman versus Comrade Engels: The Birth of the Social Democratic Federation  1 The Birth of the Social Democratic Federation  2 From the Socialist League to the Independent Labour Party 2 The Labour Party Question: Labourism, Leftism, and the Second International  1 The Russian Influence  2 The Labour Party and the Second International 3 Britain in Crisis: Labour’s Great Unrest and the Revolutionary Left  1 Realignment on the Left and the British Socialist Party  2 The Second International Steers towards the Labour Party  3 The Rise of the Revolutionary Left  4 The SLP and Revolutionary Syndicalism  5 Beyond Suffragism 4 August 1914: British Marxists in the Face of War  1 The BSP and SLP and the Test of War  2 The Anti-war Left  3 Revolutionary Opponents of War 5 The Clyde Turns Red: John Maclean and the Enemy at Home  1 The War on the Home Front  2 The Easter Rising and the British Left  3 Nashe Slovo, the BSP and Revolutionary Internationalism  4 The Zimmerwald Debate in Britain 6 ‘Lads Like Me Had Whacked the Bosses’: The Coming of the Russian Revolution  1 Repression and Revolt  2 Follow Russia! The Leeds Convention  3 Labourism Responds to the Russian Revolution  4 Bolshevism and the British Left 7 1919: The Question of Power  1 ‘Are You Ready to Take Power?’  2 The Police Strikes  3 Leadership, the Lefts and the Left  4 Racist Scourge in Europe  5 Ireland’s Tragedy, Labour’s Disgrace 8 Between Labour and Bolshevism: Towards A Communist Party  1 Towards Unity … and the Labour Party?  2 The Coming of the Communist International  3 Britain and the Amsterdam Bureau  4 The Fate of John Maclean 9 ‘Long Live the Communist Party!’ Building a British Section of the Communist International  1 The Second Congress of the Comintern  2 The Birth of the Communist Party of Great Britain  3 The Unification Conference  4 A Stillborn Party? Conclusion  In Praise of Learning Appendix 1: Timeline Appendix 2: Figures Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn Communes and Conflict, Jan Dumolyn and Jelle Haemers explore the urban rebellions that regularly erupted in Flanders between the thirteenth and sixteenth centuries. They analyse not only how these rebellions were sparked and repressed, but also how they shaped the culture and identity of Flemish townspeople. Drawing from a wide range of theoretical methods and concepts, including those of discourse analysis, semiotics, speech acts, collective memory and material cultural studies, the authors return to key Marxist questions on ideology, labour and class interest to map the perspectives of the rebels, the urban patriciate and the Flemish and Burgundian nobility.

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Book SynopsisThe book offers a critical account of how utopian thinking became defeated as a tool of philosophy whose explicit objective has been to not only analyse but emancipate the world. While such philosophy was originally inseparable from ideas of a radically better society it aimed to realise, many of its most influential practitioners today object to the use of utopian ideas. Countering this scepticism, the book argues in favour of utopian thinking. By elucidating a concept of utopia freed of its alleged pitfalls, the book contends that utopian thinking indeed presents an important resource for achieving emancipatory social goals.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Note on Translations Introduction  1 The Blow to Utopia from the Left  2 The Road Not Taken  3 (Political) Utopian Thinking  4 Critical Theory  5 A New Perspective on Contemporary Critical Theory 1 Marx’s Two Utopian Paradoxes  1 The Deployment of the Label ‘Utopian’ and Its Consequences  2 Marx’s Vision of the Communist Society  3 Utopia Cannot Be Envisaged  4 Imaginary vs. Rational Ideas  5 Utopian Visions Are Insignificant 2 The Origins of Adorno’s Utopieverbot  1 Adorno and Marxist Theory in the Early Twentieth Century  2 What Is the Utopieverbot?  3 From the Bilderverbot to the Utopieverbot  4 Marx’s Influence on the Utopieverbot  5 The Removal of Utopia into the Messianic Future  6 Culture Industry and Utopian Consciousness  7 The Problem with Identity Thinking 3 Negative Utopia?  1 Positive Utopia – a Point of Departure for Negative Thinking  2 Does Determinate Negation Make Sense?  3 The Emergence of the Positive in Constellations  4 Something Is Missing 4 Bloch’s Rejection of the Utopieverbot  1 Bloch’s Life and Times  2 Utopia as the ‘Not-Yet’  3 The Warm and Cold Streams of Marxism  4 Bloch’s Utopian Society: ‘Heimat’  5 The Utopian Core: ‘Invariant of Direction’  6 Traces Experiences and Expressions of Utopia  7 Concrete Utopian Thinking 5 An Ontology of Processual Utopia  1 The Prefigurations of Utopia in the ‘Not-Yet-Conscious’  2 Incompleteness of the World as the ‘Not-Yet-Become’  3 The Necessity of Utopian Thinking  4 Processual Utopia and Processual Utopian Thinking Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisOn the Theory and History of Ideological Production promotes the existence of an ‘ideological unconscious’, understood primarily as a product of social relations, not of the Ideological State Apparatus. Attention focuses upon the transition from feudalism to capitalism, as theorised by the Spanish Marxist and former student of Althusser, Juan Carlos Rodríguez. Theorization of the ‘ideological unconscious’ presupposes a change of terrain from the individual/society opposition to a problematic based on the ‘social formation’. The present text assesses Rodríguez’s work alongside that of his contemporaries, Fredric Jameson, Noam Chomsky, Terry Eagleton, Roy Bhaskar, Slavoj Žižek, and others.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements Introduction 1 In the Shadow of Althusser  1 Negotiating the ‘Break’  2 The Ideological Unconscious  3 Althusser: the Unconsciousness of Ideology  4 Feudal Substantialism  5 Althusser: Ontology, Epistemology, and Methodology  6 The Libidinal Unconscious  7 Antonio Gramsci and the Case for Historicism  8 The Eye/I That Sees the Thing  9 Nicos Poulantzas: the Matrix Effect 2 On the Radical Historicity of Literature: Roy Bhaskar  1 Who Walked a Crooked Mile  2 A Hegelian Turn  3 Visions in Exile  4 History without a Subject  5 On the Radical Historicity of ‘Love’  6 Ideology as ‘Productivity’  7 The Historical Origins of the Free Subject  8 The Closet Althusserian  9 Methodology versus Epistemology  10 Critical Realism and Althusserianism  11 Conclusion 3 Ideologies of the Transition: Noam Chomsky  1 Chomsky and Huarte  2 Ideologies of the Absolutist State  3 Rodríguez and the Examination  4 The Literal Gaze  5 The Letter of the Law  6 The Subsequent History of Animism  7 Conclusion 4 Explorations of the Political/Ideological Unconscious: Fredric Jameson  1 From Marx to Althusser  2 Science and Ideology  3 Althusser Reconfigured: from Kant to Hegel  4 Theorising the Ideological Unconscious  5 The Political Unconscious  6 From Substantialist to Animist Tears  7 Postmodernism and the End of Ideology  8 The Melodrama of Tears: Jorge Isaacs’s ‘María’  9 Conclusion 5 On Continuities and Discontinuities: Terry Eagleton  1 Servants of the Lord  2 The Legacy of Catholicism  3 Radical Historicity: the Case of the Theatre  4 The Individual and Society  5 Transitional Ideologies  6 Power versus Exploitation  7 The ‘Break’ That Never Was  8 Conclusion 6 Discourse and Ideology: Michel Foucault  1 Making the ‘Break’  2 Theorising the Ideological Unconscious  3 Theorising the Discursive Unconscious  4 Mirrors and Souls  5 A Borgesian Interlude: the Chinese Encyclopaedia  6 Empowering Discursive Unconsciousness  7 Staging the State Apparatus  8 The Revenge of History 7 Educating the Educators: The Critical Realists  1 Althusserian Unconsciousness Re-Visited  2 Extracting the Concept  3 Causal Dynamics  4 Reclaiming Reality  5 Love, Money, and Marriage  6 Deprocessualising History  7 On Radical Historicity  8 British Marxism at Its Limits  9 Conclusion 8 Paradoxes and Exploitation: Slavoj Žižek  1 Towards a Philosophical Anthropology  2 The Dog That Didn’t Bark  3 Fetishism and Commodity Fetishism  4 ‘Structural Causality’ and ‘Homologies’  5 The ‘Look’ versus the ‘Gaze’  6 The Paradoxes of Democracy  7 The Private Eye: Traversing the Fantasy  8 Conclusion 9 The Rise of Podemos: Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe  1 Ernesto Laclau: Goodbye to All That  2 The State/Stage under Absolutism  3 Chantal Mouffe: Reductionism Inverted  4 The Eighteenth-Century Drama: from Public to Private  5 From the Social to the Discursive Formation  6 García Lorca: the Objectivity of the Text  7 Podemos: Life in the Media  8 Borges Revisited Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe pioneering and still relevant Marxist studies of the transition from feudalism to capitalism in this collection are, with one exception, published in English here for the first time. Before his better-known work on Marx’s theories, Henryk Grossman wrote about the economic history of Galicia, the Polish province annexed by the Habsburgs, drawing on very extensive primary research. His later, devastating critique of Weber argument about Protestantism and the rise of capitalism is also included in this volume.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction  Rick Kuhn 1 The Area of Galicia After Its Occupation by Austria 2 The Industry and Trade Policies for Galicia of Maria Theresia’s and Joseph II’s Governments, 1772–90 (A Lecture at the Fifth Congress of Polish Lawyers and Economists) 3 Official Statistics of Galicia’s Foreign Trade to 1792 Austria’s Trade Policy, with Reference to Galicia during the Reform Period 1772 to 1790 Preface Introduction Part 1 The Relationship with the German-Slav Hereditary Lands of the Monarchy, 1772–76 1 The Provisional Form of the Customs System, 1772–73 2 The Reform of Old Polish Legislation, 1774 3 Special Privileges Granted to Improve Galician Trade, 1773–75 4 Plans for a New System of Regulating Galicia’s Relationship with the Hereditary Lands, 1775–76 Part 2 Galicia’s Relationship with Poland, 1772–90 5 The Significance of the Vistula Trade Route to Gdańsk for Galicia 6 Attempts to Conclude a Trade Treaty with Poland 7 The Trade Treaty of 15 March 1775. Its Ratification. The Tariff of 1 October 1776 8 Supplementary Provisions 9 The Implementation of the Treaty. An episode of Tariff War. The Extent of Austrian-Polish Trade Relations Part 3 Galicia’s Relationship with the Hereditary Lands and Hungary, 1776–84 10 The ‘Provisional’ Tariff of 28 December 1776 11 The Galician Tariff of 3 January 1778 12 The Struggle over Brody’s Privileges, 1778–79 13 Livestock Export Policy and the Organisation of the Cattle Trade 1772–90 Part 4 The Austro-Prussian Relationship and the Struggle for Supremacy in Germany between 1772 and 1790 14 The Economic Background to the Antagonism between Austria and Prussia 15 Prussian Policy on Trade between Galicia and Silesia 16 Prussian Policy on Trade between Galicia and Gdańsk 17 Austria’s Attitude to Prussia. The Period under Maria Theresia, 1773–80 18 Continuation. The Period of Joseph II, 1780–90 Part 5 Galicia’s Relationship with the Hereditary Lands and Hungary, 1784–90 19 The Tariff Reform of 1784 20 The Extension of the Reform Part 6 Galicia’s Trade Relations with the South and the South-East, 1772–90 21 The Effort to Open New Export Routes through Trieste 22 Trade with Turkey and to the Black Sea. The Trade Treaty of 1 November 1785 with Russia Final Observations Appendices Appendix 1, to page 102: Some Remarks on the Relationship between the State and the Nobility Appendix 2, to page 111: Joseph II’s Economic Policy in Hungary Appendix 3, to page 282: The Tariff of 2 January 1778 Appendix 4, to page 289: The Promotion of Linen Exports Appendix 5, to page 295: The Official Language The Beginnings of Capitalism and the New Mass Morality References Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume gathers papers written by archaeologists utilising the methods of historical materialism, attesting not only to what Marxism has contributed to archaeology, but also to what archaeology has contributed, and can contribute, to Marxism as a method for interpreting the history of humanity. The book’s contributors consider the question of what archaeology can contribute to a historical perspective on the overcoming of present-day capitalism, synthesising developments in world archaeology, and supplying concrete case studies of the archaeology of the Americas, Europe and the Near East. Contributors are: Guillermo Acosta Ochoa, Marcus Bajema, Bernardo Gandulla, Alex Gonzales-Panta, Pablo Jaruf, Vicente Lull, Savas Michael-Matsas, Rafael Micó, Ianir Milevski, Patricia Pérez Martínez, Cristina Rihuete Herrada, Roberto Risch, Steve Roskams, Henry Tantaleán, Marcelo Vitores, and LouAnn Wurst.

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Book SynopsisChallenging mainstream nation-centred theories of economic development, Nicolás Grinberg examines the specificities of capitalist development in Brazil and South Korea by starting from their modes of participation in the international division of labour and hence in the production of surplus value on a global scale. Contrary to those theories, he does not consider these as resulting simply from the economic policies of nation states and their associated political institutions; nor from local class-struggle dynamics or geopolitical developments. Rather, drawing on key insights from Marx’s critique of political economy, his analysis begins by recognising that the process of capitalist development is global in terms of its economic dynamics and historical trends, and national only in its political and institutional forms of realisation. State-mediated patterns of economic development and institutional change in Brazil and Korea, as well as the intra- and inter-state political processes through which these have come about, are then considered mediations in the conformation and reproduction of the nationally differentiated, uneven process of capital’s valorisation on a global scale.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Graphs and Tables Introduction  0.1 State-centred accounts: neoliberal and statist approaches  0.2 Global capital accumulation and the development of the East Asian and Latin American national economies  0.3 Summary and conclusions Part 1 The Specificity of the Brazilian and Korean Processes of Capitalist Development Introduction to Part 1 1 Capital Accumulation in Brazil and Korea: An Overview  1.1 Capital accumulation and the Brazilian state  1.2 Capital accumulation and the Korean state  1.3 Summary and conclusions  Appendix 2 The Valorisation of Capital in Brazil and Korea  2.1 Valorisation of the total social capital and of the portions invested in the industrial and agrarian sectors  2.2 Rate of profit of social, industrial (manufacturing) and agrarian capital  2.3 Surplus value in the form of ground-rent  2.4 Inflows of aid resources and interest-bearing (loanable) capital  2.5 Summary and conclusions 3 Determinants of the Valorisation Capacity of Industrial Capital in Brazil and Korea: The Steel, Automotive and Semiconductor Industries  3.1 Development of the system of machinery and the productive attributes of the collective worker in large-scale industrial productions  3.2 Summary and conclusions  Appendix 3.1: The determinants of the rate of valorisation of industrial capital in the Korean, Japanese and Brazilian steel industries  Appendix 3.2: The rate of valorisation of industrial capital in the Korean and Japanese automobile industries  Appendix 3.3: Brazilian, Korean, Japanese, Argentinian and Mexican automotive industries: base data 4 Growth and Development Characteristics of the Brazilian and Korean Processes of Capital Accumulation  4.1 Economic growth  4.2 Industrial exports  4.3 Labour productivity in the industrial sector  4.4 Individual and collective characteristics of the industrial labour-force  4.5 Cost and reproduction patterns of the industrial labour-force  4.6 Labour-market institutions and working-class political representation  4.7 Summary and conclusions  Appendix: Tables A4.1–A4.17 Part 2 Historical Development of the Brazilian and Korean Processes of Capital Accumulation Introduction to Part 2 5 Brazil and Korea up to the mid-1960s  5.1 Brazil: From nationalistic to developmentalist populism  5.2 Korea: From autocratic democracy to electoral autocracy  5.3 End of chapter conclusions 6 Brazil and Korea between the mid-1960s and the early 1970s  6.1 Brazil: From ‘corrective inflation’ to the ‘economic miracle’  6.2 Korea: From the ‘democratic restoration’ to the Yusin Republic  6.3 End of chapter conclusions 7 Brazil and Korea between the early and the early 1980s  7.1 Brazil: From the first ‘oil shock’ to the ‘debt crisis’  7.2 Korea: From the Heavy and Chemical Industry Plan to the Comprehensive Stabilisation Programme  7.3 End of chapter conclusions 8 Brazil and Korea between the early 1980s and the early 1990s  8.1 Brazil: From the IMF ‘stabilisation’ programme to the hyperinflation crisis  8.2 Korea: From the Kwangju massacre to the Great Workers’ Struggle  8.3 End of chapter conclusions 9 Brazil and Korea between the early 1990s and the early 2000s  9.1 Brazil: From the neoliberal reforms to the neoliberal crisis  9.2 Korea: From the conservative coalition to the ‘democratic market economy’  9.3 End of chapter conclusions 10 Brazil and Korea between the early 2000s and the mid-2010s  10.1 Brazil: From neoliberalism to neodevelopmentalism  10.2 Korea: From ‘participatory government’ to ‘post-democracy’  10.3 End of chapter conclusions Summary and Conclusions of the Book Appendix A: The qualitative and quantitative determination of the capitalist ground-rent Appendix B: Methodological bases and sources Appendix C: Statistical tables Databases consulted References Index

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Book SynopsisNathaniel Barron offers the first book length account in English of Ernst Bloch’s contribution to a Marxist philosophy of language. It is ambitious both in situating Bloch’s ideas in the broader Marxist engagement with language as it currently exists, and in using Bloch’s utopian categories to challenge that engagement. In particular, Barron reads Voloshinov’s insights into language through Bloch’s categories, and argues that Bloch advances on Voloshinov by offering an understanding of the social materiality of language which is more useful for challenging fascist forms of utterance.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction  1 Bloch’s Marxism  2 Philosophy of Language as a Problem  3 Outline of the Book 1 Bloch’s Utopian Materialism  1 Kant ‘Burning’ through Hegel  2 Tendency  3 Possibility  4 Latency 2 Bloch’s Anacoluthon  1 The Anacoluthon  2 The Anacoluthon as Trace  3 The Anacoluthon as Linguistic Tendency  4 The Anacoluthon as Linguistic Latency 3 Bloch and Marxist Philosohpy of Language  1 Voloshinov and Relationality  2 Refraction  3 Neo-Kantianism  4 Freudianism 4 Bloch and Fascism  1 Marx’s Incipit  2 The Eighteenth Brumaire  3 The Expressionism Debate  4 Fascism and Language, Then and Now: Postscript References Index

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Book SynopsisHow did the Bolsheviks see themselves? What grand narrative gave meaning to their revolutionary aspirations? The leading Western expert on Bolshevism, Lars T. Lih, answers these questions in the first-ever study of the Bolshevik outlook from Lenin to perestroika. Sharply focused case studies allow individual leaders – Lenin, Stalin, Bukharin, Trotsky, Zinoviev – to come alive and speak in their own voices, with surprising results that challenge conventional narratives left and right. What Was Bolshevism? uses novels, plays, literary criticism, photographs, statues, poetry, history textbooks, songs, and film to paint an indispensable self-portrait of Soviet civilization.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Original Publication Introduction: What Was Bolshevism? Part 1 Overview 1 Ordinary Miracles: Lenin’s Call for Revolutionary Ambition 2 The Soviet Union and the Path to Communism Part 2 Deferred Dreams: Against the Myth of ‘War Communism’ (1918–1921) 3 Tsiurupa’s White Beard 4 The Mystery of the ABC 5 Vlast from the Past: Stories Told by Bolsheviks Part 3 Time of Troubles: Policies (1914–1921) 6 Grain Monopoly and Agricultural Transformation: Ideals and Necessities 7 Bolshevik Razverstka and War Communism 8 Bolsheviks at Work: The Sowing Committees of 1920 Part 4 Time of Troubles: Outlook (1914–1921) 9 Bolshevism’s ‘Services to the State’: Three Voices 10 ‘Our Position Is in the Highest Degree Tragic’: Trotsky and Bolshevik ‘Euphoria’ in 1920 11 Zinoviev: Populist Leninist Part 5 NEP (1921–1930) 12 Political Testament: Lenin, Bukharin and the Meaning of NEP 13 Bukharin on Bolshevik ‘Illusions’: ‘War Communism’ vs. NEP Part 6 Stalin Era (1925–1953) 14 Stalin at Work: Introduction to Stalin’s Letters to Molotov 15 Bukharin’s Bolshevik Epic: The Prison Writings 16 Show Trials in the Stalin Era: On Stage and In Court 17 Vertigo: Masks and Lies in Stalin’s Russia 18 Who Is Stalin? What Is He? Part 7 Perestroika (1984–1991) 19 Perestroika Looks Back Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn the early 19th century, a new social collective emerged out of impoverished artisans, urban rabble, wandering rural lower classes, bankrupt aristocrats and precarious intellectuals, one that would soon be called the proletariat. But this did not yet exist as a unified, homogeneous class with affiliated political parties. The motley appearance, the dreams and longings of these figures, torn from all economic certainties, found new forms of narration in romantic novellas, reportages, social-statistical studies, and monthly bulletins. But soon enough, these disorderly, violent, nostalgic, errant, and utopian figures were denigrated as reactionary and anarchic by the heads of the labour movement, since they did not fit into their grand linear vision of progress. In this book, Patrick Eiden-Offe tells their story, tracing the making of the proletariat in Vörmarz Germany (1815–1848) through the writings of figures like Ludwig Tieck, Moses Hess, Wilhelm Weitling, Georg Weerth, Friedrich Engels, Louise Otto-Peters, Ernst Willkomm, and Georg Büchner, and in so doing, revealing a striking similarity to the disorderly classes of today.Table of ContentsTranslator’s Note Introduction  1 Class and Classification, Proletariat and Proletarianisation  2 The Proletariat: a Non-identical Subject  3 Romantic Anti-capitalism  4 Historiography of Rescue  5 Proletarian Identity: Openness and (Self-)Enclosure  6 Inverse Relevance of the Vormärz  7 Literary History as Social History: Class as Figure 1 Small Masters and Journeymen: from Guild to Movement  1 Romantic Anti-capitalism: Ludwig Tieck’s The Young Master Carpenter  2 Journeymen Culture and the Workers’ Movement: Wilhelm Weitling  3 Georg Weerth and the Break with Guild Traditions 2 ‘We? Tricky Question!’ on the Search for Class Identity in Proletarian Journals  1 Negations: ‘Bourgeois’ and ‘Intellectual Prolatarians’  2 Ascension: ‘We’ Want to Be Bürger  3 Activation: What ‘We’ Should Be  4 Affirmation: ‘We’ Who Raise Our Voices 3 Counting the People: Class Statistics  1 Statistics and Social Agitation: The Hessian Messenger  2 Statistics in the Service of Revolution: Gesellschaftsspiegel 4 Miserabilism and Critique: from the Poverty of Literature to the Poverty of Theory  1 Ludwig Tieck and the Wolves of London  2 German Misery, German Verse: Engels as Narrative Theorist  3 Striking Stereotypes: Ernst Dronke’s ‘Rich and Poor’  4 The Family Romance of the Proletarian  5 Relentlessness  6 Mystères – Misère  7 Misery in Relations: Production, World Market, Needs  8 Poverty and Quality of Life: Disposable Time 5 Wage Labour and Slavery: Unfulfilled Promises of Freedom  1 Allegories of Class: ‘Steam King’ and ‘White Slaves’  2 Point of Comparison: Weitling’s ‘Politics of Slavery’  3 The ‘Semblance of Liberty’ and Real Slavery: Engels  4 Class Slavery  5 Why ‘White Slaves’?  6 Theory as Mystification: the Cult of the Industrial Worker and Global Critique  7 The Universality of Proletarianisation 6 Representing the ‘Labouring Poor’  1 The Possibilities of Literature: Ernst Willkomm’s White Slaves or the Sufferings of the People  2 Engels and the Invention of Social Reportage  3 The Reporter in the Field: ‘The Great Towns’ 7 Class in Struggle  1 Witches’ Sabbath as Early Modern Class Struggle: Tieck  2 The Witches’ Sabbath of the Class Struggles in France: Börne  3 Social War on Lake Zurich: Weitling  4 Primitive Rebels in Lower Lusatia: Willkomm  5 Rescuing the Rebels  6 Revenge and Class  7 The Machine Breakers  8 Is It O.K. to Be a Luddite?  9 Towards a Pure Strike: Georg Weerth’s Fragment of a Novel  10 The Struggle for the Family Wage, the Feminisation of Factory Work and the Masculinisation of the Workers’ Movement Conclusion: the Return of Romantic Anti-capitalism Epilogue: Romantic ‘Anti-capitalism’ from Above Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAcross a powerfully wide-ranging set of themes, theoretical registers and historical examples, John Roberts analyses the key problems that continue to confront art after conceptual art, in the light of art’s longstanding relationship to market and institution the commodity and mass culture: namely, artistic labour and technology, modernity and the ‘new’, art and negation, identity and subjectivity, agency and audience, form and value. In these terms, the book provides a rigorous and ambitious, examination of the limits and possibilities of art’s contribution to emancipatory discourse and practice.Trade Review“In this collection of brilliant, exciting, and often surprising essays on value, technique, and praxis, John Roberts proves that Marxist art criticism is alive and kicking in our contemporary moment. This writing is where I go when my spirits are down. For there is something uniquely invigorating and even joyful about its clarity, originality, and conceptual precision.” — Sianne Ngai, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of English, University of Chicago “A tour-de-force organised across challenging yet essential concepts for art history, philosophy, and emancipation as a trans-generational project: 'value', 'technique', 'praxis', 'image', 'history'. Nothing less was expected from one of Europe’s most incisive art theorists thinking through Marxism. From photography to unclassifiable artmaking to the alienation of capitalist modernity, the themes and threads of John Roberts’ essays help bring into focus an era of unreasonable hope: ours.” — Angela Dimitrakaki, University of Edinburgh “Through an exhilarating series of theoretical concatenations, Art and Emancipation restores the material conditions and formal categories of post-object art. In striking contrast to other accounts, however, Roberts proceeds not through the dubious rehabilitation of aesthetic experience but by grounding art in forms of labor and generalized social practices. There is no better work on art’s precarious but privileged status after the readymade.” — Devin Fore, Professor of German, Princeton University "Is another 'end of art' possible? John Roberts’ book Art and Emancipation points brilliantly towards art’s only horizon of emancipation through self-abolition. In capitalist modernity abolition, although immanent to art's technique, cannot be accomplished by art itself. The emancipation of art is, rather, inexorably entangled with the de-alienation of labour." — Angela Harutyunyan, Associate Professor of Modern Contemporary Art and Theory, American University of Beirut

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Book SynopsisGilles Deleuze's assertion that 'Sartre knew how to invent the New' suggests a vital aspect of the French philosopher, one that departs from the image that has often been presented of him. Sartre’s post-1956 critique of the Stalinist USSR, together with the increasing prominence of anti-colonial struggles and a series of experiences that would find their condensation in 1968, pushed him to a continuous rearticulation of his political ideas, on the basis of an intense confrontation with Marx. In Basso’s lucid study, here newly translated into English, the expression 'singular universal' seeks to capture the revolutionary potential of individual and collective subjects, illuminating the close but also unstable relationship between history and politics.Table of ContentsIntroduction Part 1 Sartre: From Descartes to Marx 1 The Invention of Human Freedom: Descartes Beyond Descartes  1 Anthropology  2 A Philosophy of Freedom  3 Humanism and Intersubjectivity: towards the Critique of Dialectical Reason 2 ‘Fused Group’ and Fraternité: Between Rousseau and the French Revolution  1 The Practico-Inert: Objectivity and Alienation  2 Acting in Common: the Storming of the Bastille  3 The Dynamic of Fraternity 3 The Novum of Communism between Freedom and Equality: Marx  1 The Confrontation with Marx and Marxism  2 Class and Action  3 ‘The Realm of Freedom’ Part 2 Sartre and the Twentieth Century 4 Common Praxis and History: From the Russian Revolution to the Soviet Union  1 The Dimension of History  2 Between Stalin and Trotsky: ‘Socialism in One Country’ and ‘Permanent Revolution’  3 The Incarnation of the Russian Revolution and Totalisation 5 Seriality and Bureaucratisation: a Reified Equality  1 The Construction of the Soviet Man  2 The ‘Sovereignty of a Single Individual’ and Stalin’s Ghost 6 The ‘Spectre’ of 1968: Critique of Colonialism and New Spaces of Emancipation  1 Another Socialism Is Possible?  2 Between Race and Class: the Struggle of the ‘Wretched of the Earth’  3 ‘Autour De 68’ 7 The Invention of the ‘Universal Singular’  1 Open Problems  2 Between the ‘Individual’-‘Collective’ Dualism: Rethinking Subjectivation Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe six books by legendary Russian revolutionary, diplomat, espionage agent and journalist Larisa Reisner, published here together for the first time in translation, set the story of her life against the world-changing events of 1917, and accompany Brill’s publication of Cathy Porter’s Larisa Reisner: A Biography, published as volume 266 in the Historical Materialism book series.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Timeline Introduction  Cathy Porter The Front Afghanistan Berlin, October 1923 Hamburg at the Barricades Coal Iron and Living People In Hindenburg’s Country Index

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Book SynopsisCrisis and Criticism is a series of interventions from 2009 to 2021 engaging with the literary, cultural and political responses to the capitalist crisis of 2007–8. Challenging the tendency to treat crisis as natural and beyond human control, this book interrogates our cultural understanding of crisis and suggests the necessity of ruthless criticism of the existing world. While responses to crisis have retreated from the critical, choosing to inhabit apocalyptic fantasies instead, only a critical understanding of the causes of crisis within capitalism itself can promise their eventual overcoming.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Part 1 The Moment of Critique 1 The Distance of Critique 2 Matter against Materialism 3 Apocalypse and Crisis Part 2 Crisis Culture 4 The Aesthetics of Crisis 5 Scale, Commodity, Totality 6 The Crisis of European Philosophy Part 3 Crisis and Communisation 7 Communisation and the Fabric of Struggles 8 Communisation and the End of Art 9 War and Communisation Part 4 Critical Figures 10 The Masses Make History: On Fredric Jameson 11 History and Crisis: Gregory Elliott and the End of Marxism 12 Crisis as Catastrophe: Francis Mulhern on Cultural Criticism 13 Crisis and Capitalist Realism: The Antinomies of Mark Fisher Conclusion Bibliography Index

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