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"Vänsterns nya fixstjärna." SvD.
Inför klimatkrisen blir Karl Marx ekologiska kritik mer relevant än någonsin. Den japanska forskaren Kohei Saito visar varför marxister under 1900-talet mestadels bortsåg från Marx idéer om ekologi och hur livet under antropocen – människans tidsålder – slutligen får dem att finna sin verkan. Utifrån nytt material som publicerats i Karl Marx och Friedrich Engels samlade verk presenterar Saito en helt ny sida av Marx alternativ till det kapitalistiska samhället och föreställningen om tillväxt. Denna radikala nytolkning av den sene Marx gjuter nytt liv i debatten om förhållandet mellan människa och planet, samhälle och natur, rovdrift och klimatapokalyps.
Kohei Saito (född 1987) är en japansk filosof, verksam vid University of Tokyo. Han var medredaktör för volym 18 i Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe, ett arbete som också utgjorde en avhandling vid Humboldtuniversitetet i Berlin 2017. År 2021 gav han ut boken Capital in the Anthropocene, som startade en våg av marxistiskt tänkande hos yngre japaner och sålde en halv miljon exemplar i hemlandet. Marx i antropocen utkom 2023 och blir Saitos första bok i svensk översättning.
". . . ett glasklart manifest tar form som parar ihop det röda och det gröna." Göran Greider, Aftonbladet.
"Vi agerar så totalt irrationellt nu. De som inser det måste tänka tvärs emot allt vad som räknas som rimligt." Nina Björk, DN.
Kapitalet : kritik av den politiska ekonomin. Första boken. Kapitalets produktionsprocess
Inbunden, Svenska, 2018
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I dag möter vi en pågående global industrialisering utan motstycke i mänsklighetens historia, med åtföljande urbanisering, modernisering och övergång till kapitalistisk penningekonomi runt om i världen. De nya sociala och kulturella förhållandena globalt, och löntagarnas nya ställning och situation globalt, har dock påtagliga likheter med situationen i Europa under den framträngande industrialiseringen vid mitten av 1800-talet. Där och då författade Karl Marx sitt huvudarbete Das Kapital, ett av de mest betydande verken i samhällsvetenskapens och den politiska idédebattens historia. Marx teori om kapitalismen som en historieförändrande och samhällsomformande institutionell struktur och dess tillhörande sociala relationer, där kapitalets vinstmotiv är den centrala drivkraften, har därmed fått en förnyad och paradoxal aktualitet.
I sin reviderade inledning till denna sjunde upplaga av Kapitalets första bok ger statsvetaren Mats Lindberg en introduktion till verket och till Marx teori, en vidareutveckling av resonemangen i hans inflytelserika doktorsavhandling och studiehandledning Att studera Kapitalet.
I samband med återutgivningen av Ivan Bohmans översättning av första boken 2013 gav Arkiv förlag även ut en ny utgåva av Att studera Kapitalet. Den innehåller förklaringar till Marx begrepp kapitel för kapitel, samt flera hundra kommentarer till och korrigeringar av översättningen. Missa inte heller vårt Supplement till första boken där Mats Lindberg i detalj redogör för problemen med att översätta de centrala begreppen i Kapitalet.
"En gång var Kapitalet sin tids främsta sammanfattande berättelse om moderniteten, kapitalismen och lönarbetet. Jag skulle vilja ställa frågan om Kapitalet i dag, trots all vår samhällsvetenskapliga teoriutveckling och alla våra framsteg i olika samhällsvetenskapliga discipliner, fortfarande kanske är den mest heltäckande teorin om den moderna människans motsägelsefulla och institutionellt inbäddade livsvillkor." Ur Mats Lindbergs inledning (inledningen finns även tillgänglig som särtryck)
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Already famous throughout Europe, this international bestseller plumbs recently opened archives in the former Soviet bloc to reveal the actual, practical accomplishments of Communism around the world: terror, torture, famine, mass deportations, and massacres. Astonishing in the sheer detail it amasses, the book is the first comprehensive attempt to catalogue and analyze the crimes of Communism over seventy years."Revolutions, like trees, must be judged by their fruit," Ignazio Silone wrote, and this is the standard the authors apply to the Communist experience—in the China of "the Great Helmsman," Kim Il Sung's Korea, Vietnam under "Uncle Ho" and Cuba under Castro, Ethiopia under Mengistu, Angola under Neto, and Afghanistan under Najibullah. The authors, all distinguished scholars based in Europe, document Communist crimes against humanity, but also crimes against national and universal culture, from Stalin's destruction of hundreds of churches in Moscow to Ceausescu's leveling of the historic heart of Bucharest to the widescale devastation visited on Chinese culture by Mao's Red Guards.As the death toll mounts—as many as 25 million in the former Soviet Union, 65 million in China, 1.7 million in Cambodia, and on and on—the authors systematically show how and why, wherever the millenarian ideology of Communism was established, it quickly led to crime, terror, and repression. An extraordinary accounting, this book amply documents the unparalleled position and significance of Communism in the hierarchy of violence that is the history of the twentieth century.
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'The foremost work on the key democratic task: helping people to identify and challenge the sources of their oppression ... a transformative text' George Monbiot, GuardianArguing that 'education is freedom', Paulo Freire's radical international classic contends that traditional teaching styles keep the poor powerless by treating them as passive, silent recipients of knowledge. Grounded in Freire's own experience teaching impoverished and illiterate students in his native Brazil and over the world, this pioneering book instead suggests that through co-operation, dialogue and critical thinking, every human being can develop a sense of self and fulfil their right to be heard.'Truly revolutionary' Ivan Illich
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What happens when politics is everywhere, yet nothing seems to change? From the abandoned dance floors of Thatcher's London to the mass mobilizations of Black Lives Matter, Anton Jäger traces how public life has become infused with protest, spectacle, and moral urgency - while the old infrastructure of parties, unions, and civic solidarity has been hollowed out.Hyperpolitics revisits the illusions of the "end of history" and dissects the strange energies that replaced them: viral outrage, endless culture wars, and the digital rush of causes that flare and vanish overnight. Jäger shows how the promises of post-Cold War liberalism gave way to a restless, unsteady public sphere where private passions overflow into politics but rarely build enduring power.Ranging from Guy Debord and Wolfgang Tillmans to Houellebecq's disenchanted fictions, Hyperpolitics makes sense of a world in which collective action remains fragmented and the social fabric thinner than ever. For anyone trying to grasp why our age feels so charged yet so inconsequential, this book offers a vital map through the new contradictions of our hyperpolitical moment.
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Kommunistiska Manifestet hör till arbetarrörelsens största klassiker. Med miljontals läsare världen över har Karl Marx och Friedrich Engels text från 1847 inspirerat allt från grundandet av partier och fackföreningar till revolutioner.Marx och Engles analys av samhällsutvecklingen som klasskamp och uppmaning till arbetarklassen att organisera sig förblir relevant och kontroversiell än idag. I serieform av Mats Kejonen blir originaltexten ännu mer aktuell och tillgänglig för en ny publik.
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*** Longlisted for the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year 2025 ***Misogyny, conspiratorialism, surveillance, manipulation, fraud, and AI slop are drowning the internet. For the monopolists who dominate online - X, TikTok, Amazon, Meta, Apple - this is all part of the playbook. The process is what leading tech critic Cory Doctorow has dubbed 'enshittification'. First, the platform attracts users with some bait, such as free access; then the activity is monetized, bringing in the business customers and degrading the user experience; then, once everyone is trapped and competitors eradicated, the platform wrings out all the value and transfers it to their executives and shareholders.As a result, online public squares have become places of torment, and online retailers are hellish dumpster fires. The virtual gathering places where we once imagined the world's problems might be resolved are now a sewer of hatred and abuse - thoroughly enshittified.Doctorow enumerates the symptoms, lays out the diagnosis, and identifies the best responses to these diseased platforms: the monopolies online must be shattered. Companies too big to fail or to jail - and much too big to care - must be cut down to size. Only an attack on corporate power will permit effective regulation and real privacy. Tech unions must protect the workers who should, in turn, defend us against their bosses' sadism and greed.Praise for The Internet Con:"One of the Internet's most interesting writers." -- Edward Snowden"This book fills me with hope that a radical yet plausible alternative to computational tyranny can be developed and deployed." -- Douglas Rushkoff, author of Survival of the Fittest"This book is the instruction manual Big Tech doesn't want you to read. It deconstructs their crummy products, undemocratic business models, rigged legal regimes, and lies. Crack this book and help build something better." -- Astra Taylor"A brilliant barn burner of a book. Cory is one of the sharpest tech critics, and he shows with fierce clarity how our computational future could be otherwise." -- Kate Crawford, author of The Atlas of AI
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»Förändringskraften i Kommunistiska manifestet har bara överträffats av Bibeln. Som litteratur är det ett mästerverk.« | The Guardian Kommunistiska manifestet hör till de politiska pamfletternas mästerverk. Karl Marx och Friedrich Engels förutsåg historiska händelser, såsom mekaniserad massproduktion. När manifestet skrevs 1847 talade de med självklarhet utifrån denna beskrivna utveckling - med en alldeles magnifik retorik. Ingen politisk text har engagerat och inspirerat så många, så länge, som Kommunistiska manifestet. Den 21 februari 2018 fyller verket jämnt, 170 år. Då gör Modernista det åter tillgängligt på svenska.KARL MARX [1818-1883], född i Trier, Preussen, var en tysk sociolog, nationalekonom, filosof och historiker. Marx räknas till grundarna av sociologin och är arbetarrörelsens mest inflytelserike tänkare. Upphovsman till den ekonomiska och revolutionära teori som kom att kallas marxism.FRIEDRICH ENGELS [1820-1895], född i Barmen, Preussen, var en tysk affärsman, sociolog, filosof och journalist. Som politisk tänkare, tillsammans med Karl Marx, grundare av den revolutionära teori som kom att kallas marxism.
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Efter decennier av nyliberal dominans och i kölvattnet av återkommande ekonomiska, sociala och ekologiska kriser har marxismen åter trätt fram som en gravitationspunkt för den samtida samhällsdebatten. Det växande behovet av verktyg för att förstå och utmana kapitalismens alltmer instabila ordning har drivit fram en global renässans för den marxistiska teorin – även i Sverige, där forskare, intellektuella och aktivister bidrar till dess utveckling. I "Samtida marxistisk teori" presenteras trettiosju tänkare från olika delar av världen, tänkare som har fört den marxistiska teorin in i det krisdrabbade 2000-talet. På vilka sätt kan det traditionella idéarvet utvecklas, omformuleras och aktiveras i en tid då den breda vänstern förlorar mark till den inflytelserika koalitionen mellan techmiljardärer och auktoritära ledare, framburna av nykonservativa, antifeministiska och fascistiska rörelser? Och vilka verktyg krävs egentligen för att kunna visualisera och frammana en annan ordning än den nyliberalism som nu bryter samman? Den här boken riktar sig till dem som möter marxistisk teori för första gången men även till dem som vill bredda sin förståelse av vad den kan betyda idag. Följande författarskap presenteras i boken:SAMIR AMIN, KEVIN B.ANDERSON, JAIRUS BANAJI, STEFANIA BARCA, GARGI BHATTACHARYYA, ROBERT BRENNER, MARTHA CAMPBELL, VIVEK CHIBBER, BRETT CHRISTOPHERS, TERRY EAGLETON, SILVIA FEDERICI, NANCY FRASER, RUTH WILSON GILMORE, RAMÓN GROSFOGUEL, DAVID HARVEY, MICHAEL HEINRICH, RAHEL JAEGGI, BOB JESSOP, ANNA G.JÓNASDÓTTIR, DOMENICO LOSURDO, DAVID MCNALLY, ANGELA MCROBBIE, SANDRO MEZZADRA & BRETT NEILSON, CHINA MIÉVILLE, DON MITCHELL, ANTONIO NEGRI, MOISHE POSTONE, KRISTIN ROSS, KOHEI SAITO, ANWAR SHAIKH, BEVERLY J.SILVER, BEVERLY SKEGGS, LISE VOGEL, IMMANUEL WALLERSTEIN, ELLEN MEIKSINS WOOD, ERIK OLIN WRIGHT, SLAVOJ ŽIŽEK
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Nation and Aesthetics is a unique attempt to examine the ambiguous nature of nationalism and nation by examining them through aesthetics. In this translation by Jonathan E. Abel, Darwin H. Tsen, and Hiroki Yoshikuni, Karatani grasps the modern social formation as a nexus of three different "modes of exchange", namely capital-nation-state. Nation here plays the role of complementing capitalism and the state. Benedict Anderson defined nation as an "imagined community". Through rethinking Kant, Karatani suggests that "imagination" here is not a mere fancy, but very real, in the sense that it mediates state and capital. Usually imagination is regarded as fancying what is not present here. Kant grasped imagination as a faculty to imagine what we can understand but cannot sense; that is, to say, a faculty to mediate reason and sensibility. This observation provided the foundation to Modern aesthetics, which in the course of time became an important source of nationalism. In Italy, Germany, and Japan, nationalism appeared as fascism. They found in aesthetics a moment to go beyond capitalism and the state. The key to go beyond nation, Karatani argues, lies also in the thoughts of Kant, a cosmopolitan and an advocate of a world republic. It is well-known that the League of Nations was formed after First World War under the influence of his "Perpetual Peace". Karatani draws attention to the overlooked fact that around the same time Freud made a radical revision of his notion of the "superego". Karatani introduces article nine of Japan's postwar constitution, which renounces the right to wage war, as a crystallization of Kant's ideal of peace and Freud's superego. By providing a unique explanation of, and ways to counter, current nationalistic and imperialistic tendencies, Nation and Aesthetics argues that theories of Kant and Freud, which are usually understood to contrast, are deeply linked and suggest ways to go beyond capital-nation-state.
Kapitalet : kritik av den politiska ekonomin. Andra boken. Kapitalets cirkulationsprocess
Inbunden, Svenska, 2018
220 kr
Karl Marx huvudarbete "Das Kapital" är ett av de mest betydande verken i samhällsvetenskapens och den politiska idédebattens historia och helt centralt för vår förståelse av det moderna, kapitalistiska samhället. "Kapitalets" första bok, "Kapitalets produktionsprocess", är den mest kända och lästa delen. Men första boken vilar på och förutsätter de teorem som formuleras i andra och tredje boken, särskilt vad gäller kapitalismens återkommande kriser. Andra boken, "Kapitalets cirkulationsprocess", tar som namnet antyder sin utgångspunkt i cirkulationen av kapital i dess olika former snarare än i produktionen. Marx lyfter här blicken från fabriksgolvet mot kapitalismen som makroekonomiskt system och dess jämviktsbetingelser, vilket ger ett annat perspektiv på hur kapitalet fungerar än i den första boken. Denna tredje upplaga av andra boken har försetts med en klargörande inledning av den brittiske kulturgeografen och samhällsteoretikern David Harvey, som skrivit flera uppmärksammade verk om kapitalismens utveckling och handledningar till både första och andra boken av Kapitalet. "Om den flitigt studerade första boken överbetonas och den andra boken försummas och uppfattas som mindre viktig, vilket tyvärr inte sällan är fallet, får vi i bästa fall bara halva bilden av Marx' förståelse av kapitalets politiska ekonomi. Men det är i själva verket mycket värre än så att inte ta den andra boken på allvar: vi kan då inte till fullo förstå vad som sägs i den första boken, eftersom vi måste sätta dess resultat i dialektiskt förhållande till den andra bokens resultat för att begripa dem ordentligt." Ur David Harveys inledning
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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE ONDAATJE PRIZE'The best book I read last year by a mile. . . so beautifully written that anyone would be hooked' Laura Hackett, Sunday Times, Best Summer Books'Wonderfully funny and poignant. . . a tale of family secrets and political awakening amid a crumbling regime' Luke Harding, Observer'We never lose our inner freedom; the freedom to do what is right'Lea Ypi grew up in one of the most isolated countries on earth, a place where communist ideals had officially replaced religion. Albania, the last Stalinist outpost in Europe, was almost impossible to visit, almost impossible to leave. It was a place of queuing and scarcity, of political executions and secret police. To Lea, it was home. People were equal, neighbours helped each other, and children were expected to build a better world. There was community and hope.Then, in December 1990, everything changed. The statues of Stalin and Hoxha were toppled. Almost overnight, people could vote freely, wear what they liked and worship as they wished. There was no longer anything to fear from prying ears. But factories shut, jobs disappeared and thousands fled to Italy on crowded ships, only to be sent back. Predatory pyramid schemes eventually bankrupted the country, leading to violent conflict. As one generation's aspirations became another's disillusionment, and as her own family's secrets were revealed, Lea found herself questioning what freedom really meant.Free is an engrossing memoir of coming of age amid political upheaval. With acute insight and wit, Lea Ypi traces the limits of progress and the burden of the past, illuminating the spaces between ideals and reality, and the hopes and fears of people pulled up by the sweep of history.THE SUNDAY TIMES MEMOIR OF THE YEARWINNER OF THE SLIGHTLY FOXED BEST FIRST BIOGRAPHY PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZECHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE GUARDIAN, FINANCIAL TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES, TLS, DAILY MAIL, NEW STATESMAN AND SPECTATOR
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Nils Flyg och Sven Olov Lindholm var under 1930- och 40-talen ledare för två skilda politiska partier i Sverige. Flyg var kommunist och Lindholm nationalsocialist. Under sina respektive liv kom de båda dock att göra uppseendeväckande ideologiska förflyttningar. Flyg styrde från det sena 1930-talet och framåt sitt parti i armarna på den tyska nazismen. Lindholm å andra sidan blev småningom FNL-demonstrant och fredsaktivist och förkunnade att han röstade på Vänsterpartiet kommunisterna. Kommunisten Flyg blev alltså nazist, medan nazisten Lindholm blev kommunist.
I Renegater analyserar och jämför historikern Johan Stenfeldt dessa mäns individuella ideologiska utveckling. Vilka likheter i tankesätt står att finna? Och var uppstår skiljelinjerna? Även om symmetrin i det svenska fallet är unik har liknande politiska ståndpunktsbyten och uppbrott kunnat ses också på andra håll i Europa under 1900-talet. Hur förhåller sig Flygs och Lindholms avhopp till andra renegaters? Kanske representerar de svenska fallen i själva verket en fast punkt i en föränderlig omvärld?
Alibi of Capital
How We Broke the Earth to Steal the Future on the Promise of a Better Tomorrow
Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
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Today, extraordinary wealth seems to arrive from nowhere. The trick of conjuring this unearned wealth is, in fact, the key to understanding capitalism's origins and a clue to why the catastrophe of climate collapse is upon us: value is created by consuming the future.The Alibi of Capital explains how this came about through the imperial expansion of the West, encumbering today's generations with repayments on earlier extractions. Timothy Mitchell identifies the forms of capitalisation, credit, and coercion that turn prospective assets into present income. Rejecting the common idea that claims on the future create only financial or fictitious capital, he traces the terraforming projects - the destruction of rivers, the colonising of territory, the expansion of infrastructure, and the burning of carbon - through which the future has been squandered. Terms such as finance, technology, the economy, and growth function as alibis that conceal this devastating form of extraction.
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Faced with a new crisis of capitalism, many scholars are now looking back to the author whose ideas were too hastily dismissed after the fall of the Berlin Wall. During the last decade, Marx’s Capital has received renewed academic and popular attention. It has been reprinted in new editions throughout the world and the contemporary relevance of its pages is being discussed again. Today, Marx’s analyses are arguably resonating even more strongly than they did in his own time and Capital continues to provide an effective framework to understand the nature of capitalism and its transformations. This volume includes the proceedings of the biggest international conference held in the world to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Capital’s publication. The book is divided into three parts: I) "Capitalism, Past and Present"; II) "Extending the Critique of Capital"; III) "The Politics of Capital". It contains the contributions of globally renowned scholars from 13 countries and multiple academic disciplines who offer diverse perspectives, and critical insights into the principal contradictions of contemporary capitalism while pointing to alternative economic and social models. Together, they reconsider the most influential historical debates on Capital and provide new interpretations of Marx’s magnum opus in light of themes rarely associated with Capital, such as gender, ecology, and non-European societies. The book is an indispensable source for academic communities who are increasingly interested in rediscovering Marx beyond 20th century Marxism. Moreover, it will be of great appeal to students, as well as established scholars interested in critique of capitalism and socialist theory.
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A FINANCIAL TIMES HIGHLIGHT FOR 2026 'The most important reappraisal of modern China to appear in years' PETER FRANKOPAN, author of The Silk Roads and The Earth TransformedFrom renowned, prize-winning historian Frank Dikötter – ‘the historian of China’ (Spectator) – a commanding new history of China’s path to Communism, brought to the people at the barrel of a gun.The history of modern China has long been portrayed as a tale of Communists fighting in the hills for freedom, gradually gaining popular support by taking land from the rich and giving it to the poor. Drawing on a wealth of archival evidence, Red Dawn Over China reveals how unlikely the Party's victory actually was, had it not been for financial and military support from the Soviet Union.Established in 1921 under the direct guidance of Moscow, for the best part of a decade the Communist Party left a trail of destruction, besieging towns and plundering the countryside. When the Communists managed to hold territory, they reduced the villagers to a state of servitude, undermining belief in their cause as well as the local economy. By 1936 they had the same popular appeal as an obscure religious sect. A brutal war of occupation by Japan allowed them to survive far behind enemy lines. After Soviet troops invaded Manchuria in 1945 and provided more money and munitions, the Communists at long last prevailed through a pitiless war of attrition, driven by an unflinching will to conquer at all costs.In this riveting tale told with great narrative verve, Frank Dikötter reveals how thirteen delegates gathered in a dusty room in 1921 ended up raising the red flag over the Forbidden City in 1949, forever altering the course of history for a quarter of humanity and shaping the world as we know it today.Praise for Frank Dikötter and the People's Trilogy:'Harrowing and brilliant' Ben Macintyre'Gripping and masterful' Simon Sebag Montefiore'One of the few books that anyone who wants to understand the twentieth century simply must read' New Statesman
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A FINANCIAL TIMES HIGHLIGHT FOR 2026 'The most important reappraisal of modern China to appear in years' PETER FRANKOPAN, author of The Silk Roads and The Earth TransformedFrom renowned, prize-winning historian Frank Dikötter – ‘the historian of China’ (Spectator) – a commanding new history of China’s path to Communism, brought to the people at the barrel of a gun.The history of modern China has long been portrayed as a tale of Communists fighting in the hills for freedom, gradually gaining popular support by taking land from the rich and giving it to the poor. Drawing on a wealth of archival evidence, Red Dawn Over China reveals how unlikely the Party's victory actually was, had it not been for financial and military support from the Soviet Union.Established in 1921 under the direct guidance of Moscow, for the best part of a decade the Communist Party left a trail of destruction, besieging towns and plundering the countryside. When the Communists managed to hold territory, they reduced the villagers to a state of servitude, undermining belief in their cause as well as the local economy. By 1936 they had the same popular appeal as an obscure religious sect. A brutal war of occupation by Japan allowed them to survive far behind enemy lines. After Soviet troops invaded Manchuria in 1945 and provided more money and munitions, the Communists at long last prevailed through a pitiless war of attrition, driven by an unflinching will to conquer at all costs.In this riveting tale told with great narrative verve, Frank Dikötter reveals how thirteen delegates gathered in a dusty room in 1921 ended up raising the red flag over the Forbidden City in 1949, forever altering the course of history for a quarter of humanity and shaping the world as we know it today.Praise for Frank Dikötter and the People's Trilogy:'Harrowing and brilliant' Ben Macintyre'Gripping and masterful' Simon Sebag Montefiore'One of the few books that anyone who wants to understand the twentieth century simply must read' New Statesman
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Kurdistan has a storied and turbulent past, marked by a relentless struggle for self-determination and survival. Kurdish women have been at the forefront of this struggle: their lives are a testament to resilience in the face of relentless adversity, as they navigate the complexities of revolution and the quest for freedom and equality.This groundbreaking book is the first comprehensive study of leftist women guerrillas in Iranian Kurdistan, predating the emergence of women fighters in Rojava by more than three decades. Focusing on Komala (1979-1991), a radical Kurdish-Iranian organisation pioneering the inclusion of women as combatants, Women of Komala examines the lives and political participation of marginalised women.Drawing on extensive interviews with former members, the book analyses subjects rarely addressed within Kurdish political parties, including familial, social, and organisational obstacles; gendered organisational dynamics; patriarchy; the issue of children; and the sexual division of roles within families and the party. This rich account situates Komala within the political context of the 1979 Revolution and its aftermath, shedding light on the importance of critical reflection on gender relations during this pivotal period in the history of Kurdistan and Iran.
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"Before I knew that I was Jewish or a girl I knew that I was a member of the working class." So begins Vivian Gornick's exploration of how the world of socialists, communists, and progressives in the 1940s and 1950s created a rich, diverse world where ordinary men and women felt their lives connected to a larger human project. Now back in print after its initial publication in 1977 and with a new introduction by the author, The Romance of American Communism is a landmark work of new journalism, profiling American Communist Party members and fellow travelers as they joined the Party, lived within its orbit, and left in disillusionment and disappointment as Stalin's crimes became public. From the immigrant Jewish enclaves of the Bronx and Brooklyn and the docks of Puget Sound to the mining towns of Kentucky and the suburbs of Cleveland, over a million Americans found a sense of belonging and an expanded sense of self through collective struggle. They also found social isolation, blacklisting, imprisonment, and shattered hopes. This is their story--an indisputably American story.
Nietzsche, the Aristocratic Rebel
Intellectual Biography and Critical Balance-Sheet
Häftad, Engelska, 2021
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Perhaps no philosopher is more of a conundrum than Nietzsche, the solitary rebel, poet, wayfarer, anti-revolutionary Aufklärer and theorist of aristocratic radicalism. His accusers identify in his 'superman' the origins of Nazism, and thus issue an irrevocable condemnation; his defenders pursue a hermeneutics of innocence founded ultimately in allegory.In a work widely regarded as the most important contribution to Nietzschean studies in recent decades, Domenico Losurdo instead pursues a less reductive strategy. Taking literally the ruthless implications of Nietzsche's anti-democratic thinking—his celebration of slavery, of war and colonial expansion, and eugenics—he nevertheless refuses to treat these from the perspective of the mid-twentieth century. In doing so, he restores Nietzsche's works to their complex nineteenth-century context, and presents a more compelling account of the importance of Nietzsche as philosopher than can be expected from his many contemporary apologists.Originally published in Italian by Bollati Boringhieri Editore as Domenico Losurdo, Nietzsche, il ribelle aristocratico: Biografia intellettuale e bilancio critico, Turin, 2002.
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This revised and enlarged edition of the leading anthology provides the essential writings of Marx and Engels—those works necessary for an introduction to Marxist thought and ideology.
Marxism and the Interpretation of Dreams
Communism in Interwar Czechoslovakia and the Idea of Central Europe
Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
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This book tells the story of one of the largest and most multinational communist parties in interwar Europe: the Czechoslovak communist party. Rather than telling a story rooted in later divisions between East and West, Molly Pucci considers the party in a Central European context, shaped by the common experiences of postwar displacement, imperial collapse, economic and social upheaval, grassroots violence, and the uncertain power of revolution. Starting with the party's unique approach to socialism, derived from its Austro-Marxist heritage, she discusses its diverse Czech, Slovak, Jewish, Hungarian, Ruthenian, Polish, and German national groups and unique role in fostering radical emigre communities from across the region. Pucci offers a vibrant new history of how the party's artists, novelists, poets, photographers, lawyers, and journalists made sense of, and sought inspiration from, the socialist experiment in the East. Placing the party's history in a regional, transnational, and global perspective, she provides a multinational, multilingual perspective on early communist ideas, networks, and culture in Central Europe.
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'A Latin American James Dean or Jack Kerouac' Washington Post'It's true; Marxists just wanna have fun... a revolutionary bestseller' GuardianAt the age of twenty-three, Ernesto 'Che' Guevara and his friend Alberto Granado set out from their native Argentina to explore their continent, with only a single 1939 Norton motorcycle to carry them, nicknamed La Poderosa ('the powerful one'). They travelled not to visit the usual tourist attractions, but to meet ordinary people and understand Latin American life. In amidst the tales of youthful adventures - of women, wine, thrilling escapes and the power of friendship - the young Che also learns first-hand about poverty, philosophy and philosophy and forms himself into the man who would become the world's most famous and admired revolutionary and freedom fighter.'For every comic escapade of the carefree roustabout there is an equally eye-opening moment in the development of the future revolutionary leader. By the end of the journey, a politicized Guevara has emerged to predict his own legendary future' Time
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This third edition of the successful Routledge Handbook of Religion and Politics provides a definitive global survey of the interaction of religion and politics. From the United States to the Middle East, from Asia to Africa, and beyond, religion continues to be an important factor in political activity and organisation.Featuring contributions from an international team of experts, this volume examines the political aspects of the world's major religions, including crucial contemporary issues such as religion and climate change, religion and migration, and religion and war. Each chapter has been updated to reflect the latest developments and thinking in the field, and the handbook also includes new chapters on topics such as religious freedom, religion and populism, proselytizing, humanism and politics, and religious soft power.The four main themes addressed are:World religions and politicsReligion and governanceReligion and international relationsReligion, security and developmentReferences at the end of each chapter guide the reader towards the most up-to-date information on these key topics. This book is an indispensable source of information for students, academics, and the wider public interested in the dynamic relationship between politics and religion.
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In recent years, we have witnessed a surge of interest in Marx's work in the effort to understand the origins of our current predicament. For nearly forty years, David Harvey has written and lectured on Capital, becoming one of the world's most foremost Marx scholars. Based on his recent lectures, this current volume - finally bringing together his guides to Volumes I, II and much of III of Das Kapital - aims to bring this depth of learning to a broader audience, guiding first-time readers through a fascinating and deeply rewarding text. A Companion to Marx's Capital offers fresh, original and sometimes critical interpretations of a book that changed the course of history and, as Harvey intimates, may do so again.David Harvey's video lecture course can be found here: davidharvey.org/reading-capital/
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'An accessibly written distillation of two centuries worth of reproductive class struggle; a revived vision of revolutionary ‘beloved community’ for an age of climate catastrophe. Spread this book around, and start communizing care!' Sophie Lewis, author of Abolish the FamilyFor some of us, the family is a source of love and support. But for many others, the family is a place of private horror, coercion and personal domination. In capitalist society, the private family carries the impossible demands of interpersonal care and social reproductive labor. Can we imagine a different future?In Family Abolition, author M.E. O’Brien uncovers the history of struggles to create radical alternatives to the private family. O’Brien traces the changing family politics of racial capitalism in the industrial cities of Europe and in the slave plantations and settler frontier of North America, explaining the rise and fall of the housewife-based family form. From early Marxists to Black and queer insurrectionists to today’s mass protest movements, O’Brien finds revolutionaries seeking better ways of loving, caring, and living. Family Abolition takes us through the past and present of family politics into a speculative future of the commune, imagining how care could be organized in a free society.
Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism?
The Intellectual World War, Marxism vs. the Imperial Theory Industry
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
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Who Paidthe Pipers of Western Marxism? offers a crash course in the history ofimperialist propaganda, as well as in the Marxist method for analyzingculture and ideology. Author Gabriel Rockhill demonstrates the explanatoryand transformative superiority of a dialectical and historical materialistapproach, while elucidating how the world of ideas is a crucial site of classstruggle. He then engages in a meticulous counter-history of the FrankfurtSchool—which made a foundational contribution to Western Marxism—by situatingit within the global relations of class struggle and the imperialist war onactually existing socialism. With the explicit and direct backing of powerfulelements in the capitalist ruling class and the world’s leading imperialist state,the Frankfurt School developed a widely promoted form of compatible criticaltheory as an ersatz for dialectical and historical materialism. The volumeconcludes by bringing to the fore the positive project that serves as theguiding methodological framework for the work as a whole: a thoroughlyanticolonial and anti-imperialist Marxism dedicated to building socialism inthe real world. Drawing on extensive archival research to pull back thecurtain on ruling class machinations, Rockhill’s book elucidates how theintellectual world war on the socialist alternative has sought to shore upand promote a “compatible left” intelligentsia while misrepresenting,maligning, and trying to destroy the revolutionary left.
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Marx for the twenty-first centuryThe first new English translation in fifty years—and the only one based on the last German edition revised by Marx himselfFeaturing extensive original commentary, including a foreword by acclaimed political theorist Wendy Brown“An astounding achievement.”—China Miéville, author of October: The Story of the Russian RevolutionKarl Marx (1818–1883) was living in exile in England when he embarked on an ambitious, multivolume critique of the capitalist system of production. Though only the first volume saw publication in Marx’s lifetime, it would become one of the most consequential books in history. This magnificent new edition of Capital is a translation of Marx for the twenty-first century. It is the first translation into English to be based on the last German edition revised by Marx himself, the only version that can be called authoritative, and it features extensive commentary and annotations by Paul North and Paul Reitter that draw on the latest scholarship and provide invaluable perspective on the book and its complicated legacy. At once precise and boldly readable, this translation captures the momentous scale and sweep of Marx’s thought while recovering the elegance and humor of the original source.For Marx, our global economic system is relentlessly driven by “value”—to produce it, capture it, trade it, and, most of all, to increase it. Lifespans are shortened under the demand for ever-greater value. Days are lengthened, work is intensified, and the division of labor deepens until it leaves two classes, owners and workers, in constant struggle for life and livelihood. In Capital, Marx reveals how value came to tyrannize our world, and how the history of capital is a chronicle of bloodshed, colonization, and enslavement.With a foreword by Wendy Brown and an afterword by William Clare Roberts, this is a critical edition of Capital for our time, one that faithfully preserves the vitality and directness of Marx’s German prose and renders his ideas newly relevant to modern readers.
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The Hegelian-Marxist idea of alienation fell out of favor after the postmetaphysical rejection of humanism and essentialist views of human nature. In this book Rahel Jaeggi draws on the Hegelian philosophical tradition, phenomenological analyses grounded in modern conceptions of agency, and recent work in the analytical tradition to reconceive alienation as the absence of a meaningful relationship to oneself and others, which manifests in feelings of helplessness and the despondent acceptance of ossified social roles and expectations. A revived approach to alienation helps critical social theory engage with phenomena such as meaninglessness, isolation, and indifference. By severing alienation's link to a problematic conception of human essence while retaining its social-philosophical content, Jaeggi provides resources for a renewed critique of social pathologies, a much-neglected concern in contemporary liberal political philosophy. Her work revisits the arguments of Rousseau, Hegel, Kierkegaard, and Heidegger, placing them in dialogue with Thomas Nagel, Bernard Williams, and Charles Taylor.