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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
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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Today our world is under the watchful and tireless eye of computer vision, with cameras and monitors tracing our every move. Furthermore, generative AI is now able to render a synthetic world indistinguishable from reality for us to explore. Trevor Paglen goes in search of the ways and means of understanding this new visual universe. Instead of asking what these technologies "say" about the world, he teaches us to ask what they "do" and where such images come from.Exploring the esoteric worlds of psyops, UFO imagery, magicians, and public relation gurus, Paglen shows that this apparently alien realm is more human, but much stranger, than we imagine.
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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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"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.
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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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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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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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»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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Deeper Ground, Darker Shadows is the memoir of Eddie L. Quitoriano, who grew up in a rural part of the Philippine island of Mindanao and eventually became one of the top organizers of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) and commander of the party’s New People’s Army (NPA). Coming to political consciousness as a university student, Quitoriano chooses revolution over the priesthood and embarks on a life of unforeseen danger. Sent abroad as an envoy to seek military assistance from sympathetic governments and other radical factions, he travels from the Sandinistas in Nicaragua to Syria, Libya, North Korea, Peru, Brazil, and Yugoslavia. Quitioriano finds revolutionary life thrilling but dangerous, with secretly arranged meetings and drops, doctored passports, and hastily planned plastic surgery. He wrestles with the global implications of his work, experiences daily struggles to survive in always-changing political circumstances, and is profoundly human in his love and concern for the family he has left behind in the Philippines. What emerges is a view of international revolutionary movements that only an insider could write. Quitoriano provides an essential and unique missing piece of twentieth-century Philippine and leftist history. The book includes a critical introduction by Patricio N. Abinales and Francisco J. Lara Jr., situating Quitoriano’s story within the larger context of Southeast Asian political history, as well as a foreword by Patricia G. Steinhoff.
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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
Kapitalet : kritik av den politiska ekonomin. Andra boken. Kapitalets cirkulationsprocess
Inbunden, Svenska, 2018
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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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Cultural Marxism Conspiracy
Why the Right Blames the Frankfurt School for the Decline of the West
Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
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"Cultural Marxism" is one of the far right's favorite buzzwords. But despite its currency, the meaning and origins of the term are rarely investigated. This book uncovers the bizarre story of the cult leaders, right-wing intellectuals, and White House officials who believe a coterie of left-wing scholars and students is plotting to undermine Western civilization. Drawing on years of archival research and using the tools of critical theory, A.J.A. Woods reveals how a group of German thinkers known as the Frankfurt School was recast as the sinister orchestra-tors of a global conspiracy. Instead of simply debunking this conspiracy theory, Woods offers a sharp analysis and critique of the political movements that have declared war on all that passes for Cultural Marxism in the US, the UK, and Brazil.Only when we understand the practices and weaknesses of those reactionaries committed to fighting this illusory threat-a conflict causing real-world damage-can we effectively resist. This is an essential book for anyone seeking to understand the ideological currents shaping politics in the twenty-first century.
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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.
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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?
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Citat ur ordförande Mao Tse-tungs verk sammansställdes för första gången 1964 inom Folkets befrielsearmé för att öka soldaternas kunskaper i Mao Zedongs tänkande. Från och med 1966, då kulturrevolutionen utbröt, trycktes boken i ett karaktäristisk rött plastomslag med ett förord av Lin Biao. Redan första upplagan uppgick till 175 miljoner och målsättningen var att alla kinesiska medborgare skulle äga ett exemplar. Totalt spreds Citatboken i och utanför Kina i miljarder exemplar; detta gör troligtvis citatboken till världens mest tryckta bok efter Bibeln. Citatboken spelade en mycket viktig roll under kulturrevolutionen i Kina 1966 – 1976. Den innehöll i koncentrat Maos tankar i en lättfattlig form. Idag bör Citatboken framför allt användas som en inkörsport till Mao Zedongs skrifter. Citaten bör inspirera läsarna att gå till själva ursprungstexterna. Mao Zedong förordade alltid att kadern i Kinas Kommunistiska Parti skulle studera klassikerna – och idag tillhör Mao Zedong definitivt klassikerna.
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.
Theory As History: Essays On Modes Of Production And Exploitation
Historical Materialism, Volume 25
Häftad, Engelska, 2011
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The essays collected within this text engage with the Marxist notion of a 'mode of production', the emergence of the medieval relations of production, the origins of capitalism, the dichotomy between free and unfree labour and essays in agrarian history. Together, the insightful and thought provoking texts within Theory as History demonstrate the importance of reintegrating theory within history and of bringing history back into historical materialism. Meticulously grounded in evidence, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in capitalism and Marxism.
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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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Bokförlaget Nixon ger ut det Kommunistiska manifestet av Marx och Engels i en ny inbunden utgåva. Boken ingår som kurslitteratur på flera universitetskurser och är ett klassiskt idéhistoriskt dokument.
Många av Manifestets grundteser stämmer än idag, och används fortfarande av dagens revolutionärer. Men det är inte för att Marx och Engels var några profeter som satt inne med alla de rätta svaren. Marxismens teorier har växt fram utifrån arbetarrörelsens behov och klassförhållandenas utveckling. Teorierna är lika aktuella idag som när de började formuleras. De är analysverktyg som inte är fasta i sin tid, utan som arbetarrörelsen fortfarande utvecklar för att förstå sin egen situation. Däremot var manifestet inte Marx sista ord, och boken måste förstås som en historisk ögonblicksbild. Marx egna tankar om kapitalismen, kommunismen och arbetarklassen fortsatte att förändras och utvecklas även efter att manifestet gavs ut. (Ur förordet)
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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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Made in America
The Hidden History of How the U.S. Enabled Communist China and Created Our Greatest Threat
Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
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From the acclaimed author of Mao's America comes the untold story of how misguided and selfish U.S. elites transformed China from a Communist wasteland into a global superpower-at America's expense.One of the most effective anti-communist voices in America today, Xi Van Fleet made waves with her breakout book Mao's America, exposing eerie parallels between China's past and America's present woke revolution. Now, alongside renowned Chinese dissident Yu Jie, she sounds the alarm once more-revealing how the CCP's rise was not just enabled by Soviet Russia but, shockingly, by the United States itself.Understanding this hidden history is essential for Americans in confronting the CCP's global ambitions and stopping the spread of Communism at home.For over a century, progressive and Communist ideologies have steadily infiltrated American society, shaping U.S.-China policies that have, intentionally or not, empowered the CCP. From its founding in 1921 to its brutal takeover of China 28 years later, the CCP's ascent was fueled by foreign support-first from the Soviets, then increasingly from the U.S. After the Sino-Soviet split and the near-collapse of China, the United States emerged as the CCP's primary enabler, helping transform it into the world's second-largest economy and our greatest geopolitical threat.Most Americans remain unaware of their own country's role in the CCP's unprecedented success. While others have explored pieces of this story, no book has revealed the full picture-until now. With meticulous research and unflinching clarity, this book exposes the uncomfortable truth: to effectively counter the CCP, we must first dismantle communist influence at home.
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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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När Muren revs och Sovjet och dess imperium föll samman trodde många att Karl Marx därmed skulle förlora all aktualitet.
Men så blev det inte. Tvärtom har han åter kommit i centrum i en tid av skenande kapitalism. Det är som kapitalismens främste kritiker han lever vidare, inte som den avlägsne anfadern till Sovjetkommunismen. Marxismen är inte hans verk; ett lämpligare namn är engelsismen, efter Friedrich Engels, hans vän, välgörare och medarbetare. Marx själv slog sig inte till ro med några färdiga resultat. Han fullbordade inte Kapitalet, sitt viktigaste arbete, trots att han arbetade med det i flera årtionden. Ständigt var han redo att tillägna sig nya tankar och nytt material.
Samtidigt är det han som gett den mest levande, fortfarande träffande bilden av det moderna, kapitalistiska samhället där ”allt som är fast förflyktigas”.
Bilden av Marx har i grunden förändrats genom de senaste årtiondenas internationella forskning och inte minst genom den stora kritiska utgåvan av hans skrifter, brev och anteckningar.
Det är denna nya bild som Sven-Eric Liedman förmedlar i Karl Marx – en biografi. Men därutöver rymmer boken flera egna resultat. Det gäller både Marx syn på politikens roll och möjligheter i samhället och flera av hans grundläggande begrepp som dialektik och alienation. Inte minst klargörs både likheter och skillnader mellan Marx och hans efterföljare.
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Marx’s Inferno reconstructs the major arguments of Karl Marx’s Capital and inaugurates a completely new reading of a seminal classic. Rather than simply a critique of classical political economy, William Roberts argues that Capital was primarily a careful engagement with the motives and aims of the workers’ movement. Understood in this light, Capital emerges as a profound work of political theory. Placing Marx against the background of nineteenth-century socialism, Roberts shows how Capital was ingeniously modeled on Dante’s Inferno, and how Marx, playing the role of Virgil for the proletariat, introduced partisans of workers’ emancipation to the secret depths of the modern “social Hell.” In this manner, Marx revised republican ideas of freedom in response to the rise of capitalism.Combining research on Marx’s interlocutors, textual scholarship, and forays into recent debates, Roberts traces the continuities linking Marx’s theory of capitalism to the tradition of republican political thought. He immerses the reader in socialist debates about the nature of commerce, the experience of labor, the power of bosses and managers, and the possibilities of political organization. Roberts rescues those debates from the past, and shows how they speak to ever-renewed concerns about political life in today’s world.
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Although successive generations of the Frankfurt School have attempted to adapt Critical Theory to new circumstances, the work done by its founding members continues in the twenty-first century to unsettle conventional wisdom about culture, society and politics. Exploring unexamined episodes in the school's history and reading its work in unexpected ways, these essays provide ample evidence of the abiding relevance of Horkheimer, Adorno, Benjamin, Marcuse, Löwenthal, and Kracauer in our troubled times. Without forcing a unified argument, they range over a wide variety of topics, from the uncertain founding of the School to its mixed reception of psychoanalysis, from Benjamin's ruminations on stamp collecting to the ironies in the reception of Marcuse's One-Dimensional Man, from Löwenthal's role in Weimar's Jewish Renaissance to Horkheimer's involvement in the writing of the first history of the Frankfurt School. Of special note are their responses to visual issues such as the emancipation of colour in modern art, the Jewish prohibition on images, the relationship between cinema and the public sphere, and the implications of a celebrated Family of Man photographic exhibition. The collection ends with an essay tracing the still metastasising demonisation of the Frankfurt School by the so-called Alt Right as the source of "cultural Marxism" and "political correctness," which has gained alarming international resonance and led to violence by radical right-wing fanatics.