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The Robbery of Nature: Capitalism and the Ecological Rift

Forthcoming in February 2020 In the nineteenth century, Karl Marx, inspired by the German chemist Justus von Liebig, argued that capitalism’s relation to its natural environment was that of a robbery...

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The Return of Nature: Socialism and Ecology

Forthcoming in January 2020 Twenty years ago, John Bellamy Foster’s Marx’s Ecology: Materialism and Nature introduced a new understanding of Karl Marx’s revolutionary ecological materialism. More than...

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Socialist Register 2020: Beyond Market Dystopia: New Ways of Living

Forthcoming in December 2019 How can we build a future with better health and homes, respecting people and the environment? The 2020 edition of the Socialist Register, Beyond Market Dystopia, contains...

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The Punishment Monopoly: Tales of My Ancestors, Dispossession, and the...

Forthcoming in November 2019 Why, asks Pem Davidson Buck, is punishment so central to the functioning of the United States, a country proclaiming “liberty and justice for all”? The Punishment Monopoly...

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How the World Works: The Story of Human Labor from Prehistory to the Modern Day

Forthcoming in October 2019 Few authors are able to write cogently in both the scientific and the economic spheres. Even fewer possess the intellectual scope needed to address science and economics at...

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Karl Marx and the Birth of Modern Society: The Life of Marx and the...

For over a century, Karl Marx’s critique of capitalism has been a crucial resource for social movements. Now, recent economic crises have made it imperative for us to comprehend and actualize Marx’s...

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Jazz and Justice: Racism and the Political Economy of the Music

The music we call “jazz” arose in late nineteenth century North America—most likely in New Orleans—based on the musical traditions of Africans, newly freed from slavery. Grounded in the music known as...

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Planning from Below: A Decentralized Participatory Planning Proposal

Political scientist, author, and activist, Marta Harnecker has devoted her life to collaborating in building radical democracy in Latin American communities where people have, for generations,...

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The Lie of Global Prosperity: How Neoliberals Distort Data to Mask Poverty...

“We’re making headway on global poverty,” trills billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates. “Decline of Global Extreme Poverty Continues,” reports the World Bank. And “How did the global poverty rate...

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Value Chains: The New Economic Imperialism

Winner of the 2018 Paul M. Sweezy – Paul A. Baran Memorial Award for original work regarding the political economy of imperialism, Intan Suwandi’s Value Chains examines the exploitation of labor in...

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Shamrocks and Oil Slicks: A People’s Uprising Against Shell Oil in County...

County Mayo, Ireland, is spectacularly beautiful. Dolphins, whales, and seals frolic in bays, rivers teem with salmon. Into this tranquil, unspoiled region, in early 2002, came Shell Oil, announcing...

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Radical Seattle: The General Strike of 1919

Forthcoming in January 2020 On a grey winter morning in Seattle, in February 1919, 110 local unions shut down the entire city. Shut it down and took it over, rendering the authorities helpless. For...

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The Dawning of the Apocalypse: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler...

August 2019 saw numerous commemorations of the year 1619, when what was said to be the first arrival of enslaved Africans occurred in North America. Yet in the 1520s, the Spanish, from their imperial...

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Capital and Imperialism: Theory, History, and the Present

Forthcoming in February 2021 Those who control the world’s commanding economic heights, buttressed by the theories of mainstream economists, presume that capitalism is a self-contained and...

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Between Capitalism and Community

Forthcoming in January 2021 Karl Marx, in Capital, focused on capital and the capitalist class that is its embodiment. It is the endless accumulation of capital, its causes and consequences that are...

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Socialist Register 2021: Beyond Digital Capitalism: New Ways of Living

Forthcoming in December 2020 Every year since 1964, the Socialist Register has offered a fascinating survey of movements and ideas from the independent new left. This year’s edition asks readers to...

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Value and Crisis: Essays on Marxian Economics in Japan, second edition

Forthcoming in December 2020 Marxist economic thought has had a long and distinguished history in Japan, dating back to the First World War. When interest in Marxist theory was virtually nonexistent...

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Marx, Dead and Alive: Reading “Capital” in Precarious Times

Forthcoming in November 2020 Karl Marx saw the ruling class as a sorcerer, no longer able to control the ominous powers it has summoned from the netherworld. Today, in an age spawning the likes of...

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Venezuela, the Present as Struggle: Voices from the Bolivarian Revolution

Forthcoming in October 2020 Venezuela has been the stuff of frontpage news extravaganzas, especially since the death of Hugo Chávez. With predictable bias, mainstream media focus on violent clashes...

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Dead Epidemiologists: On the Origins of COVID-19

Forthcoming in September 2020 The COVID-19 pandemic shocked the world. It shouldn’t have. Since this century’s turn, epidemiologists have warned of new infectious diseases. Indeed, H1N1, H7N9, SARS,...

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