Anitra Nelson, Marx's Concept of Money

Anitra Nelson, Marx's Concept of Money

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This ground-breaking study places Marx's theory of money within the wider context of his political and philosophical thought, with particular reference to ''alienation.''

Regula Burckhardt Qureshi, Music and Marx: Ideas, Practice, Politics

Regula Burckhardt Qureshi, Music and Marx: Ideas, Practice, Politics

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Music and Marx considers Marx's relevance to current issues in musical scholarship from perspectives that range across disciplinary and political vantage points. Well-known contributors analyze the numerous ways in which Marxist thought enters into music discourse. Exploring everything from Marxism in hip-hop to feudal properties of Hindustani music to revolutionary music of Central America, the essays in this book find surprising, paradigm-shifting revelations. This book will revolutionize the way music production and consumption is viewed.

Paul Blackledge, Reflections on the Marxist Theory of History

Paul Blackledge, Reflections on the Marxist Theory of History

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A decade after Francis Fukuyama announced the "End of History," anti-capitalist demonstrators at Seattle and elsewhere have helped reinvigorate the Left with the reply "another world is possible." More than anyone else it was Marx who showed that slogans such as this were no utopian fantasies, and that capitalism was just as much a historical mode of production, no more natural and certainly no less contradictory, than were the feudal and slave modes which proceeded it. This book should be read by historians, students of cultural, social and political theory and anti-capitalist activists.

Paul Blackledge, Graeme Kirkpatrick, Historical Materialism and Social Evolution

Paul Blackledge, Graeme Kirkpatrick, Historical Materialism and Social Evolution

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Historical Materialism and Social Evolution brings together a collection of essays which investigate the relationship between Marxist thought and Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection. Each of the contributors emphasize the idea that the distinctive character of progressive social thought is derived from creative ideas drawn from the study of natural evolutionary processes.

Nicos Poulantzas, Fascism and Dictatorship: The Third International and the Problem of Fascism

Nicos Poulantzas, Fascism and Dictatorship: The Third International and the Problem of Fascism

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Poulantzas’s book is the first major Marxist study of German and Italian fascism to appear since the Second World War. It carefully distinguishes between fascism as a mass movement before the seizure of power and fascism as an entrenched machinery of dictatorship. It compares the distinct class components of the counter-revolutionary blocs mobilzed by fascism in Germany and Italy; analyses the changing relations between the petty bourgeoisie and big capital in the evolution of fascism; discusses the structures of the fascist state itself, as an emergency regime for the defense of capital; and provides a sustained and documented criticism of official Comintern attitudes and policies towards fascism in the fateful years after the Versailles settlement. Fascism and Dictatorship represents a challenging synthesis of factual evidence and conceptual analysis that has been rare in Marxist political theory to date.

Nicos Poulantzas, The Poulantzas Reader: Marxism, Law and the State

Nicos Poulantzas,  The Poulantzas Reader: Marxism, Law and the State

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First-ever collection of the key writings of one of the most influential political theorists of the postwar epoch. Nicos Poulantzas was one of the leading Marxist theorists of the twentieth century, developing seminal analyses of the state and social classes during the crisis of monopoly capitalism. This volume brings together a wide selection of Poulantzas’ key writings in legal philosophy and political sociology, including some important pieces translated here for the first time. Texts include his early analyses of law, his studies of hegemony, authoritarianism, and social classes, and his debate on the state with Ralph Miliband and Ernesto Laclau. An essential introduction for the scholar and the student to a body of work that continues to reverberate across the social sciences.

Rius, Marx for Beginners

Rius, Marx for Beginners

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A cartoon book about Marx? Are you sure it's Karl, not Groucho? How can you summarize the work of Karl Marx in cartoons? It took Rius to do it. He's put it all in: the origins of Marxist philosophy, history, economics; of capital, labor, the class struggle, socialism. And there's a biography of "Charlie" Marx besides.

Like the companion volumes in the series, Marx for Beginners is accurate, understandable, and very, very funny.