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Speculation as a Mode of Production: Forms of Value Subjectivity in Art and Capital by Marina Vishmidt 9781642590517
RRP: £30.00£22.38In Speculation as a Mode of Production: Forms of Value Subjectivity in Art and Capital, Marina Vishmidt offers a new perspective on one of the main categories of capitalist life in the historical present. Writing not under the shadow but in the spirit of... -
Stalin, Vol. II: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941 by Stephen Kotkin
RRP: £18.99£14.01A SUNDAY TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017'A brilliant, compelling, propulsively written, magnificent tour de force' Simon Sebag Montefiore, Evening Standard'The second volume of what will surely rank as one of the greatest historical achievements of... -
China Under Mao: A Revolution Derailed by Andrew G. Walder
RRP: £25.95£20.62China's Communist Party seized power in 1949 after a long period of guerrilla insurgency followed by full-scale war, but the Chinese revolution was just beginning. China Under Mao narrates the rise and fall of the Maoist revolutionary state from 1949 to... -
Why Marx Was Right by Terry Eagleton
RRP: £11.99£10.15One of the foremost Marxist critics of his generation forcefully argues against Marx's irrelevancy "[Eagleton is] a witty, insightful thinker with a penchant for glib asides and wry dashes of humor. It's probably the only book that makes references to... -
After The Future by Franco Berardi
RRP: £12.00£11.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849350594Author Franco BerardiFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint AK PressPublisher AK PressWeight(grams) 263g -
Envisioning Real Utopias by Erik Olin Wright
RRP: £21.99£21.79Rising inequality of income and power, along with recent convulsions in the finance sector, have made the search for alternatives to unbridled capitalism more urgent than ever. Yet few are attempting this task-most analysts argue that any attempt to... -
A People's History of Football by Mickaël Correia 9780745346861
RRP: £16.99£11.54'A fascinating journey through the game's history [as] a vehicle of change' Shaka Hislop 'Correia takes us around the world to examine how football has produced the kind of political energy that can change minds and even topple governments' Dave Zirin... -
How the West Came to Rule: The Geopolitical Origins of Capitalism by Alexander Anievas
RRP: £29.99£19.80*Winner of International Studies Association (ISA)'s International Political Sociology Best Book Prize for 2017* *Winner of British International Studies Association (BISA)'s International Political Economy Working Group Book Prize of 2016* ... -
Moving Against the System: The 1968 Congress of Black Writers and the Making of Global Consciousness by David Austin
RRP: £22.99£15.17In 1968, as protests shook France and war raged in Vietnam, the giants of black radical politics descended on Montreal to discuss the unique challenges and struggles facing their black comrades all over the world. Against a backdrop of widespread... -
Karl Marx and the Birth of Modern Society: The Life of Marx and the Development of His Work by Alex Locascio 9781583677353
RRP: £25.00£20.26For 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 ideas. But without a knowledge of Karl Marx's life as... -
Marx and Marxism by Gregory Claeys
RRP: £12.99£9.09An illuminating history of Marx's thought and intellectual influence from a leading historian of socialismWhy was Marx so successful as a thinker? Did he have a system and if so, what does it consist of? How did Marxism develop in the twentieth century... -
Revolution in the Revolution? by Regis Debray
RRP: £9.99£6.64Revolution in the Revolution? is a brilliant, pragmatic assessment of the situation in Latin America in the 1960s. First published in 1967, it became a controversial handbook for guerrilla warfare and revolution, read alongside Che's own pamphlets, and... -
Fully Automated Luxury Communism: A Manifesto by Aaron Bastani 9781786632623
RRP: £16.99£14.10The first decade of the twenty-first century marked the demise of the current world order. Despite widespread acknowledgement of these disruptive crises, the proposed response from the mainstream remains the same. Against the confines of this... -
On Stalin's Team: The Years of Living Dangerously in Soviet Politics by Sheila Fitzpatrick
RRP: £20.00£15.54Stalin was the unchallenged dictator of the Soviet Union for so long that most historians have dismissed the officials surrounding him as mere yes-men and political window dressing. On Stalin's Team overturns this view, revealing that behind Stalin was a... -
You Don't Play With Revolution: The Montreal Lectures of CLR James by C. L. R. James 9781904859932
RRP: £14.00£9.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904859932Author CLR JamesFormat PaperbackPage Count 333Imprint AK PressPublisher AK PressWeight(grams) 535g -
Biafra Genocide: Nigeria: Bloodletting and Mass Starvation, 1967-1970 by Venter, Al J 9781526729132
RRP: £12.99£9.09One of the great tragedies of Africa is not only the fact that a million people-mostly civilians and a large proportion of them children-died in one of Africa's first post-independence wars, but that until it happened the world thought Nigeria was immune... -
If You're an Egalitarian, How Come You're So Rich? by G. A. Cohen
RRP: £31.95£28.00This book presents G. A. Cohen's Gifford Lectures, delivered at the University of Edinburgh in 1996. Focusing on Marxism and Rawlsian liberalism, Cohen draws a connection between these thought systems and the choices that shape a person's life. In the... -
Companion to Marx's Capital, a: The Complete Edition by David Harvey
RRP: £20.00£13.74In 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... -
The Labour Revolution by Karl Kautsky
RRP: £37.99£33.38First published in English in 1924 this ambitious work, by the famous Marxist theoretician Karl Kautsky, aims to provide nothing less than an "exposition of the methods to introduce socialism" amongst the capitalist economies of Europe in the post-World... -
The The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State by Friedrich Engels
RRP: £11.99£7.86In this provocative and now-classic work, Friedrich Engels explores the interrelated development of the family and the state from ancient society to the Victorian era. Drawing on new anthropological theories of his time, Engels argued that matriarchal... -
The Dictatorship of the Proletariat, by Hal Draper 9780853457268
RRP: £10.99£8.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853457268Author Hal DraperFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint Monthly Review Press,U.S.Publisher Monthly Review Press,U.S. -
War And An Irish Town by Eamonn McCann
RRP: £14.99£9.88Eamonn McCann's account of what it is like to grow up a Catholic in a Northern Irish ghetto - first published in 1974 - quickly became a classic account of the feelings generated by British rule. The author was at the centre of events in Derry which... -
The Communist Manifesto by Friedrich Engels 9780140447576
RRP: £7.99£5.49'An astonishing masterpiece ... a political classic ... has an almost biblical force' Eric HobsbawmThe Communist Manifesto, Marx and Engels' revolutionary 1848 summons to the working classes, is one of the most influential political theories ever... -
The Idea of Socialism: Towards a Renewal by Axel Honneth 9781509531370
RRP: £14.99£13.58The idea of socialism has given normative grounding and orientation to the outrage over capitalism for more than 150 years, and yet today it seems to have lost much of its appeal. Despite growing discontent, many would hesitate to invoke socialism when... -
The Benn Diaries: 1940-1990 by Tony Benn
RRP: £16.99£12.28The Benn Diaries, embracing the years 1940-1990, are already established as a uniquely authoritative, fascinating and readable record of political life. The selected highlights that form this single-volume edition include the most notable events,... -
Considerations on Western Marxism by Perry Anderson
RRP: £12.99£11.31This synoptic essay considers the nature and evolution of the Marxist theory that developed in Western Europe, after the defeat of the proletarian rebellions in the West and the isolation of the Russian Revolution in the East in the early 1920s. It... -
The Xinjiang Emergency: Exploring the Causes and Consequences of China's Mass Detention of Uyghurs by Michael Clarke
RRP: £25.00£17.62The Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region is the site of the largest mass repression of an ethnic and/or religious minority in the world today. Researchers estimate that since 2016 one million people have been detained there without trial. In the detention... -
The Dean of Shandong: Confessions of a Minor Bureaucrat at a Chinese University by Daniel A. Bell
RRP: £22.00£16.99An inside view of Chinese academia and what it reveals about China's political systemOn January 1, 2017, Daniel Bell was appointed dean of the School of Political Science and Public Administration at Shandong University-the first foreign dean of a... -
How To Read Marx by Peter Osborne 9781862077713
RRP: £8.99£6.08Emphasizing the Romantic heritage and modernist legacy of Karl Marx's writings, Peter Osborne presents Marx's thought as a developing investigation into what it means, concretely, for humans to be practical historical beings. Drawing upon passages from a... -
"Left-Wing" Communism, an Infantile Disorder by VI I Lenin 9781537029375
RRP: £6.00£5.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781537029375Author VI I LeninFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
Das Kapital by Samuel Moore
RRP: £9.95£8.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781453886328Author Samuel MooreFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
The Communist Manifesto: A Graphic Novel by Karl Marx
RRP: £14.99£10.95Published in 1848, at a time of political upheaval in Europe, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels's Manifesto for the Communist Party was at once a powerful critique of capitalism and a radical call to arms. It remains the most incisive introduction to the... -
Prison notebooks: Selections by Antonio Gramsci 9780853152804
RRP: £25.00£23.67This volume was the first selection published from the Antonio Gramsci's "Prison Nobebooks" to be made available in Britain, and was originally published in the early 1970s. It contains most of the key writings by Gramsci, including the text of "The... -
Imperialism and the National Question by V I Lenin 9781804292716
RRP: £14.99£9.70Fired up by the outbreak of the First World War and outraged by the capitulation of most socialist parties to the demands of national bourgeoisies, Lenin sought to understand the deeper roots of the crisis of the world movement. The result was... -
The Glass Wall: Lives on the Baltic Frontier by Max Egremont 9781509845453
RRP: £25.00£21.79A Sunday Times Book of the Year 2021This journey to the edge of Europe mixes history, travelogue and oral testimony to spellbinding and revelatory effect.Few countries have suffered more from the convulsions and bloodshed of twentieth-century Europe than... -
Angolan War of Liberation: Colonial-Communist Clash, 1961-1974 by Al J. Venter 9781526728418
RRP: £14.99£14.55When a large group of rebels invaded Angola from a recently independent Congo in 1961, it heralded the opening shots in another African war of independence. Between 1961 and 1974, Portugal faced the extremely ambitious task of conducting three... -
Spaces of Hope by David Harvey
RRP: £31.00£28.55As the twentieth century drew to a close, the rich were getting richer; power was concentrated within huge corporations; vast tracts of the earth were being laid waste: three-quarters of the world's population had no control of its destiny and no claim... -
The Communist Manifesto: A Modern Edition by Karl Marx
RRP: £6.99£4.80In the two decades following the fall of the Berlin Wall, global capitalism became entrenched in its modern, neoliberal form. Its triumph was so complete that the word "capitalism" itself fell out of use in the absence of credible political alternatives... -
Stasi: The Untold Story Of The East German Secret Police by John O. Koehler
RRP: £16.99£11.94In this gripping narrative, John Koehler details the widespread activities of East Germany's Ministry for State Security, or Stasi." The Stasi, which infiltrated every walk of East German life, suppressed political opposition, and caused the... -
The Rise and Fall of Communism by Archie Brown
RRP: £14.99£10.95Winner of the 2010 W.J.M. Mackenzie Prize for Best Political Science Book of the Year 2010The relentless rise of Communism was the most momentous political development of the first half of the twentieth century. No political change has been more...