An inspiring speaker and brilliantly sophisticated theorist, Michael Kidron was a leading figure in the International Socialist tradition from the 1950s until his death in 2003. Never satisfied with merely restating the assumed tenets of Marxism, Kidron insisted that theory must evolve alongside a changing world - an iconoclastic orientation which led him to clash with others on the left, including the British Communist Party and, later, the Socialist Workers Party itself under the leadership of Kidron's long-time comrade Tony Cliff.

Reviews in International Socialist Review, Interntional Socialism Journal, Socialist Review, and other left outlets.

About the Author

Michael Kidron (1930-2003) was a founding member of the International Socialism group, which later became the Socialist Workers Party. His sophistication and originality as a thinker were evident both in his own writings - including Western Capitalism Since the War, Capitalism and Theory, and the acclaimed The State of the World Atlas - and in his editorship of Socialist Review, International Socialism, and at Pluto Press.

Reviews
"Of course the revival of a 'new' Marxism has been ongoing almost from the start. Michael Kidron was one of the finest practitioners of such thinking, and his wide-ranging writing is now collected together in a new volume Capitalism and Theory."
Philosophy Football

"Running through Kidron's work was his belief that socialism was based on working class people liberating themselves and running society; and that socialists had to look for the points where struggle could be stoked and encouraged."
Socialist Review

"It is timely, given the present-day marginalisation of the far left in the UK, that Haymarket Books has published some of Mike Kidron's more illuminating essays and contributions to debates dating from a period when the far left was represented by the stark choices of Stalinism, left reformism or 'orthodox' Trotskyism." ."
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Book Information
ISBN 9781608469253
Author Michael Kidron
Format Paperback
Page Count 400
Imprint Haymarket Books
Publisher Haymarket Books