131 results for '"Karl Marx"'

Keynes's Vision is a readable and thought-provoking essay about the ideas of one of the most influential statesmen of the twentieth century. It shows how John Maynard Keynes formulated a new system...

Imagine Karl Marx as a cartoonist, ready to set the record straight about his much maligned classic, Das Kapital. Impossibly difficult? Not in the least. Hopelessly outdated? Far from it. Though...

A consideration of how modern revolutions have employed tropes of classical antiquity. Despite its Latin etymology, "revolution" in its modern understanding arguably did not exist in antiquity,...

The most complete volume of writings by one of the most fascinating thinkers in the history of MarxismAntonio Gramsci was one of the most important theorists of class, culture, and the state since...

The first systematic Marxist account of the capitalist character of Atlantic slavery. Karl Marx’s writings on enslavement and labor have fallen out of favor among historians, but David McNally...

The Eclipse of the Utopias of Labor traces the shift from the eighteenth-century concept of man as machine to the late twentieth-century notion of digital organisms. Step by step--from Jacques de...

From an award-winning historian, a new global history of CommunismWhen the USSR collapsed in 1991, the world was certain that Communism was dead. Today, three decades later, it is clear that it was...

"Photography was invented between the publication of Adam Smith's 'The Wealth of Nations' and Karl Marx and Frederick Engels's 'The Communist Manifesto'. Taking the intertwined development of...

An accessible account of the history of economics through the ideas of great thinkers "A whistle-stop introduction to the great works and thinkers of each age, this is a clear and accessible primer...

A Newsweek "Best 50 Books of the Year (So Far)" Pick"What Would the Great Economists Do? comes at the right time: a highly accessible and acute guide to thinking and learning from the men and woman...

China Miéeacute;ville's strikingly imaginative new introduction to the Communist Manifesto offers both a critical appraisal and a spirited defense of the modern world's most influential political...

Indebtedness as the universal condition of modern lifeThe credit crisis has pushed the whole world so far into the red that the gigantic sums involved defy understanding. On a human level, what does...

One of the most influential Marxist theorists of the twentieth century, Henri Lefebvre first published Marxist Thought and the City in French in 1972, marking a pivotal point in his evolution as a...

Throughout the nineteenth century, German philosophy was haunted by the specter of the French Revolution. Kant, Hegel and their followers spent their lives wrestling with its heritage, trying to...

How reading and writing are collective acts of political pedagogy, and why the struggle for change must begin at the level of the sentence.“Reading is class struggle,” writes Bertolt Brecht...

The fall of the Berlin Wall marked the end of the Cold War but also the rise of a melancholic vision of history as a series of losses. For the political left, the cause lost was communism, and this...

“A person of the left, Judis specializes in speaking truth to liberals.” —E.J. Dionne Jr., The Washington PostAs the pandemic depression lays bare the failure of market capitalism worldwide, and as...

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,...

"In this majestic tour de force, celebrated historian Peter Linebaugh takes aim at the thieves of land, the polluters of the seas, the ravagers of the forests, the despoilers of rivers, and the...

A lively, inviting account of the history of economics, told through events from ancient to modern times and through the ideas of great thinkers in the field "A whistle-stop introduction to the...