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New Polarizations and Old Contradictions: The Crisis of Centrism
Takes the buzzword "polarization" as its point of departure to describe the vast, and ever-growing economic inequality worldwide"Polarization" is a word commonly used by everyone from mainstream journalists...
Beyond Digital Capitalism: New Ways of Living
Essays that explore new ways of living with technological changeEvery year since 1964, the Socialist Register has offered a fascinating survey of movements and ideasfrom the independent new left. This...
The Return of Nature
Winner, 2020 Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial PrizeA fascinating reinterpretation of the radical and socialist origins of ecologyTwenty years ago, John Bellamy Foster’s Marx’s Ecology: Materialism...
The Robbery of Nature
Bridges the gap between social and environmental critiques of capitalismIn the nineteenth century, Karl Marx, inspired by the German chemist Justus von Liebig, argued that capitalism’s relation to...
Beyond Market Dystopia: New Ways of Living
Essays which aim to create a world of agency and justiceHow can we build a future with better health and homes, respecting people and the environment? The 2020 edition of the Socialist Register, Beyond...
Abolitionist Socialist Feminism
A personal and political manifesto vying for an antiracist socialist feminist movement of movementsThe world is burning, flooding, and politically exploding, to the point where it’s become clear that...
The World Turned Upside Down?
A World Turned Upside Down? poses two overarching questions for the new period opened by the Trump election and the continued growth of right-wing nationalisms. Is there an unwinding of neoliberal globalization...
Rethinking Democracy
For years, intellectuals have argued that, with the triumph of capitalist, liberal democracy, the Western World has reached “the end of history.” Recently, however, there has been a rise of authoritarian...
The Age of Monopoly Capital
The rich correspondence that preceded the publication of Monopoly Capital Paul A. Baran and Paul M. Sweezy were two of the leading Marxist economists of the twentieth century. Their seminal work, Monopoly...
Creating an Ecological Society
Sickened by the contamination of their water, their air, of the Earth itself, more and more people are coming to realize that it is capitalism that is, quite literally, killing them. It is now clearer...
Rethinking Revolution
One hundred years ago, “October 1917” galvanized leftists and oppressed peoples around the globe, and became the lodestar for 20th century politics. Today, the left needs to reckon with this legacy—and...
The Reawakening of the Arab World
According to renowned Marxist economist Samir Amin, the recent Arab Spring uprisings comprise an integral part of a massive "second awakening" of the Global South. From the self-immolation in December...
Imperialism in the Twenty-First Century
Winner of the first Paul A. Baran-Paul M. Sweezy Memorial Award for an original monograph concerned with the political economy of imperialism, John Smith's Imperialism in the Twenty-First Century is...
The Politics of the Right
Today the Left faces new challenges from political forces amassing on the radical right. The 52nd volume of the Socialist Register presents a serious calibration and a careful political mapping of these...
The Lie of Global Prosperity
A deconstruction of the neoliberal placations about global capitalism, exposing the inequalities of global poverty“We’re making headway on global poverty,” trills Bill Gates. “Decline of Global...
Transforming Classes
For more than half a century, the Socialist Register has brought together some of the sharpest thinkers from around the globe to address the pressing issues of our time. Founded by Ralph Miliband and...