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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...
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...
Karl Marx and the Birth of Modern Society
A new, comprehensive biography of the life and work of Karl MarxFor over a century, Karl Marx’s critique of capitalism has been a crucial resource for social movements. Now, recent economic crises...
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...
A Socialist Defector
The rise and successes, the travails, and the eventual demise of the German Democratic Republic told in personal detail by activist and writer Victor GrossmanThe circumstances that impelled Victor Grossman,...
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...
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...
Russia and the Long Transition from Capitalism to Socialism
Out of early twentieth-century Russia came the world’s first significant effort to build a modern revolutionary society. According to Marxist economist Samir Amin, the great upheaval that once produced...
Reconstructing Lenin
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin is among the most enigmatic and influential figures of the twentieth century. While his life and work are crucial to any understanding of modern history and the socialist movement,...
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...
The Theory of Monopoly Capitalism
In 1966, Paul Baran and Paul Sweezy published Monopoly Capital,a monumental work of economic theory and social criticismthat sought to reveal the basic nature of the capitalism of theirtime. Their theory,...
Three Essays on Marx’s Value Theory
In this slim, insightful volume, noted economist Samir Amin returns to the core of Marxian economic thought: Marx’s theory of value. He begins with the same question that Marx, along with the classical...
The Implosion of Contemporary Capitalism
Renowned political economist Samir Amin, engaged in a unique lifelong effort both to narrate and affect the human condition on a global scale, brings his analysis up to the present—the world of 2013....
Marx, Freud and the Critique
An analysis of the New Left during the 1960s and their struggle to make Marxism critical to everyday lifeThe theory and practice of revolutionary social transformation, Bruce Brown argues, cannot rest...