Late Marx and the Russian Road: Marx and the Peripheries of Capitalism
Explores Marx’s attitude to “developing” societies. Includes translations of Marx’s notes from the 1880s, among the most important finds of the last century. | more…
Protest and Survive: An Appeal to Americans
Protest and Survive is a powerful gift to the growing American movement from European Nuclear Disarmament (END), which E.P. Thompson helped to found, drafting the mobilizing documents. The book originated as a reaction to “Protect and Survive,” a take-cover pamphlet prepared in 1980 by British civil defense. The volume contains historian E.P. Thompson’s “A Letter to America,” and 11 other essays exploring the arms race, nuclear war, military bureaucracy and the prospects for peacemaking. | more…
Four Lectures on Marxism
One of the 20th century’s foremost Marxian economists discusses the dialectical method, the contradictions of capitalism, and the future of Marxism. | more…
Unity and Struggle: Speeches and Writings of Amilcar Cabral
Cabral is among the great figures of our time — these texts provide the evidence. | more…
The Poverty of Theory and Other Essays
This classic collection of essays by E.P. Thompson, one of England’s most renowned socialist voices, remains a staple text in the history of Marxist theory. The bulk of the book is dedicated to Thompson’s famous polemic against Louis Althusser and what he considers the reductionism and authoritarianism of Althusserian structuralism. In lively and erudite prose, Thompson argues for a self-critical and unapologetically humanist Marxist tradition. Also included are three essays of considerable importance to the development of the New Left. | more…
Karl Marx’s Theory of Revolution, Vol. II: The Politics of Social Classes
This is the second installment of Hal Draper’s exhaustive and incomparable treatment of Marx’s political theory, policy, and practice. In forceful and readable language, Draper ranges through the development of the thought of Marx and Engels on the role of classes in society. | more…
Karl Marx’s Theory of Revolution, Vol. I: State and Bureaucracy
Volume I of Hal Draper’s definitive and masterful study of Marx’s political thought, which focuses on Marx’s attitude toward democracy, the state, intellectuals as revolutionaries, and much, much more. | more…
The National Question: Selected Writings by Rosa Luxemburg
Provocative writings on the question of national self-determination and its relationship with socialism. | more…
Maturity and Stagnation in American Capitalism
Details a pattern of development and investment in the American economy that produces dimished growth and increased stagnation. | more…
Toward an Anthropology of Women
“This book is a must for those who would follow the Marxist-feminist argument. Most of the authors are developing their arguments within the general outline of Marxist theory, yet their work here exposes some of the tensions and conflicts within that same theory. This is certainly the stuff of dialectics!” — Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews | more…
Revolution and Evolution in the Twentieth Century: New introduction by Grace Lee Boggs
This book provides a concise and instructive review of the revolutions of the twentieth century, with separate chapters on the Russian, Chinese, Guinea-Bissau, and Vietnamese revolutions, and examines the various currents of Marxism active in the revolutions of our times. A second section is devoted to the United States, and provides a survey of the class forces in American history as well as the authors' ideas on the objects and means of an American Revolution. | more…
Frantz Fanon: Colonialism and Alienation
Analysis of Fanon’s major theories, with a special emphasis on his work on alienation. | more…