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Baudrillard sees the power of the terrorists as lying in the symbolism of slaughter—not merely the reality of death, but in a sacrifice that challe...

Why does the United States go to war? A leading Harper’s commentator on U.S. foreign affairs offers a withering exposé of runaway military spending...

Why does the United States go to war? A leading Harper’s commentator on U.S. foreign affairs offers a withering exposé of runaway military spending...

Forensic political biography of the Labour Party leaderHailed as a human-rights champion and political outsider, what sort of politician is Keir St...

Forensic political biography of the Labour Party leaderHailed as a human-rights champion and political outsider, what sort of politician is Keir St...

Lenin's most important and controversial theoretical textLenin’s booklet The State and Revolution struck the world of Marxist theory like a lightni...

In this groundbreaking critique of both traditional and Marxist notions of feudalism and of the pre-capitalist state, John Haldon considers the con...

Thinking beyond pandemic capitalismThe health emergency that broke out in 2020 is a landmark event in the development of capitalism, confirming the...

"An extraordinary book. Mohamed Amer Meziane's breathtaking analysis of the making of fossil states opens to a new genre of history writing where t...

Each year, when the weather in Istanbul becomes unbearable, the family of Iskender Pasha, a retired Ottoman notable, retires to its summer palace o...

The Stone Woman is the third novel of Tariq Ali’s “Islam Quartet.” Like its predecessors – Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree and The Book of Saladin ...

The world's leading Marxist geographer and economist guides general readers through major concepts in capitalism and Marx's masterworkFor decades, ...

The intimate story of a teenager’s murder of his family, from an award-winning Mexican journalist Sixteen-year-old Vicente and two of his high scho...

The intimate story of a teenager’s murder of his family, from an award-winning Mexican journalist Sixteen-year-old Vicente and two of his high scho...

A beautiful collection of the legendary thinker’s short storiesThe Storyteller gathers for the first time the fiction of the legendary critic and p...

China’s decades-long repression of Tibetan independence continues on as its global economic power continues to grow. In response to the former and ...

Slavoj Žižek, the maverick philosopher, author of over 30 books, acclaimed as the “Elvis of cultural theory”, and today’s most controversial public...

The System of Objects is a tour de force—a theoretical letter-in-a-bottle tossed into the ocean in 1968, which brilliantly communicates to us all t...

Twenty years have passed since the Italian Communists’ last Congress in 1991, in which the death of their party was decreed. It was a deliberate de...

Twenty years have passed since the Italian Communists’ last Congress in 1991, in which the death of their party was decreed. It was a deliberate de...

Terry Eagleton occupies a unique position in the English-speaking world today. He is not only a productive literary theorist, but also a novelist a...

The Terrorist Prince is a gripping insider’s account of the Pakistani resistance organization Al-Zulfikar (in Urdu, “The Sword”), set up in 1979 af...

The first full presentation of a fundamental aspect of Marx, the concept of needWhat are needs? While the edifices of economic theory are built upo...