Books in the Historical Materialism series

In this gripping new intellectual biography, Jukka Gronow examines Karl Kautsky's influence on the European labor movement.

The debates surrounding the publication of Trotsky's Lessons of October are here collected, translated, and explained for the first time.

An Oedipal drama for the ages, played out through philosophical polemics, with a twist that haunts history to this day.

Making History is about the complex interaction between human agency and social structures.

A systemic account of capitalist globalization, and an elaboration of a socialist alternative.

Bidet conducts an unprecedented investigation of Marx's work in the spirit of the history of science.

A critique of structural-functionalist theories of the state.

The construction of a Marxist theory of language as a social, material and political phenomenon .

When he died, Marx left his opus Capital unfinished. But how incomplete was the project? This volume offers the first comprehensive answer.

This important volume collects twenty-six essential essays that chart the development of Andrew Milner's distinctively Orwellian cultural materialism.

An innovative reading of the social history of Brazil using the "politics of the precariat" as an analytical vector.

When Workers Shot Back argues that the escalation of working-class conflict drives rather than reacts to capital's consolidation and reorganisation.

The 1922 Congress of Toilers of the Far East was among the most influential and impactful gatherings of the Communist International. This volume brings it to life through edited and annotated minutes.

The second in a documentary trilogy of U.S. Trotskyism, this volume spans 1941 to 1956, surveying the Second World War, the post-war strike wave, ongoing struggles against racism, and more.

The third in a documentary trilogy of U.S. Trotskyism, this volume spans 1954 to 1965, surveying the Cold War era, the Black liberation struggle, the "third wave" of feminism, and more.

Tracing the vicissitudes of US hegemony from the interwar period to the present, Fusaro provides a novel Gramscian way to interpret past and present developments within the world economy.

In this important volume, Redfern rigorously examines the relationship between British labour and British capital during the two world wars of the twentieth century.

The first full-length study of German and Austrian social-democratic readings of the French Revolution, now available in English.

This volume collects the lucid and engaging works of Soviet philosopher Evald Ilyenkov on the topic of Hegel and dialectics

Political Scientist Xavier Lafrance provides a pathbreaking account of the emergence of capitalism in France.

Marxism, to be truly relevant, must engage in constant critical encounter with contemporary ideas. Stolze shows us how to Become Marxist.

Theory as Critique argues that the key to understanding Marx's Capital lies in viewing it as a critique of economic theory.

This translation offers English readers the chance to study one of Bogdanov 's key contributions to materialist philosophy.

In this new edition of his classic work, Paul Mattick argues that we can only develop scientific understandings of social life by subjecting the very categories of social science to rigorous study and critique.

This probing history offers an in-depth examination of the robust role of the German Social Democratic party in the lives of its members.

Newly available in English, a landmark and wide-ranging collection of writings by Italian socialist Lelio Basso.