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In the 1970s, several members of the DDR opposition began to investigate the limits to unrestrained economic growth. The result of their work was three distinctive eco-utopias with an astonishing relevance to contemporary debates. This volume presents the first detailed account of them for an English-language readership.

"The six books by legendary Russian revolutionary, diplomat, espionage agent, and journalist Larisa Reisner, published here together for the first time in translation, set the story of her life against the world-changing events of 1917, and accompany Brill's publication of Cathy Porter's Larisa Reisner: A Biography, published as volume 266 in the Historical Materialism book series"--

"Across a powerfully wide-ranging set of themes, theoretical registers and historical examples, John Roberts analyses the key problems that continue to confront art after conceptual art, in the light of art's longstanding relationship to market and institution the commodity and mass culture: namely, artistic labour and technology, modernity and the 'new', art and negation, identity and subjectivity, agency and audience, form and value. Focusing on the possibility of a new social ontology of art, beyond the circuits and horizons of the market and the professional institutionalisation of art, Art and Emancipation provides a rigorous and ambitious examination of the limits and possibilities of art's contribution to emancipatory practice and discourse"--

The leading Western expert on Bolshevism, Lars T. Lih, gives us the first-ever study of the Bolshevik outlook from Lenin to perestroika. Vivid case-studies of individual leaders and Soviet intellectuals paint an indispensable self-portrait of Bolshevism and its grand narratives.

"The Historical-Critical Dictionary of Marxism (HCDM) is a comprehensive Marxist lexicon, which in the 9 German-language volumes concluded so far has involved over 800 scholars from around the globe. Conceived by philosopher Wolfgang Fritz Haug in 1983, the first volume of the ongoing lexicon project was published in 1994. This first English-language selection introduces readers to the HCDM's wide range of terms: besides Marxist concepts, approached from a plural standpoint and stressing feminist, ecological, and internationalist perspectives, it boasts entries on the histories of social movements, theoretical schools, as well as cultural, political, philosophical, and aesthetic debates. Contributors are: Samir Amin, Jan Otto Andersson, Konstantin Baehrens, Lutz-Dieter Behrendt, Mario Candeias, Robert Cohen, Alex Demiroviâc, Klaus Dèorre, William W. Hansen, Wolfgang Fritz Haug, Frigga Haug, Peter Jehle, Juha Koivisto, Wolfgang Kèuttler, Morus Markard, Eleonore von Oertzen, Christof Ohm, Rinse Reeling Brouwer, Jan Rehmann, Thomas Sablowski, Peter Schyga, Victor Strazzeri, Peter D. Thomas, Andrâe Tosel, Michael Vester, Lise Vogel, and Victor Wallis"--

In Rescuing Autonomy from Kant, James Furner argues that Marxism's relation to Kant's ethics is not one of irrelevance, complementarity or incompatibility, but critique: the value of autonomy can be grounded by appeal to an antinomy in capitalism's basic structure.

Alfred Sohn-Rethel's Intellectual and Manual Labour is a major text of post-war Marxist theory with ongoing relevance to current debates about value, abstraction, and domination.

Examining the role of speculation in philosophy, art and finance, Speculation as a Mode of Production is an essential, widescreen theorization of capital's drive to self-expansion, and an urgent corrective to the narrow and one-sided periodisations to which it is most commonly subjected.

Since 2010 Greece entered a period of austerity, protest and political crisis. The contributions in this volume deal with questions regarding capitalist crisis, debt, European integration, political crisis, new forms of protest, the rise of neo-fascist parties and left-wing strategy today.

In Marx and Social Justice, George E. McCarthy presents a detailed and comprehensive overview of the ethical, political, and economic foundations of Marx's theory of social justice in his early and later writings.