Critiques and Alternatives to Capitalism
About the Book Series
The peer-reviewed series Critiques and Alternatives to Capitalism (edited by Marcello Musto) publishes scholarly works works on critiques and alternatives to capitalism, spanning a number of subject matters, political perspectives and geographical areas. It welcomes monographs and edited volumes in the fields of sociology, social and political theory and heterodox political economy, whose main areas of focus are the problems of capitalist society and its mode of production; alternatives to capitalism that address contemporary social issues; and 19th and 20th centuries anti-capitalist ideas and practical experiments.
Welcoming new perspectives on a wide range of themes, it seeks to explore alternative social-economic systems, critical theories of capitalism, social classes and inequality, public/private ownership and new contours of ‘the commons’, economic and financial crises, ecology, globalization, migration and citizenship, gender oppression, alienation, and cultural critique. The result is an eclectic, but focused and informative, series that provides original investigations, inspires significant conversations for today, and appeals to a diverse international audience.
Refusing Ecocide: From Fossil Capitalism to a Liveable World
1st Edition
By William K. Carroll
November 19, 2024
Refusing Ecocide: From Fossil Capitalism to a Liveable World provides a critical analysis of the central role of fossil capitalism in causing climate change and argues that only alternatives based upon democratic eco-socialism can prevent the deepening of the climate crisis. Employing three core ...
Alternative Futures and the Present: Postcolonial Possibilities
1st Edition
By Ranabir Samaddar
October 09, 2024
This book explores the idea that alternatives to our present condition are available in the present, such that a search for alternatives must involve rigorous study of some of its central texts, events, and thinkers. Through engagement with selected modern thinkers, texts, and events, it imagines ...
A Critical Theory of Economic Compulsion: Wealth, Suffering, Negation
1st Edition
By Werner Bonefeld
October 07, 2024
This book explores a variety of interconnected themes central to contemporary Marxist theory and its further development as a critical social theory. Championing the critique of political economy as a critical theory of society and rejecting Marxian economics as a contradiction in terms, it ...
Extractivism and Universality: Inside an Uprising in the Amazon
1st Edition
By Japhy Wilson
August 26, 2024
What are the possibilities for a radical politics of universal humanity, at a time when the politics of identity increasingly defines the agenda of the left? What are the political and conceptual implications of such an emancipatory form of universality emerging through the struggles of Indigenous ...
The Commons: A Force in the Socio-Ecological Transition to Postcapitalism
1st Edition
By César Rendueles
December 01, 2023
This book provides a lucid, rigorous and critical account of the commons, its history and its political potentialities as well as its limitations and ambiguities. In particular, The Commons analyses the relations of solidarity and conflict between the commons and public welfare policies, as well as...