Marx and Marxisms: New Horizons
About the Book Series
The peer-reviewed series Marx and Marxisms: New Horizons will comprise rigorous scholarly books, accessible to general readers, offering innovative and critical works in the field of Marx studies and Marxism. The series will publish monographs, edited collections, and translations of volumes already issued in other languages, by both prestigious and emerging international experts, in the fields of political theory, history of political thought, sociology, political philosophy, and heterodox economics. The books in this series will provide original investigations within the Marxist tradition, push the boundaries of accepted interpretations and existing literatures, bring different concepts and thinkers into new relationships, and inspire significant conversations for today. They will come from a wide range of academic disciplines, subject matters, political perspectives, cultural backgrounds, and geographical areas, producing an eclectic and informative collection that will appeal to a diverse and international audience.
A Contemporary History of Marx’s Capital: The Inexhaustible and the Unfinished
1st Edition
By Paolo Favilli
September 02, 2025
Paolo Favilli provides both students and scholars with an original reading of themes and issues found in Karl Marx’s Das Kapital and its connections with present- day challenges. By way of continuous cross- referencing between present and past, Favilli demonstrates that claims regarding the ...
Italian Communist Dissidence and Transnational Trotskyism towards the Fourth International (1928–1938)
1st Edition
By Gabriele Mastrolillo
August 07, 2025
Following his expulsion from the Soviet Union in 1929, Leon Trotsky promoted the birth of an International Anti-Stalinist Communist movement which considered itself in opposition to the Communist International (Comintern). However, since 1933, it began to regard itself as an independent ...
The Eighteenth Brumaire in the United States, Germany, and France, 1852–1933: Meanings and Uses in Context
1st Edition
By Sam Stark
June 19, 2025
The Eighteenth Brumaire in the United States, Germany, and France, 1852–1933 is the first extended political history of Karl Marx’s seminal text. Written largely in an engaging narrative form that centers political actors engaging with the text, the book uses published and archival sources to ...
The Crisis of Marxism: A Historical-Intellectual Problem
1st Edition
By Elías J. Palti
June 08, 2025
In this book, Elías J. Palti analyzes the writings of key thinkers who have theorized the present situation of Marxism: Perry Anderson, Fredric Jameson, Ernesto Laclau, Slavoj Žižek, Judith Butler, Alain Badiou, and Jacques Derrida. His aim is to interrogate what appears to be the final crisis of ...
Class Struggle, Dictatorship and Democracy: How the Common People Defeated Francoism (1939-1979)
1st Edition
By Xavier Domènech Sampere
March 30, 2025
In Class Struggle, Dictatorship and Democracy: How the Common People Defeated Francoism (1939–1979), historian Xavier Domènech Sampere tells the story of Franco’s dictatorship, the struggle for freedoms and the foundations on which democracy was shaped. From the perspective of history from below ...
Gramsci and the Southern Question: Global Readings, Interpretations and Uses
1st Edition
Edited
By Juan José Gómez Gutiérrez, Carlo Verri, Tommaso Baris
February 24, 2025
This book looks at the Southern question in Antonio Gramsci. It takes this as an opportunity to reflect on the special nature of his thought, linked to the concepts of hegemony, subalternity and the critique of the particular culturalidentitarian and ideological forms of the South and its ...
Marxism in the Age of Ecological Catastrophe: Theory and Praxis
1st Edition
By Eduardo Sá Barreto
November 26, 2024
Marxism in the Age of Ecological Catastrophe offers a stimulating discussion on the ecological unfeasibility of capitalist society. Divided into three parts, Eduardo Sá Barreto begins by providing a reconstruction of Marx’s theory of value and articulating it into a ecological critique of this ...
Can Common People Govern?: Political Parties, Movements, and Uprisings
1st Edition
By Jacques Bidet
October 25, 2024
In Can Common People Govern?, the renowned French social theorist, philosopher, and historian Jacques Bidet offers a theoretical and political exploration of political parties, movements, and uprisings as forms of popular political organization. He highlights the contradictions of the party-form ...
Walter Benjamin and Antonio Gramsci: A Missed Encounter
1st Edition
Edited
By Dario Gentili, Elettra Stimilli, Gabriele Guerra
September 03, 2024
This book marks a missed encounter between two of the most influential Marxist thinkers of our age, Walter Benjamin and Antonio Gramsci, studied here for the first time side by side. Benjamin and Gramsci were contemporaries, whose births and deaths took place within a few years of each other in ...
The Making of a Marxist Philosopher: A Memoir
1st Edition
By Sean Sayers
July 31, 2024
The Making of a Marxist Philosopher is a revealing and beautifully written memoir and family history from renowned Marxist philosopher Sean Sayers. His father was the son of a Jewish-Irish businessman who was a friend of Michael Collins and other leaders in the Irish struggle for independence. He ...
The New Reformism and the Revival of Karl Kautsky: The Renegade’s Revenge
1st Edition
By Douglas Greene
June 06, 2024
This text offers an authoritative historiography of German socialist theorist Karl Kautsky and his impact on debates about the Russian Revolution and the contemporary left. Known as the “Pope of Marxism,” Douglas Greene examines the totality of Kautsky’s political career and dissects the ...