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MassMarket. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Zebra Books / Kensington Publishing Corp. 1979. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. 0890835586 282 pages. Fine. See photos 7/8.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 96 pages. Sociology, Liberalism and the Radical Right - Alan WolfeAn investigation into the ideological foundations and sociological shifts driving the emergence of the radical right wing.The New Right's Road to Power - Mike DavisA classic analysis tracking how the American "New Right" transitioned from suburban elites and Sunbelt entrepreneurs into a highly disciplined, technologically savvy political movement.Walter Benjamin—Revolutionary Writer (I) - Susan Buck-MorssThe first part of a deep dive exploring Walter Benjamin's relationship with the revolutionary working class and the socialization of art.Jamaica: The Demise of 'Democratic Socialism' - Fitzroy AmbursleyAn examination of the internal contradictions, economic downfalls, and ultimate electoral defeat of Michael Manley's PNP government in 1980.The British Crisis—Can the Left Win? - Francis CrippsA look at the British economic recession, corporate capitalism, and the strategic divisions between social democrats and the Labour Left.Corporatism and Class Struggle - Geoff HodgsonA response and theoretical contribution regarding modern corporatism and socialist transformation. (U.P.).…

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Soft cover. Condition: Good. 112 pages. Robin Blackburn Marxism: Theory of Proletarian Revolution The unique political originality of Marx and Engels regarding the modern proletariat. James Petras & Robert Rhodes The Reconsolidation of American Hegemony An analysis of global capitalism and US imperial power in the mid-1970s. NLR Editors Introduction to 'Memories for the Future' Editorial introduction framing historical consciousness and memory. David Wilson The General Strike: The 1931 Backlash Personal and political reflections on the legacy of the 1926 UK General Strike. Simone de Beauvoir & Jean-Paul Sartre Answers to Queries from Simone de Beauvoir A detailed dialogue probing Sartre's views on the woman question and feminism. Jean Monds Workers' Control and the Historians: A New Economism A critique of workerist perspectives in labor history and class consciousness. James Hinton Rejoinder to Jean Monds A counter-response emphasizing the dialectic between point-of-production organizing and political parties. Lacan Study Group 'Psychoanalysis and Feminism' A feminist critique challenging biological interpretations of unconscious sexual formations. Richard Wollheim Reply to Critics Wollheim's defense of his views on Freud, Melanie Klein, and biological frameworks against his critics. (U.P.).…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 100 pages. "Base and Superstructure in Marxist Cultural Theory" is a seminal essay by British cultural theorist Raymond Williams, originally published in the November/December 1973 issue of the New Left Review (NLR I/82). The essay serves as a foundational text for the field of Cultural Studies, offering a radical critique of "mechanical materialism" and traditional Marxist economic reductionism. Instead of viewing culture as a passive reflection of economic conditions, Williams redefines the core vocabulary of Marxist analysis to show how culture is an active, dynamic social practice. 🔑 Key Theoretical Interventions Williams systematically deconstructs and breathes new life into four central Marxist concepts: 1. Redefining the "Base" • Traditional View: The economic base is a static, fixed framework of technology, factories, and wealth. • Williams's Revision: The base is not a rigid object but a dynamic process of human activity and production. It is constantly fluid and actively reproduced by real human relationships. 2. Re-interpreting "Determination" • Traditional View: The economic base completely controls, prefigures, and dictates the culture (superstructure). • Williams's Revision: Determination does not mean predetermination or total control. Instead, it means setting limits and exerting pressures. Economic realities shape the boundaries of what is possible, but they do not micro-manage the creative or intellectual outcome. 3. Complicating the "Superstructure" • Traditional View: Art, law, religion, and culture are merely a secondary "reflection" of economic power. • Williams's Revision: The superstructure is not a passive mirror. It consists of active cultural practices and institutions that require complex internal analysis (such as mediation or homology). Culture is an active social practice with its own specific conditions of production. 4. Expanding "Hegemony" Borrowing heavily from Antonio Gramsci, Williams argues that class rule is maintained not just through force, but through cultural hegemony. • He defines hegemony as a deeply lived, saturating dominant social experience that shapes our common sense. • Crucially, he notes that hegemony is never total or absolute. It is a continuous process that must always defend itself against alternative forces: • Residual Culture: Ideas, values, and practices formed in the past that are still active in the present, sometimes offering an alternative to the dominant culture. • Emergent Culture: New values, meanings, and relationships that are continually being created, often serving as direct opposition to the status quo. 📊 Summary: Mechanical Materialism vs. Raymond Williams Concept Mechanical/Orthodox Marxism Raymond Williams's Cultural Materialism The Base A static, fixed economic infrastructure. A dynamic process of real human production. Determination Total control; the base dictates the superstructure. The base sets limits and exerts structural pressures. Art & Culture A passive reflection of underlying economic class. An active, lived social practice with real conditions. Social Power Maintained solely via institutional top-down control. Maintained via a lived "hegemony" that faces constant friction. 💡 Why It Matters Before this essay, many traditional Marxists dismissed art and literature as mere byproducts of economic history. By shifting the focus from treating art as a static object to analysing it as an active social practice, Williams provided the intellectual toolkit for generations of scholars to study popular culture, television, media, and literature as vital battlegrounds for social change (U.P.).…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 96 pages. • The New Spain by Richard Soler An analysis of the economic transformations, state intervention, and increasing monopolisation in Spain under the Franco dictatorship. • The Pompidou Regime by André Gorz An examination of the French political landscape following the departure of Charles de Gaulle and the rise of Georges Pompidou. • Class Struggle in the Arab Gulf by Fred Halliday A study tracking the dissolution of British imperialist hegemony in the Arabian Peninsula and the emerging revolutionary contradictions in the region. • The Problem of the Capitalist State by Nicos Poulantzas A critique of Ralph Miliband's book The State in Capitalist Society. Poulantzas argues against a Marxist approach based on interpersonal relations, advocating instead for a structuralist view of the state's relative autonomy. • Swedish Communism—End of an Interlude by Göran Therborn A balance sheet and historical overview of the Swedish Communist Party (VPK) following its 22nd Congress. • Limits of British Anthropology by David Goddard A critical evaluation of how British anthropological studies grew and functioned within the structures of European colonialism (U.P.).…

Paper Bound. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Thus. Creme colored covers with red colored print on spine and cover. Bi-Monthly political reveiw magazine, with orientation to the Left. Lead articles and authors: Bill Warren, "Capitalist Planning and the State"; Two separate documents dealing with the Polish Shipyard unrest and the Confrontation with the State; Andre Gluckmann, "The Althusserian Theatre"; Gilsli Gunnarsson, "The New Regime in Iceland'; Hernandez/ Mandel, "The Development of Marx's Economic Thought" and a Reply. Tight sound and unmarked, Cover have light soiling/rubbing. 108 pages plus printing on covers.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 192 pages. 30th Anniversary Issue. Fred Halliday "The Ends of Cold War" / Mary Kaldor "After the Cold War" / Perry Anderson "A Culture in Contraflow--I" / Edward Said "Narrative, Geography and Interpretation" / Anthony Barnett "'Cambodia Will Never Disappear'" / Jane Jenson "Representations of Difference: The Varieties of French Feminism" / Paul Buhle "America:Post-Modernity?" / Rodney Hilton "Unjust Taxation and Popular Resistance" / Elizabeth Wilson "The Postmodern Chameleon". …

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 164 pages. The New Left Review is a bimonthly political magazine covering world politics, economy, and culture. It was established in 1960. In 2003, the magazine ranked 12th by impact factor on a list of the top 20 political science journals in the world. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2012 impact factor of 1.485, ranking it 25th out of 157 journals in the category "Political Science" and 10th out of 92 journals in the category "Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary". New Left Review was established in January 1960 when The New Reasoner and Universities and Left Review merged their boards. The first editor-in-chief of the merged publication was Stuart Hall. The early publication's style, featuring illustrations on the cover and in the interior layout, was more irreverent and free-flowing than later issues of the publication, which tended to be of a more somber, academic bent. Hall was succeeded as editor in 1962 by Perry Anderson. '. (U.P.).…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1st. printed gray wraps; 104 clean, unmarked pages; includes: Raymond Williams (Problems of Materialism); Louis Althusser (What Must Change in the Party?); Roy Medvedev (Memories for the Future: Introduction to Medvedev Bukharin's Last Years) Nicos Poulantzas (Towards a Democratic Socialism); Ben Fine (Discussion on the Origins of Capitalist Development).…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1st. printed wraps; 96 clean, unmarked pages; includes: Alan Wolfe (Ideology of US Conserrvatism); Mike Davis (Rise of the New Right); Susan Buck-moss (Walter Benjamin's Revolutioary Pedagogyi) Fitzroy Ambursley (Populism in Jamaica); Francis Cripps (Labour's Alternative Strategy); James Hinton (Root of Britisn Communism) Geoff Hodgson (Corporatism and Class Struggle).…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1st. printed wraps; 96 clean, unmarked pages; includes: Maxine Molymenux (Beyond the Domestic Labout Debate); Sebastiano Timpanaro (pessimestic Materialism of Giacomo Leopardi); Erik Olin Wright (Value Controversy and Social Research); John Suddaby (The Inter Strikes of '79 in Camden); Ernst Blach (Review: Benjamin's Philosophial Cabatet.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1st. printed wraps; 96 clean, unmarked pages; includes: Daid Coates (Labourism and the Transition to Socialism); Christopher Lasch (The Freudian Left and Cultural Revolutioin); Ronald Fraser (Reconsidering the Spanish civil War); Raymond Williams (Marxism, Structuralism and Literary Analysis); Raghib Absam (Solkhull: Death of a Car Factory); Susan-Buck-morss (Walter Benjamin--revolujtionary Writer (II). …

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1st. printed wraps; 96 clean, unmarked pages; includes: Raymond Williams (Problems of Materialism); Louis Althusser (What Must Change in the Party?); Roy Medvedev (Memories for the Future: Introduction to Medvedev Bukharin's Last Years) Nicos Poulantzas (Towards a Democratic Socialism); Ben Fine (Discussion on the Origins of Capitalist Development).…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 96 pages. Therborn, "The Rule of Capital and the Rise of Democracy." Ali, "The Fall of Congress in India." Garratana, "Stalin, Lenin and 'Leninism.'" Postan, "The Feudal Economy." Plant, "Hegel and Political Economy - I." Wolfe, "On William Morris." Thompson, "Reply.". …

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Has a minor reading crease on front cover.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 96 pages. Between the Russian Revolutions. China Today - Myths and Realities. Visiting a Model Commune. The Role of Domestic Labour. Women and the Class Struggle.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 96 pages. Michel Aglietta "World Capitalism in the Eighties" / Mike Davis "The AFL-CIO's Second Century" / Roy Medvedev "The Death of the 'Chief Ideologue'" / Franco Moretti "The Dialectic of Fear" / Tariq Ali "Midnight's Children".

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. Paperback back issue of New Left Review. Light bumps and creases to some corners, one or two tiny superficial scores. Otherwise clean, with clear contents and sound binding. ADG. Used.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 160 pages. Nairn, "Twilight of the British State." Biermann, "In conversation with Stuart Hood." Green, "The Third Round in Poland." Geratana, "Althusser and Stalinism." García Márquez, "Operation Carlota." Löwy, "Rosa Luxemburg: a re-assessment." Discussion among Szymanski, Petras, Rhoads, "Is US Imperialism Resurgent?" and "Reply to Critics.".…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 44 pages. Alan Bennett on The History Boys/ Perry Anderson "Will Taiwan break away?" / David Bromwich "This Was Orson Welles"/ Slavoj Zizek "The Culture Of Torture" / Andrew O'Hagan "Trouserless in the Liffey" / Michael Wood "Garcia Marquez tells his story".

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 96 pages.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 44 pages. Illustrated. Tony Harrison - Two Poems, "Queuing for Charon" and "Uber al." / Hilary Mantel "The dead are all around us / Hugo Williams "Dear Room (poem)" / Perry Anderson "On Sebastiano Timpanaro" / Jonathan Ree "Tummy-Talkers" / Jeremy Harding At the British Museum / David Bromwich "Who had the most fun?" / Adewale Maja-Pearce "Onitsha Home Movies" / Frank Kermode "Nutmegged" / Michael Rogin "The Ugly Revolution".…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 192 pages. Fred Halliday "Marxist Analysis and Post-revolutionary China" / Ernest Mandel "Revolutionary Strategy in Europe - a political interview" / Jean-Paul Sartre "Socialism in One Country" / Raymond Williams "Post-war British Marxism" / Perry Anderson "The Antinomies of Antonio Gramsci".…

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket. Square, tight binding. Clean, slightly age-darkened text pages. Wraps have edge rubbing and light handling wear. Previous owner's name, top front corner of wraps. Contents: Nove, "Problems and Prospects of the Soviet Economy." Halliday, "The War and Revolution in Afghanistan." Fuller, ,"The Fine Arts after Modernism." Hall, "Nicos Poulantzas: State, Power, Socialism." Johnson, "The Problem of Reformism and Marx's Theory of Fetishism."; 8.75" (21 cm) tall; 96 pages.…

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket. Square, tight binding. Clean, slightly age-darkened text pages. Wraps have edge rubbing and light handling wear. Previous owner's name, top front corner of wraps. Contents: Barnett, "Class Struggle and the Heath Government." Mitchell, "Introduction to Benjamin and Brecht." Benjamin, "Conversations with Brecht." Halliday and McCormack, "Japan and America: Antagonistic Alliance." Valence, David, "Introduction to South Korea: Opposition in South Korea."; 8.75" (21 cm) tall; 96 pages. …

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket. Square, tight binding. Clean, slightly age-darkened text pages. Wraps have edge rubbing and light handling wear. Previous owner's name, top front corner of wraps. Contents: Therborn, "The Rule of Capital and the Rise of Democracy." Ali, "The Fall of Congress in India." Garratana, "Stalin, Lenin and 'Leninism.'" Postan, "The Feudal Economy." Plant, "Hegel and Political Economy - I." Wolfe, "On William Morris." Thompson, "Reply."; 8.75" (21 cm) tall; 96 pages.…

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket. Square, tight binding. Clean, slightly age-darkened text pages. Wraps have edge rubbing and light handling wear. Previous owner's name, top front corner of wraps. Contents: Nairn, "Twilight of the British State." Biermann, "In conversation with Stuart Hood." Green, "The Third Round in Poland." Geratana, "Althusser and Stalinism." García Márquez, "Operation Carlota." Löwy, "Rosa Luxemburg: a re-assessment." Discussion among Szymanski, Petras, Rhoads, "Is US Imperialism Resurgent?" and "Reply to Critics."; 8.75" (21 cm) tall; 160 pages.…

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket. Square, tight binding. Clean, slightly age-darkened text pages. Wraps have edge rubbing and light handling wear. Previous owner's name, top front corner of wraps. Contents: Williams, "Beyond Actually Existing Socialism." Samuel, "British Marxist Historians I." Kiernan, "Blood of Spain." Hilton, "Individualism and the English Peasantry." Deutscher, "China Notebook."; 8.75" (21 cm) tall; 128 pages.…