Product Description: This collection of essays—including several translated to English for the first time—covers a wide range of topics and figures too often neglected by the dominant trends in Marxist literature. With a particular focus on the important role played by Romanticism in Marxist thought, topics include religion, Utopia, Rosa Luxemburg, and Walter Benjamin...read more

Product Description: The theory of permanent revolution is one of the defining principles of Trotskyism. Yet Leon Trotsky's essential works on the question have long been unavailable in book form to U.S. readers. Now Red Letter Press has issued an attractive and corrected new edition that will be appreciated by both newcomers to socialist ideas and old hands...read more

Product Description: Löwy's book is the first attempt to analyze, in a systematic way, how the theories of uneven and combined development, and of the permanent revolution — inseparably linked — emerged in the writings of thinkers such as Karl Marx and Leon Trotsky...read more

Product Description: In this seminal exploration of Che Guevara's contributions to Marxist thinking, Michael Lswy traces Che's ideas about Marxism both as they related to Latin America and to more general philosophical, political, and economic issues...read more

Product Description: The purpose of this anthology of writings by Latin American Marxists is to provide a working tool for both students and activists. While including theoretical, sociological, historical and economic writings, the majority of the documents centres on political struggles through the continent...read more

Product Description: This illuminating study of Benjamin's final essay helps unlock the mystery of this great philosopher.Revolutionary critic of the philosophy of progress, nostalgic of the past yet dreaming of the future, romantic partisan of materialism...read more

Product Description: “This book is brilliant, incisive, honest and deserves to be read with attention. It is an important event in the Marxist theoretical production.” —Politique Hebdo “A remarkable essay, whose merit is not only theoretical, but also historical, because it examines unknown aspects of the evolution of young Marx’s thinking...read more

Product Description: Visión del autor sobre el Concepto de historia de Walter Benjamin, uno de los textos filosóficos y políticos más importantes del siglo XX y también uno de los más incomprendidos. El estudioso Michael Löwy sitúa dicho documento en la totalidad de la obra del autor alemán...read more

Product Description: Romanticism is a worldview that finds expression over a whole range of cultural fields—not only in literature and art but in philosophy, theology, political theory, and social movements. In Romanticism Against the Tide of Modernity Michael Löwy and Robert Sayre formulate a theory that defines romanticism as a cultural protest against modern bourgeois industrial civilization and work to reveal the unity that underlies the extraordinary diversity of romanticism from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Lowly has been writing on the "national question" to great acclaim for over 20 years. Under the impact of globalisation and new outbreaks of nationalism in Eastern Europe and elsewhere, he argues that the fragmentary writings on national issues by Marx and Engels could from the basis of a second coherent theory, a truly international dialectic which remains to be developed...read more

Product Description: This work examines the influence of religion on politics in Latin America over the past three decades. It includes: a new intrepretation of Liberation Theology, the arm of Catholicism which encourages the empowerment of oppressed people; an examination of other religious movements in Latin America; and a review of the Marxist and Weberian perspectives of religion, throwing new light on the influence of Catholicism over capitalism...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The purpose of this anthology of writings by Latin American Marxists is to provide a working tool for both students and activists. While including theoretical, sociological, historical and economic writings, the majority of the documents centres on political struggles through the continent...read more