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  • Adorno, Theodor W. Minima Moralia. Verso, 2005.
  • Ahmad, Aijaz. In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures. Verso, 2008. 
  • Anderson, Kevin, Lenin, Hegel and Western Marxism: a Critical Study. University of Illinois Press, 1995
  • —. Marx at the Margins: On Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Non-Western Societies, U of Chicago Press, 2010.
  • Anderson, Perry. Considerations on Western Marxism. Verso, 1989. 
  • —. “The Heirs of Gramsci.” New Left Review, vol. 100, no. July-August, 2016, pp. 71–97. 
  • Arrighi, Giovanni. The Long Twentieth Century (2nd ed.). Verso, 2010.
  • Arruzza, Cinzia. Dangerous Liaisons: The Marriages and Divorces of Marxism and Feminism. Merlin Press, 2013. 
  • Arthur, Chris. “A Clock Without A Spring: Epitaph for the USSR.” The New Dialectic and 
  • Marx’s Capital, Brill, London, UK, 2004, pp. 201–224. 
  • Baasch, Kyle. “The Theatre of Economic Categories: Rediscovering Capital in the Late 1960s.” Radical Philosophy 208 (2020): 18-32.
  • Backhaus, Hans-Georg. “On the Dialectics of the Value-Form.” Thesis eleven 1.1 (1980): 99-120.
  • Baker, Erik. “The People, It Depends.” n+1, 24 Aug. 2021, https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-40/reviews/the-people-it-depends-2/. 
  • Banaji, Jairus. Theory as History: Essays on Modes of Production and Exploitation. Haymarket, 2011. 
  • Bannerji, Himani. The Dark Side of the Nation: Essays on Multiculturalism, Nationalism and Gender. Canadian Scholars’ Press, 2000.
  • —. “The paradox of diversity: The Construction of a Multicultural Canada and `Women of Color’” Women’s Studies International Forum. Vol. 23. No. 5. Pergamon, 2000.
  • Bartolovich, Crystal and Neil Lazarus. Marxism, Modernity and Postcolonial Studies. Cambridge University Press, 2002.
  • Beckman, Ericka. Capital Fictions: The Literature of Latin America’s Export Asia. University of Minnesota Press, 2013.
  • Beech, David. Art and Value: Art’s Economic Exceptionalism in Classical, Neoclassical and Marxist Economics. Haymarket, 2015
  • Bellofiore, Riccardo, and Tommaso Redolfi Riva. “The Neue Marx-Lektüre: Putting the Critique of Political Economy Back into the Critique of Society.” Radical Philosophy 189 (2015).
  • Benanav, Aaron. Automation and the Future of Work. Verso, 2020.
  • Benanav, Aaron and John Clegg, “Misery and Debt,” Endnotes journal. https://endnotes.org.uk/articles/misery-and-debt
  • Benjamin, Bret. “Developmental Aspiration at the End of Accumulation: The New International Economic Order and the Antinomies of the Bandung Era.” Mediations 32.1 (2018). https://mediationsjournal.org/articles/developmental-aspiration
  • Benjamin, Walter. The Arcades Project. Translated by Howard Eiland and Kevin McLaughlin, Belknap/Harvard University Press, 1999. 
  • Benton, Ted. The Rise and Fall of Structural Marxism: Louis Althusser and His Influence. Macmillan International Higher Education, 1984.
  • Bernes, Jasper. “Logistics, counterlogistics and the communist prospect.” Endnotes Journal. 2013.
  • Best Beverly, “Distilling A Value Theory of Ideology from Volume Three of Capital.” Historical Materialism, 23.3 (2015): 101-141.
  • Best, Beverly, Werner Bonefeld and Chris O’Kane, eds. The Sage Handbook of Frankfurt School Critical Theory. Sage Publications, 2018.
  • Bhattacharya , Tithi. Social Reproduction Theory: Remapping Class, Recentering Oppression. Pluto, 2017.
  • Bieler, A., & Morton, A. D. (2021). “Is capitalism structurally indifferent to gender?: Routes to a value theory of reproductive labour.” Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 53(7), 1749–1769. 
  • Boggs, James. The American Revolution: Pages from a Negro Worker’s Notebook. Monthly Review, 1963/2009.
  • —. Racism and the Class Struggle: The Meaning of Black Revolt in the United States. Monthly Review Press, 2021. 
  • Bonefeld, Werner. Critical Theory and the Critique of Political Economy: On Subversion and Negative Reason. Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2014.
  • Bonefeld, Werner, et al., editors. Open Marxism. Vols. 1-3, Pluto, 1992. 
  • Bonefeld, Werner, and Chris O’Kane, eds. Adorno and Marx: Negative Dialectics and the Critique of Political Economy. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022.
  • Boyle, Shane. “Performance and Value: The Work of Theatre in Karl Marx’s Critique of Political Economy.” Theatre Survey 58.1 (Jan 2017): 3-23.
  • Brennan, Timothy. Borrowed Light: Vico, Hegel and the Colonies. Stanford University Press, 2014.
  • Brenner, Robert. The Economics of Global Turbulence: The Advanced Capitalist Economies from Long Boom to Long Downturn. Verso, 2006.
  • Burden-Stelly, Charisse, and Jodi Dean. Organize, Fight, Win: Black Communist Women’s Political Writing. Verso Books, 2022.
  • Cabral Amílcar. Unity and Struggle: Speeches and Writings of Amilcar Cabral. Translated by Michael Wolfers, Monthly Review Press, 2016. 
  • Césaire, Aimé. Discours sur le colonialisme. Editions Présence Africaine, 1955. 
  • Chacón Akers Justin, Davis M, Cardona Julián (2018) No One is Illegal: Fighting Racism and State Violence on the U.S.-Mexico Border. Haymarket Books, Chicago, IL
  • Chambers, Samuel Allen. Capitalist Economics. Oxford University Press, 2022. 
  • —. There’s No Such Thing As “The Economy”: Essays on Capitalist Value. Punctum Books, 2018. 
  • Chang, Harry. Critique of the Black Nation Thesis. Racism Research Project, 1975. 
  • Chitty, Chris. Sexual Hegemony: Statecraft, Sodomy, and Capital in the Rise of the World System.  Duke University Press, 2020.
  • Connery, Chris. “The End of the Sixties.” Boundary 2 36.1 (2009): 183-210.
  • Clarke, Simon. The State Debate. Palgrave Macmillan, 1991. 
  • —. Keynesianism, Monetarism and the Crisis of the State. Aldershot: Elgar, 1988.
  • —. Marx, Marginalism and Modern Sociology: From Adam Smith to Max Weber. Macmillan Publ., 1991. 
  • Cooper, Melinda. Family Values: Between Neoliberalism and the New Social Conservatism. MIT Press, 2017.
  • Copley, J. “Decarbonizing the Downturn: Addressing Climate Change in an Age of Stagnation.” Competition & Change, 0.0 (2022). 
  • Coulthard, Glen Sean. Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition. University of Minnesota Press, 2014.
  • Cox, Oliver C. Race: A Study in Social Dynamics. Monthly Review Press, 2000. 
  • Dalla Costa, Mariarosa and Selma James. “Women and the Subversion of Community,” 
  • Petroleuse Press, 2010. 
  • Davis, Angela Y. Women, Race & Class. Women’s Press, 1982. 
  • Dawson, Michael C. Blacks In And Out Of The Left. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2013 .
  • —. “Black and Red: Black Marxism and Black Liberation.” Black Visions: The Roots of Contemporary African-American Political Ideologies, Univ. of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, 2003, pp. 172–237. 
  • Darder, Antonia, and Rodolfo D. Torres. After Race: Racism after Multiculturalism. New York University Press, 2004. 
  • Davis, Mike, Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World.  Verso, London, UK, 2017.
  • —. Planet of Slums. Verso, London, UK, 2017.
  • —. City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles. Verso, London, UK, 2018 
  • Day, Iyko, Alien Capital: Asian Racialization and the Logic of Settler Colonial Capital, Duke UP, 2016.
  • De’Ath, Amy. “Reproduction.” The Bloomsbury Companion to Marx. Edited by Imre Szeman et. al. Bloomsbury Academic, 2018: 395-404.
  • Debord, Guy. Society of the Spectacle, trans. Donald Nicholson-Smith. MIT Press, 1995.
  • Denning, Michael. The Cultural Front: The Laboring of American Culture in the Twentieth Century. Verso, 1998.
  • Dhillon, Jaskiran, et al. “Mapping a Many-Headed Hydra: Transnational Infrastructures of Extraction and Resistance.” Standing with Standing Rock: Voices from the #NODAPL Movement, edited by Nick Estes, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, MN, 2019, pp. 354–382. 
  • Dirlik, Arif, “Mao Zedong Thought and the Third World/Global South.” Interventions 16. 2 (2014): 233-256
  • Du Bois, W.E.B. Black Reconstruction. Free Press, [1935] 1997.
  • Elbaum, Max. Revolution in the Air: Sixties Radicals Turn to Lenin, Mao and Che. Verso Books, 2018.
  • Elbe, Ingo. “Between Marx, Marxism, and Marxisms – Ways of Reading Marx’s Theory.” Viewpoint, 21 Oct. 2013. 
  • Elson, Diane, ed. Value: The Representation of Labour in Capitalism. Verso Books, 2015.
  • Endnotes, “A History of Separation.” Endnotes Journal. 2015.
  • —. “The Logic of Gender.” Endnotes Journal. 2013.
  • Fanon, Frantz. Wretched of the Earth. Translated by Constance Farrington, Penguin, 2001.
  • Federici, Silvia. Caliban and the Witch. Autonomedia, 2004.
  • Ferguson, Susan. “Intersectionality and Social-Reproduction Feminisms: Toward an Integrative Ontology.” Historical Materialism 24.2 (2016): 38-60.
  • Floyd, Kevin, “Automatic Subjects: Gendered Labour and Abstract Life” Historical Materialism 24.2 (June 2016): 61-86. https://brill.com/view/journals/hima/24/2/article-p61_4.xml
  • Floyd, Kevin, Jen Hedler and Sarika Chandra, eds., Totality Inside and Out: Rethinking Crisis and Conflict under Capital. Fordham University Press, 2022.
  • Fortunati, Leopoldina. The Arcane of Reproduction: Housework, Prostitution, Labor and Capital. Autonomedia, 1995.
  • Foster, John Bellamy, Brett Clark, and Richard York. The Ecological Rift: Capitalism’s War on the Earth. NYU Press, 2011
  • Fraser, Nancy. “Contradictions of Capital and Care.” New Left Review 100 (July/ August 2016): 99-117.
  • —. “Expropriation and Exploitation in Racialized Capitalism: A Reply to Michael Dawson.” Critical Historical Studies (Spring 2016), pp. 163-78.
  • Gabriel, Kay. “Gender as Accumulation Strategy.” Invert Journal 1 (2020). https://invertjournal.org.uk/posts?view=articles&post=7106265#gender-as-accumulation-strategy
  • Galarza, Ernesto. Man of Fire: Selected Writings. Edited by Armando Ibarra and Rodolfo D. Torres, University of Illinois Press, 2017. 
  • Gerstenberger, Heide. Market and Violence: The Functioning of Capitalism in History. Translated by Niall Bond, Brill, 2023. 
  • Gilmore, Ruth Wilson. Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis and Opposition. UC Press, 2007.
  • Gindin, Sam, and Leo Panitch. The Making of Global Capitalism. Verso Books, 2012.
  • Gore, Dayo F. Radicalism at the Crossroads: African American Women Activists in the Cold War. New York University Press, 2013. 
  • Gore, Dayo F., et al., editors. Want to Start a Revolution?: Radical Women in the Black Freedom Struggle. New York University Press, 2009. 
  • Hall, Stuart. “Race, Articulation, and Societies Structured in Dominance.” Essential Essays Vol. 2. Duke University Press, 2019.
  • —. “Marx’s Notes on Method: A “Reading” of the “1857 Introduction.”” Selected Writings on Marxism. Duke University Press, 2021. 
  • Hall, Stuart, et al. Policing the Crisis: Mugging, the State and Law and Order. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017.
  • Harootunian, Harry. Marx After Marx: History and Time in the Expansion of Capitalism. Columbia University Press, 2015.
  • Haslett, Tobi. “Magic Actions: Looking Back on the George Floyd Rebellion.” n+1, 20 Aug. 2021, https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-40/politics/magic-actions-2/. 
  • Harvey, David. The Limits to Capital. Verso, [1982] 2018.
  • —. “Value in Motion.” New Left Review 126 (Nov/Dec 2022): 99-116.
  • —. “Rate and Mass: Perspectives from the Grundrisse.” New Left Review 130 (July/Aug 2021): 73-98.
  • Heinrich, Michael, An Introduction to the Three Volumes of Karl Marx’s Capital. Trans. Alexander Locascio. Monthly Review Press, 2004.
  • HoSang, Daniel Martinez, and Joseph E. Lowndes. Producers, Parasites, Patriots: Race and the New Right-wing Politics of Precarity. U of Minnesota Press, 2019.
  • Hudson, Peter James. Bankers and Empire. University of Chicago Press, 2017.
  • James, C.L.R. The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L’Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution. Knopf, 1938/1989.
  • James, C.L.R, Raya Dunayevskaya, and Grace Lee Boggs. State Capitalism and World Revolution. PM Press, 1950/2008. 
  • Jameson, Fredric. The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act. Cornell University Press, 1981.
  • —. Late Marxism: Adorno, or the Persistence of the Dialectic. Verso, [1990] 2007.
  • Johnson, Cedric. Revolutionaries to Race Leaders: Black Power and the Making of African American Politics. University of Minnesota Press, 2007.
  • —. The Panthers Can’t Save Us Now. Verso: 2022.
  • Karl, Rebecca. Mao Zedong and China in the Twentieth Century World: A Concise History. Duke University Press, 2010.
  • Kelley, Robin D.G. Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression. 
  • University of North Carolina Press, 2015. 
  • Larsen, Neil. “Imperialism, Colonialism, Postcolonialism.” A Companion to Postcolonial 
  • Studies: An Historical Introduction, edited by Henry Schwarz and Sangeeta Ray, John Wiley & Sons, Chichester, UK, 2007, pp. 23–52. 
  • Lenin, V.I., Philosophical Notebooks (Collected Works #38). Progress Publishers [1913] 1976.
  • Liem, Paul, and Eric Montague. “Toward a Marxist Theory of Racism: Two Essays by Harry 
  • Chang.” Review of Radical Political Economics 17.3 (1985): 34-45.
  • Liu, Andrew B. Tea War: A History of Capitalism in China and India. Yale University Press, 2020. 
  • Liu, Petrus. “Queer Marxism in Taiwan.” Inter-Asia Cultural Studies 8:4 (December 2007): 517-539
  • —. Queer Marxism in Two Chinas. Duke University Press, 2015.
  • —. The Specter of Materialism: Queer Theory and Marxism in the Age of the Beijing Consensus. Duke University Press, 2023.
  • Lukacs, Georg. History and Class Consciousness. Trans. Rodney Livingstone. MIT Press, [1923] 1972
  • Lye, Colleen and Christopher Nealon (eds), After Marx: Literary Criticism and the Critique of Value (Cambridge University Press, 2021).
  • Malm, Andreas. Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming. Verso, 2016.
  • —. White Skin, Black Fuel: On the Danger of Fossil Fascism. Verso Books, 2021.
  • Mattick, Paul. Anti-Bolshevik Communism. Merlin Books, 2007. 
  • —. Theory as Critique. Brill, 2018.
  • Marx, Karl. Grundrisse. Translated by Martin Nicolaus, Penguin, [1939] 1993.
  • —. Capital, Volume 1. Translated by Ben Fowkes, Penguin,  [1867] 1976.
  • —. Capital, Volume 2. Penguin, [1883] 1978.
  • —. Capital, Volume 3. Translated by David Fernbach, Penguin,  [1894] 1991.
  • Merchant, Jamie. “The Money Theory of the State.” The Brooklyn Rail, 26 Jan. 2021, https://brooklynrail.org/2021/02/field-notes/The-Money-Theory-of-the-State-Reflections-on-Modern-Monetary-Theory. 
  • —. “The Economic Consequences of Neo-Keynesianism.” The Brooklyn Rail, July. 2023, https://brooklynrail.org/2023/07/field-notes/The-Economic-Consequences-of-Neo-Keynesianism.
  • Mies, Maria. Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale: Women in the International Division of Labour. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014.
  • McDuffie, Erik S. Sojourning for Freedom: Black Women, American Communism, and the Making of Black Left Feminism. Duke University Press, 2011.
  • Mitropoulos, Angela. Contract & contagion: From biopolitics to Oikonomia. Minor Compositions, 2012.
  • Mohandesi, Salar. “Class Consciousness or Class Composition?” Science & Society 77.1 (Jan 2013): 72-97.
  • Morgan, Jennifer L. Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship, and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic. Duke University Press, 2021. 
  • Munro, Kirstin. “`Social Reproduction Theory,’ Social Reproduction, and Household Production.” Science & Society 83.4 (2019): 451-468.
  • Nealon, Christopher. The Matter of Capital. Harvard, 2011.
  • Nesbitt, Nick. “Value as Symptom.” The Concept in Crisis: Reading Capital Today, edited by Nick Nesbitt, Duke University Press, Durham, NC, 2017, pp. 229–279. 
  • Ngai, Sianne, Our Aesthetic Categories: Zany, Cute, Interesting. Harvard University Press, 2012
  • —. “Visceral Abstractions,” GLQ 21.1 (2015): 33-63. https://read.dukeupress.edu/glq/article-abstract/21/1/33/34910/Visceral-Abstractions?redirectedFrom=fulltext
  • Nichols, Robert. Theft Is Property! Dispossession & Critical Theory. Duke University Press, 2020.
  • Parry, Benita. Postcolonial Studies: A Materialist Critique. Routledge, 2005. 
  • Pitts, Frederick Harry. “A crisis of measurability? Critiquing post-operaismo on labour, value and the basic income.” Capital & Class 42.1 (2018), 3–21.
  • —. Critiquing Capitalism Today: New Ways to Read Marx. Springer International Publishing, 2018. 
  • —. Value. Polity Press, 2021. 
  • Postone, Moishe. Time, Labor, and Social Domination. Cambridge, 1993.
  • —. “Anti-Semitism and National Socialism: Notes on the German Reaction to the ‘Holocaust.” New German Critique 19.1 (Winter 1980): 97-115.
  • —. Time, Labor, and Social Domination. Cambridge University, 1993. 
  • Reed, Adolph L. Stirrings in the Jug: Black Politics in the Post-Segregation Era. University of Minnesota Press, 1999. 
  • —. “Unraveling the Relation of Race and Class in American Politics,” Political Power and Social Theory 15 (November 2002): 265–74.
  • Roberts, William Clare. Marx’s Inferno. Princeton, 2017. 
  • Rodney, Walter. How Europe Underdeveloped Africa. Verso, 2018.
  • Ross, Kristin. Communal Luxury: The Political Imaginary of the Paris Commune. Verso, 2016.
  • —. The Emergence of Social Space: Rimbaud and the Paris Commune. Verso, 2008.
  • San Juan Jr, Epifanio. Racism and Cultural Studies. Duke University Press, 2002.
  • —. “Problematizing Multiculturalism and the ‘Common Culture.’” MELUS, vol. 19, no. 2, 1994, pp. 59–84. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/467725. 
  • Schwarz, Roberto, Misplaced Ideas: Essays on Brazilian Culture. Verso, 1992. 
  • —. Master on the Periphery of Capitalism: Machado de Assis. Trans. John Gledson. Duke University Press, 2001.
  • Suwandi, Intan. Value Chains: The New Economic Imperialism. Monthly Review Press, 2019. 
  • Tadiar, Neferti XM. Remaindered Life. Duke University Press, 2022.
  • Taylor, Keeanaga-Yamahtta, ed. How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective. Haymarket, 2017.
  • Thomas, Peter. The Gramscian Moment. Brill, 2009
  • Thompson, E.P. The Making of the English Working Class. Penguin Classics, 1963/2013.
  • Toscano, Alberto and Jeff Kinkle, eds. Cartographies of the Absolute. Zero Books, 2015.
  • Virdee, Satnam. Racism, Class and the Racialized Outsider. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014.
  • Vogel, Lise. Marxism and the Oppression of Women: Toward a Unitary Theory. Brill, 2013. 
  • Wald, Alan, The New York Intellectuals: The Rise and Decline of the Anti-Stalinist Left from the 1930s to the 1980s. University of North Carolina Press, 1987.
  • Walker, Gavin. The Sublime Perversion of Capital: Marxist Theory and the Politics of History in Modern Japan. Duke University Press, 2016.
  • Wallace, Rob, et al. “COVID-19 and Circuits of Capital.” Monthly Review 72.1 (2020): 1-13.
  • Weeks, Kathi. The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics and the Postwork Imagination. Duke UP, 2011.
  • Wertkritik group, “Marxism and the Critique of Value” (2 volumes), Mediations/MCM Prime Publishing, 2014.
  • Williams, Eric. Capitalism and Slavery, 3rd ed. University of North Carolina Press, 2021.
  • Williams, Raymond. The Country and the City. Oxford University Press, 1973.
  • —. Marxism and Literature. Oxford University Press, 1977.
  • Wilson, Bobby M. America’s Johannesburg: Industrialization and Racial Transformation in Birmingham. Vol. 46. University of Georgia Press, 2019.
  • Wood, Ellen Meiksins, “Class, Race, and Capitalism,” Political Power and Social Theory 15 (2002): 275–84.
  • Zeigler, James. Red Scare Racism and Cold War Black Radicalism. Univ. Press of Mississippi, 2015.