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Half-earth socialism

a plan to save the future from extinction, climate change, and pandemics

Over the next generation, humanity will confront a dystopian future of climate disaster and mass extinction. Yet the only "solutions" on offer are toothless cap-and-trade programs, catastrophic geoengineering schemes, and privatized conservation, which will do nothing to reverse the damage suffered by the biosphere. Indeed ...

Rentier capitalism

who owns the economy, and who pays for it?

How did Britain's economy become a bastion of inequality? The author of 'The New Enclosure' provides a forensic examination and sweeping critique of early-21st-century capitalism. Brett Christophers styles this as 'rentier capitalism', in which ownership of key types of scarce assets - such as land ...

Climate change as class war

building socialism on a warming planet

The climate crisis is not primarily a problem of 'believing science' or individual 'carbon footprints' - it is a class problem rooted in who owns, controls and profits from material production. As such, it will take a class struggle to solve. In this ground breaking class ...

Silicon Values

the future of free speech under surveillance capitalism

The Internet once promised to be a place of extraordinary freedom beyond the control of money or politics, but today corporations and platforms exercise more control over our ability to access information and share knowledge to a greater extent than any state. In Silicon Values ...

The knowledge economy

Adam Smith and Karl Marx recognized that the best way to understand the economy is to study the most advanced practice of production. Today that practice is no longer conventional manufacturing: it is the radically innovative vanguard known as the knowledge economy. This book explores ...

The future is degrowth

a guide to a world beyond capitalism

Economic growth isn't working, and it cannot be made to work. Offering a counter-history of how economic growth emerged in the context of colonialism, fossil-fueled industrialization, and capitalist modernity, The Future Is Degrowth argues that the ideology of growth conceals the rising inequalities and ...

Automation and the future of work

Silicon Valley titans, politicians, techno-futurists and social critics have united in arguing that we are living on the cusp of an era of rapid technological automation, heralding the end of work as we know it. But does the much-discussed "rise of the robots" really explain ...

Platform socialism

how to reclaim our digital future from big tech

'Ground-breaking and ambitious' - Nick Srnicek, author of Platform Capitalism Whoever controls the platforms, controls the future. Platform Socialism sets out an alternative vision and concrete proposals for a digital economy that expands our freedom. Powerful tech companies now own the digital infrastructure of twenty-first century ...

The solutions are already here

strategies for ecological revolution from below

Are alternative energies and Green New Deals enough to deliver environmental justice? Peter Gelderloos argues that international governmental responses to the climate emergency are structurally incapable of solving the crisis. But there is hope. Across the world, grassroots networks of local communities are working to ...

Marx and the robots

networked production, AI and human labour

Marxist discourse around automation has recently become waylaid with breathless techno-pessimist dystopias and fanciful imaginations of automated luxury communism. This collection of essays by both established veterans of the field and new voices is a refreshingly sober materialist reflection on recent technological developments within capitalist ...

Beyond money

a postcapitalist strategy

'A fascinating portal into arguments about why we need to get beyond money' - Harry Cleaver What would a world without money look like? This book is a lively thought experiment that deepens our understanding of how money is the driver of political power, environmental destruction ...

Confronting climate gridlock

how diplomacy, technology, and policy can unlock a clean energy future

An atmospheric scientist explains why global climate change mitigation and energy decarbonization demand American diplomacy, technology, and policy "Daniel Cohan makes a compelling case that the problem of climate change is solvable. Fixing the gridlock on global action requires fixing the gridlock here in the ...

Blue new deal

why we need a new politics for the ocean

An urgent account of the state of our oceans today-and what we must do to protect them The ocean sustains life on our planet, from absorbing carbon to regulating temperatures, and, as we exhaust the resources to be found on land, it is becoming central ...

Turkey under Erdogan

how a country turned from democracy and the west

An incisive account of Erdogan's Turkey - showing how its troubling transformation may be short-lived Since coming to power in 2002 Recep Tayyip Erdogan has overseen a radical transformation of Turkey. Once a pillar of the Western alliance, the country has embarked on a militaristic ...

Cheap speech

how disinformation poisons our politics - and how to cure it

What can be done consistent with the First Amendment to ensure that American voters can make informed election decisions and hold free elections amid a flood of virally spread disinformation and the collapse of local news reporting? How should American society counter the actions of ...

Why argument matters

From Eve's crafty exchange with the serpent, to Martin Luther King's soaring, subtle ultimatums, to the throes of Twitter-argument's drainpipe-the human desire to prevail with words has been not just a moral but an existential compulsion. In this dazzling reformulation of argument ...

The invention of China

In this compelling and highly-readable account, Hayton shows how China's present-day geopolitical problems-the fates of Hong Kong, Taiwan, Tibet, Xinjiang, and the South China Sea-were born in the struggle to create a modern nation-state. He brings alive the fevered debates of the late nineteenth ...

Los hijos de Shifty

Mick Hardin, agente de la División de Investigación Criminal del ejército, se encuentra de permiso en su Kentucky natal cuando aparece el cadáver de un hombre en el centro del pueblo. Se trata de Cabronazo Barney, el traficante de heroína local, asesinado a tiros sin ...

El Leviatán

Algo oscuro ha despertado y ya no descansará. Inglaterra, 1643. El soldado Thomas Treadwater está combatiendo en la guerra civil cuando un preocupante mensaje de su hermana Esther lo obliga a regresar a toda prisa a su hogar. Al llegar, descubre que su padre ha ...

El Señor de los Anillos

Las Dos Torres

«Ningún escritor del género ha aprovechado tanto como Tolkien las propiedades características de la Misión, el viaje heróico, el Objeto Numinoso, satisfaciendo nuestro sentido de la realidad histórica y social... Tolkien ha triunfado donde fracasó Milton.» —W.H. Auden «La invención de los pueblos extraños ...