Bücher und Broschüren

Helga Cremer-Schäfer und Heinz Steinert stellten dieses Wissen auf den Prüfstand mit Fragen nach den Kategorisierungen von Menschen, die die Institution „Verbrechen & Strafe“ anbietet, mit Fragen nach den ideologischen Strategien in öffentlichen Diskursen über „Kriminalität“ und „Gewalt“ sowie mit Fragen nach den Bedingungen in Produktionsweise und Sozialstruktur, die staatliches Strafen zivilisieren und zurückdrängen oder es (wieder) entgrenzen. Damit bieten sie einen nach wie vor ebenso aktuellen wie bitter nötigen Ansatzpunkt für ein realistisches, weil reflexives Nachdenken über „Verbrechen & Strafe“.

Valerie, eine Frau in den frühen Dreißigern, steht hilflos und auch ein bisschen trotzig vor einer ungewissen Zukunft. Sie will kein Mitglied der Generation Praktikum mehr sein - was aber bleibt ihr anderes übrig, scheint es von allen Seiten zu tönen. Valerie probt mutig den Widerstand und macht sich auf die Suche: Hellwach und zugleich traumwandlerisch streift sie durch Wien, überdenkt ihre Gegenwart und Vergangenheit sowie die ihres Landes.

Margaret Thatcher branded the leaders of the 1984–85 miners' strike “the enemy within.” In this classic account, Seumas Milne reveals the astonishing lengths to which her government and its intelligence machine were prepared to go to destroy the power of Britain’s miners’ union.

In Marxism and Philosophy Korsch argues for a reexamination of the relationship between Marxist theory and bourgeois philosophy, and insists on the centrality of the Hegelian dialectic and a commitment to revolutionary praxis. Although widely attacked in its time, Marxism and Philosophy has attained a place among the most important works of twentieth-century Marxist theory, and continues to merit critical reappraisal from scholars and activists today.

An urgent and provocative account of the modern ‘militant’, a transformative figure at the front line of emancipatory politics. Around the world, recent events have seen the creation of a radical phalanx comprising students, the young, workers and immigrants. It is Badiou’s contention that the politics of such militants should condition the tasks of philosophy, even as philosophy clarifies the truth of our political condition.

For a brief explosive period in the mid-1970s, the young and the unemployed of Italy’s cities joined the workers in an unexpectedly militant movement known simply as Autonomy (Autonomia). Its “politics of refusal” united its opponents behind draconian measures more severe than any seen since the war.

One hundred kilometres from Seville lies the small village of Marinaleda, which for the last thirty-five years has been the centre of a tireless struggle to create a living utopia. This unique community drew British author Dan Hancox to Spain, and here for the first time he recounts the fascinating story of villagers who expropriated the land owned by wealthy aristocrats and have, since the 1980s, made it the foundation of a cooperative way of life.

In the uprisings of the Arab world, Alain Badiou discerns echoes of the European revolutions of 1848. In both cases, the object was to overthrow despotic regimes maintained by the great powers-regimes designed to impose the will of financial oligarchies.

In this short, highly readable book, the master of world-systems theory provides a succinct anatomy of capitalism over the past five hundred years. Considering the way capitalism has changed and evolved over the centuries, and what has remained constant, he outlines its chief characteristics. In particular, he looks at the emergence and development of a world market, and of labor; in doing so, he argues that capitalism has brought about immiseration in the Global South. As long as they remain within a framework of world capitalism, Wallerstein concludes, the economic and social problems of developing countries will remain unresolved.

Masks of Anarchy tells the extraordinary story of Percy Shelley’s poem “The Masque of Anarchy,” from its conception in Italy and suppression in England to the moment it became a catalyst for protest among New York City workers a century later.

Long before Antonio Negri became famous around the world for his groundbreaking volume Empire, he was infamous across Europe for the incendiary writings contained in this book. Books for Burning consists of five pamphlets that Negri wrote between 1971 and 1977, which attempt to identify and draw lessons from new conditions of class struggle that emerged in the course of the 1970s.