Сборник интервью Антонио Негри - Negri on Negri: in conversation with Anne Dufourmentelle

This is a most interesting introduction to the thinking of Antonio Negri, who has emerged as one of the more provocative thinkers of our time. The book is conceived as a series of conversations around approximately 50 entries in a Negrian lexicon, divided into 26 chapters, each of which refers to a letter in the alphabet. There is a mixture of biographical anecdote and conceptual excursion that makes for compelling reading. Those wishing for insight into Negri's personal journey are offered a candid account of his activist 1970s and 80s in Italy and his exile in France. Readers wishing a relatively accessible introduction to Negri's more substantial works are introduced to most of the key concepts in his thinking (empire, multitude, biopolitical production, singularity, kairos, resistance). In the first half of the book, Negri deals with the "lovely paradox" of self-defeating growth which capitalism has wrought upon itself. In the latter half of the book, Negri develops his alternative of a radical democracy based on a voluntarist, Spinozian materialism.

Книга Антонио Негри - Time for Revolution

Antonio Negri wrote the two essays that comprise Time for Revolution while serving a prison sentence for alleged involvement with radical left-wing groups. Although the essays were written two decades apart, their concerns are the same: is there a place for resistance in a society utterly subsumed by capitalism? In the wake of the global crisis of capitalism heralded by the 2008 crash, the question has never been more relevant and Negri remains an insightful and passionate guide to any attempt to answer it.

Книга Алекса Каллиникоса -  The Revolutionary Ideas of Karl Marx

Few thinkers have been declared irrelevant and out of date with such frequency as Karl Marx. Hardly a decade since his death has gone by in which establishment critics have not announced the death of his theory. Whole forests have been felled to produce the paper necessary to fuel this effort to marginalize the coauthor of The Communist Manifesto. And yet, despite their best efforts to bury him again and again, Marx’s specter continues to haunt his detractors more than a century after his passing. As another international economic collapse pushes ever growing numbers out of work, and a renewed wave of popular revolt sweeps across the globe, a new generation is learning to ignore all the taboos and scorn piled upon Marx’s ideas and rediscovering that the problems he addressed in his time are remarkably similar to those of our own. In this engaging and accessible introduction, Alex Callinicos demonstrates that Marx’s ideas hold an enduring relevance for today’s activists fighting against poverty, inequality, oppression, environmental destruction, and the numerous other injustices of the capitalist system.

Книга Токаши Оиши - The unknown Marx: reconstructing a unified perspective

"Marx's theory has been a bone of contention ever since his death in 1883. There have been avid attempts to decipher key texts within his works; to situate his theory in terms of Hegel's thought, and to articulate Marx's supposed distancing from that philosophical position; to determine which texts are more "Marxist" than others; and to attempt to render Marx's method as a tool for continuing social analyses. With so many interpretative works, one really wonders if anything new can be said about Marx. Fortunately, as this book reveals, there seems to be plenty to discuss in terms of rethinking interpretations of Marx's theory. In a detailed and ultimately quite convincing work, deftly charts Marx's "immanent critique" of political economy, a position that was recognizable as early as the Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844 and that flowered most famously in Das Capital. Attempting to distance "the unknown Marx" from Engels's "official" interpretation and from Soviet Marxist renderings, Oishi is able to argue convincingly that Marx never intended his position to be linked to an economistic and reductionist "materialist conception of history," but instead saw his task as articulating, in his famous dialectical fashion, a "critique of political economy." - B. J. Macdonald

Книга Барри Смарта - Мишель Фуко

In investigating the major works of Michel Foucault, Barry Smart focuses on the analysis of the relations of power and knowledge and modes of objectification through which human beings are made subjects. He also addresses controversial issues concerning the state and resistance to power. The development of Foucault’s work from his early work on madness to the final studies of sexuality, and the question of the work’s methodological value and status as a form of critical analysis, are reviewed comprehensively. Barry Smart’s detailed discussion of the contribution of Foucault’s work to social analysis and research illuminates the stimulating originality of Foucault’s project. It will be an essential starting point for anybody interested in learning about Foucault’s work.

Статья Марио Тронти - Операизм и политика

This is the text of Mario Tronti’s lecture at the 2006 Historical Materialism conference. It provides a brief, evocative synopsis of Tronti’s understanding of the historical experience and contemporary relevance of operaismo, a theoretical and practical attempt, embodied in journals such as Quaderni Rossi and Classe Operaia, to renew Marxist thought and politics in the Italy of the 1960s through a renewed attention to class-antagonism and the changing composition of labour.

Интересная статья из газеты Гардиан про слабость леволиберальных сил и как ей пользуются правые популисты

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/mar/18/how-the-right-trolls-the-left-college-campus-outrage

Книга Гуидо Карпи - История русского марксизма

Книга Гуидо Карпи представляет собой краткий очерк истории русского марксизма — от ранних кружков и до Сталина. В этом исследовании марксизм рассматривается как нерасторжимое единство практики и теории, формировавшихся в напряженных дискуссиях и политической борьбе между представителями разных течений (большевиками, меньшевиками, эсерами и т.д.), причем упор делается на дооктябрьский период. Советский официоз перекроил эту историю до неузнаваемости, и данная книга по сути является первой попыткой ее последовательной реконструкции.

Статья в журнал Jacobin о кризисе левых сил в Сальвадоре

https://jacobinmag.com/2018/03/el-salvador-election-fmln-arena-ceren

Книга  А. Н. Сидорова - Жан-Поль Сартр и либертарный социализм во Франции (50-70-е гг. ХХ в.)

Монография посвящена анализу левого движения послевоенной Франции сквозь призму взаимоотношений с ним выдающегося французского писателя и философа – Ж.-П. Сартра. Рассматривается полемика Сартра с Камю, Ароном, Касториадисом, Лефором и другими левыми и либеральными оппонентами. Подробно рассказывается о деятельности таких ультралевых групп, как посттроцкистская группа «Социализм или варварство» и маоистская «Пролетарская левая». В монографии также исследуются предпосылки, ход и последствия движений знаменитого Красного Мая 1968-го.

Статья из журнала Jacobin о некоторых сходствах либеральной «политики идентичности» и идеологии американских «альтернативных правых»

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/01/safety-pin-box-richard-spencer-neo-nazis-alt-right-identity-politics

Книга Славоя Жижека - Возвышенный объект идеологии

Главная цель настоящей книги - опровергнуть распространенное мнение о том, что современность отмечена "концом идеологии". Автор стремится к новому пониманию идеологии... "схватывая" ее современные феномены - цинизм, тоталитаризм, неустойчивость демократии. Решение этих проблем лежит на пути формирования оригинальной методологии, в которой встречается психоанализ Лакана и философская классика Гегеля, Канта, Маркса. Каждая из этих методологических составляющих подвергается в книге смелому и нелишенному парадоксальности пересмотру. Осуществляя убедительную интерпретацию философской традиции прошлого, книга эта является одновременно и одним из наиболее фундаментальных определений современности - эпохи возрождения национализмов, массовой культуры, распада целостности субъекта.