Monthly Review Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Work Work Work: Labor, Alienation, and Class Struggle
Michael D. Yates
To our friends in the Hindi-speaking world, we hope this translation of Michael D. Yates' book, "Work Work Work" will be of interest! Watch the book launch here, and thanks very very much to our friends at @WorkersUnity18: https://t.co/YXd0HwBZ3R
Paperback, 2022
$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Silent Spring
Rachel Carson
Last year marked six decades since the publication of Rachel Carson’s seminal work Silent Spring, the book often credited with inspiring the modern environmental movement (at least in North America). @CDN_Dimension https://t.co/Z5xfVFB2mq
Paperback, 2022
$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Beyond Capital: Marx's Political Economy of the Working Class
M. Lebowitz
My first introduction to Michael Lebowitz’s Beyond Capital: Marx’s Political Economy of the Working Class was through social reproduction theory. @ppesydney https://t.co/VYms2ZiGz4
Paperback, 2003
$99.99$74.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
Marx in the Anthropocene
Kohei Saito
In 2017, Japanese Marx scholar Kohei Saito published Karl Marx’s Ecosocialism, which won the Isaac Deutscher Memorial Prize the following year. @MarxPhilosophy https://t.co/j75IsX1Huk
Paperback, 2023
$24.00$12.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The War Against the Commons: Dispossession and Resistance in the Making of Capitalism
Ian Angus
"I now recognise I’ve been blithely pedaling through a #crimescene...." -Simon Butler, for @GreenLeftOnline, talking abiout the #Scottishcountryside in a review of Ian Angus' "The War Against the #Commons" https://t.co/vGsYFJ5hd6
Paperback, 2023
$26.00$13.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Washington Bullets
Vijay Prashad
"Washington Bullets" author Vijay Prashad on "The amazing opportunity that #Russia's invasion has given to the 'West'" @tri_continental @vijayprashad Also see, "Washington's #NewColdWar" just out from Monthly Review Press: https://t.co/AwP1RZflY7 WATCH:https://t.co/jZAn6u6AP9 https://t.co/N6BwcrWoy1
Paperback, 2020
$15.99$7.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Social Security: The Phony Crisis
Dean Baker
As progressive economist Dean Baker has written, “The Post calling for cuts to [Social Security and Medicare] is pretty much as predictable as the sun coming up”—it’s been up to this for decades, as Bezos is probably aware. @FAIRmediawatch https://t.co/4nIJWyAuA2
Hardcover, 2000
$99.00$74.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
The Dialectics of Dependency
Ruy Mauro Marini
Now that the "genocide holiday" is over, give yourself the gift of the truth. Get a copy of Ruy Mauro Marini's "The Dialectics of Dependency" and enter the coupon code above. Start here: https://t.co/BT6JXxtptF
Paperback, 2022
$26.00$13.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Return to the Source: Selected Texts of Amilcar Cabral, New Expanded Edition
Amilcar Cabral
“Return to the Source: Selected Texts of Amilcar Cabral,” releases in April: https://t.co/QQZrzLvxOM
Paperback, 2023
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Nicaragua: A History of Us Intervention & Resistance
Daniel Kovalik
FEATURED - John Perry and Daniel Kovalik - The “groundwork for insurrection” in Nicaragua was laid down months and years before the coup attempt began, as our first article explained. https://t.co/4UvvetX7YC
Paperback, 2023
$29.95$14.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book