Critiques and Alternatives to Capitalism
About the Book Series
The peer-reviewed series Critiques and Alternatives to Capitalism (edited by Marcello Musto) publishes scholarly works works on critiques and alternatives to capitalism, spanning a number of subject matters, political perspectives and geographical areas. It welcomes monographs and edited volumes in the fields of sociology, social and political theory and heterodox political economy, whose main areas of focus are the problems of capitalist society and its mode of production; alternatives to capitalism that address contemporary social issues; and 19th and 20th centuries anti-capitalist ideas and practical experiments.
Welcoming new perspectives on a wide range of themes, it seeks to explore alternative social-economic systems, critical theories of capitalism, social classes and inequality, public/private ownership and new contours of ‘the commons’, economic and financial crises, ecology, globalization, migration and citizenship, gender oppression, alienation, and cultural critique. The result is an eclectic, but focused and informative, series that provides original investigations, inspires significant conversations for today, and appeals to a diverse international audience.
The Highland Alternative: Small-scale Farming in Scotland and the Crises of Capitalism
1st Edition
By Steven Speed
February 16, 2027
The Highland Alternative examines how small-scale farming communities in Scotland's Highlands and Islands, through a combination of food sovereignty, agroecology, and land sovereignty, have developed alternatives to capitalist agriculture making them more resilient to recent crises of capitalism ...
Metamorphoses of Capitalism and Global Socialism: Reorienting Technological Change and the Rise of Commons
1st Edition
By Eduardo da Motta e Albuquerque
January 15, 2027
This book advances that the transition to socialism - an alternative to capitalism which answers to the permanent transformation or metamorphoses of capitalism – must be an international process which incorporates lessons from the history of class struggles from the very beginning. Arguing that ...
Informality, Class and Union Activism: Uniting what Capital Divides in Argentina
1st Edition
By Rodolfo Elbert
October 19, 2026
This book addresses the long standing Marxist question about the conditions in which a socially fragmented working class can forge a unified project, using a study of informality, class and union activism in Argentina between 2003 and 2011. Informality, Class and Union Activism explores the ...
The Ruins of Capitalism and Possibilism: Beyond Homo Faber
1st Edition
By Vando Borghi
October 16, 2026
This book explores two themes in connection with contemporary capitalism: infrastructural capitalism as the most advanced phase of a modernity, of which the “workman” or homo faber is the embodiment, who exists within an infrastructure whose logic of connectivity is aimed at value extraction; and a...
Reimagining Urban Marxisms: Rethinking Thinkers, Texts, and Challenges
1st Edition
Edited
By Francesco Biagi
September 28, 2026
This volume presents an interdisciplinary and international revaluation of urban Marxisms. Bringing together the main critical Marxist perspectives from around the world on contemporary urban studies, it engages with a range of issues connected to the “urban question,” such as urban sprawl, housing...
Secularist, Religious and Scientistic Socialism: Red Faith I
1st Edition
By Stefan Arvidsson
August 27, 2026
This book explores the various ways in which socialists have understood the relationship between their political beliefs and different religious and philosophical traditions. Considering the rise of secularism and the view that politics and life stances are two very different spheres, it moves to ...
Power and Secularization: The Categories of Time
1st Edition
By Giacomo Marramao
July 20, 2026
This book offers a geneaological understanding of the condition of our time by reconstructing the complex story of the transition from the "cyclical time" of the classic era to the "linear and infuturant time" of the modern world. Time is therefore understood not as a simple vector, but as a ...
Marx versus Big Tech: Alienated Labour in the Digital Age
1st Edition
By Stéphanie Roza
June 12, 2026
This book asks whether Marx's concepts can still be useful to those seeking emancipation in the time of platform capitalism. Offering a pointed discussion of what emancipation in the workplace would mean, it explores the potential of Humanist Marxism to address this possibility. Humanist Marxism, ...
Humanist Socialism and the Religion of Socialism: Red Faith II
1st Edition
By Stefan Arvidsson
March 18, 2026
This book explores the historical relationships between socialist ideologies and religious or secular beliefs and cultures that shape the modern socialist. Portraying the cultural preferences and existential attitudes of leading Marxists, exploring the British tradition of "the religion of ...
Trade Fetishism: Magical and Materialist Thinking in Global Political Economy
1st Edition
By Gavin Fridell, Patrick Clark
March 04, 2026
Trade Fetishism argues that “trade” not only meets material goals, but also simultaneously works as a fantasy that seeks to satisfy and soothe our unconscious desires and anxieties. Countering the idea that trade is driven ultimately by rational economic, political, and strategic logics, it argues ...
Marx and the Politics of Need
1st Edition
By George Boss
February 17, 2026
Marx and the Politics of Need challenges one of the most pervasive habits in contemporary political theory and practice: treating needs as moral facts that sit outside of our politics, and which can be used to judge it. Against this depoliticising impulse, George Boss offers a provocative ...
Ten Essays for a 21st Century Socialism
1st Edition
By Tony Andréani
January 30, 2026
This book explores possible and realistic alternatives to a capitalism that is no longer sustainable, whether economically, socially, or for a habitable planet. Arguing that these alternatives can only be of socialist orientation, the author moves from a discussion of works that attempted to ...