Marx and Marxisms: New Horizons
About the Book Series
The peer-reviewed series Marx and Marxisms: New Horizons' (edited by Marcello Musto, with Francesca Antonini as Assistant Editor) comprises rigorous scholarly books, accessible to general readers, that offer innovative and critical works in the field of Marx studies and Marxisms. The series publishes monographs, edited collections, and anthologies, by both prestigious and emerging international experts, in the fields of political theory, history of political thought, sociology, political philosophy, and heterodox economics. The books in this series provide original investigations within the Marxist tradition, push the boundaries of accepted interpretations and existing literatures, bring different concepts and thinkers into new relationships, and inspire significant conversations for today. They come from a wide range of academic disciplines, subject matters, political perspectives, cultural backgrounds, and geographical areas, producing an eclectic and informative collection that appeals to a diverse and international audience.
Wild Marx: Indigenous Cosmopolitics and the Subversion of European Revolutionary Thought
1st Edition
By Jean Tible
March 26, 2027
Wild Marx seeks to transform the revolutionary European thinker Karl Marx by opening him to the power of Indigenous struggles-lifeforms. The book begins with an introduction of Marx-Engels to a non-European world by means of the classic works of Peruvian intellectual and Marxist thinker, José ...
In the Shadow of Marx: Rethinking Marxist Theory for a World in Crisis
1st Edition
By César Rendueles
March 01, 2027
Over the last decade, interest in Karl Marx and his political and intellectual legacy has experienced a widespread resurgence around the world. César Rendueles’ In the Shadow of Marx—available in English for the first time—offers a rigorous yet accessible entry point into these debates. Rather than...
Marx and the Making of the Social Individual: Essays on Cooperation, Commodities, and the Representation of Things
1st Edition
By Alfonso Maurizio Iacono
February 19, 2027
With this book, Alfonso Maurizio Iacono offers a bold reappraisal of Marx’s thought, demonstrating its enduring relevance for understanding the contradictions of labour, cooperation, and human development under neoliberal capitalism. Despite seismic shifts—from the collapse of industrial society to...
Italian Communist Dissidence and Transnational Trotskyism towards the Fourth International (1928–1938)
1st Edition
By Gabriele Mastrolillo
November 24, 2026
Following his expulsion from the Soviet Union in 1929, Leon Trotsky promoted the birth of an International Anti-Stalinist Communist movement which considered itself in opposition to the Communist International (Comintern). However, since 1933, it began to regard itself as an independent ...
Walter Benjamin in the European East: Networks, Conflicts, and Reception
1st Edition
Edited
By Caroline Adler, Sophia Buck
November 11, 2026
Walter Benjamin in the European East offers the first comprehensive account of how Walter Benjamin’s (1892–1940) work circulated, was translated, contested, and creatively reworked across socialist and post‑socialist Europe, shifting the focus from canonical Western reception to Benjamin’s Eastern ...
Transnational Communism During the Cold War: The Spanish Communists and their European Networks
1st Edition
Edited
By Eduardo Abad García, Xavier María Ramos Diez-Astrain, Emanuele Treglia
October 29, 2026
Transnational Communism During the Cold War offers a bold and innovative reassessment of the Spanish Communist Party (PCE) as an important actor in Cold War-era transnational communist networks. Moving beyond conventional national narratives, this volume situates the PCE within a complex web of ...
The Actual Lenin: Reclaiming the Figure from the South
1st Edition
By Ranabir Samaddar
October 01, 2026
The Actual Lenin is a fresh and accessible reinterpretation of Lenin by placing his ideas alongside the political realities of the Global South. Ranabir Samaddar, a leading intellectual of the Global South, demonstrates how Lenin broke with conventional ways of thinking about social transformation,...
The Populist Tradition: A Critical-Historic Approach
1st Edition
Edited
By Déborah Cohen, Federico Tarragoni
September 29, 2026
The Populist Tradition: A Critical-Historic Approach offers a new approach to populism, treating it not as a pathology, but as a political tradition that involves popular participation in democracy, whether self-organized or representative.Leading specialists from around the world and across ...
The Eighteenth Brumaire in the United States, Germany, and France, 1852–1933: Meanings and Uses in Context
1st Edition
By Sam Stark
September 27, 2026
The Eighteenth Brumaire in the United States, Germany, and France, 1852–1933 is the first extended political history of Karl Marx’s seminal text. Written largely in an engaging narrative form that centers political actors engaging with the text, the book uses published and archival sources to ...
György Lukács and the Marxist Approach to Theory of Law: Origins and Development of Juridical Complex, Language and Interpretation
1st Edition
By Vitor Bartoletti Sartori
August 27, 2026
This book rethinks the Marxist critique of law through an exploration of the later works of Hungarian philosopher György Lukács. It argues that law cannot be fully grasped through rigid legal categories alone; instead, it must be examined within the wider context of social reproduction, shaped by ...
Socialist Constitutionalism and the Communist Polity
1st Edition
Edited
By Alexandros Chrysis, Dimitrios Kivotidis
August 05, 2026
This collection of specially commissioned essays provides the first incisive collaborative intervention to ongoing debates about law and politics under capitalism from an explicitly socialist constitutionalist perspective. Heterodox literature on constitutional studies, to a large extent and with a...
Class Struggle, Dictatorship and Democracy: How the Common People Defeated Francoism (1939-1979)
1st Edition
By Xavier Domènech Sampere
July 19, 2026
In Class Struggle, Dictatorship and Democracy: How the Common People Defeated Francoism (1939–1979), historian Xavier Domènech Sampere tells the story of Franco’s dictatorship, the struggle for freedoms and the foundations on which democracy was shaped. From the perspective of history from below ...