Books and big ideas

This is the last in a series of four brief selections of my writing published on Luna17 and Counterfire this year.

These posts are all directly concerned with left-wing books, with the exception of my fairly lengthy article on revolutionary organisation. A number of them are reviews, but there's also a short introduction to chapter one of Lenin's 'The State and Revolution' and an article examining some key ideas in David Harvey's 'The Enigma of Capital'.

Capitalism, climate change and the left (March)

Lenin: Class Society and the State (April)

The case for revolutionary organisation (May)

 

Class, work and politics: Chavs by Owen Jones (July)

 

David Harvey and the changing geography of capitalism (August)

Class Dismissed: why we cannot teach or learn our way out of inequality (November)

For parts 1, 2 and 3 in this round-up see: An extraordinary year in the Arab world, Cuts, trade unions and the movement, and Polemics and analysis

* If you live in (or are ever visiting) north-east England, I strongly recommend visiting Durham's People's Bookshop, a radical bookshop which opened in June. It is, as it happens, where I bought my copies of 'Chavs' and 'The Enigma of Capital'.  

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