Category: Books

The Dunayevskaya-Marcuse-Fromm Correspondence, 1954-1978: Dialogues on Hegel, Marx, and Critical Theory

Editors: Kevin B. Anderson and Russell Rockwell

This book presents for the first time the correspondence during the years 1954 to 1978 between the Marxist-Humanist and feminist philosopher Raya Dunayevskaya (1910-87) and two other noted thinkers, the Hegelian Marxist philosopher and social theorist Herbert Marcuse (1898-1979) and the psychologist and social critic Erich Fromm (1900-80), both of the latter…

Marx at the Margins: On Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Non-Western Societies

Marx’s critique of capital was far broader than is usually supposed. To be sure, he concentrated on the labor-capital relation within Western Europe and North America. But at the same time, he expended considerable time and energy on the analysis of non-Western societies, as well as race, ethnicity, and nationalism. While some of these writings show a problematically unilinear perspective and, on occasion, t…

Foucault and the Iranian Revolution: Gender and the Seductions of Islamism

[Winner of the Latifeh Yarshater Award for the Best Book in Iranian Women’s Studies, 2006.]

We analyze critically the extensive but little-known writings on Iran’s 1979 Islamic revolution by Michel Foucault, who traveled there twice in 1978. These writings, published in 1978-79 in French and Italian newspapers and journals, celebrate the Islamic revolution as an alternative to both Western capitalist…

The Rosa Luxemburg Reader

This volume, edited by Peter Hudis and Kevin B. Anderson, provides an annotated selection from Luxemburg’s major political and economic works – Accumulation of Capital, the Mass Strike, Reform or Revolution, on nationalism, on Lenin, on the Russian Revolution, etc. -- as well as her letters. Several important Luxemburg texts that have been translated into English for the first time by Ashley Passmore and me: a…

The Power of Negativity: Selected Writings on the Dialectic in Hegel and Marx

This volume contains annotated selections from Raya Dunayevskaya’s lifelong writings on Hegel, Marx, and dialectics, edited by Peter Hudis and Kevin B. Anderson. It comprises work on dialectics that did not appear in Philosophy and Revolution (1973) and other of her books published during her lifetime. It begins with one of Dunayevskaya’s last writings on dialectics, followed by a closely linked text, her …

Erich Fromm and Critical Criminology: Beyond the Punitive Society

[Recipient of the International Erich Fromm Prize, 2000) Part one is a Fromm biography, while part two includes six essays on Fromm and criminology by contemporary scholars, of which mine is entitled “Erich Fromm and the Frankfurt School Critique of Criminal Justice” (pp. 83-119). Part three contains annotated translations (by Heinz D. Osterle and me) of Fromm’s discussions -- during the early years of the F…

Marx on Suicide

This book includes a new, annotated translation by Plaut, Gabrielle Edgcomb, and Kevin B. Anderson of Marx's 1846 essay/translation on suicide, which concentrated on young Parisian women who had committed suicide due to gender or familial oppression, edited by Eric A. Plaut and Kevin B. Anderson. At one point, for example, Marx writes that the bourgeois revolutions of the eighteenth century were incomplete because …

Lenin, Hegel, and Western Marxism: A Critical Study

This book takes up Lenin's extensive but little-known writings on Hegel, especially his 1914-15 notebooks on Hegel’s Science of Logic. I argue that in these notes, Lenin broke with the crude materialism of his generation of Marxists and of his own earlier work like Materialism and Empirio-Criticism (1908). His confrontation with Hegel was part of a rethinking of his old categories in light of the crisis and break…

Professor of Sociology, Political Science, and Feminist Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara