Series Directors
Immanuel Ness, Jennifer Ponce de León, Gabriel Rockhill

Publishers
Iskra Books
De Gruyter Brill (pending)
Critical Theory Workshop

Description
This series provides a platform for scholarly research and popular-form essays from around the world that challenge the widespread assumption, including within the Western left, that there is no real-world alternative to capitalism. Refusing to shy away from serious scholarly engagements with actually existing socialism, it opens up the spectrum of analysis to explore histories and contemporary developments that have either been ignored or misrepresented. In order to do so, it promotes innovative, non-Eurocentric research that overcomes the siloing effects of the disciplines and the ideological horizons of imperial knowledge production in favor of resolutely internationalist scholarship that deploys an anti-imperialist framework of analysis. The overall objective is thus to foster non-dogmatic theoretical work that has real use-value, precisely because of its relevance to concrete struggles for a more egalitarian and sustainable world. 

Books
– Torkil Lauesen, The Long Transition Toward Socialism and the End of Capitalism, forthcoming in fall 2024.
– Jacques Pauwels, From France’s Royal City to Bourgeois Babylon: How Paris Made the Revolution and the Revolution (Re)Made Paris 1789-1889, forthcoming.
– Ali Kadri, The Accumulation of Waste: A Political Economy of Systemic Destruction, forthcoming.
– Aymeric Monville, Poverty of Left-Wing Nietzscheanism, forthcoming.
– Domenico Losurdo, Communist Question, forthcoming.
– Raúl Antonio Capote, Enemy, forthcoming.

International Advisory Board
Amiya Kumar Bagchi
Radhika Desai
Cheng Enfu
John Bellamy Foster
Georges Gastaud
Ali Kadri
Annie Lacroix-Riz
Maxwell Lane
Torkil Lauesen
Linda Matar
Jacques Pauwels
Raúl Delgado Wise 
Helmut-Harry Loewen

Editorial Review Board 
Daniel Benson
Jared Bly
Larry Busk
Daniel Cunningham
Salvatore Engel-Dimauro
Bruno Guigue
Timothy Kerswell
Carlos Martinez
Aymeric Monville
Corinna Mullin
Nima Nakhaei
Eli Portella Perreras
Yin Xing
Liu Zixu

Submissions
We welcome submissions that contribute to the aims outlined above. Please send a preliminary email to all three of the series editors outlining your project and briefly situating it in relationship to extant scholarship (their emails can be found via the hyperlinks above).

Earlier Book Series

Reinventing Critical Theory