List of Critical Readings

Here’s an ongoing list of critical/radical readings that have influenced me and that I want to keep as important references/resources! Some of those are also ones that I plan to read but I already know are crucial.

• Chuǎng:
  • China FAQ
  • Issue #1 (2016), esp. Sorghum & Steel: The Socialist Developmental Regime and the Forging of China, No Way Forward, No Way Back: China in the Era of Riots, and Gleaning the Welfare Fields: Rural Struggles in China since 1959
  • Issue #2 (2019), esp. At the Edge of the Empire and Red Dust: The Transition to Capitalism in China
  • Social Contagion and Other Material on Microbiological Class War in China (2021)
  • Dirty Work. Chuang on China, Communism, and Social Contagion
• Mia Wong:
  • When communists crushed the international workers’ movement (06.06.2021)
  • Anti-communism with communist characteristics (22.01.2021)
  • 4-part podcast on neoliberalism (It Could Happen Here, 09-12.12.2021)
  • The Henry Kissinger is Dead Episode (It Could Happen Here, 01.12.2023)
• Lewis Mumford: Authoritarian and Democratic Technics (1964)
• Mike Gouldhawke:
  • Land as a social relationship (10.09.2020)
  • Heads hits concrete (10.08.2021)
  • The Exchange Relation of Commodities in Capitalist Society
  • Capital as Automatic Subject (01.04.2023)
  • The Labor-Power Theory of Capital (05.11.2022)
  • Room for Critique (28.02.2022)
  • Doctrine of the Corpse Betrayed by its Spirit (23.10.2022)
  • The Social Interest and its influence on Capital (12.04.2023)
• Loren Goldner:
  • Short history of the world working-class movement from Lassalle to neoliberalism: the distorting hegemony of the unproductive middle classes (1988)
  • ..
• Mark Kosman: Beyond Kronstadt; the Bolsheviks in power
• Werner Bonefeld:
  • The Capitalist State: Illusion and Critique (2003)
  • …
• Taller Ahuehuete:
  • Mirrors and Mirages in Slumil K’Ajxemk’op (w/ Lluvia Benjamin, 30.11.2021) [anarchist library link]
  • critical theory from below & to the left: 4 essays by Yásnava Aguilar examined by Antijuras and Carlos Arroyo (09.12.2021)
  • ..
• New Institute for Social Research:
  • The Supreme Point: Low and Bréa’s Account of Revolutionary Practice in Spain
  • Toward the Total Human: A Pandrogynist Communist Manifesto
  • What Was the Left? A Clarification
  • …
• Stoff:
  • Populisme: Une trajectoire politique de l’humanité superflue (2019) (with a bunch of reservations…)
  • Substance du capital et lutte des classes – Part 1, Part 2. (2021)
  • stoff répond à stoff: retour critique sur “Substance du capital et lutte des classes” (02/2022)
• Crimes of Class:
  • Class Crimes, Power, Poverty, and Violence (29.06.2022)
  • Class Cultures, Moralities, and the Social Relations of Crime (07.07.2022)
• Carolyn Nakamura: Untenable History (13.03.2022)
• Alana Lentin: Introduction to Racial Capitalism (02.11.2021)
• Sylvia Wynter:
  • Unsettling Coloniality of Being/Power/Truth/Freedom: Towards the Human, After Man, Its Overrepresentation – An Argument (2003)
  • The Ceremony Must be Found: After Humanism (1984)
  • 1492: A New World View (1995)
• Richard Hunsinger: The Roaring Silence. A Critical Commentary on Søren Mau’s Mute Compulsion (13.03.2023)
• Alexander Anievas & Richard Saull: Reassessing the Cold War and the Far-Right: Fascist Legacies and the Making of the Liberal International Order after 1945 (2019)
• Fiona Tregenna: Services in Marxian economic thought (2009)
•  Annie McClanahan & Jon-David Settell: Service Work, Sex Work, and the “Prostitute Imaginary” (2021)
• Harsha Walia:
  • ‘Land is a Relationship’: In conversation with Glen Coulthard on Indigenous nationhood (20.01.2015)
  • .
• Søren Mau:
  • Mute Compulsion: A Marxist Theory of the Economic Power of Capital (2019/2023)
  • “Body” chapter/entry in SAGE Handbook of Marxism (2022)
  • ..
• Guido Starosta:
  • “Labour” chapter/entry in SAGE Handbook of Marxism (2022)
  • …
• Aaron Benanav:
  • (w/ John Clegg) Crisis and Immiseration: Critical Theory Today in SAGE Handbook of Frankfurt School Critical Theory (2018)
  • (w/ John Clegg and Endnotes) Misery and Debt: On the Logic and History of Surplus Populations and Surplus Capital (2010)
  • How to Make a Pencil (2020)
  • Making a Living (2021) (pdf link)
• Chris Chen: The Limit Point of Capitalist Equality: Notes Toward an Abolitionist Antiracism (2013)
• Endnotes:
  • A History of Separation: the rise and fall of the workers’ movement, 1883-1982 (2015)
  • The Holding Pattern: The Ongoing Crisis and the Class Struggles of 2011-2013 (2013)
• Nicholas De Genova: The “crisis” of the European border regime: Towards a Marxist theory of borders (04.04.2016)
• Jasper Bernes:
  • Logistics, Counterlogistics and the Communist Prospect (2013)
  • …
• Joshua Clover and Nikhil Pal Singh:
  • Signal and Noise, Part 1 (22.03.2022) + Part 2 (01.04.2022)
  • Revelation’s Edge (18.05.2023)
• Joshua Clover:
• Fredy Perlman:
  • The Continuing Appeal of Nationalism (1984)
  • ..
• M.E. O’Brien:
  • Family Abolition: Capitalism and the Communizing of Care (Pluto Press, 2023)
  • To Abolish the Family: The Working-Class Family and Gender Liberation in Capitalist Development (Endnotes 5, 2019)
  • Communizing Care (Pinko #1, October 15 2019)
• Sophie Lewis:
  • Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Family (Verso, 2019)
  • Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation (Verso, 2022)