Most Read This Week In Theory

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Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal
Theory & Practice
How to Blow Up a Pipeline
Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism
The Crisis of Narration
Who’s Afraid of Gender?
No-cosas: Quiebras del mundo de hoy
Raving
The Myth of American Idealism: How U.S. Foreign Policy Endangers the World
The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice
Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia
Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom
If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution
Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
To Overthrow the World: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism
Limitarianism: The Case Against Extreme Wealth
The Longest Con: How Grifters, Swindlers, and Frauds Hijacked American Conservatism
Hässlichkeit
The Destruction of Palestine Is the Destruction of the Earth
Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation
Against Progress (Žižek's Essays)
The Feminist Killjoy Handbook: The Radical Potential of Getting in the Way
Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care
On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint
On Giving Up
The World After Gaza: A Short History
Cannibal Capitalism: How our System is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet—and What We Can Do About It
The Unaccountability Machine: Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions - and How The World Lost its Mind
Hass: Von der Macht eines widerständigen Gefühls
Abolition. Feminism. Now.
Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy
Eine Arbeiterin
Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness
We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
Math Without Numbers
The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation
The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs
Immediacy: Or, The Style of Too Late Capitalism
Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism
The Return of the Gods
A Short History of Trans Misogyny
Dysphoria Mundi
Everyday Utopia: What 2,000 Years of Wild Experiments Can Teach Us About the Good Life
The Invention of Good and Evil: A World History of Morality
Status and Culture: How Our Desire for Social Rank Creates Taste, Identity, Art, Fashion, and Constant Change
Disaster Nationalism: The Downfall of Liberal Civilization
We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite
Ordinary Notes
All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess
Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America's Empire
Lost in Work: Escaping Capitalism
Taking a Long Look: Essays on Culture, Literature and Feminism in Our Time
Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom
Now Go: On Grief and Studio Ghibli (Inklings, #13)
Notes on Complexity: A Scientific Theory of Connection, Consciousness, and Being
Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism
Foreverism (Theory Redux)
Holding Change: The Way of Emergent Strategy Facilitation and Mediation
On Settler Colonialism: Ideology, Violence, and Justice
Heaven in Disorder
Enemy Feminisms: TERFs, Policewomen, and Girlbosses Against Liberation
White Malice: The CIA and the Covert Recolonization of Africa
Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel
Mouths of Rain: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Thought
Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics
Pragmatism as Anti-Authoritarianism
Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want
Central America's Forgotten History: Revolution, Violence, and the Roots of Migration
The Philosophy of Translation
The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives (Jacobin)
Posthuman Feminism
Family Abolition: Capitalism and the Communizing of Care
Virtue Hoarders: The Case against the Professional Managerial Class
The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism
Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed
Rehearsals for Living
Mute Compulsion. A Theory of the Economic Power of Capital
After Work: The Politics of Free Time
The Melancholia of Class: A Manifesto for the Working Class
Transgender Marxism
Space Crone
How to Think Impossibly: About Souls, UFOs, Time, Belief, and Everything Else
The History of Philosophy: A Marxist Perspective
Practicing New Worlds: Abolition and Emergent Strategies (Emergent Strategy #9)
Feminist Antifascism. Counterpublics of the Common
Capital's Grave: Neofeudalism and the New Class Struggle
Fear of Black Consciousness
A Programme of Absolute Disorder: Decolonizing the Museum
Seduced by Story: The Use and Abuse of Narrative
Hölderlin's Madness: Chronicle of a Dwelling Life 1806–1843
On the Inconvenience of Other People
The Price is Wrong: Why Capitalism Won't Save the Planet
Breaking Things at Work: The Luddites Are Right About Why You Hate Your Job
The Age of Choice: A History of Freedom in Modern Life
Red Africa: Reclaiming Revolutionary Black Politics (Salvage Editions)
A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto
Health Communism
Scorched Earth: Beyond the Digital Age to a Post-Capitalist World
Pollution Is Colonialism

John Rawls
Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought. A theory however elegant and economical must be rejected or revised if it is untrue; likewise laws and institutions no matter how efficient and well-arranged must be reformed or abolished if they are unjust. Each person possesses an inviolability founded on justice that even the welfare of society as a whole cannot override. For this reason justice denies that the loss of freedom for some is made right by a gr ...more
John Rawls, A Theory of Justice

Ernst F. Schumacher
An ounce of practice is generally worth more than a ton of theory.
E F Schumacher, Small Is Beautiful: A Study of Economics as if People Mattered

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