Best Works on Marxism in the 2010s (33 books)

Most essential books on the history of socialism, Marx, and Marxist thought.

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1	Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism by Harsha Walia (Goodreads Author) 4.57 avg rating — 1,526 ratings score: 282, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2	The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing 3.96 avg rating — 8,023 ratings score: 172, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3	Marx's Inferno: The Political Theory of Capital by William Clare Roberts 4.34 avg rating — 223 ratings score: 100, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3	Clear Bright Future: A Radical Defence of the Human Being by Paul Mason 3.58 avg rating — 370 ratings score: 100, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
5	Karl Marx's Ecosocialism: Capital, Nature, and the Unfinished Critique of Political Economy by Kōhei Saitō 4.02 avg rating — 242 ratings score: 99, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
6	Marx at the Margins: On Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Non-Western Societies by Kevin B. Anderson 4.29 avg rating — 168 ratings score: 98, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
7	Theory As History: Essays on Modes of Production and Exploitation by Jairus Banaji 4.42 avg rating — 89 ratings score: 97, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
8	Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming by Andreas Malm 4.32 avg rating — 799 ratings score: 96, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
9	Monsters of the Market: Zombies, Vampires and Global Capitalism (Historical Materialism Book Series, 30) by David McNally 4.44 avg rating — 126 ratings score: 95, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
10	Value Chains: The New Economic Imperialism by Intan Suwandi 4.14 avg rating — 119 ratings score: 94, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
11	The Wealth of (Some) Nations: Imperialism and the Mechanics of Value Transfer by Zak Cope 4.12 avg rating — 96 ratings score: 93, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
12	Social Reproduction Theory: Remapping Class, Recentring Oppression by Tithi Bhattacharya (Editor) 4.32 avg rating — 333 ratings score: 92, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
13	Imperialism in the Twenty-First Century: Globalization, Super-Exploitation, and Capitalism's Final Crisis by John Smith 4.41 avg rating — 222 ratings score: 91, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
14	The Necessity of Social Control by John Bellamy Foster 3.65 avg rating — 20 ratings score: 90, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
15	Karl Marx and the Birth of Modern Society: The Life of Marx and the Development of His Work by Michael Heinrich 4.44 avg rating — 130 ratings score: 89, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
16	An Introduction to the Three Volumes of Karl Marx’s Capital by Michael Heinrich 4.21 avg rating — 749 ratings score: 88, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
17	Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life by Karen E. Fields 4.16 avg rating — 1,729 ratings score: 87, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
18	Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital by Jason W. Moore (Goodreads Author) 3.92 avg rating — 317 ratings score: 86, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
19	Beyond Liberal Egalitarianism: Marx and Normative Social Theory in the Twenty-First Century by Tony Smith 4.50 avg rating — 18 ratings score: 85, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
20	The State: Past, Present, Future by Bob Jessop 4.17 avg rating — 52 ratings score: 84, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
21	Envisioning Real Utopias by Erik Olin Wright 4.14 avg rating — 298 ratings score: 83, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
22	Marx and Contemporary Critical Theory: The Philosophy of Real Abstraction by Antonio Oliva (Editor) 3.43 avg rating — 7 ratings score: 81, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
23	Critiquing Capitalism Today: New Ways to Read Marx by Frederick Harry Pitts 3.38 avg rating — 8 ratings score: 80, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
24	Continuity and Rupture: Philosophy in the Maoist Terrain by J. Moufawad-Paul (Goodreads Author) 3.83 avg rating — 212 ratings score: 79, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
25	The Communist Necessity by J. Moufawad-Paul (Goodreads Author) 4.03 avg rating — 265 ratings score: 78, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
26	Critique of Maoist Reason (New Roads, #5) by J. Moufawad-Paul (Goodreads Author) 3.95 avg rating — 81 ratings score: 77, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
27	Marxist Class Theory for a Skeptical World (Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 103) by Raju J Das really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings score: 76, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
28	The unity of the capitalist economy and state (Historical Materialism Book, 186) by Geert Reuten 4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings score: 75, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
29	Marx on Capitalism: The Interaction-Recognition-Antinomy Thesis by James Furner 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings score: 74, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
30	Impersonal Power: History and Theory of the Bourgeois State by Heide Gerstenberger 3.62 avg rating — 8 ratings score: 73, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
31	Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition (Indigenous Americas) by Glen Sean Coulthard 4.48 avg rating — 919 ratings score: 71, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
32	Capital and Imperialism: Theory, History, and the Present by Utsa Patnaik 4.48 avg rating — 81 ratings score: 70, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
33	This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom by Martin Hägglund 4.07 avg rating — 1,600 ratings score: 69, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars