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Following on the heels of the Arab Spring, the disappointments of the Obama Administration, and economic turbulence on scale with the great depression, Occupy Wall Street (OWS) burst onto the scene last September, announcing itself with the now iconic image of a ballerina dancing upon the Wall Street bull. We were to see ourselves in this dancer. With confidence and poise, she tames the lunging bull beneath her, emasculating its raw virility with stillness and grace.

S.S. Prawer, Karl Marx and World Literature

John Marsh, Class Dismissed: Why We Cannot Teach or Learn Our Way Out of Inequality

Jaafar Aksikas, Arab Modernities: Islamism, Nationalism, and Liberalism in the Post-Colonial Arab World

Daniel Geary, Radical Ambition: C. Wright Mills, the Left, and American Social Thought

Malcolm Bull, Anti-Nietzsche

Samir Amin, Global History: A View from the South

Samir Amin offers a comprehensive view of his work, bringing together his earlier publications into an analysis that moves from the introduction of his conceptual framework, through a presentation of the shape of the tributary and capitalist world systems, to explanations of the current capitalist structure and the role of China and Russia in this history. Underlying these analyses lies a recognition of the specificity of each global system and the complexity of relations among them.

Michael Perelman, The Invisible Handcuffs of Capitalism: How Market Tyranny Stifles the Economy by Stunting Workers

Eric Hobsbawm, How to Change the World: Reflections on Marx and Marxist Theory

Eric Hobsbawm’s How to Change the World is a powerful text that arrives at a needful moment in history. In the wake of the 2008 financial collapse and with the Occupy movement challenging capitalist hegemony, it is indeed time, as Hobsbawm says in his conclusion, “to take Marx seriously.” Fortunately, this book provides a potent model of precisely the type of studious, conscientious and nimble engagement that we need.