Books & ideas

Ecologists, Let's Get to Work!

Bertrand Vaillant — 2025-09-30T12:39:59Z

How can we reconcile the working classes with ecology? By reminding ecologists of the need to address together production and consumption. Doing so would lead to the constitution of “biocommunism,” the fundamental concepts of which are outlined by Paul Guillibert.

Capitalism and injustice

Fabien Tarrit — 2025-05-27T07:56:01Z

It is hard to do without the concept of exploitation when describing the many forms of injustice created by capitalism. Marx remains very much our contemporary.

Gramsci in the Face of the Great and Terrible World

Yohann Douet — 2025-05-13T06:00:00Z

The life and work of Antonio Gramsci are inseparable. To grasp the coherence and theoretical depth of the Prison Notebooks, one must read them in the context in which they were written.

William Thompson, a Pioneer of European Socialism

Caroline Gomes — 2019-12-05T08:00:00Z

An Irish landowner, economist, philosopher and defender of women's rights, William Thompson was one of the greatest Socialist figures before Marx. Nowadays neglected, his thought nevertheless has many echoes with important contemporary debates, from the critique of capitalism to the rise of feminism.

Is There an End to Productivism?

Jean Bérard — 2019-07-11T07:00:00Z

The most influential doctrines (Liberal, Socialist, Marxist) that have competed since the 19^th century to define the future of industrial society are all designed to support a productivist society. This hegemony has marginalised the ecological alternatives. Is their dominance coming to an end?

Man the Consumer

Anne de Rugy — 2018-12-20T10:52:52Z

Using a variety of documents and sources, Louis Pinto traces the genesis of the category of “the consumer” as a central feature of market economy and society. But in doing so, he risks downplaying the insights of critical theory and the opportunities for politicization tied to this distinct form of social participation.

From Marx to Marxism: Histories of an Idea

Ophélie Siméon — 2018-05-07T07:00:00Z

Two hundred years after Karl Marx's birth, Gregory Claeys takes a new look at the thinker's intellectual formation, wide-ranging posterity and continued relevance in the 21^st century.

A Digital Age Without Proletarians

Sébastien Broca — 2017-12-18T08:00:00Z

Has the digital economy definitively made the main tools of Marxist analysis obsolete? This is Mariano Zukerfeld's argument, in a lively essay that suggests rethinking the critique of capitalism around the question of knowledge rather than labour. However, his demonstration lacks a convincing theory of value.

The Old Spirit of Capitalism

Stéphane Haber — 2016-06-20T07:00:00Z

In three essays previously unpublished in French, Max Scheler describes the ethical revolution brought about by the capitalist mentality. Since the 19^th century, consciousness has been shaped by the very idea of work, as embodied by the modern entrepreneur.

E. P. Thompson: A Life of Struggle

François Jarrige — 2016-03-14T08:00:00Z

A great historian of the English working class, a major intellectual figure in debates surrounding Marxism in the years 1960-1970, and an anti-nuclear activist who initiated an environmentalist critique of capitalism—such were the many faces of Edward Palmer Thompson, whose work deeply permeates the different social sciences to this day.