The struggles over what kind of place we inhabit and what kind of people we want to be is a form of general political and social struggle that is central to what socialist consciousness must embrace. It is oppositional to the alienated and exclusionary nationalism that frequently attaches to the toxic form of developmentalism that too often corrupts anticapitalist politics.

The ‘Wages of Dreamwork’ is an ambitious and timely contribution to debates on labour, culture and social reproduction under contemporary capitalism. Drawing from autonomist Marxism, feminist theory, critical management studies and the history of avant-garde artistic practice, Stevphen Shukaitis and Joanna Figiel examine how creativity, desire and the search for meaningful activity have become increasingly central to capitalist accumulation.

Mike Taber has edited for the first time the resolutions adopted between 1889 and 1912 by the nine congresses celebrated by the Socialist International, which is also known as the Second International.

Healy’s exquisite book applies several recent frameworks of alienation to two groups of workers–IT workers and academics.

A caricatured account of Althusser’s intellectual trajectory might read something like this…