Series Directors
Immanuel Ness, Jennifer Ponce de León, Gabriel Rockhill
Publishers
Iskra Books
Critical Theory Workshop
Description
This series provides a platform for scholarly research and popular-form essays from around the world that challenge the widespread assumption, including within the Western left, that there is no real-world alternative to capitalism. Refusing to shy away from serious scholarly engagements with actually existing socialism, it opens up the spectrum of analysis to explore histories and contemporary developments that have either been ignored or misrepresented. In order to do so, it promotes innovative, non-Eurocentric research that overcomes the siloing effects of the disciplines and the ideological horizons of imperial knowledge production in favor of resolutely internationalist scholarship that deploys an anti-imperialist framework of analysis. The overall objective is thus to foster non-dogmatic theoretical work that has real use-value, precisely because of its relevance to concrete struggles for a more egalitarian and sustainable world.
AIM has a sister series, Studies in AIM, which is published by Brill, Iskra Books, and the Critical Theory Workshop. Whereas books in the AIM series are published by Iskra and immediately appear in paperback with a free ebook version, those in Studies in AIM first appear in hardback with Brill, and then later in an affordable paperback via Iskra.
Published
– Torkil Lauesen, Unequal Exchange: Past, Present, and Future
– Jacques Pauwels, How Paris Made the Revolution and the Revolution Made Paris, 2025.
– Torkil Lauesen, The Long Transition Toward Socialism and the End of Capitalism, 2024.
Forthcoming
– Ali Kadri, The Accumulation of Waste: A Political Economy of Systemic Destruction.
– Domenico Losurdo, Communist Question.
– Domenico Losurdo, The Absent Left.
– Raúl Antonio Capote, Enemy.
International Advisory Board
Amiya Kumar Bagchi†
Radhika Desai
Cheng Enfu
John Bellamy Foster
Georges Gastaud
Ali Kadri
Annie Lacroix-Riz
Maxwell Lane
Torkil Lauesen
Linda Matar
Jacques Pauwels
Raúl Delgado Wise
Helmut-Harry Loewen
Editorial Review Board
Daniel Benson
Jared Bly
Larry Busk
Daniel Cunningham
Salvatore Engel-Dimauro
Bruno Guigue
Timothy Kerswell
Carlos Martinez
Aymeric Monville
Corinna Mullin
Nima Nakhaei
Eli Portella Perreras
Yin Xing
Liu Zixu
Submissions
We welcome submissions that contribute to the aims outlined above. Please send a preliminary email to all three of the series editors outlining your project and briefly situating it in relationship to extant scholarship (their emails can be found via the hyperlinks above).
