Category: Books

In late January 2026, Tony Andréani, Emeritus Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Paris 8, France, published the book “Ten Essays for a 21st Century Socialism” as part of Routledge’s book series Critiques and Alternatives to Capitalism. In the book, Andréani engages in a critical discussion of both historical attempts…

In a new literary essay, sociologist Tilman Reitz from the University of Jena reviews a collection of four books connected to democratic economic planning, real utopias, socialization and ecological economics (Creative Construction, Öffentlicher Luxus, Anarchistische Gesellschaftsentwürfe, and Anarchistische Ökologien) and their utility in constructing alternatives to capitalism. The review in German language can be read…

Marko Grdešić and Mislav Žitko, Associate Professor and Assistant Professor respectively at the University of Zagreb, Croatia, published in October 2025 the book Socialist Economics in Yugoslavia: A Critical History as part of the book series Routledge Studies in the History of Economics. In this book, Grdešić and Žitko critically examine the history of workers’…

Richard Westra, a Professor at the University of Opole, published in August 2025 the book “Political Economy of Eco-sustainable Alternatives Progressive and Equitable Futures” as part of the book series “Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy“. In the book, Westra critically evaluates eco-socialist literature in order to outline the foundations of a feasible form of eco-socialist…

Academics Rhiannon Firth of the University College London and John Preston of the University of Essex have published a new book Utopia in the Factory: Prefigurative Knowledge Against Cybernetics that critiques the theories and visions of techno-optimistic socialists that are based on cybernetics, automation, artificial intelligence and Industry 4.0 for being unable to include human…

Drawing on their work building public-common partnerships through the action research organisation Abundance Kai Heron, Keir Milburn, and Bertie Russell have written the exciting new book Radical Abundance: How to Win a Green Democratic Future.

Marxist sociologists Dario Azzellini and Marcelo Vieta have just published a book Commoning Labour and Democracy at Work: When Workers Take Over with Routledge. After examining theories of workers’ self-management, the rest of the book analyses a contemporary example of this phenomenon in the form of worker-recuperated enterprises in Latin America, Europe and the rest…

Mathilde Viennot, an economist working at the Haut-Commissariat à la stratégie et au plan and co-founder of a think tank called the Institut Avant-Garde, just published a book entitled La planificaton écologique (Ecological planning). The book is published in the famous collection Repères of the La Découverte composed of short and accessible introductory books on…

Anitra Nelson, activist-scholar affiliated with the Informal Urbanism Research Hub (InfUr-) at University of Melbourne, Australia, recently edited the Routledge Handbook of Degrowth. This collective work comprises 35 chapters, covering both theoretical issues and case studies. Even if the question of planning is not the central issue of this handbook, it is mentioned in several…

Marxist theorist Tony Smith just published the book A Socialism for the Twenty-First Century Towards the ‘Full and Free Development of Every Individual’, at Brill. After outlining a Marxist critique of capitalism, the rest of the book outlines a proposal for a 21st century republican socialism, with it extensively discussing its political institutions as well…