{"title":"New from Going Against The Tide","description":"\u003cp\u003eNew reprints available from Going Against The Tide\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"with-a-few-exceptions-colonialism-is-over-capitalism-from-global-conquest-to-contemporary-class-rule","title":"With a Few Exceptions, Colonialism Is Over: Capitalism from Global Conquest to Contemporary Class Rule","description":"\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003eIn a narrative analysis of how capitalism came to be and how the logic of capital accumulation came to dominate the world, Kenny Lake’s \u003cem\u003eWith a Few Exceptions, Colonialism Is Over\u003c\/em\u003e challenges conventional wisdom within Marxism, postmodernism, and neodevelopmentalism. Marxist false optimism in capitalist crisis and the notion that capitalism became imperialist in the late 19th century are subjected to criticism. Postmodernists are excoriated for their failed attempts to analyze contemporary reality through the prism of capitalism’s past use of (settler-)colonialism. Neodevelopmentalists are ridiculed for their faith that capital accumulation in the hands of some power other than the US\u003cbr\u003ewill pave the way for liberation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003eLake’s critiques of Marxism, postmodernism, and neodevelopmentalism serve to point out the capitulationist logic behind erroneous analysis of capitalism’s motion and development. \u003cem\u003eWith a Few Exceptions, Colonialism Is Over\u003c\/em\u003e is about knowing our enemy so we can defeat them on the battlefield.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/goingagainstthetide.org\/2024\/10\/06\/israel-imperialisms-necessary-aberration-in-a-postcolonial-world\/\"\u003eIntroduction: Israel, imperialism’s necessary aberration in a postcolonial world\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/goingagainstthetide.org\/2024\/10\/06\/capitalism-in-global-conquest-1492-1945\/\"\u003ePart 1: Capitalism in global conquest (1492–1945)\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/goingagainstthetide.org\/2024\/12\/17\/capitalism-keeps-on-rockin-in-the-free-world-1945-1975\/\"\u003ePart 2: Capitalism keeps on rockin’ in the free world (1945–1975)\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/goingagainstthetide.org\/2025\/04\/07\/capitalism-in-triumph-and-trepidation-1975-present\/\"\u003ePart 3: Capitalism in triumph and trepidation (1975–present)\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kersplebedeb","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50718164287586,"sku":null,"price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0682\/5050\/1218\/files\/image-e1787763826124.png?v=1792438519"},{"product_id":"unraveling-empire-communist-analyses-of-the-political-situation-in-the-united-states-2020-2024","title":"Unraveling Empire: Communist Analyses of the Political Situation in the United States, 2020–2024","description":"\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003eThis volume brings together a series of editorials, from a communist perspective, analyzing the shifting political situation in the contemporary US from late 2020 to late 2024, and how different classes and political forces responded to and shaped that shifting situation. All but the last of these editorials was published in the journal \u003cem\u003ekites\u003c\/em\u003e, the predecessor to \u003cem\u003eGoing Against the Tide\u003c\/em\u003e. In putting these editorials into a single volume, we aim to give readers a comprehensive portrait of the shifting ground on which we must chart a path for communist revolution in the US, from the moves and machinations of the bourgeois class that rules society, to the agency and actions of all other classes in society, to the various political programs and mass movements that have arisen over the last decade or so. We also hope this volume gives some insight into the dialectical materialist methods of communist analysis we all must learn to employ, including by seeing how we have adjusted our analysis as we see the contradictions around us unfolding and learn where our previous paradigms were correct, incorrect, or in need of some modifications.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003eThe title of this volume, \u003cem\u003eUnraveling Empire\u003c\/em\u003e, is deliberately open to different meanings. It could suggest that US empire itself is unraveling. It could be a descriptor of the purpose of its analyses—to unravel the contradictions driving developments in the US empire. Or it could be prescriptive, with the editorials plotting a path for unraveling US empire. All three meanings are possible, but the last of the three is an imperative.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003ePreface\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/goingagainstthetide.org\/2024\/09\/16\/kick-em-while-theyre-down\/\"\u003eKick ’em while they’re down\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003ekites\u003c\/em\u003e editorial committee, December 2020\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/goingagainstthetide.org\/2024\/09\/16\/abolish-grifterism\/\"\u003eAbolish grifterism\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003ekites\u003c\/em\u003e editorial committee, October 2021\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/goingagainstthetide.org\/2024\/09\/16\/between-gilead-and-onlyfans-notes-on-the-oppression-of-women-in-21st-century-capitalism-imperialism\/\"\u003eBetween Gilead and OnlyFans: Notes on the oppression of women in 21\u003csup\u003est\u003c\/sup\u003e-century capitalism-imperialism\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003ekites\u003c\/em\u003e editorial committee, March 2022\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/goingagainstthetide.org\/2024\/09\/16\/the-psychosis-of-imperialism\/\"\u003eThe psychosis of imperialism\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003ekites\u003c\/em\u003e editorial committee, July 2022\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/goingagainstthetide.org\/2024\/09\/10\/the-crying-need-for-a-communist-vanguard-party-today\/#potential-diverted\"\u003eThe 2010s as a decade of revolutionary potential diverted\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOrganization of Communist Revolutionaries (US), January 2023\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/goingagainstthetide.org\/2024\/11\/13\/the-reactionary-repudiation-of-a-restorationist-program-and-the-ongoing-tantrums-of-two-reactionary-petty-bourgeoisies\/\"\u003eThe reactionary repudiation of a restorationist program and the ongoing tantrums of two reactionary petty-bourgeoisies\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eGoing Against the Tide\u003c\/em\u003e editorial, November 2024\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kersplebedeb","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50718164975714,"sku":null,"price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0682\/5050\/1218\/files\/ue_cover_web_v2_cdf9e279-7abe-4a00-af52-c276c123db76.webp?v=1792438769"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0682\/5050\/1218\/collections\/IMG_0905.jpg?v=1792439143","url":"https:\/\/smallaxebooks.com\/collections\/new-from-going-against-the-tide.oembed","provider":"Small Axe Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}