Selected Writings Of Michael Kidron

Michael Kidron (1930-2003) was a founding member of the International Socialism group, which later became the Socialist Workers Party. His sophistication and originality as a thinker were evident both in his own writings — including Western Capitalism Since the War, Capitalism and Theory, and the acclaimed The State of the World Atlas — and in his editorship of Socialist Review, International Socialism, and at Pluto Press.

"Of course the revival of a ‘new’ Marxism has been ongoing almost from the start. Michael Kidron was one of the finest practitioners of such thinking, and his wide-ranging writing is now collected together in a new volume Capitalism and Theory."—Philosophy Football"Running through Kidron’s work was his belief that socialism was based on working class people liberating themselves and running society; and that socialists had to look for the points where struggle could be stoked and encouraged."—Socialist Review"It is timely, given the present-day marginalisation of the far left in the UK, that Haymarket Books has published some of Mike Kidron’s more illuminating essays and contributions to debates dating from a period when the far left was represented by the stark choices of Stalinism, left reformism or ‘orthodox’ Trotskyism." ."—rs21