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Ecosocialist Bookshelf, October 2022
Seven new books for reds and greens
Capital vs Commons
Marx and Engels and Russia’s Peasant Communes
Would Marx support corporate land grabs?
Social murder
Free Market Genocides: The Real History of Trade
From Ireland to India, free trade brought plunder, famine and death
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Five of sixteen identified tipping points are already in the danger zone
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The meaning of ‘So-called Primitive Accumulation’
A key concept in Karl Marx's Capital is widely misunderstood