Co-signed. There are definitely some limits as to what Verso will publish (note that they’ve printed plenty of Losurdo, but drew the line at Stalin: A History and Critique of a Black Legend) but by and large they have the best library of contemporary theory that’s readily available in English. They also publish books that disagree with their other books. For example, they have several books advocating for degrowth, and they also have Matt Huber’s Climate Change as Class War, which argues against it.
Chibber’s podcast here, Confronting Capitalism, shares a title with a Jacobin-branded book that Verso published, but that book (as I recall) aims a hell of a lot more toward guiding people leftward (by explaining basic concepts like the reserve army of labor, and that kind of thing) than it does at stopping them in their tracks. I gave my copy to a lib I was trying to radicalize and while my work is very much not done it made the task a bit easier.
Co-signed. There are definitely some limits as to what Verso will publish (note that they’ve printed plenty of Losurdo, but drew the line at Stalin: A History and Critique of a Black Legend) but by and large they have the best library of contemporary theory that’s readily available in English. They also publish books that disagree with their other books. For example, they have several books advocating for degrowth, and they also have Matt Huber’s Climate Change as Class War, which argues against it.
Chibber’s podcast here, Confronting Capitalism, shares a title with a Jacobin-branded book that Verso published, but that book (as I recall) aims a hell of a lot more toward guiding people leftward (by explaining basic concepts like the reserve army of labor, and that kind of thing) than it does at stopping them in their tracks. I gave my copy to a lib I was trying to radicalize and while my work is very much not done it made the task a bit easier.