This book will have wide appeal to progressive students and scholars across disciplines, as it is a provocative and thoroughly researched study by a prize-winning scholar. We will promote the book in appropriate web and print media, as well as at academic and activist conferences and events.

Drawing on the prescient insights of Leon Trotsky, Michael Lêwy shows how modern economic development across continents can only be understood as a process of ferocious change, in which social formations fuse, come into tension and collide. The resulting ruptures make it possible for the oppressed and exploited to change the world. Author Michael Lêwy is the author of many books, including The Theory of Revolution in the Young Marx (Haymarket).