This invaluable text, written by one of the world's most influential black scholars, re-imagines the communal ideal from a broader perspective that transcends modernity, industrialisation and capitalism. Following his death there has been a huge surge of interest in Cedric J Robinson and in this, his only book focusing on European radicalism.

Cedric Robinson was one of the most important and influential Black radical scholars of recent times, best known for the pathbreaking Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition. In this late major work, he turns his attention to European radical traditions and explores a genealogy of emancipatory thought and practice that predates Marxism and capitalism itself, and which continues to guide struggles for liberation today.

Accompanied by a foreword by H. L.T. Quan and a preface by Avery Gordon, this invaluable text reimagines the communal ideal from a broader perspective that transcends modernity, industrialisation and capitalism.