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Review of Harris’s Critical Theory and the Critique of Alternative Societies: Co-operatives, Mutual Aid and Universal Basic Income | Domonkos Sik

Monday 1 June 2026

[fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEW[/blanc][/fond noir]

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Critical Theory and the Critique of Alternative Societies: Co-operatives, Mutual Aid and Universal Basic Income

by Neal Harris

Manchester University Press
2026. 184 pp.,
ISBN 9781526172228

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Reviewed by Domonkos Sik

Neal Harris is taking on a daunting quest: critiquing those emancipatory movements that, by their own definition and according to the mainstream view of Marxist and critical sociology, are supposed to widen the