Communism category: 1567 books
Closing the Circle
A Memoir of Cuba, Exile, the Bay of Pigs and a Trans-Island Bike Journey
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2017
Closing the Circle: A Memoir of Cuba, Exile, the Bay of Pigs and a Trans-Island Bike Journey is a family memoir in three parts intricately interwoven with historical events. The book is structured in 3 parts, somewhat akin to John McPhee's Coming Into the Country, where each part, though quite separate,...
The Socialist Party of America
A Complete History
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
At a time when the word “socialist” is but one of numerous political epithets that are generally divorced from the historical context of America’s political history, The Socialist Party of America presents a new, mature understanding of America’s most important minor political party of the...
by Antonio Gramsci
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2016
Among tactical debates within the party, Gramsci's group was mainly distinguished by its advocacy of workers' councils, which had come into existence in Turin spontaneously during the large strikes of 1919 and 1920. For Antonio Gramsci (Rus. Антонио Грамши; Chin. 安东尼奥·葛兰西; 안토니오...
by Perry Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
A major essay on the thought of the great Italian Marxist
Perry Anderson’s essay “The Antimonies of Antonio Gramsci,” first published in New Left Review in 1976, was an explosive analysis of the central strategic concepts in the thought of the great Italian Marxist. Since then it has...
Beyond the Left
The Communist Critique of the Media
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2012
The ideological distortions of the conservative media, from Fox News to the Daily Mail, are widely acknowledged and often denounced among contemporary critics and commentators. But what if The Guardian newspaper and BBC news, in fact, constitute the most insidious forms of capitalist propaganda? In...
Chinese Politics in the Xi Jinping Era
Reassessing Collective Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
Chinese politics are at a crossroads as President Xi Jinping amasses personal power and tests the constraints of collective leadership.
In the years since he became general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party in 2012, Xi Jinping has surprised many people in China and around the world with...
by William F. Buckley Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
William Frank Buckley Jr.’s third book, originally published in 1959, is an urbane and controversial attack on the manners and meaning of American Liberalism in the 1950s. His thesis is that the leading American liberals can be shown, in their speeches and statements, in the tacit premises that...
by Perry Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
The characteristic form taken by English Marxism since the war has been the study of history. No writer exemplifies its achievements better than Edward Thompson, whose Making of the English Working Class is probably the most influential single work of historical scholarship by a socialist today. An...
Extracting Profit
Imperialism, Neoliberalism and the New Scramble for Africa
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2018
Extracting profit explains why Africa, in the first decade and a half of the twenty-first century, has undergone an economic boom. This period of Africa rising” did not lead to the creation of jobs but has instead fueled the growth of the extraction of natural resources and an increasingly-wealthy African ruling class.
Old Gods, New Enigmas
Marx's Lost Theory
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
Is revolution possible in the age of the Anthropocene?
Marx has returned, but which Marx? Recent biographies have proclaimed him to be an emphatically nineteenth-century figure, but in this book, Mike Davis’s first directly about Marx and Marxism, a thinker comes to light who speaks to the...
Foibe rosse
Vita di Norma Cossetto uccisa in Istria nel '43
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 16, 2010
Norma Cossetto venne gettata ancora viva nella foiba di Villa Surani (in località Antignana) nella notte tra il 4 e il 5 ottobre del 1943. A quell’epoca, aveva ventitré anni ed era iscritta al quarto anno del corso di laurea in lettere e filosofia, presso l’Università degli studi di Padova....
by Matt Perry
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2002
Marxism and History examines Marxism's enormous impact on the way historians approach their subject. Tackling current historiographical questions in a lively, jargon-free way, Matt Perry offers a concise introduction to: Marxist views of history; key Marxist historians and thinkers; and the relevance of Marxist theory and history to students' own work.
The Politics of Becoming European
A study of Polish and Baltic Post-Cold War security imaginaries
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2009
This book weaves together perspectives drawn from critical international relations, anthropology and social theory in order to understand the Polish and Baltic post-Cold War politics of becoming European.
Approaching the study of Europe’s eastern enlargement through a post-colonial critique,...
Intellectuals and Apparatchiks
Russian Nationalism and the Gorbachev Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2006
This book traces the origins and activities of an alliance of conservative Communist Party authorities and Russian nationalists during the late Soviet era. Specifically, it examines how and to what extent hitherto orthodox Communists sought political allies in the Russian nationalist movement in order...