Communism category: 1567 books
Populist Authoritarianism
Chinese Political Culture and Regime Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2016
Populist Authoritarianism focuses on the Chinese Communist Party, which governs the world's largest population in a single-party authoritarian state. Wenfang Tang attempts to explain the seemingly contradictory trends of the increasing number of protests on the one hand, and the results of public...
Zhu Rongji on the Record
The Road to Reform: 1998-2003
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2015
China's explosive transformation from a planned economy to a more market-oriented one over the past three decades owes much to the charismatic reformer Zhu Rongji. As China's premier from 1998 to 2003, Zhu displayed a pragmatism and strong work ethic that have been key forces in China's drive to greater...
by Raymond Williams
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
Anniversary edition of the classic political manifesto
Urgently relevant to current arguments about the crisis of austerity, the 1968 manifesto set out a new agenda for socialist Britain, after the failure of the postwar consensus. It sought to change the nature of the state, to drive a wedge...
Uncertain Futures
An Assessment Of The Conditions Of The Present
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
Uncertain Futures: An Assessment of the Conditions of the Present provides a detailed look into the economic and political conditions of our present moment from a Marxist perspective. Key aspects of Marxist economic theory are illustrated in clear ways in order to provide an easy introduction to Marxist...
Democratic Statecraft
Political Realism and Popular Power
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
The theory of statecraft explores practical politics through the strategies and manoeuvres of privileged agents, whereas the theory of democracy dwells among abstract and lofty ideals. Can these two ways of thinking somehow be reconciled and combined? Or is statecraft destined to remain the preserve...
What Does the Ruling Class Do When it Rules?
State Apparatuses and State Power under Feudalism, Capitalism and Socialism
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
The intricate practices of the elite and how they maintain their dominance.
In his new book, Göran Therborn – author of the now standard comparative work on classical sociology and historical materialism, Science, Class and Society – looks at successive state structures in an arrestingly fresh...
Creating an Ecological Society
Toward a Revolutionary Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2017
Sickened by the contamination of their water, their air, of the Earth itself, more and more people are coming to realize that it is capitalism that is, quite literally, killing them. It is now clearer than ever that capitalism is also degrading the Earth’s ability to support other forms of life....
Prisoners of the American Dream
Politics and Economy in the History of the US Working Class
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2018
A brilliant and comprehensive study of class struggle in the United States
Prisoners of the American Dream is Mike Davis’s brilliant exegesis of a persistent and major analytical problem for Marxist historians and political economists: Why has the world’s most industrially advanced nation...
by Herbert Marcuse
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
In this book Herbert Marcuse makes clear that capitalism is now reorganizing itself to meet the threat of a revolution that, if realized, would be the most radical of revolutions: the first truly world-historical revolution. Capitalism's counterrevolution, however, is largely preventive, and in the...
by Joseph Gabel
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
This remarkable work situates the great Karl Mannheim not only in the Austro-Hungarian empire, but in Hungary and especially in the intellectual fever pitch of pre-war Budapest, with its plethora of revisionist Marxists, anarchists, and intellectuals from a variety of areas who brought radical ideas...
The Capital (Vol. 1-3)
Including The Communist Manifesto, Wage-Labour and Capital, & Wages, Price and Profit
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
Capital by Karl Marx is a foundational theoretical text in materialist philosophy, economics and politics. Marx aimed to reveal the economic patterns underpinning the capitalist mode of production, in contrast to classical political economists such as Adam Smith, Jean-Baptiste Say, David Ricardo and...
Alternatives to Capitalism
Proposals for a Democratic Economy
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
What would a viable free and democratic society look like? Poverty, exploitation, instability, hierarchy, subordination, environmental exhaustion, radical inequalities of wealth and power—it is not difficult to list capitalism’s myriad injustices. But is there a preferable and workable alternative?
Alternatives...
by David Harvey
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
“My aim is to get you to read a book by Karl Marx called Capital, Volume 1, and to read it on Marx’s own terms…”
The biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression has generated a surge of interest in Marx’s work in the effort to understand the origins of our current predicament....
The Death of Socialism
the irrelevance of the traditional left and the call for a progressive politics of universal humanity
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2009
Socialism and the mindset of the traditional left have outlived their purpose. A new political philosophy is neweded in the cause of creating a fair and egalitarian society for the peoples of our planet. This is a startling yet profound book which strikes at the foundations of established politics...