Communism category: 1567 books
by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2015
"All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned … Working men of all countries, Unite!"This book truly changed the world, inspiring millions to revolution.Over 150 years after its publication, Marx and Engels' Communist Manifesto continues to inspire and provoke students, activists...
by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2006
The perfect books for the true book lover, Penguin's Great Ideas series features twelve more groundbreaking works by some of history's most prodigious thinkers. Each volume is beautifully packaged with a unique type-driven design that highlights the bookmaker's art. Offering great literature in great...
by Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
Originally published in 1848 as a political pamphlet, The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels would become one of the most influential works of the era. Written as a summary of the authors’ political thought, the Manifesto is also a reflection of the unrest and the revolutions...
by Karl Marx
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2019
All of Marx's essential political writing in one volume
Karl Marx was not only the great theorist of capitalism, he was also a superb journalist, politician and historian. For the first time ever, this book brings together all of his essential political and historical writings in one volume....
Marx and Freud in Latin America
Politics, Psychoanalysis, and Religion in Times of Terror
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
This book assesses the untimely relevance of Marx and Freud for Latin America, thinkers alien to the region who became an inspiration to its beleaguered activists, intellectuals, writers and artists during times of political and cultural oppression.
Bruno Bosteels presents ten case studies...
Were You Born on the Wrong Continent?
How the European Model Can Help You Get a Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
Try to imagine your life in a full-blown European social democracy, especially the German version. Free public goods, a bit of worker control, and whopping trade surpluses? Social democracy doesn’t sound too bad. Were You Born on the Wrong Continent? reveals where you might have been happier—or...
Children of Monsters
An Inquiry into the Sons and Daughters of Dictators
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
What’s it like to be the son or daughter of a dictator? A monster on the Stalin level? What’s it like to bear a name synonymous with oppression, terror, and evil?Jay Nordlinger set out to answer that question, and does so in this book. He surveys 20 dictators in all. They are the worst of the worst:...
Dropping out of Socialism
The Creation of Alternative Spheres in the Soviet Bloc
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
The essays in this collection make up the first study of “dropping out” of late state socialism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. From Leningrad intellectuals and Berlin squatters to Bosnian Muslim madrassa students and Romanian yogis, groups and individuals across the Eastern Bloc rejected...
La idea de comunismo
The New York Conference (2011)
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 4, 2014
En 2011 fuimos testigos (y partícipes) de una serie de acontecimientos emancipadores que sorprendieron a todo el mundo, incluidos sus agentes: desde las primaveras árabes hasta los movimientos 15M (en España) y Occupy Wall Street (en EEUU), desde la revuelta griega hasta los disturbios en el Reino...
by Deborah Chasman, Joshua Cohen, Elizabeth Catte
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2019
An examination of the emerging rural left, from environmentalists blocking pipeline construction to teachers on strike.
In Left Elsewhere, volume editor and lead essayist Elizabeth Catte turns a skeptical eye toward “purple” politicians, such as West Virginia Democrat Richard Ojeda, who...
Aesthetics and Marxism
Chinese Aesthetic Marxists and Their Western Contemporaries
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2000
Although Chinese Marxism—primarily represented by Maoism—is generally seen by Western intellectuals as monolithic, Liu Kang argues that its practices and projects are as diverse as those in Western Marxism, particularly in the area of aesthetics. In this comparative study of European and Chinese...
by Bolívar Echeverría
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 28, 2014
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 28, 2014
Con su penetrante inteligencia, Bolívar Echeverría se ha propuesto descifrar el sentido enigmático que presentan los datos más relevantes de esta vuelta de siglo. Aquí se tratan desde asuntos de orden general hasta otros que se enfocaron en la realidad latinoamericana y su múltiple identidad...
La mirada del ángel
En torno a las Tesis sobre la historia de Walter Benjamin
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 28, 2014
Los trabajos que integran este volumen provienen en su mayoría de un coloquio que intentó acercarse inquisitivamente a la presencia enigmática e inquietante en las Tesis de Benjamín de una teoría de la historia muy especial, que entraña una abierta provocación a lo que a partir del siglo XIX...
by Ian Bullock
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Over two decades have passed since the collapse of the USSR, yet the words "Soviet Union" still carry significant weight in the collective memory of millions. But how often do we consider the true meaning of the term "Soviet"? Drawing extensively on left-wing press archives, Romancing...