Communism category: 1567 books

First published in 1983, this book is concerned with the prospects for socialist politics in contemporary Britain, in particular with the limitations of political analysis produced both by Marxist socialism and the non-Marxist socialism of the Labour left. The author suggests ways in which socialist...

The outbreak of World War I precipitated a schism in the international socialist movement that endures today. Heeding calls for "rational defense," the leading European socialist democratic parties abandoned their vision of peace and internationalism as an integral part of the struggle for...

Reclaiming the legacy of the Paris Commune for the twenty-first century Kristin Ross’s highly acclaimed work on the thought and culture of the Communard uprising of 1871 resonates with the motivations and actions of contemporary protest, which has found its most powerful expression in the...

This book deals with substantive issues that have the potential to enhance our understanding regarding how Marxist theory can be quite useful in interpreting Black specificities and the race paradigm. So far, Marxist theory has been excluded because it is supposedly class and economy reductionist,...

In 1990 Germany launched an experiment to transplant democracy into a formerly communist country, effectively dismantling the system of the German Democratic Republic and rebuilding it in the likeness of the democratic Federal Republic of Germany. From East Germans to Germans? examines the role of...

First published in 1982, this book explores how Khrushchev and Brezhnev manipulated their policies and personal images as they attempted to consolidate their authority as leader. Central issues of Soviet domestic politics are examined: investment priorities, incentive policy, administrative reform,...

Located in the far-western Tarai region of Nepal, Kailali has been the site of dynamic social and political change in recent history. The Partial Revolution examines Kailali in the aftermath of Nepal’s Maoist insurgency, critically examining the ways in which revolutionary political mobilization...

Soundoff is a book about present day political corruption in Washington, D.C. and how Barach Obama, a socialist, is attempting to turn this country into a socialist nation. The people of this country, like the Jews during the holocaust, are being blinded by a charismatic Obama, as Germany was blinded...

The complete and full text of President Barack Obama’s January 28, 2014 State of the Union Address along with the Republican Response by Representative Cathy McMorris (R-Washington), the Libertarian Response by Executive Director Wes Benedict, and the Tea Party Response by Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah).

伊格頓舉出十項最常拿來反對馬克思主義的觀點，然後一一駁斥，擊破它們看似無堅不摧的立論。 當資本主義的正當性面臨一世紀以來的最大危機，當國家愈來愈被證明是為資產階級服務，當所謂中國模式的迷思正在不斷蔓延，當許多人把反美、反西方視為左翼的最高價值；我們真的應該面對馬克思始終未曾離去的幽靈。 ——張鐵志（政治與文化評論家） 他以過人的機智幽默，與文學家的妙喻用筆，針砭世人如何扭曲馬克思的思想， 如何將社會主義汙名化，同時，從抽絲剝繭的論述中，帶領讀者看見社會主義真正的理想與目標。 在現今西方這個日趨無階級、充滿社會流動可能、後工業時代的社會裡，馬克思主義顯然已經過時、無足輕重。 將馬克思主義付諸實踐時，總帶來暴政與大屠殺，它意味著饑荒、痛苦、強制勞動、殘缺不全的經濟與箝制一切的高壓國家。 馬克思主義是一種烏托邦式的夢想，信仰的是完美社會的可能性，卻對人性的邪惡視若無睹，天真到無以復加。 以上批判是事實，還是對社會主義的偏見與誤解？英國當代重要思想家伊格頓提醒：馬克思理論固然不是完美的，但批評它的論點有著更多缺陷。 【各界好評】 「伊格頓是位極具說服力的作家及說書人……這大概是唯一一本書同時提到傅立葉、傅柯，以及老虎伍茲、梅爾吉勃遜。」 ——...

One of the great tragedies of Africa is not only the fact that a million people – mostly civilians and a large proportion of them children – died in one of Africa’s first post-independence wars, but that until it happened the world thought Nigeria was immune from the wasting disease of tribalism....

Following the publication of Al Venter’s successful Portugal’s Guerrilla Wars in Africa - shortlisted by the New York Military Affairs Symposium’s 'Arthur Goodzeit Book Award for 2013' - his Battle for Angola delves still further into the troubled history of this former Portuguese African colony....

This book traces the development of EU-Russia relations in recent years. It argues that a major factor influencing the relationship is the changing internal dynamics of both parties, in Russia’s case an increasingly authoritarian state, in the case of the EU an increasing coherence in its foreign...

This volume, the first scholarly study of Labour and the left in the age of Michael Foot and Neil Kinnock, opens up a whole new area of historical inquiry, and demonstrates why the 1980s political inheritance has become timely once more.