Communism category: 1567 books
The Psychopath Factory
How Capitalism Organizes Empathy
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
The Psychopath Factory: How Capitalism Organizes Empathy examines how the requirements, stimuli, affects and environments of work condition our empathy. In some cases, work calls for no empathy – characters who don’t blink or flinch in the face of danger nor crack under pressure. In other cases,...
by Nicolas Walter, Natasha Walter
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2015
A concise introduction to the theories and practice of anarchism by the late Nicolas Walter, lifelong libertarian socialist and editor of the New Humanist for 10 years. Introduced by Nicolas’s daughter, Natasha, ‘About Anarchism’ neatly summarises what anarchists believe, how they differ, what...
May 68' - A Compendium
Situationist reflections on the uprisings in France, May 1968
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2018
As the 50th anniversary of the events of May 68’ passes, it leaves a familiar, image heavy trail in it’s wake - young street fighting Parisians, earnest but chic looking Sorbonne occupiers, the iconic graffiti /posters : imagery all long since passed into the mythology of pop culture, endlessly...
The Prophet
The Life of Leon Trotsky
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
Few political figures of the twentieth century have aroused such intensities of fierce admiration and reactionary fear as Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky. His extraordinary life and extensive writings have left an indelible mark on the revolutionary consciousness. Yet there was once a danger that...
Hegemony And Socialist Strategy
Towards A Radical Democratic Politics
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
In this hugely influential book, Laclau and Mouffe examine the workings of hegemony and contemporary social struggles, and their significance for democratic theory. With the emergence of new social and political identities, and the frequent attacks on Left theory for its essentialist underpinnings,...
Adventures of a Cold War Fast-Jet Navigator
The Buccaneer Years
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
David Herriot served almost 40 years in the Royal Air Force as a navigator, first on the Buccaneer S2 and subsequently on the Tornado GR1. This volume recounts his early career operating the Buccaneer on three operational flying tours plus a tour as an instructor on the Operational Conversion Unit....
Transforming Classes
Socialist Register 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2014
For more than half a century, the Socialist Register has brought together some of the sharpest thinkers from around the globe to address the pressing issues of our time. Founded by Ralph Miliband and John Saville in London in 1964, SR continues their commitment to independent and thought-provoking...
Another Marx
Early Manuscripts to the International
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
Following the break-up of the Soviet Union, Marx was regarded as a thinker doomed to oblivion about whom everything had already been said and written. However, the international economic crisis of 2008 favoured a return to his analysis of capitalism, and recently published volumes of the Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe...
by Joseph H. Daves
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
From the Indonesian Republic’s onset, there has been some form of military participation in political life – the more significant and interesting aspect of the Indonesian Army’s distinctive history. Volume 2 in this three-volume set covers the assassination of army leaders on October 1, 1965,...
Khrushchev in the Kremlin
Policy and Government in the Soviet Union, 1953–64
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
This book presents a new picture of the politics, economics and process of government in the Soviet Union under the leadership of Nikita Khrushchev. Based in large part on original research in recently declassified archive collections, the book examines the full complexity of government, including...
by Peter Flora
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
This volume seeks to contribute to an interdisci-plinary, comparative, and historical study of Western welfare states. It attempts to link their historical dynamics and contemporary problems in an international perspective.
Building on collaboration between European-and American-based research...
by G. A. Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2009
Is socialism desirable? Is it even possible? In this concise book, one of the world's leading political philosophers presents with clarity and wit a compelling moral case for socialism and argues that the obstacles in its way are exaggerated.
There are times, G. A. Cohen notes, when we all...
Socialism and Social Science (Routledge Revivals)
Selected Writings of Ervin Szabó (1877-1918)
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
The essays and letters of Ervin Szabó (1877-1918) present proof of his critical insight into Marxist theory and of his perceptive analysis of socialism around the turn of the century. His ideals of an engaged social science and an enlightened socialism, his preoccupation with the socialist future,...
Democracy, Plan, and Market
Yakov Kronrod's Political Economy of Socialism
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
This is the first book in English to present a succinct overview of the influential work of the Russian economist Yakov Abramovich Kronrod (1912–1984) on the political economy of socialism. Kronrod headed the theoretical section of the Institute of Economics of the Academy of the USSR in the 1970s...