Communism category: 1567 books

The postwar era as seen by a master of counterespionage—with an insight into his professional downfall.   Guy Liddell was the director of MI5’s counterespionage B Division throughout the Second World War, during which he wrote a confidential personal diary, detailing virtually every important...

This book is on the political socialization of women in Nepal, which is a prerequisite for understanding the actual role, status, and participation of women in politics. The objective of the study is to know how Nepali women are socialized politically within different micro and macro spheres, i.e., family, religion, law, educational institution, media, and political party.

A satirical take on the ultimate agenda of the upper class – ostensibly authored by a proud billionaire – that shines a light into the corner where otherwise good people hide their surprisingly avaricious rationales. This “little gold book” urges the upper 1% to proudly reclaim their rightful...

A collection of speeches, pamphlets and writings from Eugene V Debs, from 1888 to 1925. Beginning his career as an organizer for the American Railway Union, Debs ran for President on the Socialist Party ticket 5 times.

Now that nearly twenty years have passed since the collapse of the Soviet bloc there is a need to understand what has taken place since that historic date and where we are at the moment. Bringing together authors with different historical, cultural, regional and theoretical backgrounds, this volume...

The Paris Commune (French: La Commune de Paris, IPA: [la kɔmyn də paʁi]) was a government that briefly ruled Paris from March 18 (more formally, from March 28) to May 28, 1871. It existed before the split between anarchists and Marxists had taken place, and it is hailed by both groups as the first...

What has philosophy to do with the poor? If, as has often been supposed, the poor have no time for philosophy, then why have philosophers always made time for them? Why is the history of philosophy—from Plato to Karl Marx to Jean-Paul Sartre to Pierre Bourdieu—the history of so many figures of...

In How to Be a Marxist in Philosophy one of the most famous Marxist philosophers of the 20th century shares his concept of what it means to function fruitfully as a political thinker within the discipline and environs of philosophy. This is the first English translation to Althusser's provocative...

First published in 1960, this is the only authorized account of the trial of Francis Gary Powers, the U-2 pilot shot down by the Soviet Union on May 1, 1960. The court proceedings were held before the Military Division of the Supreme Court of the U.S.S.R. in Moscow, Russia and commenced on August...

Das Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei, auch Das Kommunistische Manifest genannt, wurde von Karl Marx und Friedrich Engels um die Jahreswende 1847/48 im Auftrag des Bundes der Kommunisten verfasst. Es ist am 21. Februar 1848 in London erschienen, kurz vor der Februarrevolution in Frankreich und vor...

Dieses eBook: "Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen. Das Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei, auch Das Kommunistische Manifest genannt, wurde von Karl Marx und Friedrich Engels...

Noch immer scheiden sich bei Karl Marx die Geister: Für manche stellen der Kommunismus beziehungsweise der Marxismus eine überholte Gesellschaftstheorie dar, für andere sind sie weiterhin die theoretische Basis für eine erstrebenswerte Gesellschaftsordnung. Wer hier auf mehr als Stammtischniveau...

Die Linke war und ist stolz darauf, internationalistisch zu sein. Ihr Leitspruch war immer "Proletarier aller Ländern, vereinigt Euch!? Und doch stritten Linke auch darum, ob und wie nationale Befreiungskämpfe zu unterstützen seien, ob die Einheit der Nation auch ihr Anliegen sein dürfe....

Diese Artikel, zusammengefasst in einem Buch, erschienen 1854 in der New York Daily Tribune und berichten über den Bürgerkrieg in Spanien Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts.