Communism category: 1567 books

The importance of Antonio Gramsci’s work for postcolonial studies can hardly be exaggerated, and in this volume, contributors situate Gramsci's work in the vast and complex oeuvre of postcolonial studies. Specifically, this book endeavors to reassess the impact on postcolonial studies of the central...

Seven stories with the usual "punch" of the writer: The Strength of the Strong; South of the Slot; The Unparalleled Invasion; The Enemy of All the World; The Dream of Debs; The Sea Farmer; Samuel. The last two are stories of Island McGill off the northeast coast of Ireland "where fathers...

Extrait : "Nous sommes heureux de pouvoir déclarer que ce principe a été unanimement acclamé par le Congrès de Genève. La Suisse même, qui, d'ailleurs, le pratique aujourd'hui avec tant de bonheur, y a adhéré sans restriction aucune et l'a accepté dans toute la largeur de ses conséquences....

La force des forts de Jack London est une nouvelle qui à travers le récit de Barbe-en-long retrace l'histoire de la naissance d'une tribu, de son apogée jusqu'a sa chute. Valant tous les textes les plus lénifiants qui ont pu être écrits en eco-po, cette parabole explique les mécanismes...

A new edition of this classic study of the origins of anti-Semitism Bringing together the findings of psychoanalysis and social science, this book grew out of an urgent commitment to study the origins of anti-Semitism in the aftermath of Hitler's Germany. First published in 1951, it was greeted...

Marx’s 'Das Kapital' cannot be put into a box marked "economics." It is a work of politics, history, economics, philosophy and even in places, literature (yes Marx’s style is that rich and evocative). *Marx’s 'Das Kapital' For Beginners *is an introduction to the Marxist critique...

The republication of Suzanne de Brunhoff’s classic investigation into Karl Marx’s conception of “the money commodity” shines light on commodities and their fetishism. The investigation of money as the crystallization of value in its material sense is central to how we understand capitalism...

The Red Line is the story of a train journey from London to Hong Kong. It is set in 1981, the year Christopher made the first of twenty-four such journeys as a tour guide, when the Cold War was still very much a fact of life. Although China appeared to be on the brink of significant change, no one...

The people of the Congo have suffered from a particularly brutal colonial rule, American interference after independence, decades of robbery at the hands of the dictator Mobutu and periodic warfare which continues even now in the East of the country. But, as this insightful political history makes...

The world’s eyes are on Greece. Elected in January 2015 under the leadership of Alexis Tsipras, the radical Syriza party sought to challenge the European economic status-quo and secure a better future for the Greek people. The fierce confrontation with Greece’s creditors which followed reverberated...

Nesta obra, Karl Marx analisa um período longo e extremamente movimentado da história francesa, apresentando algumas experiências conceitualmente importantes da Revolução de 1848-1849 e seus resultados. Ao aprofundar o desenvolvimento da teoria do Estado e da teoria da revolução, o filósofo...

In 1879, Bebel published Die Frau und der Sozialismus [Women under Socialism]. The book's publication defied Bismarck's Anti-Socialist Law, which had been passed the previous year. It was officially banned in a decree issued on March 24, 1879. Circulated through the SPD's underground network of agents,...

First published in 1975, this book investigates the various pre-capitalist modes of production briefly indicated in the works of Marx and Engels, and gives an examination of the conditions of the transition from one mode of production to another. The fundamental concepts used in these investigations,...

From one of the most prominent voices on the American Left, a galvanizing argument for why we need socialism in the United States today With the stunning popularity of Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Americans are embracing the class politics of socialism. But what, exactly, is...