Communism category: 1567 books
The Capitalist Schema
Time, Money, and the Culture of Abstraction
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
Christian Lotz argues that Immanuel Kant’s idea of a mental schematism, which gives the human mind access to a stable reality, can be interpreted as a social concept, which, using Karl Marx, the author identifies as money. Money and its “fluid” form, capital, constitute sociality in capitalism...
Revolutionary Studies
Theory, History, People
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
With characteristic clarity and insight, historian and activist Paul Le Blanc offers a sweeping survey of the key contributions of Marxist theory, exploring its relevance to twentieth-century revolutionary movements and figures.
Paul Le Blanc Has written on and participated in the US labor, radical and civil rights movements, and is author of numerous books.
Conversations in Maine
A New Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2018
Meditations on activism following the turbulent 1960s—back in print
After the Detroit Rebellion of 1967, James and Grace Lee Boggs decided they should rethink what activism looks like. Pairing with trusted veteran activists Freddy and Lyman Paine, they ruminated on central questions emerging...
by Grace Lee Boggs
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2019
This book provides a concise and instructive review of the revolutions of the twentieth century, with separate chapters on the Russian, Chinese, Guinea-Bissau, and Vietnamese revolutions, in which the authors seek to extract the principle lessons from each of these struggles and the special course...
by Alan Woods
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
The declarations of Hugo Chavez in favour of socialism have provoked an important debate in Venezuela and internationally. However some have concluded that the 'old' ideas of Marxism are no longer valid and that it is necessary to invent a completely new and original theory of Socialism...
Human Dignity
Social Autonomy and the Critique of Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Against the background of growing uncertainty about the future development of capitalism, and in the face of war, terror and poverty, this book asks: What do we have to know to prevent misery? What can we do to achieve conditions of human dignity? And what must we hope for? The volume argues that...
The Labor of Job
The Biblical Text as a Parable of Human Labor
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2009
In The Labor of Job, the renowned Marxist political philosopher Antonio Negri develops an unorthodox interpretation of the Old Testament book of Job, a canonical text of Judeo-Christian thought. In the biblical narrative, the pious Job is made to suffer for no apparent reason. The story revolves around...
Karl Marx’s Ecosocialism
Capital, Nature, and the Unfinished Critique of Political Economy
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
Reveals the ideal of a sustainable ecosocialist world in Marx’s writings
Karl Marx, author of what is perhaps the world’s most resounding and significant critique of bourgeois political economy, has frequently been described as a “Promethean.” According to critics, Marx held an inherent...
Let Them Eat Junk
How Capitalism Creates Hunger and Obesity
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This is the first book to analyse the food industry from a Marxist perspective.Respected economist Robert Albritton argues that the capitalist system, far from delivering on the promise of cheap, nutritious food for all, has created a world where 25% of the world population are over-fed and 25% are hungry....
Advertising, Sex, and Post-Socialism
Women, Media, and Femininity in the Balkans
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
Advertising, Sex, and Post-Socialism explores the role of advertising and the consumption it promotes in changing cultural perceptions of sex and femininity across the Balkan region. Elza Ibroscheva theorizes how the marketing of gender identities that has taken place in the years of post-socialist...
Democratic Legislative Institutions: A Comparative View
A Comparative View
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
This text summarizes the research on, and experiences of, democratic legislatures around the world. It focuses on what legislatures are and what they do - as both consequence of and contributor to democratic self-government.
by Hal Draper
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1990
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1990
MICHAEL BAKUNIN
A Biographical Sketch
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
James Guillaume, Bakunin’s friend and comrade-in-arms, edited the last five volumes of the six-volume French edition of his collected works. Guillaume’s biographical sketch of Bakunin, originally appeared in his introduction to Volume II of that edition.
This is a primary source not only...
by Maurice Lansac, Ligaran
Language: French
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Extrait : "Si le terme de Sociologie est dû à Auguste Comte, l'étude des faits sociaux a été tout autant l'objet des travaux des membres de l'Ecole Sociétaire qu'elle a été celui des recherches des membres de l'Ecole positiviste. Depuis la révolution de 1848, toutes les publications sociétaires,...