Communism category: 1567 books
Homeland Security, its Law and its State
A Design of Power for the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
This book assesses the impact of post-9/11 domestic counterterrorism policy on US political life. It examines political discourse, law, institutional architecture, and state-population relations, and shows that ‘homeland security’ is a project with wide-ranging implications for democratic institutions...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2018
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What are the implications of ideology in the endurance of competitive authoritarian regimes? This study aims to study this connection through a comparison of two recent studies in Latin America,...
by John Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2018
This book presents the histories of the revolutions in Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela as the latest demonstrations of the price the popular masses pay for the absence of a correct revolutionary strategy. The goal of the leaders of the revolutionary movements in all three countries was to create a...
by John Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2018
This book answers the questions: - What was the class composition and class nature of the Chinese Communist Party when it took power in 1949? - What forces pushed the Mao regime, despite its explicitly class-collaborationist strategy, to take measures which were objectively socialist and to establish...
by Bryan S. Turner
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
First published in 1978, this title analyses a range of problems that arise in the study of North Africa and the Middle East, bridging the gap between studies of Sociology, Islam, and Marxism. Both Sociology and the study of Islam draw on an Orientalist tradition founded on an idealist epistemology,...
The Age of Monopoly Capital
Selected Correspondence of Paul M. Sweezy and Paul A. Baran, 1949-1964
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2017
The rich correspondence that preceded the publication of Monopoly Capital
Paul A. Baran and Paul M. Sweezy were two of the leading Marxist economists of the twentieth century. Their seminal work, Monopoly Capital: An Essay on the American Economic and Social Order, published in 1966, two years...
Socialism, Sarvodaya and Democracy
The theoretical Contributions of M.N. Roy, J.P. Narayan and J.B. Kripalani
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2013
This book attempts to explicate the theoretical writings of M.N. Roy, Jayaprakash Narayan and J.B. Kripalani to examine their views on Socialism, Sarvodaya and Democracy. Outlining the parameters of Sarvodaya, it takes a critical assessment of M.N. Roy's views on democratic socialism, his critique...
The French and Italian Communist Parties
Comrades and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Beginning with a review of the numerous studies that tend to emphasize the national, societal dimension of the Italian and French communist parties, Cyrille Guiat's book is a comparative study of the two parties from the early 1960s to the early 1980s.
Value in Marx
The Persistence of Value in a More-Than-Capitalist World
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
Long prone to dogmatic disagreement, the question of value in Marx’s thought—what value is, the purpose it serves, its application to real-world capitalism—requires renewal if Marx’s work is to remain vibrant. In Value in Marx, George Henderson offers a lucid rereading of Marx that strips value...
Fascism, and the Doctrine of National Socialism
Codex Fascismo Parts Seven and Eight
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
What this all adds up to is the re-establishment of freedom. Freedom to be ourselves; to have the right to our feelings; to have the right to our own thoughts; to have the right to free speech whatever it is that we have to say and to say it whenever and wherever we find ourselves. To have the right...
Marx and History
From Primitive Society to the Communist Future
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
In this book Marx's observations on history, which are found scattered throughout his voluminous writings, are brought together and subjected to searching analysis. D. Ross Gandy writes in refreshingly direct language, without resorting to jargon. For the first time we have a thoughtful assessment of...
by Karl Kautsky
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
First published in English in 1924 this ambitious work, by the famous Marxist theoretician Karl Kautsky, aims to provide nothing less than an "exposition of the methods to introduce socialism" amongst the capitalist economies of Europe in the post-World War One era. Looking back on the experiences...
by Henri Lefebvre
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2015
The crucial importance of Karl Marx’s thought for his own time and for ours is beyond dispute, but the there have always been two considerable impediments to understanding: first, the supposed complexity with which Marx articulated his ideas; second, the accretions which commentators, disciples,...
The Left in History
Revolution and Reform in Twentieth-Century Politics
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 1996
'Essential and rather chastening reading for anyone who believes left values need to have some effective public resonance and political impact and wants to learn from the few victories and many defeats experienced over the 20th century' Socialist History
'One of the most accurate, comprehensive and stimulating histories of the left' New Times