Communism Socialism category: 1567 books
Postsocialism and Cultural Politics
China in the Last Decade of the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2008
In Postsocialism and Cultural Politics, Xudong Zhang offers a critical analysis of China’s “long 1990s,” the tumultuous years between the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown and China’s entry into the World Trade Organization in 2001. The 1990s were marked by Deng Xiaoping’s market-oriented...
by Prashant Pushkar
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
Politics and economics go hand in hand. The approach of a government towards implementing an economic agenda is based on the political ideology it follows.
The world has seen and experienced a number of such ideologies that has formed the basis of that nation’s economic policy. The rise of...
Rethinking Mao
Explorations in Mao Zedong's Thought
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2007
Rethinking Mao offers an innovative perspective on the thought of Mao Zedong, the major architect of the Chinese Revolution and leader of the People's Republic of China until his death in 1976. Utilizing a number of recently discovered documents written by Mao, Nick Knight 'rethinks' Mao by subjecting...
The Retreat from Class
A New 'True' Socialsim
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
Exploring the connections between class, ideology and politics
In this classic study, which won the Isaac Deutscher Memorial Prize, Ellen Wood provides a critical survey of influential trends in “post-Marxist” theory. Challenging their dissociation of politics from class, she elaborates...
by Paul Kengor, Robert Orlando
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2019
Just six weeks apart in the spring of 1981, Pope John Paul II and President Ronald Reagan took bullets from would-be assassins. Few knew it at the time, but both men came close to dying.
Surviving these near-death experiences created a singular bond between the pope and the president that historians...
Marxism, Postcolonial Theory, and the Future of Critique
Critical Engagements with Benita Parry
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2018
Using the aesthetic and political concerns of Parry’s oeuvre as a touchstone, this book explores new directions for postcolonial studies, Marxist literary criticism, and world literature in the contemporary moment, seeking to re-imagine the field, and alongside it, new possibilities for left critique....
The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg, Volume III
Political Writings 1: On Revolution-1897-1905
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
Rosa Luxemburg's theoretical masterpiece
This collection is the first of three volumes of the Complete Works devoted to the central theme of Rosa Luxemburg’s life and work—revolution. Spanning the years 1897 to the end of 1905, they contain speeches, articles, and essays on the strikes,...
AT THE CAFÉ
Conversations on Anarchism
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2017
In 1897, Errico Malatesta, on the run from the police, was a regular visitor to a cafe in Ancona, Italy. He had shaved his beard, but was still taking a risk, especially as it wasn't a known anarchist café; it had a variety of customers, including the local policeman. The conversations recorded here...
by Lenny Flank
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2009
A critique of authoritarian Leninism from the viewpoint of "council communism". Social revolutionaries must reject the failed leninist model as being unsuited to the social conditions existing in the industrialized nations. It is clear that our revolutionary methods and organizations must...
The Total Art of Stalinism
Avant-Garde, Aesthetic Dictatorship, and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
From the ruins of communism, Boris Groys emerges to provoke our interest in the aesthetic goals pursued with such catastrophic consequences by its founders. Interpreting totalitarian art and literature in the context of cultural history, this brilliant essay likens totalitarian aims to the modernists’...
The Cold War at Home
The Red Scare in Pennsylvania, 1945-1960
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
One of the most significant industrial states in the country, with a powerful radical tradition, Pennsylvania was, by the early 1950s, the scene of some of the fiercest anti-Communist activism in the United States. Philip Jenkins examines the political and social impact of the Cold War across the...
by Ari Ben-Tzvi
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2013
Conservative former Communist Jew reveals the Liberal Jewish plan for America. Author Ari Ben-Tzvi attended Columbia University during the time that the protests of the early ‘60’s were getting started, and was soon radicalized. Not only did he participate in the student unrest, he joined the...
C.B. Macpherson
Dilemmas of Liberalism and Socialism
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
Focusing on two key themes - property and the state - Leiss tracks Macpherson's analysis of the contradictions of liberal-democracy through all of his writings, beginning with his 1935 M.A. thesis supervised by Harold Laski at LSE. His concluding chapter critically examines the core of Macpherson's...
by Perry Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
What have been the major changes in the intellectual landscape of the left since the mid seventies? Have they on balance represented an emancipation or a retreat for socialist culture as a whole? In the Tracks of Historical Materialism looks at some of the paradoxes in the evolution of Marxist thought...