Communism Socialism category: 1567 books
Resurrecting Marx
Analytical Marxists on Exploitation, Freedom and Justice
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
The last two decades have seen Marxism's academic renascence. In fields as diverse as law, literary criticism, history, and philosophy, Marxism once again captivates no small number of scholars. In part, this reassessment is driven by the efforts of a group of philosophers and economists to reconstruct...
The Collapse of Communist Power in Poland
Strategic Misperceptions and Unanticipated Outcomes
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2006
Based on extensive original research, including interviews with key participants, this book investigates the sudden and unforeseen collapse of communist power in Poland in 1989. It sets out the sequence of events, and examines the strategies of the various political groupings prior to the partially...
Rethinking Revolution
Socialist Register 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
One hundred years ago, “October 1917” galvanized leftists and oppressed peoples around the globe, and became the lodestar for 20th century politics. Today, the left needs to reckon with this legacy—and transcend it. Social change, as it was understood in the 20th century, appears now to be as...
by Babacar Camara
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2008
This book deals with substantive issues that have the potential to enhance our understanding regarding how Marxist theory can be quite useful in interpreting Black specificities and the race paradigm. So far, Marxist theory has been excluded because it is supposedly class and economy reductionist,...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
The complex trajectory of Europe after the 2008 global financial crisis, has led to the catastrophic failure of deep austerity measures that swept across the Union, and is reflected in the rise of some radical left parties such as SYRIZA as well as an unfortunate rise in far right and nationalist...
Learning from the West?
Policy Transfer and Programmatic Change in the Communist Successor Parties of East Central Europe
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Learning from the West? brings insight into political life after the collapse of communism and the fall of the Iron Curtain in the late 1980s.
For Communist parties and their successors (CSPs), the challenge was perhaps the greatest – to redefine themselves within new, ‘westernised’ political...
by William Z. Foster
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2016
Toward Soviet America is a book written by Communist Party, USA Chairman William Z. Foster, in 1932. The book documented the rise of socialism in the Soviet Union, the crisis facing capitalism, the need for revolution, and a vision of what a socialist society would be like. The book also attacks social-democrats...
Labour and working-class lives
Essays to celebrate the lie and work of Chris Wrigley
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2017
British labour history has been one of the dominating areas of historical research in the last sixty years and this book, written in honour of Professor Chris Wrigley, offers a collection of essays written by leading British labour historians of that subject including Ken Brown, Malcolm Chase and...
by Alain Badiou
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
“We know that communism is the right hypothesis. All those who abandon this hypothesis immediately resign themselves to the market economy, to parliamentary democracy—the form of state suited to capitalism—and to the inevitable and ‘natural’ character of the most monstrous inequalities.”—Alain...
A Korean Conflict
The Tensions between Britain and America
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
In 1950, just five years after the end of World War II, Britain and America again went to war - this time to try and combat the spread of communism in East Asia following the invasion of South Korea by communist forces from the North. This book charts the course of the UK-US 'special relationship'...
Postsocialist Europe
Anthropological Perspectives from Home
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
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 Mao Tse-Tung Collection
Over 40 Texts Including 'Quotations From Chairman Mao Tse-Tung' and 'On Guerrilla Warfare'
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
The Ultimate Collection of the Thoughts, Writings and Quotations of Chairman Mao Tse-Tung.
Mao Tse-Tung was the colossus of the Communist revolution in China, and founding father of the People's Republic of China. Mao Tse-Tung ruled China as Chairman of the Communist Party of China from its...
Abolishing the Taboo
Dwight D. Eisenhower and American Nuclear Doctrine, 1945-1961
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2011
In 'Abolishing the Taboo', Brian Madison Jones takes a new look at the integral role played by Dwight D. Eisenhower in the creation of a new nuclear creed for the United States during the Cold War. The author centers the narrative on Eisenhower, the man, the general, and the president, with specific...
Build It Now
Socialism for the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2006
Build It Now puts forward a clear and innovative vision of a socialist future, and at the same time shows how concrete steps can be taken to make that vision a reality. It shows how the understanding of capitalism can itself become a political act—a defense of the real needs of human beings against...