Communism Socialism category: 1567 books
We Called Each Other Comrade
Charles H. Kerr & Company, Radical Publishers
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Featuring a new foreword and comprehensive bibliography of all titles published by Charles H. Kerr Publishing Company, this updated record chronicles the history of the most significant translator, publisher, and distributor of left-wing literature in the United States history. These pioneers of the...
Hoods and Shirts
The Extreme Right in Pennsylvania, 1925-1950
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Extreme right-wing groups have always been a part of the American religious and political landscape. The era between the world wars, especially the 1930s, was a particularly volatile period, and by 1940, racist, nativist, and fascist groups had become so visible as to arouse public fears of insurrection...
Lenin's Tomb
The Last Days of the Soviet Empire
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2014
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
**One of the Best Books of the Year: *The New York Times ***
From the editor of The New Yorker: a riveting account of the collapse of the Soviet Union, which has become the standard book on the subject. Lenin’s Tomb combines the global vision of the best historical...
by Erich Fromm
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
An exploration of how Marx’s ideas have been misused and misunderstood, from the New York Times–bestselling author of Escape from Freedom.
In the Western world, and especially in the United States, Karl Marx is perceived as the spiritual godfather of Lenin and Stalin—someone bent on creating...
The Reluctant Combatant
Japan and the Second Sino-Japanese War
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
The Reluctant Combatant offers proof that Japanese political leaders were reluctant to engage China in a full-scale conflict during the Second Sino-Japanese War. This book identifies several key aspects of the political context surrounding the Second Sino-Japanese War, including the extreme fragility...
by Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2004
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings...
The Mind and Face of Bolshevism
An Examination of Cultural Life in Soviet Russia
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
First published in 1927, this is the English translation of German author René Fülöp-Miller’s account of non-political developments under the Bolshevist regime. It thoroughly examines cultural life in the Soviet Union and illustrates, through rich use of photographs throughout, how the mechanistic...
by José Carlos Mariátegui
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2014
Jose Carlos Mariátegui was one of the leading South American social philosophers of the early twentieth century. He identified the future of Peru with the welfare of the Indian at a time when similar ideas were beginning to develop in Middle America and the Andean region. Generations of Peruvian and...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
Futures and Fictions is a book of essays and conversations that explore possibilities for a different ‘political imaginary’ or, more simply, the imagining and imaging of alternate narratives and image-worlds that might be pitched against the impasses of our neoliberal present.
In particular, the...
Introducing Alain Badiou
A Graphic Guide
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
The works of French philosopher Alain Badiou range from novels, poems, 'romanopéras' and popular political treatises to elaborate philosophical arguments engaging with mathematical theory.
Badiou suggests that 'philosophy is always a biography of the philosopher', and throughout all of his...
Trouble in Paradise
From the End of History to the End of Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
In Trouble in Paradise, Slavoj iek, one of our most famous, most combative philosophers, explains how we can find a way out of the crisis of capitalism.
There is obviously trouble in the global capitalist paradise. But why do we find it so difficult to imagine a way out of the crisis we're...
by Elinor Lipper
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
The shocking and absorbing account of life in the hell of the Soviet Gulag system is told in all his horrific details here by Elinor Lipper.
“IN THIS BOOK I have described my personal experiences only to the extent that they were the characteristic experiences of a prisoner in the Soviet...
The Left's Jewish Problem
Jeremy Corbyn, Israel and Anti-Semitism
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
There is a sickness at the heart of left-wing British politics, and though predominantly below the surface, it is silently spreading, becoming ever more malignant.
With three separate inquiries into anti-Semitism in the Labour Party in the first six months of 2016 alone, it seems hard to believe...
Remembering Tomorrow
From SDS to Life After Capitalism: A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
In this lucid political memoir, veteran anti-capitalist activist Michael Albert offers an ardent defense of the project to transform global inequality. Albert, a uniquely visionary figure, recounts a life of uncompromising commitment to creating change one step at a time. Whether chronicling the battles...