Communism category: 1567 books
Bay of Pigs
CIA's Cuban Disaster, April 1961
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
Perhaps not in casualties but as far as prestige and standing in the world were concerned, the Bay of Pigs invasion of 1961 was the worst disaster to befall the USA since the War of 1812 when British forces burned the White House. Badly planned, badly organized, the affair was littered with mistakes...
by Jerry Crouso
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
Covert operation is "an operation that is so planned and executed as to conceal the identity of or permit plausible denial. CIA is the US Government agency legally allowed to carry out covert action. These special activities include covert political influence and paramilitary operations. A black op...
by Guy Debord, Sam Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
The Das Kapital of the 20th century,Society of the Spectacle is an essential text, and the main theoretical work of the Situationists. Few works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative. From its publication amid the social upheavals of the 1960's, in particular the May 1968...
by Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2011
A thrilling example of philosophy in action, Towards a New Manifesto reveals the fathers of critical theory, Adorno and Horkheimer, in a uniquely spirited and free-flowing exchange of ideas.
A record of their discussions over three weeks in the spring of 1956, recorded with a view to writing...
Continuity and Rupture
Philosophy in the Maoist Terrain
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2016
A philosophical examination of the theoretical terrain of contemporary Maoism premised on the counter-intuitive assumption that Maoism did not emerge as a coherent theory until the end of the 1980s.
THE POLITICS OF OBEDIENCE.
The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
Étienne de la Boétie (1530-1563) wrote the following essay on the ultimate source and nature of political power in the early 1550s, while still a law student at the University of Orleans. In it he considers the origins of dictatorship and the means by which people can prevent political...
Socialism Is Great!
A Worker's Memoir of the New China
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011
With a great charm and spirit, "Socialism Is Great!" recounts Lijia Zhang's rebellious journey from disillusioned factory worker to organizer in support of the Tiananmen Square demonstrators, to eventually become the writer and journalist she was always determined to be. Her memoir is like...
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by Henry Grady Weaver
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2016
Author Henry Grady Weaver was convinced that human liberty is the mainspring of progress, and that government tends always to tyranny. In this book, first published in 1947, Weaver popularizes these themes for the American people.
This is the Revised Edition first published in 1953, containing Weaver’s revisions discussed and agreed prior to his untimely death in 1949.
The Greatest Catastrophe of the 20th Century. Or, How the Soviet Union Disintegrated in 1991.
SHORT STORY # 31. Nonfiction series #1 - # 60.
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2016
The Soviet Union disintegration in 1991 was a curse and not a blessing for the USA and the Western Europe. Their economies eventually spiraled down due to rampant laws of a fee market economy, categorized by "expansion in all directions without any restrictions."
The USA is sinking...
K Blows Top
A Cold War Comic Interlude Starring Nikita Khrushchev, America's Most Unlikely Tourist
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2009
Khrushchev's 1959 trip across America was one of the strangest exercises in international diplomacy ever conducted-a surreal extravaganza,” as historian John Lewis Gaddis called it. Khrushchev told jokes, threw tantrums, sparked a riot in a San Francisco supermarket, wowed the coeds in a home...
by Robert E. Stripling
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
First published in 1949, this is an account of communist subversion in America as disclosed by investigations of the House Committee on Un-American Activities, 1938-48, written by the Committee’s chief investigator, Robert E. Stripling.
by Gilles Dauvé, François Martin
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
The original essays included here were first written between 1969 and 1972 by people involved in the most radical aspects of the French general strike and circulated among left communist and worker circles. Over the years these three essays have been published separately in various languages and printed...
Valley of Death
The Tragedy at Dien Bien Phu That Led America into the Vietnam War
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2010
Pulitzer Prize–winning author Ted Morgan has now written a rich and definitive account of the fateful battle that ended French rule in Indochina—and led inexorably to America’s Vietnam War. Dien Bien Phu was a remote valley on the border of Laos along a simple rural trade route. But it would...
Escape from North Korea
The Untold Story of Asia's Underground Railroad
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
From the world’s most repressive state comes rare good news: the escape to freedom of a small number of its people. It is a crime to leave North Korea. Yet increasing numbers of North Koreans dare to flee. They go first to neighboring China, which rejects them as criminals, then on to Southeast Asia...