Communism category: 1567 books
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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...
by Friedrich Engels
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2012
Friedrich Engels (28 November 1820 5 August 1895) was a German industrialist, social scientist, author, political theorist, philosopher, and father of Marxist theory, working in close collaboration alongside Karl Marx. In 1845 he published The Condition of the Working Class in England, based on personal...
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...
Realism for the Masses
Aesthetics, Popular Front Pluralism, and U.S. Culture, 1935-1947
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2009
Realism for the Masses, is an exploration of how the concept of realism entered mass culture, and from there, how it tried to remake "America." The literary and artistic creations of American realism are generally associated with the late nineteenth century. But this book argues that the aesthetic...
by Vladimir Lenin
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2009
In July 1917, when the Provisional Government issued a warrant for his arrest, Lenin fled from Petrograd; later that year, the October Revolution swept him to supreme power. In the short intervening period he spent in Finland, he wrote his impassioned, never-completed masterwork The State and Revolution....
by Leon Trotsky
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2012
Leon Trotsky, born Lev Davidovich Bronshtein, was a Russian Marxist revolutionary and theorist, Soviet politician, and the founder and first leader of the Red Army. After leading a failed struggle of the Left Opposition against the policies and rise of Joseph Stalin in the 1920s and the increasing role...
Lenin 2017
Remembering, Repeating, and Working Through
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
One hundred years after the Russian Revolution, iek shows why Lenin’s thought is still important today
V. I. Lenin’s originality and importance as a revolutionary leader is most often associated with the seizure of power in 1917. But, in this new study and collection of Lenin’s original...
The Communist Manifesto
A Modern Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2012
In the two decades following the fall of the Berlin Wall, global capitalism became entrenched in its modern, neoliberal form. Its triumph was so complete that the word “capitalism” itself fell out of use in the absence of credible political alternatives. But with the outbreak of financial crisis...
The Communist Manifesto
The revolutionary text that changed the course of history
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2010
This book is essential for anyone seeking to understand the history of the 19th and 20th centuries. Comprehending the motives and actions of many of its leading figures is impossible unless one has read this key text. 'The Communist Manifesto' left its mark upon the souls of leaders and rebels alike...
by Perry Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
This synoptic essay considers the nature and evolution of the Marxist theory that developed in Western Europe, after the defeat of the proletarian rebellions in the West and the isolation of the Russian Revolution in the East in the early 1920s. It focuses particularly on the work of Lukács, Korsch...